With a whirlwind of posts, the spring 2013 Createquity Writing Fellowship came to an end last week. For the first time since 2011, three writers plied their craft side by side for the full length of the term, providing a welcome diversity of perspectives and approaches. This round also saw some innovations compared to previous [...]
Congratulations to the latest class of Createquity Writing Fellows! You’ll be reading their contributions to the site between now and mid-June. Here is a bit more about each of them: Tegan Kehoe is a museum professional, historian, and freelance writer with a passion for helping museums be vital to and fully engaged with their communities. She [...]
Last week marked the end of the fall 2012 Createquity Writing Fellowship. You wouldn’t know it from this month’s posting schedule, but Talia Gibas and Jacquelyn Strycker have been writing steadily for Createquity since last September. My autumn travels forced some extended review times for a little bit in the middle there, but Jacquie and [...]
Artist-founded and administered schools have existed for over a century. In 1875, a group of artists pinned a notice to the bulletin board of the National Academy of Design inviting students and instructors to attend a meeting, effectively founding The Art Students League in New York City. In 1919, the German architect Walter Gropius started [...]
Are you smart? A good writer? Interested in how the arts fit in to the bigger picture? Why not join this blog? The Createquity Writing Fellowship was designed to continually bring new voices into national and international conversations about the future of the arts. So far we’ve introduced eight bright, (mostly) young writers to the [...]
When some brave soul writes an updated history of arts education in the United States (any takers?) I think he or she will describe the early-to-mid-2000s as an ambitious era. The arts education sector, mirroring the broader arts field and the constantly reforming field of education, is having larger and broader conversations about impact, outcomes [...]
On October 1 the science section of the New York Times ran two articles next to each other. One of them describes a recent study that concluded young children at play display behaviors similar to those of scientists, suggesting scientific inquiry is driven by human instinct. The other refers to the alarming extent to which [...]
Today, Createquity turns five years old. Huzzah! Since my last “blogiversary” post two years ago, Createquity has come a long way. Most significant has been the introduction of the Createquity Writing Fellowship program, which has been fantastically successful at diversifying the voice of the site, generating more content for the Arts Policy Library, helping some [...]
If a computer composes a symphony, should the resulting musical piece be considered a work of art? And how does a computer-generated work affect our perception of human-made works? These are not theoretical questions. A recent article in Pacific Standard highlights Simon Fraser University’s Metacreation project, which aims to investigate computational creativity, in part through the development [...]
Congratulations to Talia Gibas and Jacquelyn Strycker, who are the fall 2012 Createquity Writing Fellows! You’ll be seeing posts from them starting this month and running through mid-January. Here is a little more about each. I love a writer who’s not afraid of taking risks, and Talia Gibas is just that. You would think that, [...]
I would say that supply side economics are not friendly towards paying people who are working in some respect for...
It’s great to see more efforts at cultural engagement. As someone who runs a dance studio, I’ve seen my...
Super-interesting, Dan. This is something we grapple with A LOT at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. We have...
Tegan, very provocative piece, and nice to be reminded that arts have a role in the world beyond creative placemaking ;...
Tyler Cowen is a neo-liberal economist and pop-economics author. He isn’t a art historian or a playwright . He...