Skirball Cultural Center's program director, Jordan Peimer, recalls sitting on a grants panel last summer looking at videotapes.
The board chose Newman in an executive session on June 19 but withheld the announcement until he returned from Washington, D.C., where he chaired a special grants panel for the National Endowment for the Arts.
That agency's grant panels do not use culturally specific criteria when awarding money.
(Full disclosure: I have participated in grant panels for the National Film Preservation Foundation, but none involved with the films presented here).
That emphasis, he said, grew from sitting on grant panels of the National Endowment for the Arts, where he was derided by fellow panelists for not having more venturesome programming.
That is the core of the income he assembles, as most freelancers do, from several sources: sitting on grant panels, for example.
(I am a member of the board, and have served on grant panels for the foundation, though none related to this project).
(This writer is a member of the board, and has served on grant panels for the foundation, though none related to the current project).
After serving as a juror on dozens of grant panels and competitions, I started to notice that female composers frequently make up about 10 percent of the initial applicant pool, but often represent 20 percent of the awardees.
Indeed, professionally, evo-devo has arrived with several academic journals that focus exclusively on the discipline, representation within professional societies, as well as academic positions, textbooks, classes, workshops, and research grant panels that are devoted to the field.
