Antonio García, professor and director of jazz studies at VCUarts Music, has served as a music application review panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts. Though García was appointed by then-NEA Chair Jane Chu and has served in his capacity since May 2018, panelists were required to keep their identities confidential until the announcement of the grant winners this year. The panel ultimately recommended awarding $3,320,000 in grants across 137 music organizations.
“I am grateful for the opportunity to have served the arts community in the United States in this way,” says García.
García served alongside fellow panelists Amy Bormet, the executive director of the Washington Women in Jazz Festival in Cheverly, Md.; Darrell L Grant, professor of music and associate director of the School of Music and Theater at Portland State University in Portland, Ore.; Roosevelt Griffin, president and CEO of the Griffin Institute of Performing Arts in Matteson, Ill.; Yoko Miwa, associate professor of piano at Berklee College of Music in Brighton, Mass.; and Claiborne Ray, retired deputy obituary editor of The New York Times.
To see the full list of grants, visit the NEA website.
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