Meeting Archive

212th Meeting of the National Council on the Arts
Wednesday March 27, 2024
Constitution Center Auditorium
400 7th St. SW, Washington, DC 20506

AGENDA

Welcome & Roll Call

• Voting on Recommendations for Funding and Rejection
• NEA Chair Maria Rosario Jackson — Opening Remarks

“Meeting the Moment: Building a Healthy Performing Arts Ecosystem.”

• Panel 1: How did we get here? — moderated by Greg Reiner, NEA Director of Theater & Musical Theater
  • Annie Burridge, General Director & CEO, Austin Opera
  • Kelvin Dinkins, Jr., Executive Director, American Repertory Theater
  • Kerry Lee, Co-Artistic Director, Atlanta Chinese Dance Company
  • Laura Penn, Executive Director of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, labor activist, and member of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities
• “Decomposition Instead of Collapse – Dear Theatre, Be Like Soil” by Annalisa Dias, theatre director and playwright
• Panel 2: Where do we go from here? — moderated by Sara Nash, NEA Director of Dance
  • Christy Bolingbroke, Executive/Artistic Director, National Center for Choreography – Akron
  • Leslie Ishii, Artistic Director, Perseverance Theatre
  • Blake-Anthony Johnson, President & CEO, Chicago Sinfonietta

Reporting of Council Votes

Closing Remarks and Preview of June Council Meeting

Adjourn