Getting your player ready...
WASHINGTON — These are the kind of numbers artists like to hear: The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation announced Thursday that it is launching an initiative to give $50 million over the next 10 years to performing artists.
At a time when effects of the recession have rocked the larger arts community, individual artists have lost essential financial support from the public and private sectors. Duke hopes to fill some of that gap.
The program will give 200 individual artists from the fields of contemporary dance, jazz and theater multi-year cash awards of as much as $275,000. Individuals will be selected through an anonymous peer-review process, not through applications.
The Washington Post
