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An Alphabet of Culture and Community
As part of the third biennial Pave symposium: Entrepreneurship, the Arts, and Creative Placemaking held April 12-13, the Phoenix chapter of Emerging Arts Leaders facilitated a workshop on connecting arts to communities in the Phoenix metro area (or “The Valley” … Continue reading
Posted in Arts education, Arts entrepreneurship, arts infrastructure, Arts policy, Culture and democracy, Higher education
Tagged arts advocacy, Arts education, arts entrepreneurship, arts policy, audience development, community arts, cooking, Culture and democracy, Higher education, inequality, Pave program, Phoenix
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1100 Seats
If you are a stakeholder in the American nonprofit theatre community, you probably heard about or took part in the heated discussion last week about the announcement by the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis of its 50th anniversary season, a season … Continue reading
Posted in Arts management, Uncategorized
Tagged arts management, board governance, diversity, inequality, new plays, performing arts, Theatre
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Culture Quilt
Great Arts Blogger Challenge – 1 Spring For Music has initiated the “Great Arts Blogger Challenge,” and while I don’t go in much for contests, I do enjoy a challenge (and my kids encouraged me to participate). The prompt for … Continue reading
Shifting the Level of Analysis
Adrian Ellis wrote a thoughtful and well-reasoned essay for the Grantmakers in the Arts website recently on supply and demand issues in the nonprofit arts sector. His essay provides enough fodder to feed several months of blog posts, and I … Continue reading
How Much Is Too Much?
The New York Time published an article by Patrick Healy last week about nonprofit theatres mounting commercial productions on Broadway, partnering with commercial producers, or extending runs or remounting hits in order to increase revenue. Nonprofit theatres have to make … Continue reading
Seed funding?
Michael Wilkerson, on the ArtsJournal blog, made an interesting proposal to fund the nonprofit arts sector: tax for-profit cultural products and funnel those restricted funds to the nonprofit sector. A day later, he backpedaled from the proposal, on the advice … Continue reading
Waxing Theoretical Part 5: Neoliberalism and the market
This is the fifth post in my series on the theoretical bases for arguments against – and in the next section for – government funding for the arts. In this installment I look at neoliberalism, that branch of market-loving political … 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 3: The art of separation
This is the third in a series of posts 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 … Continue reading
