Federal Arts & Culture Agencies Win Increased Funding in 2020 Budget & "Parking Tax" on Nonprofits Repealed Retroactively!
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Before Christmas, the United States Congress passed and the President signed all FY 2020 (Oct 2019-Sept 2020) funding bills, avoiding another government shutdown. The budget includes:
- Funding increases for all federal cultural agencies, including the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities at $162.5 million each (a $7.5 million increase over 2019), the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and many more.
- First-time military funding allocations and policy recommendations for arts therapy to care for veterans, active military and their families.
- Arts education funding maintained for documenting replicable model arts education programs across the country.
- Justice Department policy recommendations now include arts-based juvenile justice programs among the strategies to be pursued by its Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention.
- An unfair nonprofit tax provision was retroactively fixed that had taxed fringe benefits, like transit and parking expenses, of its employees.
Information provided by
Arts Action Fund, which played a leading role in the effort to secure these wins.
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NEA FUNDING GUIDELINES NOW AVAILABLE FOR 2021
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Guidelines and application materials for four National Endowment for the Arts funding categories--Grants for Arts Projects, Challenge America, Creative Writing Fellowships, and Literature Fellowships for Translation Projects--are now available on the Arts Endowment's website.
For organizations,
click here.
For individuals,
click here.
The deadlines begin in February 2020. Make sure your SAM.gov & Grants.gov registrations are updated well in advance of the application deadlines.
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Carl St.Clair Honored by Senator Umberg
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To celebrate his 30 years with
Pacific Symphony, Carl St.Clair was awarded a commemorative resolution by Senator Tom Umberg, who stopped by the offices to present it!
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54-year old OC Fashion Firm VANS To Expand in Costa Mesa
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VANS, one of the largest employers of artists and designers in Orange County, recently received approval to add a new building to its Costa Mesa headquarters.
Read more here.
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Arts Community Figures Among OC Register's 2019 List of "100 Most Influential"
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South Coast Repertory's new Artistic Director David Ivers, who has launched his first season, and Orange County Museum of Art's CEO & Director Todd D. Smith, who is leading the construction of its long-awaited new facility on the campus of Segerstrom Center for the Arts, are included in the annual list. This list also includes two young people: Hannah Weinmeister, who created a dance program for underserved children, and Avalon Lafosse, who created an art therapy program. Denton Knapp, director of the Tierney Center for Veterans Services who appeared in Arts Orange County's VOICES: Veterans Storytelling Project reading in October; Megan Browning, a singer who is the first U.S. Marine recruited to be a vocalist (in the Marine Band); and longtime art gallery owner Peter Blake, who serves on the Laguna Beach City Council, also made the list. Read more here.
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Download Free Sample Arts Org Emergency Plans from PAR
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The Performing Arts Readiness (PAR) project has added free downloadable sample emergency plans created for performing arts organizations to our website to aid organizations with the creation of their own plans. Planning for emergencies is vital for the survival of organizations and will aid in preventing emergencies, reducing their impact, and will speed recovery and resumption of operations following an emergency. More here.
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All-American Boys Chorus Helps Nation's Oldest Man Celebrate His 111th Birthday in Laguna Woods
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New Executive Director at Casa Romantica Cultural Center
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Amy Behrens is the new Executive Director of Casa Romantica Cultural Center & Gardens in San Clemente. In November, she succeeded Berenika Palys, who served in that role for more than six years. Behrens previously served as the organization's Director of Marketing & Public Relations. More here.
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Argyros Family Makes Gift of $5 Million to South Coast Repertory
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Christmas arrived early for South Coast Repertory when philanthropist Julianne Argyros announced a $5 million gift to the Tony Award-winning theatre.
Read more here.
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UCI Patron & Art Collector,
Joan Irvine Smith, Dies at 86
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Joan Irvine Smith, whose donation of land made possible the establishment of the University of California, Irvine campus, and who created a museum (later given to UCI) devoted to her voluminous collection of the most important works by California Impressionist artists (which she also published in several volumes), has died at 86.
Read more here.
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ArtsOC Mixer - January 16
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All Dressed Up and Ready to Go!
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Andrew Myers' 2004 bronze "The Shopper," on the corner of Ocean and Beach in Laguna Beach found itself decorated for the holidays.
Orange County has hundreds of works of art in public places--you can find most of them
here.
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Newly-Energized OC Theatre Guild
Unites Theatre Community
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Nearly 15 years after leaders from OC's theatre community first met to discuss the need for unity, the OC Theatre Guild was founded in 2015 by theatre artists Sharyn Case and Brian Page. In 2019, it became a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization with the goal of "nurturing, supporting, and promoting live theatre in Greater Orange County."
More here.
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Two School Districts Plan New Performing Arts Centers if March Bond Measures Pass
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Both Capistrano Unified School District and Saddleback Valley Unified School District have the building of new performing arts facilities on their wish lists for bond measures appearing on the March 2020 ballot.
More details here.
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State Recognizes Juliette Low School of the Arts in Anaheim
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