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  Arts Council of Great Britain: records, 1928-1997Catalogue of records in the Victoria and Albert MuseumCatalogued by ...
The Arts Council's government grant was administered by the Treasury until 1965, and then by the Department of Education and Science.
In 1994 the Arts Council of Great Britain was split to become the Arts Council of England, Arts Council of Scotland and Arts Council of Wales.
The chief executive officer of the Arts Council of Great Britain was the Secretary-General.
www.vam.ac.uk /vastatic/wid/ead/acgb/acgbb.html   (5693 words)

  
  Arts council - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mendocino County: Arts Council of Mendocino County (ACMC)
Placer County: Arts Council of Placer County (PlacerArts)
Fairfax County: Herndon/Council for the Arts of Herndon
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arts_Council   (415 words)

  
 Arm's b
The arm's length arts council uses a system of peer evaluation to ensure that its granting decisions are based upon professional assessments that are then approved, or from time 'to time rejected, by the board of trustees.
In the United States, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) was established in 1965, and by the end of the 1970s state arts councils had been established in all of the states of the union, reflecting a shift toward the role of Patron for U.S. federal and state governments.
If these new and emerging art forms are to be fostered and promoted, arts councils must provide support to new clients at the same time as they are increasing their support of large organizations to allow them to attain or maintain world-class status.
www.culturaleconomics.atfreeweb.com /arm's_b.htm   (5924 words)

  
 Arts Council England : Welcome
Arts Council England is the national development agency for the arts in England, distributing public money from Government and the National Lottery.
Arts Council England has launched artist-designed travel wallets to celebrate our 60th anniversary and to encourage people to take part in the arts debate.
With the arts more popular than ever, it’s crucial to build on the achievements of the past 10 years.
www.artscouncil.org.uk   (208 words)

  
 Arts Council England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arts Council England was formed in 1994 when the Arts Council of Great Britain was divided into three separate bodies for England, Scotland and Wales.
Arts Council of England was created in 1994 when the Arts Council of Great Britain was divided to form the Arts Council of England, Scottish Arts Council and Arts Council of Wales.
The national council meets 5–6 times a year and is made up of representatives of the arts community with 9 of the members also representing the regional councils and one seat reserved for a representative of the Black and Asian community.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arts_Council_of_England   (784 words)

  
 Arts Council England : Publication detail
As a result of changes in licensing regulations which came into force on 24 November 2005, some forms of public entertainment now need licenses that may not have been needed before.
This guide provides information and advice for people involved in circus and street arts as well as local authority licensing officers, whose job it is to implement the new legislation.
These are: the guide (part 1), a sample licence for street arts festival (part 2), a sample license for circus (part 3) and appendices and glossary (part 4).
www.artscouncil.org.uk /publications/publication_detail.php?rid=0&sid=&browse=recent&id=447   (133 words)

  
 The Canada Council for the Arts - Robert Sirman - Director of the Canada Council for the Arts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Robert Sirman was appointed Director of the Canada Council for the Arts effective June 26, 2006.
While at the Ontario Arts Council, he undertook an independent study tour of England and Wales under the auspices of the British Council to study the funding practices of the Arts Council of Great Britain.
Sirman was a founding member and vice-chair of the Cultural Human Resources Council, chaired the advisory council of the University of Toronto’s Co-Op Arts Management Program at Scarborough, is past president of Peggy Baker Dance Projects, past chair of the Toronto People With AIDS Foundation, and board member of the George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation.
www.canadacouncil.ca /aboutus/organization/xu127958894084922280.htm   (433 words)

  
 glbtq >> arts >> Walker, Ethel
Nevertheless, she did not exhibit any special interest in art until she formed a close friendship with Clara Christian in the 1880s.
Around 1893, she followed him to the Slade School of Art for further study.
While nude depictions of women appear in most cultures, on both sides of the equator, and in rich variety, lesbian artists have been particularly resourceful in their use of the female nude.
www.glbtq.com /arts/walker_e.html   (762 words)

