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The Artists Collective, Inc. is an interdisciplinary cultural institution in Hartford, Connecticut, that promotes the art and culture of the African diaspora.It was founded in 1970 by alto saxophonist, composer, educator and community activist Jackie McLean, his wife, actress and dancer Dollie McLean, and co-founders bassist Paul Brown, dancer Cheryl Smith, and visual artist Ionis Martin.
McLean became well known for painting horses and western American subject matter in a photorealist style. [2] [3] Like other West Coast photorealists like Ralph Goings and Robert Bechtle, he was included in the exhibitions Twenty-Two Realists at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1970) and Documenta 5 (1972) in Kassel, Germany.
William Herbert McLean was born in Newton, Massachusetts, in 1871 [2] to Henry and Elizabeth McLean, who had immigrated from Nova Scotia that year. His father was a carpenter and built a number of houses in the Newton area. McLean attended the Massachusetts Normal Art School, the present Massachusetts College of Art and Design, [2] graduating ...
When that project failed, Lonnbladh remained in Tallahassee and became a land developer. ... Arts and Humanities and the Charles Winterwood Theater. ... McLean Park named for former city commissioner.
The President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH) was an advisory committee to the President of the United States on cultural issues.It works directly with the White House and the three primary cultural agencies: the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), as well as other federal ...
Alice Denney, a contemporary art collector active on the Washington scene, founded the Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) in 1975 as a "service center" for area artists and performers. The WPA's mission was not simply to provide a place for artists to show their work or perform, but also to make available advice in arts management ...
McLean said Project 31 has been in the process of establishing a firm foundation to be able to handle growth. Along those lines, she said the nonprofit has done a good job of creating a ...
The AHRC is a non-departmental public body that provides approximately £102 million from the UK government to support research and postgraduate study in the arts and humanities, from languages and law, archaeology and English literature to design and creative and performing arts. In any one year, the AHRC makes approximately 700 research ...