Author: U.S. Senate, Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and Humanities and U.S. House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Select Education

Publication Year: 1977

Media Type: Conference paper/presentation

Summary:

Joint hearings on House Joint Resolution 600, a bill to authorize the President to call a White House Conference on the Arts; held in Dallas, Texas, November 15, 1977; New York City, December 17, 1977; Los Angeles, California, January 3, 1978; Berkeley, California, January 4, 1978; Miami, Florida, January 9, 1978; Chicago, Illinois, January 13, 1978; South Bend, Indiana, January 14, 1978; Washington, D.C., January 23, 1978; and Boston, Massachusetts, January 30, 1978. Bill calls for a national conference to be held in 1979 to focus attention on the major issues and arts policy in the U.S. The purpose of the Conference shall be to help develop a climate in which the arts can flourish, ... to formulate an assessment of problems and issues relating to the arts, and to develop recommendations relating to the appropriate growth of the arts in all parts of the Nation. Includes testimony and statements by government officials and arts leaders and other documentation.

Abstract: Joint hearings on House Joint Resolution 600, a bill to authorize the President to call a White House Conference on the Arts; held in Dallas, Texas, November 15, 1977; New York City, December 17, 1977; Los Angeles, California, January 3, 1978; Berkeley, California, January 4, 1978; Miami, Florida, January 9, 1978; Chicago, Illinois, January 13, 1978; South Bend, Indiana, January 14, 1978; Washington, D.C., January 23, 1978; and Boston, Massachusetts, January 30, 1978. Bill calls for a national conference to be held in 1979 to focus attention on the major issues and arts policy in the U.S. The purpose of the Conference shall be to help develop a climate in which the arts can flourish, ... to formulate an assessment of problems and issues relating to the arts, and to develop recommendations relating to the appropriate growth of the arts in all parts of the Nation. Includes testimony and statements by government officials and arts leaders and other documentation.

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Categories: Legislation, Funding