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From Broward County: Applying for Project Grant Funding for the Artist May 14

A great seminar from the Broward County Cultural Division on applying for a project grant. Highly recommended.

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Applying for Project Grant
Funding for the Artist
Saturday, May 14, 2011 – 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. at
Nova Southeastern University, 3100 Ray Ferrero, Jr., Blvd., Fort Lauderdale

BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. – Broward County Commission’s Cultural Division, Nova Southeastern University, and the South Florida Artists Association will host a unique training session to assist individual artists, working in all disciplines, with preparing effective proposals for “project-based” grant funding.
The workshop will be held at Room 4009 – Alvin Sherman Library, Research, and Information Technology Center, Nova Southeastern University, 3100 Ray Ferrero, Jr., Blvd., in Fort Lauderdale, on Saturday, May 14, 2011, 9:00AM – 1:00PM.

Participants will learn how to: develop an artist’s biography and artist’s statement; Prepare an audience profile (identify the qualities and characteristics of audiences attracted by one’s art work and utilize the profile in the proposal process); Create a proposal description based on the project’s vision; Develop a project/proposal budget (w/case study to explore the budget development process); Preparing work samples. This workshop will help artists plan and prepare successful proposals for residencies, project funding, professional development, career advancement, and fellowship opportunities.

In addition, the session will prepare Broward artists who wish to learn how to prepare a submission to the Creative Capital professional development seminar: Internet for Artists Weekend Workshop: Using the Internet to Build Community, Promote Your Work and Increase Administrative Effectiveness and the Division’s Mini-Grant Program project grant for Broward artists. Broward artists will submit proposals to both opportunities by an online application and will be chosen by a competitive review and panel process.

The facilitator, Luz Rodriguez with Visionary Allies, is a seasoned fundraising professional, educator, and artist who combines her artistic sensitivities with her knowledge of U.S. philanthropy to guide and inspire artists of all genres to equip them with the information and tools they need to bring their project visions to reality. Her professional development workshops for artists have been offered nationally and internationally at Artist Space in New York and Centro Leon Cultural Center in the Dominican Republic. Ms. Rodriguez has more than 20 years of fundraising, coalition building and organizational development experience in advocacy and social justice movements. She has held staff and board leadership positions in community-based organizations in the fields of reproductive justice of women of color; youth development; hunger and homelessness. Her oral history and papers are included in the Voices of Feminism archival project at the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College. She is currently a bilingual training coordinator, at the Foundation Center, NYC, where she is responsible for designing and implementing fundraising training programs with a special focus on delivering English and Spanish training to under-resourced, grassroots organizations.

The workshop fee is $25 which includes resource materials. Registrants will receive a parking pass for the garage near the library. Checks made payable to: The Cultural Foundation of Broward, or by credit card online. For more information, call Adriane Clarke, grants specialist with the Broward Cultural Division at 954-357-7530.

Click HERE to register online.

The South Florida Artists Association will host a “Meet-up” the evening of May 14 at Full Circle Gallery 201 SW 5th Street, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301. Ms. Rodriguez will provide a talk on preparing artist statements for the group, and any interested artists. For more information on this “Meet-up” event go to: www.south-florida-artists.com or contact 954-695-1587.
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From Broward: Information Meetings on Application Process for Creative Capital Seminar On May 5, 2011

Press release from the Broward County Cultural Commission about upcoming educational seminars for artists. Highly recommended you take a look at this!

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Information Meetings on Application Process for Creative Capital Seminar
Thursday, May 5, 2011; 7:00 PM
Studio 18 Pembroke Pines
1101 Poinciana Drive
(located inside the Howard C. Forman Health Campus)
Pembroke Pines, FL. 33026
www.ppines.com/studio18
RSVP Here.

Broward County Cultural Division invites Broward-resident artists of all disciplines and creative endeavors to attend the next informational meeting on May 5, to learn about the application process for Creative Capital’s transformative seminar- Internet for Artists Weekend Workshop: Using the Internet to Build Community, Promote Your Work and Increase Administrative Effectiveness. Twenty-four Broward County artists, will be selected through a Call to Artist application process to attend the Creative Capital Seminar in November.

