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Category Archives: arts policy library
Arts Policy Library: MASS MoCA and the Revitalization of North Adams
This particular Arts Policy Library entry is a bit of a reprise, since I read and discussed “Culture and Revitalization: The Economic Effects of MASS MoCA on its Community” for my independent study on public policy and the arts earlier this year. However, in recent months I’ve had a few experiences (including a session on [...]
Response to Arts Policy Library: Breakthroughs in Shared Measurement
Recently, I had the honor of posting my first contribution to Createquity’s Arts Policy Library, my response to the report “Breakthroughs in Shared Measurement and Social Impact.” In the comments section, one of the report’s authors Lalitha Vaidyanathan took the time to respond to two of the main points of my response.
The first point that [...]
Arts Policy Library: Breakthroughs In Shared Measurement
[Note to readers: I'm very pleased to introduce to you the first Arts Policy Library entry (not to mention first Createquity post of any kind) not written by me. Guy Yedwab is a budding theater professional who first became known to me through the magic of Twitter and later through his blog, CultureFuture. Currently a [...]
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, [...]
Further thoughts about Gifts of the Muse
I’ve been mulling over my Gifts of the Muse write-up for the past few days, and have come up with a few more reflections on the implications that the document holds for advocacy and policymaking.
I hinted at this one at the end of my summary, but here it is fleshed out a bit more: the [...]
Gifts of the Muse: the Cliffs Notes version
I’m realizing that, by making my Gifts of the Muse write-up so long, I might have gotten a bit in the way of the Arts Policy Library concept. (They won’t all be like that, I promise!) So, out of deference to those of you who didn’t make it all the way though and perhaps never [...]
Arts Policy Library: Gifts of the Muse
(For a much briefer summary of this very long article, see this post here.)
For this first official installment of the Arts Policy Library, I wanted to start at the beginning. Gifts of the Muse: Reframing the Debate About the Benefits of the Arts was the first research study to be mentioned on Createquity, way back [...]
Introducing the Createquity Arts Policy Library
Over the next few weeks, you’ll start to see a new feature at Createquity: the Arts Policy Library. The germ of this idea came to me while I was reviewing studies on the social and economic benefits of the arts last summer while working for the Hewlett Foundation. As I said at the time, “It…strikes [...]
Arts Policy Library: The Search for Shining Eyes
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