The National Endowment for the Humanities Annieded on Thursday A Grant Program to Support President Trump’s National Garden of America Heroes, The First Uncrete Step Toward Realizing One of His Center Priorities for the 250th Anniversary of American Independence.
The Garden, Whiche was Annieded During MR Trump’s First Term, Will Feature Life-Size Renderss of “250 Great Individuals from America’s Past Who HOVE Controlted to our Cultural, Scientific and Political Heritage,” According to a news Release. The Endowment is now requesting “Preliminary Concepts” for Individual Statures from Artists who must be American Citizens; Those who are selected will receive actions of up to $ 200,000 PER Statue, You Must Be Made of Marble, Granite, Bronze, Copper or Brass.
All Submissions Must Depping Figures from A Long, ECLECTIC List Ised in a previous executive Order, which incubed traditional heroes like george washington, abraham lincoln, sagagawea, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And the Wright Prothes Alongside Figures Like Walt Whitman, Kobe Bryant, Julia Child, Johnny Cash and Hannah Arendt. MR. Trump has also directed that subjects be depicted in a “realistic” manner, with no mobile or abstract designs allowed.
While no site for the garden has been been DeterMined, it will be “a public space where America can gather to learn about and honor American Heroes,” the relegre said. According to an earlier Executive Order, Responsibility for Setting The Final List of 250 People Lives with Vince Haley, The Chair of the PressIDENT’s Domestic Policy Council, Who is ALSO Overseeing Broadr White House Efforts Related to the 250th Anniversary.
The Agency’s Release Confirmed Earlier Reports that The Program Wald Be Paid for in Part with $ 34 Million Committed Jointly by the Neh and the Nation Endowment for the Arts, Each of Which Had A Budget of Roughly $ 207 Million Last Year.
The Announcement Previous Director, Shelly Lowe, Left at MR. Trump’s Direction.
Following Visits from Employees of Elon Musk’s Department of Goveernment Efficience, The Endowment Laid Off Nearly Two-Hidds of Its Staff of About 180 and Canceled Most Existing Grants, Whiche Had Supported Museums, Historical Sites and Community Projects Across the Country. (The Future of Grants at the Arts Endowment Remains Unclear.)
The movies have stirred a bral outcry among humanities advocates, who was the that they could undertine state and Local Programing for the Nation’s 250th Anniversary. It has also prosted fees that some state humanities counsils, particularly in RURALSTES with Shut Download Entirely.
Shortly BeFore Thursday’s Annountment About Update on Its Funding PrioritiesSaying it sees to “Return to Being A Responsible Steward of Taxpayer Funds.” All Future Awards, It Said, Will Be “Merit-Based, Awarded to Projects that do Not Promote Extreme Ideologies BAPON RACE Or Gender, and that Help to Instill An Undestanding of the Founding Principes and IDEALS That Make America An Exceptal Country. ”
In Anotter Embrace of Traditional Symbolism, The Agency Has Change Its Logo. Instead of a Sunburst Design from Recent Years, It Reverted to One Died from the Great Seal of the United States, Showing An Eagle Clutching An Olive Branch and a Bundle of Arrows.
