New Video Workshop: The Business of Charity
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Will This ‘Reality Check’ Bounce?
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.
Artists and the Economic Recession
If your experience is anything like mine, then you’ve probably already encountered 9 million surveys about how the economy is affecting the arts and culture sector. This one is a bit different, though, so I hope you’ll give it a few minutes of your time.
The Fractured Atlas community is being asked to participate in the [...]
NYC Members: What’s Your “New Economic Reality”?
Attention Fractured Atlas members who live in NYC and work in the performing arts: How deeply has the current economy impacted you as a performing artist? How has the venue/facility that you manage been affected? Please take a five-minute survey and tell us about YOUR economic reality.
Thank You Center for American Progress
There’s been no shortage of protests against the arts bashing in the Senate from the arts community itself in the past few days. But so far I haven’t seen anyone in the mainstream media come to our defense. Thankfully, the Center for American Progress (not sure if they’re “mainstream” but they’re at least not arts-focused) [...]
Losing the Fight in the Senate
A few days ago I told you about Senator Coburn’s ludicrous anti-arts amendment to the stimulus bill. Well, I’m sad to report that yesterday the Senate approved the obnoxious and misguided legislation by a wide vote margin of 73-24.
We’re losing the fight in the Senate. Unless something drastic changes, this amendment will ensure that not [...]
Don’t be a Hater, Tom
I knew we were in trouble when I read last week’s snarky, misinformed editorial in the Wall Street Journal. In attacking the stimulus bill as a big ol’ pile of pork, the editors at the journal included this gem:
We’ve looked it over, and even we can’t quite believe it. There’s … $50 million for that [...]
Leaning into the Punch
Andrew Taylor nicely summarizes what lots of folks are talking about these days:
[T]he economy is delivering a gut punch to so many cultural organizations, and the people and organizations that support them. Endowments are down 30 to 50 percent…. Foundation endowments are down, too, so some grants and gifts that were expected are being delayed [...]
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