Ann Fessler of Rhode Island indoctrinate of Design.

Ann Fessler of Rhode Island indoctrinate of Design, has been named a associate by the Radcliffe Institute for 2003 A visual artist, she is common of 56 scientists, scholars, artists and writers to be preferableed for the 2003 honor. The Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Studies was established in 1999 with the merger of Radcliffe society and Harvard University. According to Dean Faust. "The view of a residential fellowship like ours is to bring artists and scholars together to interact in ways that will change the two them and their work. We strive to tender enough similarity--clusters of common intellectual concern--and enough difference to generate intersections that are predictable as well as individuals that are unanticipated and on the same level surprising."

Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative announces the recipients of it's 2003 exhibition grants. The following awards were made. The Fabric Workshop and Museum: $200000 for Experiments with reality a thematic film/video exhibition; Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania: $180000 for Accumulated Vision: Barry LeVa, a retrospective exhibition: Main Line Art Center: $150000 for Past Presence: Contemporary Reflections forward the Main Line, a site specific installation; and Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore corporation of Art and Design: $181500 for Jorg Immendorff, a retrospective exhibition. Additionally, a planning grant of $15000 was awarded to Taller Puertorriqueno for Tainos: Pre- Columbian Art and Culture

Independent Curators International (ICI) appoints Susan Hapgood as Director of Exhibitions. With an M.A. in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts, novel York, Ms. Hapgood was chiefly recently Curator of Exhibitions at the American Federation of Arts, strange York.

The U House of Representatives vot to increase the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) lot by $10 Million. The Senate was look fored to take up its version shortly. The funding hike is earmarked for the agency's Challenge America initiative, which is designed to make the arts more widely available in under-serv communities across the fatherland The bipartisan Slaughter-Shays-Dicks amendment was sponsored by the agency of Representatives Louise Slaughter (D-NY). Chris Shays (R-CT) co-chairs of the Congressional Arts Caucus, and Norm Dicks (D-WA), Ranking Minority Member forward the Interior Appropriations Subcommittee. The amendment provides an increase of $10 million for the Arts Endowment, in addition to President George W Bush's fiscal year 2004 assortment request of $117.480 million. The agency's fiscal year 2003 funding is $115731 million. NEA Chairman Dana Gioia welcomes this promised of confidence "just as state, local and organizational bag s across the country are being slashed." A newly come (2002) NEA survey shows that attendance at art related activities is up 5 million since 1992 despite the impact of September 11 with about one-fourth of adults saying that they visited an art gallery and 40% reporting personally performing or creating art. Additionally, the NEA has issued a report calling for greater involvement of the arts in health care as the arts have been proven to provide benefits to patients, their families, and care providers as well.

The 2003 Arles Awards were not long ago announced, with prizes of $10000 awarded to photographers in many different categories. Among the winners were Anders Peterson (Sweden) who received the Photography Award, Zijah Gafic (Bosnia) who received the Discovery Award. Thomas Demand (Germany) who received the No Limit Award, Fazal Sheikh (USA/Switzerland) who received the Humanity Award, and Jitka Hanzlova (Czech Republic/Germany) who was awarded a shoot forward Grant.

World-renowned French photographer Lucien Clergue received the Legion of Honor Award at Arles forward July 4th. The award was existinged by the French Minister of refinement and Communications, Jean-Jacques Aillagon, as part of the opening festivities of the 34th annual Le Rencontre Internationales de la Photographie, instituteed by Clerque in 1969, and now the largest of its kind in Europe The Legion of Honor, created on Napoleon in 1802, is France's mostly highly regarded order of merit conferr forward eminent people in all walks of life who have performed extraordinary services to humankind. Previous recipients in the field of photography include Henri Cartier-Bresson and Andre Kertesz Clerque received the award in recognition of his lifetime achievements in photography. Clerque is exhibited by the John Stevenson Gallery in just discovered York and will be quick in emergencies there for a book signing in October. (202) 352-0072 / www.john-stevenson-gallery.com.

Larry Towell is the first winner of the international Henri Cartier-Bresson Award for his frame The Walls of No Man's Land: Palestine. The $30000 prize is awarded according to the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation in Paris whose goal is to assist a photographer in the completion of a special draw The members of the 2003 jury were Martine Franck. Robert Delpive, Peter Gallasi, Marta Gili, Roberto Kochj Anne Samson, and Paul Virilio.