Art Works: Earlier this month we welcomed Daniel Lurie to the NEA as our new Senior Advisor and Director of Strategic Partnerships. As you’ll learn in the interview below, Dan comes from a family that firmly believes in the interrelationship of arts and community. Seems to me he won’t have any trouble at all fitting in around here!
Monday, September 26, 2011
Getting to Know Daniel Lurie
Art Works: Earlier this month we welcomed Daniel Lurie to the NEA as our new Senior Advisor and Director of Strategic Partnerships. As you’ll learn in the interview below, Dan comes from a family that firmly believes in the interrelationship of arts and community. Seems to me he won’t have any trouble at all fitting in around here!
Mr. Lurie sounds like a great person to have working for the NEA for a number of reasons. The first is that he has his feet in a lot of doors-he grew up around art, but is also a lawyer and politician, with a lot of experience navigating DC from his time at HUD. Secondly, he is very passionate about making art an integral part of a community, not just an add-on or something expendable. The more art can become part of a place, the harder it is to take it away. Can't wait to see how he adds to the work NEA is doing already.
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