A provocative independent voice for our times, Arlene Goldbard is a writer, social activist, and consultant who works for justice, compassion and honor in every sphere, from the interpersonal to the transnational. Arlene’s essays have appeared in such journals as … Continue reading
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Posted on October 6, 2010 by admin
Andrew Taylor is Director of the Bolz Center for Arts Administration, an MBA degree program and research center in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business. An author, lecturer, and researcher on a broad range of arts management issues, Andrew … Continue reading
Posted on August 2, 2010 by admin
In preparation for their preconference session at this year’s GIA conference in Chicago, Theaster Gates, a 2008 Chicago Artadia Awardee, and Ute Zimmermann, Artadia’s program manager, will reflect upon the artist-grantmaker relationship, its power dynamics and (co-) dependencies, as well … Continue reading
Posted on August 2, 2010 by admin
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Posted on July 22, 2010 by admin
“Modelling cultural policy – John Kreidler and Medici’s Lever,” posted July 22, 2010 on Bad Culture. Last week saw the launch of the beautifully named Medici’s lever – a web based tool designed to model the dynamics of cultural policy in … Continue reading
Posted on July 12, 2010 by admin
John will be posting here for the next couple of weeks. Check in daily or subscribe to the RSS feed to keep the blog updates in your favorite news aggregator. This is the first in a series of guest blogs … Continue reading
Posted on October 28, 2009 by admin
Bolder Giving is offering a series of free hour-long telehone conversations with remarkable individual dnors. Founded by GIA member Anne Ellinger ( Zing Foundation), the first conversation will be with Mike Schaefer, the surviving life partner of an early Microsoft … Continue reading
Posted on October 22, 2009 by admin
National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman delivered a keynote address today to close the 2009 national Grantmakers in the Arts conference: Navigating the Art of Change. Read the full text of the address here. Chairman Landesman announced that … Continue reading
Posted on June 24, 2009 by admin
This paperwritten by Robert Austin of the Harvard Business School along with Lee Devin of Swarthmore Collegeexamines the apparent conflict between artistic and commercial objectives within creative companies, taking as a point-of-departure a particularly energetic debate during a symposium at … Continue reading
Posted on April 6, 2009 by admin
In 1998, Southern California Grantmakers a regional membership association of private and public sector philanthropies conducted its first survey of public and private arts funders in Los Angeles County. Ten years and four additional surveys later, this year’s … Continue reading