As you might have heard, public funding for the arts has been under pressure at the local and especially state levels ever since the recession hit a few years ago. This year, those pressures have spread to the federal government as well, and during the recent negotiations between Democrats and Republicans in Congress to agree on [...]
(cross-posted from Createquity)
This week has been a bad one for beleaguered state arts agencies. First, after much sabre-rattling, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback followed through with his threat to eliminate the Kansas Arts Commission on Monday, with the plan to transfer its responsibilities to a new nonprofit and provide a token $200,000 one-time appropriation to help with the [...]
Hey Cincinnati, we’re coming to town this Friday!
Join Fractured Atlas Research Director Ian David Moss, our friends at ArtsWave and me for a happy-hour conversation and networking event this Friday, January 7 at 5pm at the Know Theatre of Cincinnati. We’ll be discussing cultural policy trends, data and visualization tools for the arts, the landscape [...]
This week, Fractured Atlas is partnering with our friends at ArtsJournal, Future of Music Coalition, and the National Alliance for Media Arts + Culture to host a discussion about artists’ creative rights and arts policy / advocacy more generally. Fractured Atlas’s Director of Technology Programs, Justin Karr, and I are two of the 22 featured bloggers. If you’re [...]
There are ways one can keep hope during tough economic times. Hold the vision for arts education while you take positive action to improve yourself and to inform your community of the importance of the arts.
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 [...]
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 [...]
No one knows the vibrant year-round art scene of New Haven, CT, better than the Arts Council of Greater New Haven. Their unique vantage point enables them to effectively serve their community — and provides us with the insights in this interview.
Eastern Tennessee is the home to thousands of visual and performing artists, in addition to being the birthplace of both bluegrass and country music. The Arts & Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville actively serves and supports a diverse community of artists, arts organizations, and cultural institutions in the region.
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 [...]
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