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National Council on the Arts
150th Meeting: Open Session
November 13, 2003

Agenda

Open Session

9:00-9:30 am

Chairman's opening remarks/updates

9:30-10:00 am

Government Affairs & Budget updates

10:00-10:30 am

Application & Guidelines Review/Voting

10:30-10:45 am

BREAK

10:45-11:00 pm

PERFORMANCE: Duke Ellington School/Shakespeare

11:00-11:45 am

PRESENTATIONS: Directors' Reports

  • Dance (Douglas Sonntag) - Raising the Barre: Economic Trends of Nonprofit Dance Companies. This NEA report released in September 2003 examines the growth and decline in the number of dance companies, their geographic concentration, and the generation of earned and unearned income.
  • Media Arts (Ted Libbey) - Classical Music on Radio Initiative, carried out by Minnesota Public Radio, is designed to develop the next generation of classical music programming for public radio, by bringing classical music producers, musicians, critics, and other experts together to assess classical music programming and to develop new program ideas and strategies.
  • Partnership (Ed Dickey)- an update on the status of the country's state arts agencies.

11:45 am-12:00 pm

Concluding Remarks/Adjournment