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At the recent
OAAA/TAB
Connect '14
event in Orlando,
Suzanne Grimes
- president of CCONorth America
- presented a
few of the betterknown candidates
in Art Everwhere
US: Jasper Johns'
3 Flags, Grant
Wood's American
Gothic, and
Edward Hopper's
Nighthawks.

artists into an education tool.
"art education will be a legacy of the Art
Everywhere US campaign," says dMa's anderson.
"When the posters come down, art education
continues."
American
american art tells american history.
*	 Mark rothko, born in what is now latvia in 1903,

*	 andy Warhol grew up in Pittsburgh's oakland
neighborhood, the child of eastern european
ethnic lemko immigrants. Characters from
Warhol's studio, the Factory, would inspire lou
reed's 1972 hit song "Walk on the Wild Side."
*	 Jackson Pollock was born in Cody, Wyo, in 1912
and grew up in arizona and California. President
Franklin roosevelt's depression-era Federal art
Project paid artists like Pollock (and rothko) a
$24 weekly relief stipend for artwork.
*	 Frank lloyd Wright was from the small-town life
of Wisconsin - his mother a teacher from a large
Welsh family, his father a preacher and musician.
and, as President obama learned earlier this year,
don't mess with american's attraction to its art. early
this year at the General electric plant in Waukesha,
Wis., he downplayed the value of art-history degrees
while promoting manufacturing jobs, saying
skilled trades paid better. Sensing trouble, obama
immediately added: "I love art history, so I don't want
to get a bunch of e-mails from everybody."
thousands signed protest petitions. In his
hand-written apology, the president said, "art history

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"the arts opportunity gap is widest for
children in high-poverty schools," duncan
said. "this is absolutely an equity issue and a
civil rights issue, just as is access to advance
placement courses and other educational
opportunities."
after the Art Everywhere US campaign
provides massive public exposure of american
art, organizers of the campaign plan to convert
the images and background information on the

emigrated from russia with his family in 1913; he
grew up in Portland, ore.
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