I’m back up North after spending the latter part of last week attending the joint Chorus America/League of American Orchestras conference in Atlanta, GA, part of a bevy of performing arts conferences this month that also included those of TCG, OPERA America, and Dance/USA. I was pleased to see that the good folks at NewMusicBox had the foresight [...]
Conference season is upon us, and many of the major national arts service organizations are having their annual meetings this week. I’m in Atlanta right now doing double duty: blogging and helping out at the League of American Orchestras conference, and speaking at a session at the Chorus America conference on Friday. The opening session [...]
When asked what career they would choose if finances were not a concern, a plurality of Harvard seniors chose the arts, with 16 percent indicating it as their “dream” field. Similarly large numbers of students chose public service (12.5) and education (12), while finance and consulting trailed with five percent each.
This is from last year; this year’s [...]
(My thanks to Jean Cook of the Future of Music Coalition and Fractured Atlas’s Adam Huttler for their contributions to this piece.)
We hear a lot of talk about the coming leadership transition in the arts. Baby Boomers are nearing retirement age, and Gen X’ers and Millennials are itching to take on increased responsibility. It’s important [...]
Tomorrow, the National Council on the Arts will meet in DC. For those who don’t know, the National Council on the Arts is the official advisory body for the NEA - a little bit like the equivalent of the NEA’s Board, if it were a nonprofit. According to the NEA website, the Council advises on [...]
As a Watertown, MA native, I know how proud New England is of its firsts. So it doesn’t surprise me that New England has for a long time been on the forefront of the national conversation about the creative economy, thanks in no small part to the longtime leadership of the New England Foundation for [...]
(Crossposted at Createquity)
Chicago-based chamber music ensemble eighth blackbird has earned the admiration of many a composer over the past 14 years for their electrifying performances, outreach to new audiences, and tireless championship of contemporary programming. That is, until the announcement of their new composition competition earlier this month.
It seems that in order to enter the [...]
Hello! For those of you who don’t know me, I’m the new Research Director at Fractured Atlas. I’ve been working for several weeks primarily on the Bay Area Cultural Asset Map, but I’m also here to follow trends in arts policy and research and help bring them to a wider audience. You may have seen [...]
Alarm bells are nothing new in arts circles. For as long as anyone can remember, arts practitioners have been fretting about the future. It’s understandable; after all, the arts have never been an especially profitable enterprise on the whole, and ever since the concept of the nonprofit arts institution resulted in the separation of our [...]
On Friday, I had the privilege to attend the NEA’s Cultural Workforce Forum, a convening of researchers who have recently led efforts to measure and understand the work habits and economic condition of individual artists in the United States. The event, though not open to the public, was simulcast on the Internet so that anyone [...]
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