I was 12 years old when I realized that the arts — specifically, reading and writing — were going to save my life. I was living in subsidized housing in the shadow of the Bronx Zoo, a latchkey kid who attended public school nearby in the months before or after our many evictions. My mother raised me on her […]
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We Need The Arts Now More Than Ever
Written by Joshunda Sanders · March 16, 2017 7:19 pm -
With “A Little Help From My Friends” Jonathan Estabrooks Tries to Save NEA, NEH
Jonathan Estabrooks may be a Juilliard-trained baritone from Canada, but he believes deeply in the importance of art and arts education in America — so much so that when he learned that funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) might be targeted by the Trump administration, […]
Written by Joshunda Sanders · March 7, 2017 9:43 pm -
Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Tom Udall Respond to Change.org Petition Starter
When news broke recently that the Trump administration may cut funding for both the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities — which provide public funding for initiatives on the local, state, and national level — citizens like Jonathan Eastbrooks took to Change.org to ask members of Congress to protect the endowments. The NEA and NEH account for less […]
Written by AJ Walton · March 1, 2017 10:01 pm