National Performance Network (NPN), History by MK Wegmann

MK Wegmann, Renny Pritikin, Martha Wilson, Lyn Blumenthal, Anne Focke, Claire Copley, Renee Levine, Joan Jeffri, David White, John O'Neal, Linda Parris-Bailey, Ruby Lerner, Dudley Cocke, Bobbi Tsumagari, Loris Bradley, Holly Hughes, John Fleck, Karen Finley, Tim Miller, Peter Alexander, John Baldessari, Rosamund Felsen, Peter Plagens, Judy Spence, Kate Horsfield, Judy Moran, Joseph Celli, Pauline Oliveros, Mary Luft, Robert Mapplethorpe, National Performance Network, NPN, National Endowment for the Arts, NEA, Alternate ROOTS, Dance Theater Workshop, DTW, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, CAC, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, LAICA, New Langton Arts, Franklin Furnace, Video Data Bank, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, And/Or Gallery, Washington Project for the Arts, WPA, Rockefeller Foundation, Warhol Foundation, Ford Foundation, Highlander Center, Roadside Theater, Appalshop, National Campaign for Freedom of Expression, NCFE, New York Live Arts, Common Field, Southern Arts Exchange, Performing Arts Exchange, National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, NCRP, Actors' Equity, New Artspaces, Beyond Survival, New Forms Regional Initiative, Expansion Arts Program, NEA Challenge Grant, Arts Money, The Emerging Arts, New Orleans, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Seattle, Atlanta, San Francisco, Whitesburg, alternative spaces, artist-led organizations, touring, cultural equity, racial equity, community-engaged art, cultural democracy, arts funding, Reagan administration, NEA Four, peer panels, multiculturalism, Economic Recovery Tax Act