Mayor Joseph P. Riley
Jr. Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy
Concert Hall
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Monday, April 12, 2010

This year's Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy will feature Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr., of Charleston, SC, and founder of the Mayors'€™ Institute on City Design. Please reserve your free tickets by Wednesday, April 7, 2010.

The Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy is a leading national forum for arts policy intended to stimulate dialogue on policy and social issues affecting the arts. It is held each year in the spring on the evening before Arts Advocacy Day.

The annual lecture is named for Nancy Hanks, former president of Americans for the Arts and chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, who devoted 15 years of her professional life to bringing the arts to prominent national consciousness.