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NEA Post: Rosilyn Alter is the new director of the National Endowment for the Arts’ Visual Arts Program, replacing Susan Lubowsky, who resigned two months ago to become director of the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, N.C. Alter most recently has been director of Houston’s Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation. The NEA’s Visual Arts Program has an annual $5-million budget, and receives more than one-quarter of the endowment’s 18,000 annual applications for fellowships.