UPDATE:
NEA Reassigns Communications Director Following Uproar Over Obama Initiative
The National Endowment for the Arts reassigned its communications director following his participation in a controversial conference call last month.
FOXNews.com
Friday, September 11, 2009
The National Endowment for the Arts has reassigned its communications director following his participation in a controversial conference call last month, FOX News has learned.
But the organization isn't saying what job Yosi Sergant now holds.
"Can't comment on that at this point," spokeswoman Victoria Hutter told FOXNews.com on Friday. She declined to confirm that he was reassigned as a result of the controversy.
"We'll have more to say about that later," she said.
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Texas Senator Warns Obama Against 'Politicization Of The NEA'*
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) issued an open letter Wednesday asking President Obama to "take the necessary steps to ensure that the NEA and the American arts community it supports remain independent from political manipulation by the White House."
Cornyn's letter followed a blogger's critical report about a telephone conference last month in which the National Endowment for the Arts combined with the White House Office of Public Engagement to enlist artists on behalf of the administration's "United We Serve" volunteer service initiative.
Posting the letter on his official website, Cornyn said that "steering the arts community toward a pro-Administration political message" would violate the NEA's nonpartisan mandate. The endowment's main purpose is disbursing federal grants to nonprofit arts organizations.
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BIG HOLLYWOOD: The NEA vs. the Facts
Recently I made the argument that it was not the role of the National Endowment for the Arts to use the arts to address specific issues, especially those of "health care" and "energy and environment" that are being vehemently debated nationally. Here's what happened next...
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Film Producer Accuses NEA of Enlisting Artists to Push Obama's Domestic Agenda
The National Endowment for the Arts initiated a "call to action" earlier this month for members of the art community to push President Obama's recovery agency through works that focus on health care, energy and the environment -- a troubling sign, one artist said.
By Joshua Rhett Miller
FOXNews.com
Friday, August 28, 2009
A 39-year-old Los Angeles film producer is accusing the National Endowment for the Arts of initiating a "call to action" to artists to support President Obama's domestic agenda.
The film producer, Patrick Courrielche, said he was one of roughly 75 artists, musicians, writers, poets and others on an Aug. 10 conference call hosted by the NEA, the White House Office of Public Engagement and United We Serve, a nationwide initiative launched by Obama to increase volunteerism.
Courrielche said officials on the hour-long call -- including NEA Director of Communications Yosi Sergant and Michael Skolnik, political director for hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons -- encouraged the artists on the line to create works of art in their respective fields related to health care, energy and the environment.
"What I heard was a well thought-out pitch to encourage artists to create art on these issues," Courrielche told FOXNews.com. "We were told we were consulted for a reason, and they specifically stated those issues as the issues we should focus on, to plant the seed. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see what they're attempting to do."
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