We’d like to introduce our two newest additions to our pocket guide series: The Artists’ Guide to Health Reform and The Artists’ Guide to Health Insurance.
The Artists’ Guide to Health Reform provides a general overview of the new healthcare law. If you’ve overwhelmed by all the media on health reform and you’re still unsure of [...]
There’s been some heated debate lately on whether the new healthcare law is unconstitutional. The controversy is focused on a single component of the law: the individual mandate (i.e. the requirement for everyone to buy health insurance).
This is controversial not because it is a mandate, per se. After all, plenty of uncontroversial legal mandates already [...]
A significant part of my job at Fractured Atlas revolves around thinking of terrible things that could happen to an artist and trying to figure out either 1) how to insure them (see the Pocket Guides to Insurance for the Arts) or 2) how to educate about them (see my disaster planning blog post). [...]
Healthcare is back in the news as Republicans and Democrats fight over what reform will actually look like.
But a fair amount of the law has already come into effect; the rest will be phased in gradually over the next several years with the majority implemented in 2014. Here’s some of what you already have:
No lifetime limits [...]
Consultant and choreographer Matthew Keefe of Meadowroad Arts Services is an all-purpose dance professional. From his days dancing with companies like the Louisville Ballet to his current service on the Dance/USA Board of Trustees, he’s done it all. His professional history includes dance, choreography, company, stage and production management to name a few highlights. We [...]
Adam Frank creates commercial products and public art that encourage us to see in new ways. Painting with light, he makes environmental installations accessible to people in all walks of life. His product line extends his artistic vision, and his Lumen oil lamp is one of the MoMA store’s best selling items. We spoke with [...]
Accomplished jazz pianist and composer Helen Sung has had the privilege of working with many of the living jazz greats. A member of Fractured Atlas for the last seven years, she is currently in residence at Flushing Town Hall in Queens, New York, and will perform at the Tokyo Jazz Festival in September.
Founded nearly 60 years ago by a small group of artists working in the relatively new field of art jewelry and metal, Metal Arts Guild San Francisco now has professional and emerging artists, educators, students, collectors, and writers among its 200+ members.
I’m hoping to meet Dana Reed this summer. Not just because her dance company, Alternative Collaborations, transforms space with their virtuosic performances, and not just because she’s had an enviable dance residency in Bali, but because she’s passionate about teaching dance to kids.
Yesterday I participated in a panel on health insurance reform at the Future of Music Coalition’s DC Policy Day 2010. I was joined by Alex Maiolo from FMC’s HINT program and Renata Molinaro from the AHIRC program at the Actor’s Fund.
The discussion got a little wonky at times, but it also had some good, practical [...]
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