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Durham School of the Arts played very well. They have a very well coached team that plays with a lot of heart. We didn't play with much emotion in singles, but all three doubles teams played well under pressure.

Dr. Lott managed significant reductions in state funding over the first four years of his administration without cutting funds to the arts. He secured funding for the construction of the Jefferson Davis Campus (JD) Arena Theatre in Gulfport and the renovation of the college's existing arts facilities. Finally, he implemented a leadership-development program with a strong connection to the arts. All this made him an obvious choice for this award.

Even a Ph.D. microbiologist doesn't know the dark arts of putting microbes into weapons.

There's practically not one aspect of the arts that's not included in this program. Narrative, poetry, dance, sculpture - there's something for everybody. Opera works really well for integrating the arts.

There's a good buzz. It's really cool because this is not really a sports-oriented school, being liberal arts and everything. But everybody is talking about it.

There's a disconnect between appreciation and funding for our Native Hawaiian artists and arts community.

The traditional arts of this country don't need rescuing,

I started a simple list of what I thought were cool events, arts and technology stuff.

I soon see the day where the symphony and the opera company will be doing a full opera with a full symphony orchestra in the new Performing Arts Centre,

I see our function as two fold - to bring art in and to help the arts that are within the community to find audiences.

I used to be in arts and stuff. But I never was encouraged to...I was...aimed toward the sciences.

The workshops will focus on ways to create connections among arts organizations and community centers, and then offer some hands-on experience in teaching an actual class.

The Scottsdale Arts Festival has long been recognized for the high caliber of its participating artists and for its beautiful outdoor setting.

The same way we were talking about the arts being part of the infrastructure,

I've spent 15 years in arts marketing and arts management in the US and the Sydney Opera House really is the pinnacle.

I've said more than once that this will be my last martial arts film.

The standard practice of a not-for-profit operation is that service fees are not refunded, but the face value of a ticket is, ... Funding for the arts has gone down, as everyone knows, and so it's used as a contribution, for lack of a better term.

The Sixth Street Bridge is the Roberto Clemente Bridge, named for a sports figure, and sports is so important in this town. The Seventh Street Bridge is the Andy Warhol Bridge, which points out how important the arts are to this area. And now, the third bridge is dedicated to science, so important to the county.

The show was closed unjustly because the licensing ordinance that the city claims was the grounds for closing us does not apply to nonprofit and charitable organizations like the Milwaukee Gay Arts Center.

Thanks to budget shortfalls and format wars, our traditional media, literature, and arts are perishing faster than ever before. Nothing conceived by the human mind, except Heaven and nuclear winter, is eternal.

School work and intellectual interests such as music and the arts were not especially important to me while I was growing up, although mathematics, my favorite subject, was fun. Baseball was my first passion: I played sand lot and Little League and rooted for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

People under 60, raised on television, they remember by what they see. The churches that are using a great deal of the arts in their worship and drama and visual film are doing it in part because they realize film and television are really the language of today.

Our expectations for flat-to-down industry sales growth in 2006 and increased spending by Electronic Arts on research and development lead us to conclude that Electronic Arts is unlikely to achieve any significant earnings-per-share growth in fiscal-year 2007.

Our ambition for this event is great. We want this regional arts event known all across our country.

Our alliance with the community was the key to the last year's success. The arts center is a wonderful investment and the relationship we have with the community will help enhance our quality of life.

People pay $100 to $150 to see me in the big performing arts theaters. This is a home thing, me in my back yard.

Normally when kids go to academic meets, there are never any questions on arts or literature. So this meet brings something new and interesting to the kids, and they all just get so excited.

After graduating from high school I went to college in Massachusetts - Williams College, a small liberal arts school which I really enjoyed.

Now, of course, people who are involved in Arts & Sciences Council are involved in other organizations. But, it cannot be part of the decision making process.

The momentum continues to build which is really exciting for us. We were confident people would respond to the sport of mixed martial arts once they got to know the professional athletes who participate in it. Stay tuned, it's going to be a great season.

During my time in New York I was interested in what was going on in the arts culture music, galleries, auction houses that's where I learned as much as I did about art history. It was the vortex of the art world and a fabulous place to get up to speed and develop one's eye.

Dent Middle School is the only middle school in Richland School District Two with an arts and media program such as this one.

Arend Arts Center is paid for ? but now we have to operate it.

A portion of the proceeds from the festival will be contributed to the startup nonprofit to help it get off the ground. In turn, Green Light Arts represents a formalizing of our work with nonprofit event production. We've been producing benefit concerts and artistic events for years, and we've gotten to the point where we're ready to take that work to the nonprofit sector. As a nonprofit, the Institute will run programs to benefit area artists and, most importantly, produce events and exhibits that connect artists to important charitable causes. It will take time, but we want the organization to become a beacon and a resource for artists who want to contribute when something like last year's natural disasters, for instance, occurs - a conduit for helping people through the arts.

