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Artists as Ambassadors

October 26, 2010 by Marion Maneker

Kate Taylor talks about a new State Dept. program to have visual artists represent America abroad:

[U]nder a new $1 million program being announced this week, the Obama administration is planning to expand its cultural diplomacy programs to include visual artists like painters and sculptors, who will be asked next year to create public art projects in 15 foreign countries. […]

The new program, known as smART Power, will be administered by the Bronx Museum of the Arts, which was selected from a dozen institutions to choose the artists. They will be sent to places that include Pakistan, Egypt, Venezuela, China, Nigeria and a Somali refugee camp in Kenya.

U.S. to Send Visual Artists as Cultural Ambassadors

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