Singer Lee Greenwood has been appointed to serve a six-year term in National Endowment for the Arts council. Also NEA Chairman Dana Gioia is leaving his post in January to return to writing. He will also be a director in the Aspen Institute.
“It has been a thrilling experience to help rebuild a great American institution,” said Gioia. “We have created a new national consensus on the importance of public support for the arts and arts education. Six years ago that would have seemed unlikely.”
“I announce my departure with mixed feelings,” he added. “I will never have a more interesting job. But I am a writer. If I don’t return to poetry soon, the Muse will never have me back.”
Lee, “God Bless the U. S. A.” Greenwood as president of the National Endowment of the Arts. Wow, the arts make strange bedfellows.
Wait! I think I can get a grant–
Not president, just on the council. There are 12-14 people on the NEA council, I think. Writer Terry Teachout has been on the council for the last few years.