Any nonprofit organization (in Stark County) was eligible to apply. In many cases, it's the local church or the elementary school or the social service agency that's doing arts projects. We just didn't know about it.

Anytime anyone can do something academically, then kids see it everywhere. Now with ISTEP it's not just English, language arts and math, it's also science in fifth grade. That will trickle down eventually.

As a complete product of Issaquah public schools, there is absolutely no way I would be here if I didn't have well-funded arts programs and some great teachers who were constantly pushing me intellectually and personally.

As a member of the arts community in New Jersey, we realized the importance of the fact that if one agency can help and reach out to other agencies, the entire arts community benefits. You can't exist in a vacuum. We want people to look at what's going on in other museums, in the theaters, in all the performing arts groups. It makes New Jersey dynamic and this area that we're in... extremely dynamic.

The mission of the Anglo-Saxon has been largely that of the soldier; but the world is making progress, we are leaving behind the barbarism of war; as civilization advances, it will learn less of war, and concern itself more with the arts of peace, and for these the massive battle-ax must be wrought into tools of finer temper.

You see, there are always purists in every, in every art form and particularly I think in, in performance arts of any kind.

This is a wonderful way to help children understand that the arts are all inter-related. This artwork has evolved from the music they have heard played, how they thought and felt during that music.

This is an era of woman's work in many spheres of activity -- of independent thought and individual achievement in the arts and sciences and learned professions, as well as the humbler, but not more self-sacrificing fields of usefulness. But every woman pursues the eternal quest for love, for sympathy, for understanding, for happiness, and in her heart is the great, holy yearning for motherhood.

This is a true fine arts show, not an arts and crafts show. In the scope of today's world, fine art is expanding.

This is the first group I could come to that didn't ask me what digital arts are,

This generous outpouring from such a distinguished and compassionate arts organization is truly reassuring and encouraging as we begin the transition from public to private funding to rebuild our arts and cultural network on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

This concurrent moveable feast is just a wonderful opportunity for people to get the experience of the depth and breadth of the arts here. ... We have an extremely active arts scene.... in most cases, this is fueled by intense, very passionate interest in art making ... and the students are very eager to share this with the community.

This building will probably extend the center of our campus a little farther north. There was a big shift with the liberal arts building because it's all classrooms and offices, so there's a lot more traffic in that part of our facility, and the library will only add to that traffic pattern.

This building will democratize dance by making it physically and financially accessible to all of Austin up to six days every week, instead of only five weekends a year. It will transform Ballet Austin and be the first anchor of the new downtown arts and entertainment district.

This being a Fine Arts Magnet School, we really focus on the arts. The students have been given intense art instruction since kindergarten; therefore, the work is unbelievable.

This acquisition will allow us to offer our customers services for every stage of the graphic arts production process. Cross-selling a more diverse range of products and services, including educational product development, catalog design and execution, as well as complete magazine publishing and advertising management services, will help us grow our business. In addition, our new presence in New York will enable us to better serve our clients there and strengthen our position among New York's heavy concentration of advertising agencies and publishers.

This is a chance to show the members some of what the arts encompass.

This is a chance for the arts council to show we appreciate member support.

This is a facility that will propel the arts programs at USU into national and international attention. It will be a magnet to lure people. We will get great performers who want to perform in a hall like this. Students can hear what it sounds like to perform in Carnegie Hall.

A lot of other martial arts are sports-oriented, not real-life oriented.

Although there are countless tangents that a career in the building arts can take, it is nonetheless most unusual for a major architectural practice to emerge once a firm's principals are well into what is loosely called middle age.

A lot of people think we are a total magnet school, ... Really, we are an elementary school with a magnet component. It's kind of like we have two schools under one roof. We have Program A, which is the neighborhood school, and Program B, which is the arts magnet school.

They found that the Vedas contain the secrets of all the arts which confer progress on man.

This pattern is fundamental to probably all Japanese art, particularly the performing arts or poetry. The Japanese feel it's actually the rhythm of nature.... Nature is a continuous process of beginnings, accelerated development and quick endings.

There's a broad feeling that it's our responsibility and our pleasure to introduce the arts to kids.

This is the rush for a global proposition. It's very evident, with the moves from Electronic Arts and others, that we're at the beginnings of real scale in this industry, and the winners are going to be those who can offer a global solution.

This is their program and I wanted to get them involved in every aspect of it. We offer other drawing and painting classes and an arts program and I wanted to try and bring it all together. I thought this was a good avenue.

They're always interested in stories, ... and we have basket-making days and cultural days where we make some of the different arts and crafts. We make baskets and we try to give those wherever we go.

They're giving the cover corners an even smaller window than they had before. Now the guys who play hard at the corner get flagged all the time. What players like Hayes and Lewis did so well, steering a receiver with their body, is one of the arts that is now lost. The great cover corner is absolutely rare and special.

There's been an academic situation from a previous institution where he is, at this point of time, ineligible. He still has to earn his Associate of Arts (A.A.) degree. We are expecting him to come back to UNLV when he does.