  
 The Power of Culture - Policy by donorcountries: Great Britain
Britain's culture and development policy focuses most of its efforts on networks and exchanges.
The United Kingdom was the first country in the world to set up a government body to handle the financing of the arts, namely the Arts Council of Great Britain, which was set up after the Second World War to breathe new life into the cultural sector.
The British government was one of the founders of UNESCO and also tries to keep the arts high on the agendas of the Council of Europe and the World Bank, by stressing the social role that art can play and the economic potential of culture.
kvc.minbuza.nl /uk/policy/great_britain.html   (373 words)

  
 Arts / Antiques & Collectables - General / Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Arts of the Sung Dynasty. June 16th to ...
Arts / Antiques & Collectables - General / Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Arts of the Sung Dynasty.
Card Cover.Catalogue of an exhibition of The Arts of The Sung Dynasty organised by The Arts Council of Great Britain and The Oriental Ceramic Society, June 16th to July 23rd 1960.
Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Arts of the Sung Dynasty.
www.marywardbooks.com /books/mw001003019.html   (579 words)

  
 news: New Council Members
The next two years were spent as Dance and Mime Officer for the Arts Council of Great Britain, where he also held special responsibilities for developing arts and education policies and for assessing a number of Regional Arts Associations.
In Scotland, he was Chairman of the Centre for Contemporary Arts, leading the bid for a successful £9.4M application to the National Lottery, was chairman of International New Moves Ltd and was an external assessor for National Lottery arts funding bids.
Peter is a member of the Institute of Directors, a member of the Council of Management of the Arts Educational Schools, London, a director of Dance Umbrella UK and serves on the Grand Council of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing.
www.istd.org /news/2002/newssept2002/newcouncilmembers.html   (729 words)

  
 De Montfort University - Aman 2008
Current developments in arts and cultural policy have increased the attention given to the diverse ways in which art is made and presented.
In response to government initiatives in areas such as social exclusion and audience development there are now increased opportunities for arts development within hospitals, schools, prisons, housing estates and community centres.
This module offers the chance to think about the relationship between social movements and cultural policy and practice and to expand understanding of how arts and cultural practice can be made relevant to and accessible by people and communities that may be presently excluded.
www.dmu.ac.uk /faculties/humanities/modules/level2/aman_2008.jsp   (493 words)

  
 Hayward Gallery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Arts Council Collection was founded in 1946, when the Arts Council of Great Britain (now Arts Council England) was established.
It is administered by the Hayward Gallery on behalf of Arts Council England, from offices in the Royal Festival Hall and the Hayward Gallery in London and Longside Gallery in Yorkshire.
Purchasing for the Arts Council Collection is carried out by a changing group of six selectors.
www.hayward.org.uk /exhibitions/acc/index.html   (453 words)

  
 Bridget Riley: Paintings - An Overview Of Her Art
She studied at Goldsmiths College from 1949 to 1952, and at the Royal College of Art from 1952 to 1955.
Three years later she met the postmodern 'Simulationist' painters Philip Taaffe and Ross Bleckner, and was inspired to introduce a diagonal element to her work, thus adding another dimension to her fascination with the juxtaposition of colors.
Riley is acclaimed as one of the finest exponents of Op Art, with her subtle variations in size, shape and position of blocks within the overall pattern.
www.mishabittleston.com /artists/bridget_riley   (741 words)

  
 Hilda Paredes Profile
In 1988 she received the Music for Dance Award from the Arts Council of Great Britain for the creation of EL PRESTIDIGITADOR and was then invited to take part in the International Dance Course for Professional composers and choreographers.
In 1990, the Arts Council of Great Britain awarded her the fellowship for composers to complete her first chamber opera THE SEVENTH SEED, which is now released on CD by Mode Records (mode 60).
She has been the recipient of important awards in Great Britain, the USA and Mexico such as the Holst Foundation award for composers in the UK, the Sistema Nacional de Creadores Fellowship, the Rockefeller, Fund for Culture Mexico/USA award and recently the prestigious J.S. Guggenheim Fellowship.
www.moderecords.com /profiles/hildaparedes.html   (498 words)

