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"If we leave it to mainstream institutions to create work by [minorities], we will be left with a kind of chainstore arts world." Topher Campbell   As of February 17, 2011, the U.S. House of Representatives has put forward the FY11...more

American Music Center's NewMusicBox features many articles on diversity of genre and programming, as well as several articles on how culture influences the identity of composers and vice versa. Below you will find just some of the articles that are r...more

  In 2006 the National MultiCultural Institute awarded OPERA America a Leading Lights Diversity Award for Diverse Voices, OPERA America's 2005 annual conference, which provided a forum for a national dialogue for the opera community to pr...more

Among Theatre Communications Group's mission is to leverage the stories of the field to build greater public awareness of and appreciation for live theatre in America. The organization’s vision ranges from being the leader and innovator in ass...more

A New Pitch by DeNeen L. Brown The Washington Post February 1, 2011 Having a disability places you in the world's largest minority group. Unlike many of the other diverse categories, a person is not only born with the identifying chactert...more

"We make one world from the stories of many different worlds. Multiculturalism, or whatever you call it, didn’t begin in the 1980s, though we sometimes behave as if it did. Hull-House reminds us that ethnic, racial and cultural diversity i...more

The Power of With by Ann Meier Baker, President & CEO, Chorus America The Voice, Fall 2011 "I often talk about the value of choral singing as a collaborative endeavor, where diverse groups of people sing with each other to produce som...more

On October 27, 2011, the National Endowment for the Arts presented the 2011 NEA Opera Honors to recipients John Conklin, Speight Jenkins, Risë Stevens, and Robert Ward. The NEA Opera Honors celebrate visionaries and luminaries who, by making ext...more

Fort Worth Opera launches Frontiers Fort Worth Opera launches Frontiers, an exciting annual program, which will showcase unpublished works by composers from the Americas (North, Central and South). Frontiers aims to give voice to original 21st...more

 "D.C. area homeless women to tell ‘Life Stories’ in Kennedy Center performance" The Washington Post by Katherine Boyle April 29, 2012 "Can art save a life? I think we’re finding that it can save lives...more