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Sarasota News Leader December 7, 2012 Page 92 HERMITAGE RECEIVES NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS GRANT National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Rocco Landesman has announced that the Hermitage Artist Retreat is one of 832 nonprofit organizations nationwide to receive an NEA Art Works Grant. landscape. We are honored to be chosen as a recipient of this important national funding." Landesman reinforced the importance of the Hermitage's selection for one of the highly competitive awards: "These projects offer The Hermitage has been recommended for a extraordinary examples of creativity in our $15,000 grant to support its artist residencies, country, including the creation of new work, a news release says. innovative ways of engaging audiences and exemplary education programs." "This is our fourth consecutive year to receive NEA funding and the fourth year since In March, the NEA received 1,509 eligible apartist communities have been given [their] plications for Art Works, requesting more than own funding category through the NEA," said $74 million in funding, the release adds. The Bruce E. Rodgers, executive director of the 832 recommended NEA grants total $23.3 milHermitage, in the news release. "We still com- lion, span 13 artistic disciplines and fields and pete for the same Arts Works money as all focus primarily on the creation of work and arts organizations, but being recognized as presentation of both new and existing works an arts category reinforces the vital role art- for the benefit of American audiences, the ist communities play in our national cultural news release points out. Artist Michael Eade is inspired by the setting of the Hermitage. Contributed photo