David Todd

These awards, recognizing exceptional communication works’ strategic relevance, timeliness and
innovation, further raise the bar and grow the body of work of our profession.

Fellowships recognize and reward the artistic achievements of South Carolina’s exceptional individual artists and are made through a highly competitive process.

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), one of the leading artists communities in the world with
locations in Amherst, Virginia, and Auvillar, France, hosts more than 400 visual artists, writers, and
composers each year. The artists who come to VCCA, whether emerging or established, are selected by peer review on the basis of the important or innovative work they are doing in their respective fields.

Annual judge for publication competitions.

This guide accompanies the television series, which is a production of Kentucky Educational Television funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Kentucky Center for the Arts and the Annenberg/CPB Project. 

As this report goes to press, actions that are being considered in Congress are likely to do more harm than good. Sadly, the promise of community mental health remains unfulfilled. In 1990, NAMI released its last state ratings report. It described a system of services that, despite enormous expenditure of resources, was not “even minimally acceptable.” It detailed great regional and state variations in the existing system of care. Sixteen years later, mental illnesses cause more disability than any other class of medical illness in America. Recent reports from the U.S. Surgeon General, President Bush’s New Freedom Commission, and the Institute of Medicine describe well a “system in shambles” and the “chasm” between promise and performance.

"Spontaneous Verse in the Composition Classroom" and "Final Exams for the Writing Workshop" provoke narrative writers to try new directions.