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The program will help kids build skills like functional literacy and critical thinking, and show them eventual career options in age-appropriate ways.

A century-old brick building long used for prop storage and set construction is now an open and bright home to offices, a gallery, and space for art and events.

The University of Arkansas announced Wednesday a $30 million partial challenge grant from the Windgate Foundation to further expand the Windgate Art and

A $30 million Windgate Foundation grant announced Wednesday continues unprecedented gift support for arts education at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville as growth ramps up with new programs and more students.

The Windgate Foundation awards a $4.3 million grant to Arkansas Tech University in Russellville, through the schools foundation, for need-based scholarships and nursing education equipment.

Also, two foundations gave $20 million to expand internet access for households in the Cleveland area, and the Knight Foundation awarded $1.5 million to back Black and women entrepreneurs in Macon, Ga.

Smithsonian American Art Museum receives $2.1 million from the Windgate Foundation Major gift establishes an endowment for acquiring artworks by living artists and support for fellowship positions. Photo: Ron Blunt. WASHINGTON, DC .-The Smithsonian American Art Museum has received a $2.1 million gift from the Windgate Foundation to establish an endowment dedicated to acquiring artworks by living craft artists. The gift also funds two sequential one-year pre-doctoral fellowship positions that fu...

The First Art Newspaper on the Net   “Ragnar Kjartansson: Romantic Songs of the Patriarchy,” with performers Diana Gameros, left, and Kendra McKinley at the Guggenheim Museum iin New York. A video installation by Wu Tsang with Beverly Glenn-Copeland is part of a series of shows with a shared political charge, a taste of what can be. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; David Heald via The New York Times. by Holland Cotter (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- When the lockdown lifted this past spring, some of our ...

Also, Cisco has committed $50 million to offer scholarships to students at historically Black colleges and universities, and the Annenberg Foundation has given a challenge grant of $25 million to protect wild cougars in Los Angeles.

The motor company will help buy equipment for the center, a collaboration between the University of Arkansas and Fort Smith Public Schools to create career pathway programs in 22 districts, set to open in August.