  
 Great Brits - Furniture Design - British Council Arts
Each of the designers in Great Brits – Pascal Anson, Michael Cross and Julie Mathias, Julia Lohmann, Matthias Megyeri and Peter Traag – is at the start of their career, yet has developed a distinctive approach to design.
This is the second Great Brits exhibition of the work of young British designers to be organised by the Design Museum and British Council with Paul Smith Ltd. during the Milan Furniture Fair.
In Great Brits: the new Alchemists, the curators, Emily Campbell, head of design at the British Council, and Alice Rawsthorn, director of the Design Museum, will explore the development of a raw, surreal design aesthetic that transforms base objects or materials and commonplace typologies in unexpected ways.
www.britishcouncil.org /arts-aad-design-furniture-design-greatbrits2.htm   (345 words)

  
 International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
From 1946-1950, she attended the Camberwell School of Art, and later ran the AIA Gallery with her future husband, painter Henry Mundy.
She taught at the St. Martin's School of Art in London from 1965-1978 and served as Head of Painting at the Winchester School of Art from 1978- 1981.
Ayres was made an Honorary Doctor of English Literature by London University in 1994, a Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art in London in 1996 and she received a Sargent Fellowship from the British School at Rome in 1997.
www.printdealers.com /artist_template.cfm?id=54   (169 words)

  
 Arts Council of Great Britain: Music Department: Individuals and Organisations, 1936-1995Catalogue of records in the ...
Arts Council of Great Britain: Music Department: Individuals and Organisations, 1936-1995Catalogue of records in the Victoria and Albert MuseumCatalogued by Jennifer Cooknell and Tina Staples
Ordinarily these individuals and organisations were Arts Council clients and the files therefore contain papers relating to the funding they received.
Access to unpublished material less than 30 years old is subject to the written permission of the Arts Council of England.
www.vam.ac.uk /vastatic/wid/ead/acgb/acgb-50.html   (538 words)

  
 The Ensemble Sospeso - Hilda Paredes
In 1988, she received the Music for Dance award from the Arts Council of Great Britain for the creation of El Prestidigitor and was then invited to take part in the International Dance Course for professional composers and choreographers.
In 1990, the Arts Council of Great Britain awarded her the fellowship for composers to complete her first chamber opera The Seventh Seed, which is now released on CD by Mode Records, New York.
She has been the recipient of important awards in Great Britain, the USA, and Mexico, including the Holst Foundation Award for composers in the UK; the Sistema Nacional de Creadores Fellowship; the Rockefeller; the Fund for Culture Mexico/USA award, and, recently, the prestigious J. Guggenheim Fellowship in New York.
www.sospeso.com /contents/composers_artists/paredes.html   (445 words)

  
 glbtq >> arts >> Gluck (Hannah Gluckenstein)
She did, however, become a life member of the Royal Society of Arts and was commissioned to paint some portraits of judges between 1955 and 1968, including one of her second cousin, Sir Cyril Salmon (1957-1960).
Fortunately, the Arts Council of Great Britain, British Colour Manufacturers Association, and two important museums backed her efforts.
The artist finally returned to her easel during her old age and one of her works from this period, a painting of a dead fish head, its flesh mostly eaten away, was a great success.
www.glbtq.com /arts/gluck,2.html   (873 words)

  
 Rodin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Early in his career Rodin developed in notebooks and by clay sketches the configurations, techniques, and themes that were to preoccupy him over his lifetime.
This book, which will serve as the catalogue of a large exhibition on Rodin staged by the Arts Council of Great Britain at the Hayward Gallery in London, includes numerous illustrations as well as data on each of the 267 entries in the show.
Catherine Lampert is Senior Exhibitions Organizer, Arts Council of Great Britain.
yalepress.yale.edu /yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300038321   (321 words)

  
 Fang Nlo-Byeri head - RAND AFRICAN ART
Exhibited: London, The Arts Council of Great Britain.
Exhibited: London, The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1960
London, The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1960
www.randafricanart.com /Fang_byeri_head.html   (507 words)