The Broward Cultural Division is one of nineteen national recipients of the 2011 Workshop Subsidy Grants from Creative Capital’s Professional Development Program (PDP) to present this seminar locally. To be considered, Broward artists will be submitting proposals to participate in the seminar by an online application. Participants will be chosen by a competitive review and panel selection process. The Division is delighted to be able to offer 24 Broward artists this one-time opportunity to train with Creative Capital’s faculty. These information sessions will prepare Broward’s performing and media artists, writers, musicians, dancers, and visual artists for this opportunity.

Coming Up:
Artists Weekend Workshop: Using the Internet to Build Community,
Promote Your Work and Increase Administrative Effectiveness
Internet for Artists Weekend Workshop: Using the Internet to Build Community, Promote Your Work and Increase Administrative Effectiveness, will be held November 4, 5 & 6, 2011 at Artserve, Inc. This interactive workshop will help participants expand their online presence and harness the power of internet tools such as social networking and media sharing sites, e-commerce, promotional websites, and blogs.

For more information, please call Adriane Clarke, grants specialist, 954-357-7530, aclarke@broward.org.

Creative Capital is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to providing integrated financial and advisory support to artists pursuing adventurous projects in five disciplines: Emerging Fields, Film/Video, Innovative Literature, and Performing and Visual Arts. Working in long-term partnership with artists, Creative Capital’s pioneering approach to support combines funding, counsel and career development services to enable a project’s success and foster a sustainable practice for its grantees. In its first decade, Creative Capital has committed more than $20 million in financial and advisory support to 325 projects representing 406 artists and has reached an additional 3,500 artists in more than 50 communities around the country through its Professional Development Program.

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Press Release: Applying for Project Grant Funding for the Artist Seminar

For Immediate Release
Applying for Project Grant Funding for the Artist
Saturday, May 14, 2011 – 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Nova Southeastern University
3100 Ray Ferrero, Jr., Blvd.
Fort Lauderdale

Broward County Commission’s Cultural Division, Nova Southeastern University, and the South Florida Artists Association will host a unique training session to assist individual artists, working in all disciplines, with preparing effective proposals for “project-based” grant funding.

The workshop will be held at Room 4009 – Alvin Sherman Library, Research, and Information Technology Center, Nova Southeastern University, 3100 Ray Ferrero, Jr., Blvd., in Fort Lauderdale, on Saturday, May 14, 2011, 9:00AM – 1:00PM.

Participants will learn how to: develop an artist’s biography and artist’s statement; Prepare an audience profile (identify the qualities and characteristics of audiences attracted by one’s art work and utilize the profile in the proposal process); Create a proposal description based on the project’s vision; Develop a project/proposal budget (w/case study to explore the budget development process); Preparing work samples. This workshop will help artists plan and prepare successful proposals for residencies, project funding, professional development, career advancement, and fellowship opportunities.

In addition, the session will prepare Broward artists who wish to learn how to prepare a submission to the Creative Capital professional development seminar: Internet for Artists Weekend Workshop: Using the Internet to Build Community, Promote Your Work and Increase Administrative Effectiveness and the Division’s Mini-Grant Program project grant for Broward artists. Broward artists will submit proposals to both opportunities by an online application and will be chosen by a competitive review and panel process.

The facilitator, Luz Rodriguez with Visionary Allies, is a seasoned fundraising professional, educator, and artist who combines her artistic sensitivities with her knowledge of U.S. philanthropy to guide and inspire artists of all genres to equip them with the information and tools they need to bring their project visions to reality. Her professional development workshops for artists have been offered nationally and internationally at Artist Space in New York and Centro Leon Cultural Center in the Dominican Republic. Ms. Rodriguez has more than 20 years of fundraising, coalition building and organizational development experience in advocacy and social justice movements. She has held staff and board leadership positions in community-based organizations in the fields of reproductive justice of women of color; youth development; hunger and homelessness. Her oral history and papers are included in the Voices of Feminism archival project at the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College. She is currently a bilingual training coordinator, at the Foundation Center, NYC, where she is responsible for designing and implementing fundraising training programs with a special focus on delivering English and Spanish training to under-resourced, grassroots organizations.