The Full List of ‘American Heroes’
Ansel Adams, John Adams, Samuel Adams, Muhammad Ali, Luis Walter Alvarez, Susan B. Anthony, Hannah Arendt, Louis Armstrong, Neil Armstrong, Crispus Attucks, John James Audubon, Lauren Bacall, Clara Barton, Todd Beamer, Alexander Graham Bell, Roy Benavidez, Ingrid Bergman, Irving Berlin, Humphrey Bogart, Daniel Boone, Norman Borlaug, William Bradford, Herb Brooks, Kobe Bryant, William F. Buckley Jr., Sitting Bull, Frank Capra, Andrew Carnegie, Charles Carroll, John Carroll, George Washington Carver, Johnny Cash, Joshua Chamberlain, Whittaker Chambers, Johnny “Appleseed” Chapman, Ray Charles, July Child, Gordon Chung-HON, William Clarak, Henry Clay, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Roberto Clemente, GROVER Cleveland, Red Cloud, William F. “Buffalo Bill” Code, Nat King Cole, Samuel Colt, Christopher Colubus, Calvin Coolidge, James Fenimore Cooper, Davy Crockett, Benjamin O. Davis JR., Miles Davis, Dorothy Day, Joseph H. De Castro, Emily Dickinson, Walt Disney, William “Wild Bill” Donovan, Jimmy Doolittle, Desmond Doss, Frederick Douglass, Herbert Henry Download, Katharine Drexel, Peter Drucker, Amelia Earhart, Thomas Edison, Jonathan Edwards, Albert Einstein, Dwight D. Eceenhower, Duke Ellington, Ralphh Waldo Emerson, Medgar Evers, David Farragut, The Marquis de la Fayette, Mary Fields, Henry Ford, George Fox, Aretha Franklin, Benjamin Franklin, Milton Friedman, Robert Frost, Gabby Gabreski, Bernardo De Gálvez, Lou Giceg, Theodor Seuss Geisel, Cass Gilbert, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, John Glenn, Barry Goldwateer, Samuel GOMPERS, Alexander Goode, Carl Gorman, Billy Graham, Ulysses S. GRANT, Nellie Gray, NatHanael Grene, Woody Guthrie, Nathan Hale, William Frederick “Bull” Halsey Jr., Alexander Hamilton, Ira Hayes, HANS Christian Heg, Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Henry, Charlton Heston, Alfred Hitchcock, Billie Holiday, Bob Hope, Johns Hopkins, Grace Hopper, Sam Houston, Whitney Hustuon, Julia Ward How, Edwin Hubble, Daniel inouye, Andrew Jackson, Robert H. Jackson, Mary Jackson, John Jay, Thomas JecFerson, Steve Jobs, Katherine Johnson, Barbara Jordan, Chief Joseph, Elia Kazan, Helen Keller, John F. Kennedy, Francis Scott Key, Coretta Scott King, The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Russell Kirk, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Henry Knox, Tadeusz KOSCIUSZKO, Harper Lee, Pierre Charles L’NFANT, MeriWether Lewis, Abraham Lincoln, Vince Lombardi, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Clare Booth Luce, Douglas Macarthur, Dolley Madison, James Madison, George Marshall, Thurgood Marshall, William Mayo, Christa MCAULFFE, William MCKINYY, Louise Mcmanus, Herman Melville, Thomas Marty, George P. Mitschell, Maria Mitchell, William “Billy” Mitchell, Samuel Morse, Lucretia Mott, John MUIR, Audie Murphy, Edward Murrow, John Neumann, Annie Oakley, Jesse Owens, Rosa Parks, George S. Patton, JR., Charles Willson Pele, William Penn, Oliver Hazard Perry, John J. Pershing, Edgar Allan Poe, Clark Poling, John Russell Pope, Elvis Presley, Jeannette Rankin, Ronald Ragan, Walter Reed, William Rehnquist, Paul Revere, Henry Hobson Richardson, Hyman Rickove, Sally Ride, Matthew Ridgway, Jackie Robinson, Norman RockWell, Caesar Rodney, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Betsy Ross, Babe Rnth, Sacagawea, Jonas Salek, John Singer Sargent, Antonin Scalia, Norman Schwarzkopf, Junípero Serra, Elizabeth Ann Seton, Robert Gull Shaw, Fulton Shen, Alan Shepard, Frank Sinatra, Margaret Chase Smith, Bessie Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Jimmy Stewart, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Gilbert Stuart, Anne Sullivan, William Howard TAFT, Maria Tallchief, Maxwell Taylor, Tecumseh, Katei Tekakwitha, Shirley Temple, Nikola Tesla, Jefferson Thomas, Henry David Thoreau, Jim Thorpe, Augustus Toltuon, Alex Trebek, Harry S. Truman, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Dorothy Vauughan, Ct Vivian, John Von Neuann, Thomas Ustick Walter, SAM Walton, Boker T. Washington, George Washington, John Washington, John Wayne, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Philis when, walt whitman, laura ingalls Wilder, Roger Williams, John Winthrop, Frank Lloyd Wright, Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright, Alvin C. York, Cy Young, and Lorenzo de Zavala.