  
 Arts Management Network :: Culture Management, Arts Administration, Cultural Policy, Arts and Business
Following on from the successful first edition, Arts Administration has now been updated to include arts policy under the new UK Ministry of Heritage, the workings of the national lottery and the role of ethnic minority, fringe and community arts.
Arts administration is presented here in an historical, social and practical context.
An essential read for students, those engaged in administering the arts and for anyone concerned with the arts in contemporary society.
www.artsmanagement.net /Books-id-7.html   (266 words)

  
 Antiques and the Arts Online - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House
An historic easement has been put in place to prevent any inappropriate changes to the house and the property without the preservation groups' permission in perpetuity regardless of ownership.
She sold the house in the early 1970s to Lord Palumbo, who restored it to its 1951 state, bought additional surrounding acreage and added furniture designed by Mies van der Rohe.
Lord Palumbo, a British arts patron and former chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain, was Farnsworth House's very own angel.
www.antiquesandthearts.com /CS-2004-08-10-12-04-51p2.htm   (1381 words)

  
 Brendan Neiland, contemporary, painter, printmaker, The Victoria and Albert Museum, The Tate Gallery London, British ...
Brendan Neiland, contemporary, painter, printmaker, The Victoria and Albert Museum, The Tate Gallery London, British Council, Arts Council of Great Britain, images of modern metropolitan existence, photography, sense of the poetics of lights and pictorial structure, Redfern Gallery, painting and prints, commissions, current work and the latest news.
Brendan Neiland is one of Britains foremost and contemporary painters and printmakers represented in major museums and galleries worldwide including, in Britain, The Victoria and Albert Museum, The Tate Gallery London, The Collections of the British Council and the Arts Council of Great Britain.
Informed by the practice of photography yet influenced by a sense of the poetics of lights and pictorial structure which can be related to the work of Braque or Magritte, Corot or Vermeer, the art of Brendan Neiland is eloquent of the enigma of existence as it has been manifest in the modern era.
www.brendanneiland.com   (333 words)

  
 Institute of American Indian Arts College / Academics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
National Endowment for the Arts grant to research the Native American flute and perform with Doc Tate Nevaquahyah, Comanche flute player and artist.
Master Artist grant awarded by the Kansas State Historical Society (funded by the NEA) to teach Sac and Fox tribal flute music to member of the Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri.
Arts Council of Great Britain invitation to perform during the “Sacred Circles” American Indian Art Exhibition in London.
www.iaiancad.org /college/_edwapp.php   (222 words)

  
 PRESS RELEASE Bridget Riley: Recent Paintings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Bridget Riley's most recent retrospective, Bridget Riley, was organized by the Tate Britain in 2003 and traveled to the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sophia, Madrid and Kunsthalle, Zurich.
In 1970, the Arts Council of Great Britain organized Bridget Riley's first retrospective, Bridget Riley: Paintings and Drawings 1951-71, which opened at Kunstverein Hannover, and traveled to Kunsthalle Berne; Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Galleria civica d'arte Moderna, Turin; Hayward Gallery, London; and the National Gallery, Prague.
Riley was also appointed the Companion of Honour in 1999, and in 2003, she received the Praemium Imperiale, the International Prize for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts, from the Japan Arts Association.
www.marketwire.com /mw/release_html_b1?release_id=72765   (639 words)

  
 Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Thom Gunn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Thom Gunn was born in Gravesend, Kent, England, in 1929, the older son of two journalists.
But with the publication of The Man with Night Sweats in 1992, a collection memorializing his friends and loved ones who had fallen victim of the AIDS pandemic, critics were reminded of Gunn's early promise.
Gunn's honors include the Levinson Prize, an Arts Council of Great Britain Award, a Rockefeller Award, the W. Smith Award, the PEN (Los Angeles) Prize for Poetry, the Sara Teasdale Prize, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award, the Forward Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations.
www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/109   (504 words)

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