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Spring/Summer 2011 Newsletter

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Archive for the ‘Art’ Category

Paris unveils amazing new public art

Friday, July 8th, 2011

Check out this fascinating new piece of public art in Paris. For more information on Greensboro’s own Public Art Endowment, click here.

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Chicagoans get an ‘Eye’-ful of new public art

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

This week, people near the Loop area of Chicago were treated to a very unique new piece of public art. Seeing is believing — click here to see what it’s all about.

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The fundamental importance of art — and of supporting it

Monday, June 28th, 2010

 Journalist Maria Shriver writes about the importance of art — and the importance of supporting art. Click here to read her views.

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Two-week public art project

Friday, June 18th, 2010

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, right, stands by as Jaela Cheeks-Lomax, 16, left, Samantha Bogle, 16, foreground second from right, and Alexander Long, 18, at the piano, perform during a press conference announcing the public art project ‘Play Me, I’m Yours’, Thursday June 17, 2010 at Gantry Plaza State Park in the Queens borough of New York. The two week project, which will feature sixty public pianos in locations throughout the five boroughs, is scheduled to kick off June 21 at the one-day citywide Make Music New York festival

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United Arts Council starts multicultural grants

Friday, June 18th, 2010

The United Arts Council will offer a new grant program focused on funding multicultural initiatives involving the area’s African-American, Asian-American, Latino or American Indian populations. Read more.

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