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Category Archives: Arts policy
An NEA Story: #SaveTheNEA
One of the most impactful projects I have every worked on would not have been possible without a modest $32,000 investment from the National Endowment for the Arts*. The project embedded nationally renowned visiting artists and ASU Herberger Institute faculty … Continue reading
Posted in Arts education, Arts funding, arts infrastructure, Arts policy, Culture and democracy, Higher education, Institutional Infrastructure, Personal infrastructure, Physical Infrastructure
Tagged #SaveTheNEA, Boys and Girls Clubs, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, home in the desert, National Endowment for the Arts, socially engaged practice, South Mountain Community College
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Outrage is Easy; Strategy is Hard
“Outrage is easy; strategy is hard. Outrage provides necessary motivation. But only strategy can deliver victory,” writes Tony Blair in a recent Op-Ed in the New York Times. I wasn’t a particular fan of Blair when he was Prime Minister … Continue reading
Art, Entrepreneurship, Innovation
I’m finally catching up on some of the background reading I need to do for An Ouroboros, including a 2014 working paper by Laura Niemi that demonstrates that an interest in the visual arts is predictive of occupational innovation (as … Continue reading
Support for the Arts
The phrase “government support for the arts” is often understood to mean, “funding for the arts,” and by extension, at least for some, “funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.” This last made headlines last week when reports surfaced … Continue reading
Posted in arts infrastructure, Arts policy, Culture and democracy, Institutional Infrastructure
Tagged Arts funding, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, CPB, Free speech, freedom of the press, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, NEA, NEH, travel ban
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Universal Basic Income
News that Scotland is considering implementing a universal basic income (UBI) scheme came just as I was finishing reading Ryan Avent’s excellent The Wealth of Humans . as background for my sabbatical project. Avent is a proponent of UBI, while also recognizing … Continue reading
The Venn Diagram of Art and Entertainment
In her insightful response to the recent Hamilton/Pence/Trump kerfuffle, Margy Waller wrote on Medium, “The current debate about whether artists should speak to policy or politics from the stage is framed to reinforce the default thinking about the arts as … Continue reading
