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Carlos
Arias, Self Portrait, 1996 from Mexico Now: Point of Departure director of the United States Information Agency. "Organizations like the Ohio Arts Council are vital components of our national capacity to present the arts and are especially important to our cultural relations with Mexico." While the USIA is charged with the nation's official international arts exchange programs, it counts on partnerships with a vast network of state and local (con't on page 3) |
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The Ohio Arts Council was one of only two state arts agencies invited to take part in discussions at a recent U.S.-Mexico Binational Commission Meeting in Washington, D.C. At the meeting the OAC signed a memorandum of intent with Mexico's National Council for Culture and the Arts. The memorandum builds on an agreement of cultural cooperation signed in April 1994 by Governor George |
V. Voinovich and OAC, Chair Barbara S. Robinson with the Instituto Nacional de
Bellas Artes, Mexico's National Institute for Fine Arts. The memorandum of intent will help increase cultural interchanges among arts and education organizations in Ohio and Mexico and promote a deeper understanding of shared values through the arts, humanities and education. "It is impossible to overstate the importance of culture in Joseph D. Duffey, |
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