Each year, the John F.Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington honors performers for their lifetime of work.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

And that is the moral of the story, says Melinda Byrd-Murphy, head of the Alabama Center for Literary Arts.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

This week, we report about poetry and jazz because April is a special month for both arts in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

He composed it for the opening of the John F.Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington,D.C., in nineteen seventy-one.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

In nineteen fifty-seven, he won a special award from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for the best continuing performance.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

One of these, the Benedum Center for the Performing Arts, is home to the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre and the Pittsburgh Opera.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

Today we tell about a woman who became famous for her activities in government, the media and the arts.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

But philanthropy in America also supports many other causes everything from the arts to animal shelters to summer camps for children.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

This much is true: The organizers named the event after Woodstock,New York, a town known for the arts.

VOA: special.2009.08.10

He is the youngest jazz instrumentalist ever to perform at Washington's Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and at the White House.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

Miss Clifton also won an Emmy Award, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Los Angeles Times Poetry Award.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

Of course,not all of the puppets at the Center for Puppetry Arts date back to ancient times.

VOA: special.2009.09.23

In the past,the six thousand members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted for the one film they liked best.

VOA: special.2010.03.01

Today we visit the Arabesque festival at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington,D.C.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

She received the National Medal of the Arts and a Kennedy Center Honor for lifetime work.

VOA: special.2010.07.04

She went on to direct the folk arts program at the National Endowment for the Arts.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

Then he entered the Juilliard School, the nation's leading training center for the performing arts.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

The Center for Puppetry Arts also invites other puppet groups to perform on its stages.

VOA: special.2009.09.23