As conference season heats up, I have a few panels and such coming up to share with you all: June 8-10 Americans for the Arts Convention Grand Hyatt San Antonio 600 E. Market Street San Antonio, TX Info and registration (I’ll be speaking as part of the session entitled “From Nice to Necessary: Local ArtsRead More
Archives for May 2012
Understanding Through Tangential Questioning: Art, Dance Your Ph.D., and the Large Hadron Collider
(Shane Crerar received a BSc. in chemistry in 2000, and a BFA in sculpture in 2010. He lives in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada and is employed by the city where he works as an arts administrator, dealing with public art, collections, film, and community arts organizations.) Dance and theater make no sense to me. I was formerly a chemist, and I cannotRead More
Around the horn: It Gets Better edition
ART AND THE GOVERNMENT Weird, the very day that the Huffington Post published my “debate” with Carla Escoda about arts funding, the New York Times published a “Room for Debate” feature on a very similar topic. Something in the water? Anyway, Sean Bowie has a nice summary if you don’t have time to read all eight entries. TheRead More
Cool jobs of the month
Director, Bolz Center for Arts Administration, University of Wisconsin [From outgoing director Andrew Taylor:] If you’re passionate about arts and cultural management and leadership. If you’re able not only to do the work, but teach the work to brilliant business-focused professionals. If you bring a vital network of cultural professionals and can plug into anRead More
Why Teaching Artists Will Lead the Charge in Audience Engagement
As a self-proclaimed enthusiast in audience engagement, I felt compelled to respond to Michael Kaiser’s Engaging Audiences article in the Huffington Post last month. Rather than debate point-by-point Kaiser’s position that audience engagement is possibly new window dressing for an old issue or that arts organizations are using this jargon to target selected audiences, I’dRead More
Creative Placemaking Has an Outcomes Problem
Federal policymakers and private philanthropists are spending millions of dollars on creative placemaking without having developed a clear and detailed theory of how it works.
Let Your Folk Flag Fly: Folklore Research and the Informal Arts
Over the last decade, you’ve probably known someone who took up dance or music classes, or maybe someone who joined a knitting or craft group, or started a novel. According to a 2008 NEA study, 74 percent of Americans participate in the arts through attendance, art creation, or media. Whether you call it the Pro-AmRead More
On Trey McIntyre Project and Both/And Creative Placemaking
(David B. Pankratz, Ph.D., is the Principal of Creative Sector Research in South Pasadena, California. He can be reached at creativesectorresearch@gmail.com.) In TINA vs. LOIS: Bringing the Arts Back Home, community arts advocate Scott Walters applies a concept developed by author Michael Shuman in The Small-Mart Revolution to cultural economies in American communities. TINA (ThereRead More
Is Federal Money the Best Way to Fund the Arts?
For as much room as the United States has to step up its commitment to the arts in the form of public dollars, we are not likely to see the federal government become the primary source of support for the arts in this country in our lifetimes, or those of our children or children’s children for that matter. And frankly, that’s probably for the best.