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United States Artists President and CEO Deana Haggag Steps Down to Join The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation


United States Artists has announced that Deana Haggag will be stepping down as President & CEO to join The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as a Program Officer in Arts and Culture, focusing on the current and emerging infrastructure and field-wide needs of artists and arts organizations.
We are enormously grateful to Deana for her leadership of United States Artists during the past four years. She has done a magnificent job working with the board and staff to build a strong organization in support of individual artists, said Ed Henry, USA Board Chair. We are in a great position to continue to expand our support and services to artists throughout the country and we are fortunate to engage Jamie Bennett to continue our work. ....

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United States Artists announces its 2021 USA Fellows, supporting 60 artists with $50,000 each


United States Artists announces its 2021 USA Fellows, supporting 60 artists with $50,000 each
The largest fellowship in the organisation’s 15-year history, USA has given funds to 60 artists from 10 disciplines – ranging from architecture, design, dance and film to art, writing and performance.
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Launching today, United States Artists (USA) has announced its 2021 USA Fellows – a class of 60 artists across 10 disciplines that are all receiving $50,000 awards each.
The largest in the organisation’s 15-year history, this year’s awards have been given to artists from 22 American states and from all stages of their careers, spanning architecture and design, craft, dance, film, media, music, theatre and performance, traditional arts, visual art and writing. The 2021 roster includes Morehshin Allahyari, an Iranian-Kurdish media artist, activist and writer from Brooklyn, New York; Stephanie Dinkins, a transdisciplinary American artist based in Brook ....

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Cynthia Oliver named United States Artists Fellow : SPlog : Smile Politely


February 3, 2021 / 1:03pm /
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Cynthia Oliver, dancer, choreographer, scholar, and Professor and Associate Vice-Chancellor for Research in the Humanities, Arts, and Related Fields at the University of Illinois, has been named a 2021 United States Artists Fellow. This prestigious fellowship honors artists creative accomplishments and supports their ongoing artistic and professional development.
Oliver s 2018 project,
Virago-Man Dem, was nominated for a number of Bessie awards; you can read our interview with her here. You can learn more about her dance and choreography projects on her website.
United States Artists Announces 2021 USA Fellows
In largest fellowship to date, Sixty artists working across ten disciplines receive unrestricted $50,000 fellowships. ....

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Successes And Shortcomings: 30 Years Of The Americans With Disabilities Act


Successes And Shortcomings: 30 Years Of The Americans With Disabilities Act
Disability rights activists convoy down Beacon Hill after being charged with trespassing at the McCormick Building, which houses the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services, in Boston, on Nov. 1, 2016.
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Thirty years ago, East and West Germany reunited after the fall of the Soviet Union. It was 1990, the same year The World Wide Web debuted, plus singer Mariah Carey’s blockbuster hit, Vision of Love, kicked off her career. And President George H.W. Bush signed into law the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) banning discrimination against millions of Americans in education, transportation, and public accommodations. Three decades later, the 1 in 4 adult Americans with disabilities have benefitted from the ADA’s protections. But the benefits are being threatened by the wide-ranging impact of COVID-19, and by the ever-wide ....

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