Dana Gioia announced today that he will resign in January 2009 as chair of the National Endowment for the Arts. The poet and former corporate CEO took the job at the NEA in 2003. He has accepted a half-time position directing the arts programs for the Aspen Institute, with offices in Washington, D.C., and Aspen, Colo. He plans to devote more time to his poetry when he returns home to northern California, and hopes that "the muse revisits me."
Gioia's announcement came in front of a crowd of 400 arts administrators gathered in Chattanooga, Tenn., for the annual conference of the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies.
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Wyomingarts is at the NASAA conference in Chattanooga, along with four other members of the WAC and two board members.
