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Karen Finley

To have a National Endowment for the Arts is to sanction creativity, to provide space to support the poetic, and to give meaning to struggle, hope and life. The artist interprets and represents for us perspectives so that we can question, focus and reexamine our worlds, to imagine the possible and the impossible. The culture and arts of America are our greatest asset.

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All across America, through the promotion of the arts, neighborhoods create job growth and development.

In New York City for example, many more citizens and tourists go to New York Museums than attand Professional andCollege sports events. The arts are very effective economic development mechanisms ceating jobs as well as providing cultural development and entertainment for the polulace.

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Karen Finley

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Nationality: American
Profession: Performance Artist & Professor

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Karen Finley (born 1956) is an American performance artist, musician and poet. Her performance art, recordings, and books are used as forms of activism. Her work frequently uses nudity and profanity. Finley incorporates depictions of sexuality, abuse, and disenfranchisement in her work She is currently a professor at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.

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