Category: Arts Advocacy

Diane Ragsdale has a great article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review on “Recreating Fine Arts Institutions“. It is a paid site so I’m not sure what the protocol is. Maybe they will make the article free eventually…but if you can pick up a copy of the magazine, check it out.

Just got an email that the Women’s Project lost its NEA funding. From Susan Jonas’ email: No theatre is more significant in terms of its historic commitment to this mission. The theatre has survived some rough times and has come through administratively and artistically, especially after this last wonderful show. And think of the many…

Here’s the thing I keep struggling with – this disconnect between the technological and the sociological. It seems like kind of  chicken/egg thing. We know that technology can change the way we behave and frequently we try to invent technology to do just that. BUT is technology always the answer? Especially when it comes to…

If you’re interested – and it is pretty interesting – you can download Rocco Landesman’s speech to the GIA conference here. In his remarks, Chairman Landesman laid out the guiding principle that will inform his work at the agency, which can be summed up in two words: “Art works.” Chairman Landesman explained that he means…

For those of you who are staying up to date on this – today is the final day of the Grantmakers In the Arts Conference. You can follow along at http://gia2009.wordpress.com/, where Ian David Moss from Createquity is blogging the proceedings.

From the Americans for the Arts website/newsletter: Animating Democracy, a program of Americans for the Arts, has launched an initiative to map and highlight the spectrum of ways the arts are being activated to engage and make change. A centralized online resource will make this important work visible and serve to link change agents, artists…

In 1999, Eric S. Raymond published the essay “The Cathedral and the Bazaar” championing open source software development. The essay contrasts two different free software development models, the Cathedral model, where source code is available with each release but the code developed between releases remains restricted, and the Bazaar model where the code is developed…

Okay – seriously. Most of my readers are artists, arts workers and aficionados.  What would you do to fix things? What would your perfect arts and culture world look like? How would you get more people excited about arts and culture and attending the arts? I know that is an incredibly broad question but I’m…

From August 13-16, 2009, a committed group of artists, presenters, dance departments, residency and retreat centers, and funders from across the country met at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University to advance the national dialogue about how to make research and development a more vital cornerstone of what “we value…

So I just got back from the Project Audience Assembly at the Eaglewood Resort in lovely Itasca, IL. For those of you who haven’t been following too closely, Project Audience is a Mellon Foundation-funded “planning process” to identify next generation technological solutions – and ideas – for addressing the challenges of 21st century audience development…

big thanks to Claudia La Rocco for mentioning PRELUDE this morning and on her post on the art of citizenship over at the WNYC blog. its a big conversation – go over there and read what she has to say!