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South County Notebook: May 24, 2021 SCHWARTZ Memorial Hall Museum to offer free admission to military personnel DEERFIELD — Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association’s Memorial Hall Museum will once again join museums nationwide in the Blue Star Museums initiative, a program that provides free admission to currently serving U.S. military personnel and their families this summer. The program, which started earlier this month, will continue through Sept. 6. “Like the resilience that military families demonstrate time and again, PVMA’s Memorial Hall Museum is an example of resiliency in ...

My New Orleans 05/17/2021   BATON ROUGE, La (press release) – The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced a second round of major grant funding totaling more than $88 million in recommended grants to organizations in all 50 states and jurisdictions for Fiscal Year 2021. The Louisiana Division of Arts and 21 arts organizations around the state will receive more than $1.5 million in grant funding. The Division of Arts is receiving $822,500 to support its NEA-approved strategic plan and an additional $695,000 is going to support arts organizations around Louisiana. “One of Louisian...

Standard-Times NEW BEDFORD — The Rotch-Jones-Duff House & Garden Museum (RJD) will join museums nationwide in the Blue Star Museums initiative, a program that provides free admission to currently-serving U.S. military personnel and their families. The 2021 program will begin on Armed Forces Day, Saturday, May 15, 2021, and end on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 6, 2021. Blue Star Museums is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in collaboration with Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and participating museums nationwide. “We are grateful to The Rotch-Jones-Duff House ...

Courtesy of Porter Loves Photography Filmmakers gather at the 2019 Pittsburgh Shorts Film Festival, with Kathryn Spitz Cohan in the front row, third from left. Independent filmmakers gather at a reception in the filmmakers’ lounge at the Pittsburgh Shorts Film Festival. Courtesy of Porter Loves Photography At the 2019 Pittsburgh Shorts Film Festival: From left, Jon Fish, director of “The Return,” Milo Stein, star of “Dream Homes According to Kids: Milo,” former Steeler Rocky Bleier, subject of “The Return,” and Rebecca Blumhagen, director of “Dream Homes According to Kids: M...

  This project will educate and support staff members of historically White art institutions in creating and implementing an anti-racist agenda within the arts, one person at a time. BCRC's project is among the more than 1,100 projects across America, totaling nearly $27 million, that were selected during this second round of Grants for Arts Projects fiscal year 2021 funding.    "As the country and the arts sector begin to imagine returning to a post-pandemic world, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is proud to announce funding that will help arts organizations such as the Berk...