According to David White, Claudine Brown, director of the Arts and Culture Program at the Nathan Cummings Foundation, is a candidate for chair of the National Endowment for the Arts. White, former director of Dance Theatre Workshop, says in an e-mail quoted on Daily Kos, recommends Brown to the post as "a progressive and social justice activist." Says White: "Claudine has worked with vision and commitment at the nexus of arts and social justice in her role at Cummings as well as in her prior career (see her biographical summary). It would be extraordinary to have an NEA Chair who has her field knowledge, experience, and progressive values - and, like all of us, has grown up within a landscape of artists and community that we have fought to build and sustain." White calls for letters/e-mails of support to the NEA decisionmakers. [LINK] Posted by Linda Frye Burnham