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The following has been previously published as a chapter in Theatre, Performance and Change edited by Stephani Etheridge Woodson and Tamara Underiner (Palgrave, 2018). Now that a year has passed since the publication of the book, I am happy to share … 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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We’ve Been Warned
Over the past several weeks, as I read of a bill in Oklahoma to ban the teaching of AP US history, an attempt by Wisconsin governor Scott Walker to delete “search for truth” and other central tenets of the Wisconsin … Continue reading
Gatekeeping and Board Diversity
I don’t like being in a “gatekeeping” position but often find myself there, as a journal editor, as a member of my university’s promotion and tenure committee, even as a teacher. I find the position troubling and try – especially … Continue reading
Posted in arts infrastructure, Arts management
Tagged board governance, diversity, gatekeeping, NEA
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Enough Already!
I got one of those emails today in my personal inbox – one of those emails with bad news about arts funding. The subject line read “House Subcommittee cuts NEA by 49%.” The political posturing over what amounts to less … Continue reading
Posted in Arts funding, Arts policy, Culture and democracy
Tagged Americans for the Arts, arts advocacy, NEA, politics
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From Reformation to Aggregation
Two years ago, when Ben Cameron of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation delivered the keynote address at the Second Biennial Pave Symposium on Entrepreneurship and the Arts, and in his Ted talk of 2010, he spoke of the arts being … Continue reading
Issues of Outcomes and Measurement
After reading Ian David Moss’s critique of the “creative placemaking” logic model (or lack thereof) I couldn’t resist doing a little research so that I could better understand the issue. After looking at the roots of creative placemaking in public … Continue reading
There’s Something Happening Here – 1
What it is ain’t exactly clear, but there seems to be a growing questioning of the status quo, or rather the stati quos. Perhaps it’s a response to shrinking arts funding, declining audience numbers, exponentially growing means of distribution, or … Continue reading
Posted in Arts funding, Arts policy, Culture and democracy, Uncategorized
Tagged Arts funding, arts policy, cultural economics, cultural policy, NEA
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Waxing Theoretical Part 6: If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em!
This is the sixth and final installment in my blog series on the theories that underly arguments against — and in today’s installment for – government funding for the arts. I look today with some skepticism at the creative industries … Continue reading
Creative Infrastructure 