The Washington Post: These are the kind of numbers artists like to hear. The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation announced Thursday it is launching a new initiative to give $50 million over the next ten years to performing artists. At a time when the lingering recession has rocked the larger arts community, individual artists have lost essential financial support from both the public and private sector. Duke hopes to fill some of that gap.
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Doris Duke Foundation announces a windfall of $50 million for performing artists.
The Washington Post: These are the kind of numbers artists like to hear. The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation announced Thursday it is launching a new initiative to give $50 million over the next ten years to performing artists. At a time when the lingering recession has rocked the larger arts community, individual artists have lost essential financial support from both the public and private sector. Duke hopes to fill some of that gap.
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This foundation will help to keep the arts alive in this hard economic time. I like that this money does not come with a lot of strings attached. It allows artists the opportunity to experiment and not have to be a commercial success in order to survive. I hope that the information about this gets out to as many people as possible since the process is peer nominations and recommendations. It would be a pity if only a select group of artists benefited from this. I hope that this gesture will inspire other foundations to do the same to help out the performing arts.
This is great to hear that someone is giving so much money directly to the art not the a program that some of the money will be assorted by. It is interesting that they are only giving it to the performers. What about the people that are helping put the show on the stage? They are also out of work and getting no money not only the performers need work. I wonder if the money was given to a performance company if some of the money would go to the support people. I hope that this money is evenly distributed so that it will help the most amounts of people. I would love to see one of these types of things for technicians in the theater field.
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