President Bush wants Dana Gioia at the helm of the NEA for another term. Will this be good for America’s arts?
10 Nov 2006 12:00
Howard Emanuel
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President Bush wants Dana Gioia at the helm of the NEA for another term. Will this be good for America’s arts?
On the occasion of the signing of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 President Lyndon Johnson stated, “Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal ourselves, and to others, the inner vision which guides us as a nation.” The thirty-sixth President of the United States then added the immortal and oft-quoted words, “And where there is no vision, the people perish.”
As an actor, Howard Emanuel has appeared across the USA in regional theatres ranging from The Paper Mill Playhouse and The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey to the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera and Houston's Theatre Under The Stars. As a playwright, he has recently completed his first full-length work, Last Supper. As a novelist, his urban fiction manuscript, Naked Angels, is currently being shopped to various publishing houses. He is currently hard at work on his second and third plays. He holds a B.F.A. in Acting from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts.
