Leading US Creative Entrepreneur Drives NEA into 21st Century

 

 Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, Rocco Landesman, 

photographed here with EMU AMP! Students

Chairman Landesman welcomed arts advocates to DC and thanked us for advocating with our representatives to restore FY2013 NEA funding to $155 million.  Landesman took pride in sharing one of his favorite new programs, Our Town, an initiative that invests in creative and innovative projects in which communities, together with their arts and design organizations and artists, are looking to increase their livability.  This program connected with students and their interest in Detroit's growing network of Creative Entrepreneurs working to make the city a more inviting place to live, work and create.