The workshop fee is $25 which includes resource materials. Registrants will receive a parking pass for the garage near the library. Checks made payable to: The Cultural Foundation of Broward, or by credit card online. For more information, call Adriane Clarke, grants specialist with the Broward Cultural Division at 954-357-7530.

Click HERE to register online.

The South Florida Artists Association will host a “Meet-up” the evening of May 14 at Full Circle Gallery 201 SW 5th Street, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301. Ms. Rodriguez will provide a talk on preparing artist statements for the group, and any interested artists. For more information on this “Meet-up” event go to: www.south-florida-artists.com or contact 954-695-1587.

This Project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment of the Arts

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Knight Arts Challenge Contest Opens For Applications Deadline March 2, 2011

Knight Arts Challenge Contest Opens For Applications

Starting today, South Floridians can begin applying for a share of millions in funding through the fourth annual Knight Arts Challenge. The community-wide contest to find the best ideas for the arts in South Florida is sponsored by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Applications will be accepted through March 2 at KnightArts.org

There are only three rules for applying: The idea is about the arts; the project takes place in or benefits South Florida; and applicants must find other funding to match the Knight Foundation grant.

Individuals, nonprofits and for profit organizations are eligible to apply.
In just three years, Knight Foundation has invested $17.5 million in projects for the Challenge, which aims to bring South Florida together through the arts. Local arts supporters are doubling that amount with matching funds.

In 2010, the winning ideas included commissioning original films telling unique Miami stories through the Borscht Film Festival, exposing 130,000 Miami-Dade students to the arts through an annual field trip and promoting traditional Haitian art through a youth training program in Homestead.

“This contest is about innovative ideas, artistic excellence and inspiring our community. The best projects will help weave culture into the everyday fabric of this region. We want to hear from everyone with a great idea,” said Dennis Scholl, Miami program director for Knight Foundation, who leads the initiative.

Have an idea? Visit www.KnightArts.org through March 2. The two-question application is designed to be simple to attract applicants who aren’t traditional grant seekers.

About the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation advances journalism in the digital age and invests in the vitality of communities where the Knight brothers owned newspapers. Knight Foundation focuses on projects that promote informed and engaged communities and lead to transformational change. For more, visit www.knightfoundation.org.

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Pepsi Challenge Grant Update

Hi Everyone,

I wanted to talk a little bit more about our $50,000 Pepsi Refresh Grant proposal. This may be a bit long, but I hope you will stay with me.
http://www.refresheverything.com/lifeisart

You know that Life Is Art’s mission is to help support the south Florida art community. That is you. That is all of us who live here. This $50,000 goes directly towards that goal. If you are an artist, an art lover, or just like our parties, if you live in south Florida, this money is really for you.

Our plan is to produce a series of large scale fine art fairs throughout the coming year specifically to showcase south Florida artists and arts, including one during the big Art Basel weekend.
http://www.refresheverything.com/lifeisart

The reason for the grant is so that we can spend plenty on real advertising and marketing, rent a large venue, provide real professional booth spaces and still keep the cost very low to the artists and to the attendees. It would mean we can dedicate more hours to the project, bringing in more sponsors and more value to the area. It really means a much bigger event at a much lower cost to you, the artists. This means more opportunity to show and sell your work with less financial outlay. This is just like money in your pocket.

If you are an art lover, this is good for you, too. Not only will you have some wonderful art fairs to attend, but it helps grow your art scene as a whole, giving you more opportunity to enjoy it. Even if you are just on this list because you like the parties we throw, it is good for you. This money will help us throw bigger and better events at less cost to everyone.

