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Category Archives: NEA
Yosi speaks
Yosi Sergant, former NEA Communications Director, has finally broken his silence with respect to the events that led to his resignation last fall. For those of you who haven’t been following this story, the article linked above provides a good overview.
Sergant was interviewed by Hillel Aron, a grad student at USC who is (self-admittedly) a [...]
Around the horn: Vancouver edition
Stephen Colbert is ready for the Olympics…are YOU?
Did you know the Olympics used to award medals to artists between 1912 and 1948? Germany led with 24 in all.
Holy moly data gold mine ahead: PeteSearch has been writing a program to scrape the public Facebook profiles off the web and analyze their connections and fan pages. [...]
The NEA gets into urban revitalization
Well, it turns out that Rocco did have a doozy of an announcement this morning: a new funding program called the NEA Mayors’ Institute on City Design 25th Anniversary Initiative. (The name is a doozy too, and makes me wonder whether there’s some kind of joint funding relationship going on – the 25th anniversary is [...]
Around the horn: new leaf edition
Just when you think the latest NEA controversy has passed, conservatives take a midnight trip to the graveyard and extract new stupidness from its ugly zombie head. This time, John McCain and Tom Coburn have released a report on “wasteful” spending in the (now nearly year-old) stimulus bill that includes NEA grants to controversial organizations [...]
Follow the #NEAcast conversation on Twitter
If anyone is watching the NEA’s live webcast of the Survey of Public Participation in the Arts, which is going on for another 40 minutes or so, some other folks have joined the live-tweeting party with me, including Theatre Communications Group and the Artful Manager. Follow on Twitter using hashtag #NEAcast, or if you don’t [...]
Another NEA webcast tomorrow
I guess last month’s NEA Cultural Workforce Forum went so well that the leadership of the National Endowment for the Arts has decided to do it all over again less than three weeks later. Tomorrow, December 10, the agency will unveil its new survey on public participation in the arts, highlights of which were released [...]
Archive of NEA Cultural Workforce Forum now available for viewing
If you visit this site, you’ll be able to watch the entire webcast of last week’s Cultural Workforce Forum at the National Endowment for the Arts, complete with the slides of the presenters. Please note that the video only works with Internet Explorer and Windows, though the slides can be viewed with Firefox (and presumably [...]
NEA Cultural Workforce Forum wrap
On Friday, I had the privilege to attend the NEA’s Cultural Workforce Forum, a convening of researchers who have recently led efforts to measure and understand the work habits and economic condition of individual artists in the United States. The event, though not open to the public, was simulcast on the Internet so that anyone [...]
NEA Cultural Workforce Forum live stream tomorrow
Hey kids, the National Endowment for the Arts is webcasting a daylong forum tomorrow from 9am to 4:30pm (EST) on the subject of artists in the cultural workforce. The event is heavily oriented toward research, and features a star-packed lineup of presenters such as Maria Rosario Jackson, Ann Markusen, Holly Sidford, and Steven Tepper, among [...]
Around the horn: it’s an honor just to be nominated edition
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