Here are this week’s newly added blogs….enjoy! ARTSBLOGWho knew? It seems I’m a little late to the party, but apparently DC-based advocacy organization Americans for the Arts has been running this quite lively group blog with a dizzying array of volunteer contributors since 2007. With so many authors, you’d expect the quality to be a [...]
So as I mentioned a while back, I’m on Twitter as @createquity (what else?). I joined earlier this year and just lurked for a little bit, using the web interface and gathering a few followers. No big deal, right? Then I downloaded my first Twitter desktop application, Twhirl, and let the tweets roll in. That’s [...]
I’ve been meaning to write on this subject for quite some time, ever since Greg Sandow posted the thought-provoking second part of his series on How to Advocate for the Arts. Greg’s thesis can be more or less summed up by this quote: If some things in art can’t support themselves in the market place, [...]
I am done with one of my five classes as of this past Friday, a sign that things are finally winding down here in New Haven. With final projects and/or major hours quotas for all of my other commitments, however, I’m guaranteed to be up against it for at least a couple more weeks. In [...]
Earlier this week, I posted a very long essay on Richard Florida’s wildly popular book The Rise of The Creative Class. I knew that in this age of the Google Alert it was possible that Florida might come across it in his internet travels, but even so I was still a bit shocked on Tuesday [...]
Here are this week’s newly added blogs….enjoy! Arlene GoldbardI first came to know Arlene Goldbard’s work through her two-part series proposing “A New New Deal” from earlier this year, published by Community Arts Network. She has a blog at her own website that deals with “culture, politics, and spirituality.” Goldbard has been writing on these [...]
Great thinking, Ian! As you observe, measuring success must reflect the nature of the Creative Placemaking project...
Yes! We are on the same wavelength! Nice one.
The LHC is also featured in Liz Lerman’s latest stage work, The Matter of Origins. The piece was a really...
Great article and more fuel for the fire beneath the long long simmering, never quite finished arts stew: how to align the...
As a former director of museums and board member of several arts groups and now consultant – my perspective is less...