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OCA Arts Funding Division: Project Funding FY 2010
Application Deadline for On-line applications: THIS Friday, April 10, 4 pm
Deadline for Support Materials: Monday, April 20, 4 pm
For more information please visit the Funding web site HERE or call 210.207.6963. |
 April Artist of the Month |
 Get to know San Antonio artists! The April artist of the month is writer, poet, performer, and educator, Dr. Carmen Tafolla.
Dr. Carmen Tafollas' work has appeared in more than two hundred anthologies, magazines, journals, readers, American Literature textbooks, Big Books, and in the Poetry-in-Motion series installed on city buses. The co-author of the first book ever published on Latina Civil Rights leader Emma Tenayuca (That's Not Fair! Emma Tenayuca's Struggle for Justice, which Críticas Magazine listed among the Best Children's Books of 2008), she is the recipient of many awards, including the Art of Peace Award in 1999 for writing which contributes to peace, justice, and human understanding.
Find out more, and read an interview with Tafolla HERE.
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SAN ANTONIO
San Antonians in spotlight at Texas Medal of Arts awards
San Antonio Express News (04/07/09)
Hector Saldaña
TEXAS
Frances B. Vick, Museum of the Big Bend win Humanities Texas Awards
Michael L. Gillette
"The 2009 Humanities Texas Awards recently recognized six remarkable Texas citizens and organizations. These recipients have enriched the cultural life of their communities to such an extent that the entire state has benefited. In recognizing their contributions, we hope their examples will inspire others."
NATIONAL
The role of a US minister of culture
Texas Public Radio, The World (04/01/09)
"Musician Quincy Jones has circulated a petition urging the White House to appoint a 'minister of culture.' The World's Adeline Sire explores what that could mean for the arts in the US."
INTERNATIONAL
Deadly Earthquake Destroys, Damages Rare Italian Art Treasures
Bloomberg (2/07/09)
Sonia Sirletti and Flavia Krause-Jackson
"Italy's deadliest earthquake in three decades damaged some of the country's oldest monuments, including the medieval dome of a 13th-century church that survived another quake three centuries ago. The remote and mountainous region of Abruzzo, where the earthquake on April 6 hit hardest, includes well preserved medieval and Renaissance towns that are home to some of the country's priceless art works."
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Family Day: artpaceNATION
Frost/Nixon
Jazz Meets Classical XVII:
The Pajama Game
The Sculptors Invitational
