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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 anyoneRead More

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, amongRead More

Around the horn: Monday night karaoke edition

This week’s BLOGGER ON FIRE award indisputably goes to Phil Buchanan, founder and CEO of the Center for Effective Philanthropy, for a tour-de-force series of posts on the new Intrepid Philanthropist blog hosted by the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Buchanan, whose CEP is very much at the forefront of the nationalRead More

New Blogs!

I’m always amused when people figure out they’ve been mentioned in New Blogs! and take the time to respond. To be honest, I didn’t really think that Createquity would ever have enough readers for anyone to care, but as the subscriber count over there on the right slowly inches toward 500 (thanks for rescuing myRead More

Live from … uh … the airport?

It had been my hope to submit reports this weekend from the Net Impact Conference, where I was invited to moderate and present at a panel today called The Creative Economy. Bearing the theme “Changemakers, Innovators, and Problem Solvers,” the conference celebrates, draws attention to, and advocates for the use of business skills in serviceRead More

Around the horn: Net Impact edition

This Friday, I’m excited to be moderating and presenting at a panel at the Net Impact North America Conference at Cornell University’s Johnson School. (For those of you who have been following Createquity since the spring, this is the result of the Creative Economy proposal I submitted back in April.) If you happen to beRead More

State Arts Funding: late 2009 wrap-up

Back in August, I posted a round-up of the struggles that various state arts councils were going through this year. The upshot is that a large number of agencies have experienced shocking declines in their state appropriations, in some cases totaling 50% or more of the previous year’s budget. (More information can be found atRead More

Flashback: Narciso

In 2002, just after graduating from college, I moved to Philadelphia to pursue a dual career in arts administration and composing. While holding down a couple of part-time jobs involving many file folders and mailing labels, I quickly set to work on a new choral piece, a setting of Federico García Lorca’s poem “Narciso.” IRead More

Justice for Jazz Artists?

(Image by Flickr user hitchica, Creative Commons license) A while back, an intrepid reader of this blog got in touch to inform me of the American Federation of Musicians Local 802’s Justice for Jazz Artists! campaign, which seeks to establish pension payments for jazz musicians who play at venues in New York City. The campaignRead More

The NEA and hip-hop

So, Lee Rosenbaum (perhaps better known to the world as blogger CultureGrrl) scored an interview with NEA Chair Rocco Landesman and writes about it today in the Wall Street Journal: In a freewheeling conversation we had on the day of his Brooklyn visit, Mr. Landesman was true to form—brashly candid. But his provocative words inRead More

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