Last week in Miami, 31 ideas were announced as winners of the 2011 Knight Arts Challenge. Above, Nicholas Goldsborough describes how the Miami City Ballet, a challenge winner, will broaden its programming and support the future of ballet by establishing a fund for the creation of new works. The project aims to excite audiences and infuse dance [...]
Mentorship program for African-American playwrights, coral as a living art form, new dance company among the winners of Knight Foundation’s Knight Arts Challenge MIAMI, Nov. 28, 2011— Thirty-one ideas – many of them from small cultural groups helping to weave the arts into South Florida’s DNA – have been selected as 2011 winners of the [...]
NEWS RELEASE | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Applications open today for Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA (Oct. 3, 2011) – The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is now accepting applications for the second year of the Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia from today through Oct. 31. The three-year, $9 million community-wide contest seeks the most [...]
NEWS RELEASE | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 6, 2011) Knight Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) today are launching an eight-city competition seeking new models for local arts journalism in the digital age. The initiative seeks to rethink how traditional media systems function, harnessing the latest tools and technology to [...]
Cross posted from http://www.nea.gov/artworks/ Today the National Endowment for the Arts along with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation launched the Knight/NEA Community Arts Journalism Challenge, a pilot competition in eight Knight communities to inspire new, innovative models for local, high-quality arts coverage and criticism. The NEA’s Senior Deputy Chairman Joan Shigekawa and Knight’s [...]
Knight Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts are launching an eight-city competition seeking new models for local arts journalism in the digital age. Details will be announced by Knight and NEA July 6.
Last fall, we asked for the best ideas for the arts in South Florida. We received more than 1,300 ideas, and today we’re happy to announce the 56 finalists for the Knight Arts Challenge Miami. We hope you’re as inspired as we were by these innovative ideas for bringing people together through the arts. Read [...]
Creemos en el poder que tienen las artes de unir a la comunidad, avivar el alma y ayudarnos a imaginar nuestro potencial colectivo. Todos los años, el Knight Arts Challenge le pregunta a la comunidad: ¿Cuál es su mejor idea para las artes en el sur de la Florida? Las respuestas no dejan de inspirarnos. [...]