But it really is more than just this set of art fairs. This grant will allow us to devote more time to our mission, in general. This way we can bring grant money and more sponsorships to south Florida and we can produce more events, more seminars, networkers and art showcases, as well as more big art fairs. In the long term, this one grant could mean hundreds of thousands of dollars funneled into the south Florida arts scene and community. That is money that directly benefits you.

So, please, take a moment to vote every day. Tell your friends, family and colleagues about this and encourage them to vote. Share it on your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Blog and other social media networks. Let us know you are voting by posting in the comments, or on our blog, or on our webpage. It only takes a couple minutes to sign up, and maybe 30 seconds a day to vote. We are working hard for your success and we hope you will help us help you. We CAN make this happen, but only with your help. This is really important and it really is that easy.

http://www.refresheverything.com/lifeisart

Thank you very much for your time.

Sincerely,
James Echols
Co-founder
Life Is Art, Inc.
www.lifeisartfest.org

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Life Is Art Knight Arts Challenge Grant Submissions 2010

I am going to post here all of the projects that Life Is Art has submitted to the Knight Arts Challenge. I am doing so for two reasons.
1) I hope it inspires you to submit your own ideas.
2) I want you see a few of the things we are trying to accomplish.
We will probably be submitting more ideas until the deadline of March 15th, but I wanted to go ahead and get these out there. Even if we do not get funded for any of these, we will still continue to pursue them and many more in the eventual goal of raising the south Florida arts scene to the same level of reknown of other great cities.

IDEA #1: South Florida Featured Art Fairs

Life Is Art proposes to produce a series of art fairs throughout the year to promote the arts in south Florida, including a special event during the massive Art Basel week in early December. The reason for the grant is to keep the costs low to participating artists and to attendees. Each fair will take place in a different part of the area.

The arts are growing fast in south Florida, but much of the amazing local talent is being left behind. Also, research shows that the arts provide significant economic impact.

Each show will be significantly promoted through efficient marketing and public relations practices to maximize the exposure of the artists and use of the funds. The use of community resources and in-kind local sponsors will also be utilized to the fullest extent.

Every show will be open-call, juried by a group of experienced jurists and art professionals. Many art forms will be included, e.g. visual, performance, dance, music, film, design, etc.

IDEA #2: South Florida Arts Council

There are many organizations and individuals working towards the betterment of the arts in south Florida. There seems to be a lot of overlap and lack of coordination between these efforts, though. An overarching professionals group could help everyone coordinate activities and share resources. “Got Milk?”

The idea is to create an organization that assists all the organizations in south Florida do what they do better. In addition, resources could be pooled to create larger campaigns.

This would be a membership organization, but the price of membership would be kept as low as possible, and based on a sliding scale based on an individual’s or organization’s ability to pay.

The goal would be to include all the organizations and institutions in south Florida, as well as individual artists, curators, and collectors. Many other areas have on arts council, it is time south Florida did, too.

IDEA #3: South Florida Arts Presentation Venue

ArtCenter South and Bakehouse Arts Center are both great institutions. But, as the south Florida arts scene grows, these two organizations are not enough to serve the needs of a growing number of artists. We propose to open a new space that is not only dedicated to providing low cost studio/gallery space for artists, but also to market those artists, as well as artists from across south Florida.

Included would be a number of personal studio/gallery spaces that artists could lease for low cost, as well as larger gallery/performance spaces wherein big shows would take place to showcase not only the artists in the onsite studios, but artists from all over south Florida.

This space could be used to not only showcase visual artists, but artists of all disciplines, music, dance, performance, fashion, etc. This space would be focused on using all media available to promote participating artists to the greatest extent.

IDEA #4: South Florida Music Showcase

There have been a few abortive attempts to host a music event showcasing the talent in south Florida, but none of them have really gone anywhere. So much amazing music has come out of and into Miami in the past 100 years, that it is a shame we do not respect our local scene more.

There is still a large pool of amazing talent in south Florida. What we really need is a good three-day festival featuring the great bands, musicians, DJs, and performers of our area. Throw in a few big names to get the media on it, and you would have a show.

