Mr. Dan Blask

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  www.theamericandissident.org/NEA.htm - [Cached Version]
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  Dan Blask, Program Coordinator for the MCC, argued regarding my query as to whether or not the MCC would be open to highly critical themes:
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  Just the same, I pushed on and asked Blask what precisely were the criteria for making determinations with regards the evidently subjective designation "artistic excellence"?
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  Thus, Blask replaces one subjective concept with another, "accomplished," which in reality signifies degree of popularity within the milieu.But how can one possibly be popular (i.e., "accomplished") within the milieu, if one is an ardent critic of it?That is the crux of the quandary.In other words and to the detriment of democracy, critics of the milieu need not apply for public grants because the milieu dispenses them.My final letter to Blask queried if ever the MCC possessed literary panelists, who openly questioned and challenged (or even whose work focus was open questioning and challenging) the cultural institutions making determinations with public monies and questioning and challenging the canon itself and those who seek to bolster and propagate it.
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  In vain, I pushed Coe and Blask for precision as to why taxpayers funded Agni and Harvard University Museums, for example, when both organizations were connected to private billion-dollar corporate educational institutions and why the MCC only funded literary journals that did not NEED the funding?
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  Mr. Dan Blask, Program Coordinator, has been helpful with regards certain questions I've posed, though only to a certain extent. (Mr. Charles Coe, Program Coordinator, simply ceased responding.) Mr. Blask thus suggested I contact you regarding them, as well as implicit suggestions:
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  Mr. Dan Blask, Program Coordinator, has been helpful with regards certain questions I've posed, though only to a certain extent. (Mr. Charles Coe, Program Coordinator, simply ceased responding.) Mr. Blask thus suggested I contact you regarding them, as well as implicit suggestions:

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  www.artsfoundation.org/MakingArt/Presenters.html - [Cached Version]
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  Dan BlaskArtist Programs Coordinator, Massachusetts Cultural CouncilMr. Blask oversees the Artist Grants program for fiction/creative nonfiction, poetry, film/video and playwriting.He received his B.A. from Knox College and M.A. from Boston University.Mr. Blask is a playwright whose work has been produced in Boston, New York and elsewhere.

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  Brookline Booksmith B-Mail - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/26/2004    Last Visited: 1/19/2006  

  This Just In by bookseller (and playwright) Dan Blask ...

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  Mass Cultural Council | Staff List - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/28/2008    Last Visited: 9/28/2008  

  Dan Blask (Extension 329)Program Coordinator

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  Yellow Taxi Past Productions - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/1/2004    Last Visited: 1/6/2006  

  The production weekend featured a on-camera acting workshop by Martin S. Goeller, the founder of Sixtus Pictures in New York and a talk back with playwrights Dan Blask, Patrick Gabridge, Michael John Meade, David Robson, Brian Tuttle and Lowell Williams.

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  grub street, inc. | grub events. | the muse and the... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/8/2008    Last Visited: 2/8/2008  

  Dan Blask is the Artists Program Coordinator for the Massachusetts CulturalCouncil.For the MCC, Dan coordinates grant programs for individual artists,including grants for writers of fiction, nonfiction, dramatic writing, andpoetry.Dan received his M.A. in Creative Writing (Playwriting) from Boston University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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