Artist-founded and administered schools have existed for over a century. In 1875, a group of artists pinned a notice to the bulletin board of the National Academy of Design inviting students and instructors to attend a meeting, effectively founding The Art Students League in New York City. In 1919, the German architect Walter Gropius startedRead More
Applications Now Open for the Spring 2013 Createquity Writing Fellowship
Are you smart? A good writer? Interested in how the arts fit in to the bigger picture? Why not join this blog? The Createquity Writing Fellowship was designed to continually bring new voices into national and international conversations about the future of the arts. So far we’ve introduced eight bright, (mostly) young writers to theRead More
Unpacking Shared Delivery of Arts Education
When some brave soul writes an updated history of arts education in the United States (any takers?) I think he or she will describe the early-to-mid-2000s as an ambitious era. The arts education sector, mirroring the broader arts field and the constantly reforming field of education, is having larger and broader conversations about impact, outcomesRead More
Science Doesn’t Have All the Answers: Should We Be Worried?
On October 1 the science section of the New York Times ran two articles next to each other. One of them describes a recent study that concluded young children at play display behaviors similar to those of scientists, suggesting scientific inquiry is driven by human instinct. The other refers to the alarming extent to whichRead More
Five Years of Createquity
Today, Createquity turns five years old. Huzzah! Since my last “blogiversary” post two years ago, Createquity has come a long way. Most significant has been the introduction of the Createquity Writing Fellowship program, which has been fantastically successful at diversifying the voice of the site, generating more content for the Arts Policy Library, helping someRead More
Artificial Intelligence and the Arts
It’s not just Her: more and more, computers’ creative capabilities are rivaling those of humans.
Meet the fall 2012 Createquity Writing Fellows!
Congratulations to Talia Gibas and Jacquelyn Strycker, who are the fall 2012 Createquity Writing Fellows! You’ll be seeing posts from them starting this month and running through mid-January. Here is a little more about each. I love a writer who’s not afraid of taking risks, and Talia Gibas is just that. You would think that,Read More
Applications for the Fall 2012 Createquity Writing Fellowship Now Open
Ever wanted an opportunity to get your writing in front of some pretty serious people in the arts and beyond, all while receiving mentorship, research assistance, and guidance on your writing from yours truly? Then the Createquity Writing Fellowship just may be for you. Think of it as your very own virtual graduate class inRead More
Wrapping up the spring 2012 Createquity Writing Fellowship
Last week, we had a flurry of posts from our Createquity Writing Fellows, Kelly Dylla and Jackie Hasa, including Arts Policy Library entries on two important studies of cultural participation and audience engagement. Now that Kelly and Jackie have successfully completed the third round of the CWF, I wanted to take a moment to highlightRead More
Arts Policy Library: Cultural Engagement in California’s Inland Regions
A survey of rural and suburban populations exposes participation in a range of cultural activities.
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