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Category Archives: AFTA
Around the horn: Arthur C. Clarke edition
It seems this is the week in which I realize I have been under a rock on a number of fronts. I don’t know what happened, but all of the sudden Crain’s New York is an essential source for creative economy news in the five boroughs. Here, Amanda Fung sews together a story about arts [...]
In which my moniker is capitaliz’d
I’m happy to report that I’ve been elected to the Americans for the Arts Emerging Leader Council, a national volunteer advisory committee, for a term beginning next month and ending in 2012. I’ve really enjoyed getting to know Americans for the Arts and everybody associated with the Emerging Leader Program in the past year, and [...]
Around the horn: California dreamin’ edition
Rocco Landesman responded slowly and clearly last week to the inquiry into the infamous NEA conference call on the part of GOP Senators, saying “I am unaware of the use of any taxpayer dollars for the…conference call or related activity,” and debunking a number of other myths while striking a conciliatory tone. The Senators’ response? [...]
Arts & Economic Prosperity: Cliffs Notes version
I know: you’re a busy person. You don’t have a lot of time. You’d like to read my entire 7,000-word tome on Americans for the Arts’s economic impact study, but let’s face it: it’s just not gonna happen. At least not this week. Probably not next week, either. You suppose you could take it on [...]
Arts Policy Library: Arts & Economic Prosperity III
Perhaps no arts-related research study is cited as frequently in the mainstream media these days as Americans for the Arts’s gargantuan economic impact survey, Arts & Economic Prosperity III. Its key message, that the nonprofit arts sector is responsible for $166.2 billion in economic activity nationwide, has been hammered home relentlessly to policymakers, politicians, grantmakers, [...]
Around the horn: term paper edition
Have you been wondering whatever happened to the Arts Policy Library series? It hasn’t gone anywhere–it’s just been in extended hibernation in preparation for the piece that’s about to be unveiled tomorrow: a 7000-word, seminar-paper-length treatise on Americans for the Arts’s landmark economic impact study, Arts & Economic Prosperity III. Well over 60 hours of [...]
AFTA Convention Wrap Day 4
My final day in Seattle began with a “peer group” session called Meet the NEA that was really another panel. I wasn’t able to catch the entirety of it, but the panelists did say that the agency would take a “hard look” at the policy around individual artists (it should be noted that the Endowment [...]
AFTA Convention Wrap Day 3
Whew! Extremely full day yesterday. Started with waking up far too early to catch Peter Senge’s keynote address. Senge is the founding chair of the Society for Organizational Learning and focused his talk at the mile-high level, really probing into why the work we do is important. The speech received mixed reviews from the people [...]
AFTA Convention Wrap Day 2
Wow, you guys are eager beavers all of the sudden in the comments! I think I approved more this week than I did the entire summer last year. Glad to see that the content is engaging you. The first official day of the AFTA Convention was great – the discussions have mapped extraordinarily well to [...]
Around the horn: Johnny Weir edition
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