There's a reason that there are oodles of young Aussies, Germans, Japanese, even Chinese backpackers traipsing around the world. They are unencumbered by debilitating student loans. No such luck for the American Theater Arts major with $120,000 in loans.

As we develop a regional economic-development strategy for Erie and Niagara counties, we have identified tourism as one of our growth clusters. The arts and culture industry needs to be viewed as an economic-development sector.

All our art programs have maintained a close working relationship with the museum during Michael's tenure. It's extremely useful for us to have a museum of this quality in the city because the VCU School of the Arts only has a small resident collection of its own.

Accessibility to artistic experiences is key, particularly for our young people, if we hope to build a creative, innovative, internationally competitive society ready to face the world, ... We are pleased to be a major partner of this important international gathering of individuals who all share a great thirst and an enormous passion for the arts and young people.

It seems like it's on the outer edge of town, but with so much buzz about North College Avenue, pretty soon it will be in the heart. I don't think people realize the quality of arts we have in this community.

It's a slow process, but we try to add something new every year. This year it was the Native Americans and the aquatic science booth. We're moving more toward the arts and sciences in the future.

It was considered a real model for arts centers. It was multidisciplinary. There was space for the performing arts, film and gallery spaces, and the atrium was set up for trade shows and exhibits.

It was a real arts community. Everyone left their studios open so you could come in and see what they were working on or just borrow something.

It's a wonderful thing you are doing in Akron. Keeping this great theater alive for the performing arts and for your children.

It's a chance for children and adults interested in theater arts to see what it's all about and meet other people interested in the same. No experience is needed for any of the activities.

It's a commitment to Princeton more than to the arts program. The art program is what Princeton wants to do now, and I'm pleased to be a lead donor for that project.

It's a big vision. To see the arts be an anchor for people to come to this town square to eat, visit, shop and hopefully someday stay (overnight). The potential is limitless.

It is very important that the UMKC community understands that Kansas City Rep is not leaving the UMKC campus, where we have been located for 42 years. We greatly value our home base at Spencer Theatre in the Performing Arts Center, and we recently invested in upgrading Spencer with new seats and other improvements. We plan to continue to produce a full season of plays at Spencer each year.

It's a great company, and the stock was pretty cheap until today. It's a leader in the arts and crafts industry, it's much bigger than its competition, has much higher profitability and consistently superior same-store sales growth.

It's a full play for those who enjoy martial arts movies,

It's a real success story. It really is unique. I know of no comparable area in Florida. We have a real formula for turning a blighted neighborhood into a true arts community.

It's not intended to be a comprehensive study of the Arts and Crafts Movement. It's a look at how people in other countries took the Arts and Crafts ideas that were developed in the (United Kingdom) and made them their own.

For a town this size, the level of the arts it supports is extraordinary.

For $100 million, give or take a million, this is an outstanding arts center.

It's the citizens that make this city great. It's business, academia, arts and culture, the military that make this city one of the most desirable places in the world to live and work.

It's the arts and that's passion and that's alive and I believe in that.

It is very typical for arts organizations around the state to ask for state aid. Arts organizations are always struggling to survive.

It's a logo and a hook for everything we plan to do under arts education. It's a catchy way to say arts are important in your life.

It may seem like the martial arts world has always been dominated by male characters. But that's only the physical difference. When you write in a female warrior in a male-dominated story, she takes on a kind of strength and mental integrity that do not distinguish her from her male counterparts. My idea is to create an impact when you see a woman fighter fighting with all the might of a man.

It's got lovely arts and crafts details in it. It just needed someone to take care of it.

It's remarkable that the town has the vision and supports this. Other towns have arts programs, but the money is usually administered by non-profits.

It's safe to say that the image of Atlanta does currently lag behind the reality of Atlanta. It has a terrific arts scene, great restaurants, great cultural venues and facilities. What they now need is a way to bring that reality out in the open in a simple and memorable way.

It's really different from the other movie games we have made. Here at Electronic Arts this type of game play is a real breakthrough for us. This sets a foundation.

Everyone likes pie. But people like pie a la mode even better. In the pie of life, arts is the ice cream.

Not that a B.F.A. in theater arts has been the most useful degree one could ever acquire.

The basic rationale is that performing arts courses are more expensive to teach and support. The classes are smaller, so there is more faculty.

It's clear arts education work drives student achievement. We need to be in the business of doing that.

It's amazing for someone to go into the decorative arts and revive it. He has carved out a niche that really wasn't there.

It's an excellent problem. It speaks to the success of the arts district.

I've just been overwhelmed by the outpouring of people who want to help our arts organizations and artists. ... They want to give money, they want to help,

Not having finished high school and having been fairly utilitarian in the way I went about college, I didn't have a deep liberal arts background. So we'd go to lunch and people would talk about their favorite seventeenth-century poets, and I'd be thinking, 'Could I even name five poets? From any century?'