Funding would be used to subsidize gate prices for the early years in order to generate more interest. Significant effort would be put into marketing and promotion in order to ensure good crowd.

Music of all genres would be included in order to allow as many local musicians to participate as possible. Not only could we have festival style, but we have so many clubs and bars that we can include. So good for the local economy, as well as the arts.

IDEA #5: South Florida Online Arts Wikipedia

Where do you go when you want a comprehensive guide to the arts in south Florida? What does Google love? What is SEO and why does the south Florida arts community need it?

If you want to be seen in the 21st century, you MUST be seen on the web. South Florida needs a website that maximizes our arts exposure on the web. Nothing does that better than a Wikipedia.

By providing a platform where artists, arts business, and arts organizations can manage their own representation in one, comprehensive website, we can provide a one-stop easy-to-use location for people to learn about the south Florida arts scene. It also provides a simple method for the participants to manage entry.

The Wikipedia software is extremely Google-friendly (and other search engines), meaning that our arts people will show up more likely on arts related searches from around the world, improving the visibility of what we have to offer.

The funding provides this free or low-cost to all the arts people in south Florida.

IDEA #6: After school cultural tour youth art program

Appreciation of the arts starts young. This proposal is to create an after school program for area youth to get them interested and excited about the arts. On a regular basis (depending on funding level and availability) we will organize an outing to a local gallery, museum or other cultural institution for young people and their parents. Target would be at least once per week.

At each event there will be interesting interactive activities related to the venue, and a chance to meet and speak with local artists, curators, gallerists, and other art professionals. The work at the institution will presented in a manner to make it interesting and exciting to young minds.

Enrollment will be open to any student, given size limitations of the location. Special effort will be given to promote the program to disadvantaged youth. This will allow the youth to not only learn a love of the arts, but also to be introduced to the cultural diversity of the area.

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From Knight Arts Foundation: Live Q & A Session on Knight Community Information Challenge February 26, 2010

From the Knight Arts Challenge. Join the conversation and let your voice be heard.

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Have a question about your Knight Community Information Challenge application?
 Join us for a live question-and-answer session at 3 p.m. tomorrow on the Knight Community Information Challenge – a matching grant program that helps community and place-based foundations fund local news and information projects. The challenge is accepting applications through March 8 at www.informationneeds.org. Submit your questions via instant message for immediate answers from Knight Foundation staff during this final live chat session.
 When: 3 p.m. EDT Friday Feb. 26
 Where: Participate at www.informationneeds.org
 No registration required.
 Sign up for an email reminder by visiting: www.informationneeds.org/webinar

Questions? Email Marika Lynch, lynch@knightfoundation.org

The Knight Community Information Challenge is a project of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

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From the Knight Foundation: Knight Arts Challenge now accepting submissions through March 15, 2010

This is a VERY exciting opportunity for everyone interested in the arts in south Florida. ANYone can apply. And the application process is neither complex nor daunting. The Knight Foundation has done a wonderful job of making it simple. I absolutely encourage everyone to look into this and submit your ideas.

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Knight Arts Challenge Opens Contest

Deadline March 15
 The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is now accepting applications for the Knight Arts Challenge, a community-wide contest that aims to bring South Florida together through the arts. Have a big idea for the local cultural scene? Submit it through March 15 at KnightArts.org.
 It’s your turn to inspire our growing local arts scene.

If you have a great idea in the arts, let us know. Take part in a community rising to new levels of artistic achievement and global recognition. In the last two years, 51 ideas were funded. Is this your year?

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is seeking ideas and innovation in the arts from nonprofits, companies and individuals. There are three simple rules:
 1. The idea is about arts.
 2. The project takes place in or benefits South Florida.
 3. You find other funding to match the Knight Foundation grant.

So far, 51 individual artists, small nonprofits and the area’s largest institutions have won funding from the challenge. The Knight Arts Challenge’s application is designed to be simple to attract a wide range of applicants, including those who are not traditional foundation grant seekers.

