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Laura Street: Letter to the Editor, Amarillo Globe News
Laura Street, Texas Cultural Trust Board member wrote to the Amarillo Globe News thanking Representative Four Price and Senator Joan Huffman for their leadership and successful support of the TCA Sunset Bill. http://amarillo.com/opinion/letters-editor/2013-05-10/keep-arts-industry-thriving-amarillo
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Arnold Garcia writes in the Austin American Statesman about the importance of investing in the Arts.
http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/opinion/a-small-investment-makes-cash-registers-sing/nXdNt/?icmp=statesman_internallink_invitationbox_apr2013_statesmanstubtomystatesman_launch
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State Board of Education Approves new Fine Arts TEKS
On April 19th the SBOE approved the new Fine Arts TEKS. The new Fine Arts TEKS includes the Trust’s Arts and Digital Literacy Curricula (all eight courses: Art and Media Communications I; Art and Media Communications II; Music and Media … Continue reading
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Last year the Trust distributed copies of Adventures in the Arts to elementary school students in Marfa, Alpine, Fort Davis, Fort Stockton and Valentine, Texas. Marfa made its debut on 60 minutes last night. http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50144819n
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Charles Matthews: Sustaining arts, culture is key to jobs creation
Charles Matthews, Vice Chair of the Texas Cultural Trust authored an op-ed on the Importance of the Arts & Culture Industries to sustaining Texas’ vibrant economy. The op-ed ran in the Austin American Statesman, The San Antonio Express News, the … Continue reading
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The Arts Put on Quite an Economic Show
Corpus Christi Caller Times Written by: Charles Matthews Published March 30, 2013 Arts and culture help fuel our state’s economy — it’s that simple. Economic impact studies have proven time and time again that there’s an inextricable link between the … Continue reading
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The Artist and the City
Texas Monthly Jake Silverstein Published: February 2013 For thirty years, when she wasn’t writing books or winning genius grants, Sandra Cisneros has been pushing and prodding San Antonio to become a more sophisticated (and more Mexican) city. Now she’s leaving … Continue reading
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With Legislature in session, arts advocates and supporters get busy
austin360.com Written by: Jeanne Claire van Ryzin Published: January 26, 2013 When the advocacy group Texans For the Arts converges in Austin later this week for its biennial Arts Advocacy Day, few artists will be among the organization’s certified advocates … Continue reading
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Texas Monthly Turns 40: Racks Up Texas Medal of Arts Award, Allows McMurtry To Vent
AUSTINistAdam S. Published: January 23, 2013 Happy 40th, Texas Monthly! When you began, Texas was considered by the coastal elite as a benighted cultural wasteland – now we have both the trappings of good art, good food and bad traffic … Continue reading
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Grey’s Anatomy Star Returns to Houston to Reveal Medal of Arts Winners and Tout Texas Clout
Culture Map Houston Shelby Hodge Published: January 16, 2013 As one of the inaugural Texas Medal of Arts honorees, it was fitting that Emmy Award-winning choreographer and actress Debbie Allen returned to hometown Houston on Tuesday to join the Texas … Continue reading
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