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By NOL PUTNAM
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer
I write to respond to Mr. Dearing’s letter of Aug. 16, (“Please explain, Rev. Smith”).
The National Endowment for the Arts did not give the grants Mr. Dearing mentions directly to the artists. The process is considerably more complicated than merely outright grants. Most often monies from the NEA are given to institutions or to statewide art agencies such as our own Virginia Commission for the Arts. In turn, local art groups, experimental theater groups, local symphony orchestras, ect., apply for grants for specific projects — such as bringing artists into our schools, or bringing groups of children to various studios, or to help the funding of local orchestras, performance pieces and the like.
In 1986, the Southeast Center for Contemporary Arts, or SECCA, in Winston-Salem, N.C., applied for a two year grant from the National Endowment and the Rockefeller Foundation. SECCA was awared $150,000 by the NEA to be spread over two years. They in turn went through the process of calling for entries, the jury process, ect., by which they finally chose 10 winners. Mr. Serrano was one and was awarded $15,000 to produce a number of pieces.
The National Endowment could hardly of known what Mr. Serrano would produce. As to the content of his work, I cannot speak to it. I have not seen it. I have read second and third hand comments and reactions thereto.
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