Town Hall Meeting with Miami Program Director Dennis Scholl
Artists and art advocates interested in applying for the challenge’s third round also are invited to a town hall meeting at 5:30 p.m. March 9 at the Little Haiti Cultural Center, 260 NE 59th Ter. Miami Program Director Dennis Scholl, who leads the challenge, will answer questions.

A video produced by Soul Of Miami with some of the 2009 winners. Knight Foundation’s Dennis Scholl opens the video with a very good description of the program

Press Release here.
 More Information Here.
 Apply Here.

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From Broward New Times: Call to All Types of Artists Palm Beach and Broward Counties MasterMind Four Awards of $1000 each

Looks like a nice grant from Broward New Times. Check it out, if you are interested.

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New Times Broward-Palm Beach to Give Away $4,000 to Artists for MasterMind Awards

By Deirdra Funcheon

New Times Broward-Palm Beach is excited to announce our newly-established Amplitude Academy of Musical Arts MasterMind awards! We’re giving away $1,000 to four local artists. Fashion designers, filmmakers, visual artists, performance artists, tattoo artists, and more are invited to apply. Alternately, individuals can nominate an artist whose work they admire.

Are you a longtime fixture in the local art scene? Show us why. An obscure starving artist? Bring it on. Not sure if that stiltwalking dance you invented in your bedroom qualifies as “performance art”? Hey, try us. Applicants must work, reside, or attend school in Broward or Palm Beach counties.

Winners will be chosen by a panel of experts (museum representatives, gallery owners, art critics, etc) and announced on November 14, when New Times Broward-Palm Beach celebrates local innovators with our first annual Artopia event — an eye-popping gala and sensory experience replete with drinks, music, DJs, art, food, and fashion at Fort Lauderdale nightclub Exit 66.

Enter either via snail mail or e-mail — whichever best showcases the applicant’s work.

To apply, please include a statement describing the artist and the work. Also include contact information — phone number, e-mail address, home address. The deadline is 5 p.m. October 28.

Mail submissions to:
 New Times
 Deirdra Funcheon, Asssociate Editor
 16 NE Fourth Street, Suite 200
 Fort Lauderdale FL 33301
 OR
 Submit information, with hyperlinks to websites where the work may be viewed, to Deirdra.Funcheon@browardpalmbeach.com.

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From Lowe Art Museum: Miami-Dade County Grant update

More information about the county’s proposed cuts to the arts budget from the Lowe Art Museum. Some good dates here for meetings.

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Dear Lowe Art Museum Supporters,

I am writing to update our members and supporters about the continuing budget process. As you may have heard the Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners recently voted to preserve the maximum flexibility to set a budget for the 2009-2010 year that responds to the current economic environment and invites additional put input into the final budget process.

The vote did NOT raise taxes, eliminate jobs, salaries or programs, but set the stage for an open, vigorous public process over the next 55 days when a final hearing on the 2009-2010 budget at 5:01 p.m., Thursday, September 17, 2009.

The next several weeks are critical if we are to maintain any funding for arts and culture in our community. If you have not already written the members of the Miami-Dade County Commission and specifically your elected commissioner, I urge you to do so now. Tell the Commission what arts and culture mean to you and share with them what the loss will be to this community if they support a more than $11 million reduction in the budget for arts and culture grants for this community. A reduction of this magnitude will, I assure you, be devastating both to the Lowe and many organizations, which will simply cease to exist. If you have already written, please write again. The Commission needs to hear from its constitutents.

List of commissioners.

Please place these two important dates and times on your calendars:
 5:01 p.m., Thursday, September 3, 2009-First public hearing on the FY 2009-2010 budget.
 5:01 p.m., Thursday, September 17, 2009-Final budget hearing on the FY 2009-2010 budget.

Thank you again for your continuing support of the Lowe Art Museum and other important community cultural institutions.

Sincerely,
 Brian A. Dursum
 Director and Chief Curator
 Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami

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