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Featured Member: Art Throb

Art Throb is a multimedia online magazine, dedicated to chronicling the arts and culture of Boston’s North Shore. Founder and editor-in-chief Dinah Cardin says, “[Art Throb's] definition of art is not confined to things that hang on museum walls. We have a recurring theme…that art is in the cracks and crevasses of the sidewalk, in a way of looking at life and the people around us. Art is community.” We agree!

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The Art Purist Slumming in Low Capitalist Constructs

As a kid I wanted to be Janet Jackson.

I played the cassette of her Control album until the tape broke, choreographing routines, imaging the day I would enjoy her fame/fortune and say (with her conviction)…“Now I’m all grown up!”

Well, you can imagine my joy when (at nine years old) my dad put me in the [...]

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Arts, Entrepreneurship, and the “New Economy”

“As a photographer, I am actually a small business owner as much as I am an artist.” – Anonymous Survey Respondent
In our quest to better understand the professional development needs of artists, we went beyond the survey/interviews and researched various external sources to find out what artists, arts managers, and industry experts were saying about career [...]

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What Artists Want, Need, and Desire: Generational Demands

More results from our 2008 national survey aimed at better understanding your professional development needs. So far, we have discussed the universal and career phase needs of artists. Now, I’d like to quickly touch on some of the generational needs we discovered in our research.

Generation Y (born between 1980-1994) - The older half of Gen [...]

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What You Want, Need, and Desire: Universal Demands

In March 2008, we conducted a national survey and a series of phone interviews to better understand the professional development needs of artists. I thought you might be interested in what your peers described as their needs, wants, and desires. Sometimes it makes us feel better to know that we are not alone; that others [...]

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