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

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

Around the horn: leftovers edition

Last week’s haul o’ links was a bit on the light side, due to mysterious other priorities that many fellow posters seemingly shared during the second half. But by all means, help yourself to these bits and pieces I carved up for you. On the heels of the NEA’s Cultural Workforce Forum on November 20,Read More

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 presumablyRead More

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

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