(Cross-posted at the GIA 2009 Conference Blog) The 2009 Grantmakers in the Arts Conference officially opened on Sunday night with a half-salmon-half-chicken dinner (something for everyone, I guess?), welcoming remarks, housekeeping notes, a performance, and a keynote by pollster and author John Zogby. The strange tensions of the times we live in were in fullRead More
Live from GIA: Day I – Arts and Social Justice Preconference
(Note to Createquity readers: I’m blogging the 2009 Grantmakers in the Arts Conference from Brooklyn, NY this week. This post was originally published at the GIA 2009 Conference Blog.) A strikingly diverse group of arts funders gathered at the Pratt Institute Sunday morning for the Arts and Social Justice Preconference. GIA’s Arts and Social JusticeRead More
Around the horn: Brooklyn dreamin’ edition
This is apparently the month for Createquity guest-blogging. In addition to my contributions to Barry Hessenius’s NEA group blog, which continues this week with several panelists from the commercial music and television industries, I will be doing double-duty next week: running the official blog of the Grantmakers in the Arts Conference in Brooklyn, NY startingRead More
Meet Me at Barry’s IV: Wrap and Reactions
The last of the panel questions for Week 4 of the Barry’s Blog discussion of the future of the NEA are up, and Barry himself has added some final thoughts to wrap up the week. Check it all out here. To give you a taste and encourage you to visit, once again I’ve cross-posted myRead More
Meet Me at Barry’s III
Barry’s Blog has added two more questions to this week’s group panel on the future of the NEA. My answers are below; or you can check out the entire thing here (scroll down). If you do the latter, keep an eye out for Shannon Daut’s excellent comments on public arts agency leadership. Q: We talkRead More
Meet Me at Barry’s II
I’m participating in this week’s portion of Barry Hessenius’s and Anthony Radich’s six-week online discussion about the future of the NEA, hosted at the Western States Arts Federation website. Barry has the panel’s answers to the first two questions already up. You can check them out here, or if you’re pressed for time, I’ve repostedRead More
Watch the National Arts Journalism Summit here @ 12pm ET
Doug McLennan, the founder of the incomparable ArtsJournal.com, has asked bloggers around the web to co-host the live stream of today’s National Arts Journalism Summit in Los Angeles, at which ten new models for arts journalism will be presented. Naturally, I thought this was a cool idea and volunteered to sign up. The action takesRead More
Around the horn: f(e)asting edition
Had a quick trip to NYC for a bona-fide Chinese wedding banquet, complete with a 12-course (!) meal and embarrassing games involving the bride and groom. In other news, I’ll be blogging the Grantmakers in the Arts Conference on October 18-21 in Brooklyn, NY. Let me know if there’s anything you want me to tryRead More
Creative Providence
On Friday, I attended the unveiling of Creative Providence, a cultural planning effort conducted primarily by Dreeszen & Associates over the past two years. A nice-sized crowd came out for the catered event at the Hotel Providence to see the Mayor of Providence, David Cicilline, Craig Dreeszen, Robert Leaver of New Commons, and Lynne McCormackRead More
AFTA Convention Wrap Day 4
My final day in Seattle began with a “peer group” session called Meet the NEA that was really another panel. I wasn’t able to catch the entirety of it, but the panelists did say that the agency would take a “hard look” at the policy around individual artists (it should be noted that the EndowmentRead More
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