Looking back: Createquity in Quotes

“What should it matter if one feels truly alive while composing while another does so through nuclear physics or conducting market research or cooking? If the goal is to get the arts to be taken seriously in broader policy discussions, it seems to me that the creativity connection is crucial. And not just in theRead More

Around the horn: goodbye oughties edition

We’re winding down what’s turned out to be a very eventful year at Createquity. Next week will feature some exciting announcements and changes, but in the meantime, this week’s posts will look back: at what we’ve learned, what we’ve said, and what the hell happened! Happy holidays and best wishes for 2010 for all whoRead More

Snooze button

Createquity is taking a short break and will be back on the 28th. Feel free to enjoy the many wonderful blogs linked to from the blogroll in the meantime. Happy holidays!

In which my moniker is capitaliz’d

I’m happy to report that I’ve been elected to the Americans for the Arts Emerging Leader Council, a national volunteer advisory committee, for a term beginning next month and ending in 2012. I’ve really enjoyed getting to know Americans for the Arts and everybody associated with the Emerging Leader Program in the past year, andRead More

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 onRead More

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 organizationsRead More

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’tRead More

The 5th Annual Yale School of Management Philanthropy Conference

This past Friday, I attended the 5th Annual Yale School of Management Philanthropy Conference. I have quite a bit of history with this young conference, having co-Chaired last year’s edition and put together a panel for 2007’s (part I, part II). My report on this one, “Harnessing Resources and Leveraging Strengths,” won’t be quite asRead More

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 releasedRead More

Around the horn: Waziristan edition

All you folks out on the West Coast are missing some spectacular weather acrobatics this fall/winter. On Thursday morning we had heavy rain and winds so fierce that a tree branch got knocked off the trunk, bounced onto the garage and finally came to rest on the hood of my girlfriend’s car (which miraculously escapedRead More