NEA Announces International Exhibitions Advisory Committee

IFACCA/Artshub, 19 May 2005,USA

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has announced the members of its newly formed Federal Advisory Committee on International Exhibitions. The committee has been arraigned to advise the NEA and the Department of State on the selection of artists to represent the United States at major international arts exhibitions. The NEA formed the group by agreement with the State Department to ‘ensure that excellence, vitality and diversity of American contemporary art is represented at international visual arts exhibitions.’ The committee will hold its first official meeting in late September 2005 to review applications from curators and visual arts institutions interested in participating in exhibitions in Sao Paulo, Brazil and Cairo, Egypt. It is expected that an open call for proposals from curators and visual arts institutions will be on the Department of State and National Endowment for the Arts websites in June 2005. The committee members are: Francesco Bonami Senior Curator Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL Jane Farver Director MIT List Visual Arts Center Cambridge, MA Paul C. Ha Director Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis St. Louis, MO Marti Mayo Director Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston Houston, TX Catherine M. Rose Board member Dallas Museum of Art Dallas, TX Larry Salander Proprietor The Salander/O'Reilly Gallery New York, NY Fred Wilson Artist New York, NY Appointments are made by the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Art in consultation with the Department of State. Committee members serve for one year with the possibility of a renewed appointment. For further information, CLICK HERE.

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