Tag Archives: state arts agencies
Catch 23 in Kansas
Wichita Public Radio did a story this week* about the before-and-after effects of the decimation and then partial restoration of the Kansas Arts Commission, now the Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission. The change is not just rhetorical. The piece lists … Continue reading
Shifting Sands
Happy New Year! I started Creative Infrastructure one year ago yesterday to enter an ongoing conversation about the infrastructure for art, the arts, artistic creativity, and arts education. Public policy is one element of that infrastructure, and an area of … Continue reading
Power plays
I’m taking a break from my (not particularly popular) series on the theoretical underpinnings of arguments opposed to government funding for the arts to comment on the recent line-item veto by Kansas Governor Brownback of funding for that state’s arts … Continue reading
Waxing Theoretical Part 4: The neocons
This is the fourth in my series exploring the roots of arguments that oppose government funding for the arts. It is excerpted from a longer exploratory essay on the topic and is essentially a thought exercise. My goal is to … Continue reading
Waxing Theoretical Part 2: Small “el” liberalism
This is the second in a series of blog posts in which I draw from an essay I’ve been working on to unpack some of the arguments that are made against government funding for the arts. We are seeing this … Continue reading
Individual Advocacy
In his createquity blog, Ian David Moss wrote “of fostering a sense of shared responsibility among arts advocates in every state for what happens to the arts in every other state.” Of course we need to do so. But, we … Continue reading
