[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 202 (Wednesday, October 18, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 62375]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-26756]


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NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES


National Endowment for the Arts; National Council on the Arts 
141st Meeting

    Pursuant to section 10 (a) (2) of the Federal Advisory Committee 
Act (Public Law 92-463), as amended, notice is hereby given that a 
meeting of the National Council on the Arts will be held on November 
15, 2000 from 9:00 a.m.-400 p.m. in Room M-09 at the Nancy Hanks 
Center, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20506.
    The meeting will be open to the public on a space available basis. 
Following opening remarks and announcements, there will be an update on 
agency appropriations and introduction of the meeting theme--The Arts 
&Livable Communities--and guest speaker Robert Putnam, author of 
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. Mr. 
Putnam's presentation will be followed by guest presentations from 
Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson and from representatives of the Mid 
Atlantic Arts Foundation: Alan Cooper, Abel Lopez, and Rebecca Klein. 
Congressional and Budget updates will follow. The meeting will also 
include presentations by Rick Lowe of Project Row Houses and Ken Burns 
on his public TV series Jazz. Other topics tentatively will include: 
Application Review for Creativity, Organizational Capacity, Literature 
Fellowships, and Leadership Initiatives; a briefing on the Artists in 
American Life Colloquia, including a report from participant David 
Henry Hwang; review of Guidelines for Grants to Organizations and 
Literature Fellowships; and general discussion.
    If, in the course of discussion, it becomes necessary for the 
Council to discuss non-public commercial or financial information of 
intrinsic value, the Council will go into closed session pursuant to 
subsection (c)(4) of the Government in the Sunshine Act, 5 U.S.C. 552b. 
Additionally, discussion concerning purely personal information about 
individuals, submitted with grant applications, such as personal 
biographical and salary data or medical information, may be conducted 
by the Council in closed session in accordance with subsection (c) (6) 
of 5 U.S.C. 552b.
    Any interested persons may attend, as observers, Council 
discussions and reviews that are open to the public. If you need 
special accommodations due to a disability, please contact the Office 
of AccessAbility, National Endowment for the Arts, 1100 Pennsylvania 
Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20506, 202/682-5532, TTY-TDD 202/682-5429, 
at least seven (7) days prior to the meeting.
    Further information with reference to this meeting can be obtained 
from the Office of Communications, National Endowment for the Arts, 
Washington, D.C. 20506, at 202/682-5570.

    Dated: October 13, 2000.
Kathy Plowitz-Worden,
Panel Coordinator, Office of Guidelines and Panel Operations.
[FR Doc. 00-26756 Filed 10-17-00; 8:45 am]
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