Move on over, standardized testing.
Grantmakers in the Arts Goes to Washington
In March of 2012, Grantmakers in the Arts (GIA) launched the Arts Education Funders Coalition. The goal of the Coalition is “to research and identify federal policy opportunities that promote equitable access to arts education in all public schools.” It consists of about 135 individuals from 115 organizations within GIA’s membership and is led byRead More
How Art Works: the I’m-late-for-work version
This is a short version of my full addition to the Arts Policy Library. With “How Art Works: The National Endowment for the Arts’ Five-Year Research Agenda,” the National Endowment for the Arts is getting proactive. Acknowledging that the NEA’s research efforts have been mostly descriptive in the past, “How Art Works” is intended toRead More
Arts Policy Library: How Art Works
Beyond a research agenda for the NEA itself, How Art Works “proposes a way for the nation’s cultural researchers, arts practitioners, policy-makers, and the general public to view, analyze, and discuss the arts as a dynamic, complex system.”
No Strings Attached
A few years ago four grad students from Harvard and M.I.T. decided they wanted to use their brains and dollars to improve the lives of some of the poorest people in the world. They researched different strategies of philanthropy, looked at the data available, and based on the evidence they chose a novel approach. NoRead More
CultureHive, a New Home for Busy Arts Marketing Bees
There’s a new resource on the block for arts marketers in the UK that leverages the Internet’s natural talent for sharing. Combining crowd-sourced resource aggregation with expert curation, CultureHive is a search engine for arts marketers that aims to ensure all results are relevant and high quality. The site is a joint creation of theRead More