Just added to the GIA Library is Creating Pennsylvania’s Future Through the Arts and Education, a report from The Education Policy and Leadership Center. The report follows a year-long process of discussions by a 32-member Study Group, a comprehensive review of relevant public policies in Pennsylvania and other states, eight regional community forums, and surveys of several stakeholder groups by EPLC.
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Posted on March 23, 2012 by Steve
Quick roundup of commentary on the Mike Daisey controversy:
- 'This American Life' Pulls Apple Story from All Things Considered
- What’s Done Cannot be Undone: Lies in the Theater and Some Thoughts on Mike Daisey from Polly Carl at HowlRound
- Is Mike Daisey a fabulist or a truthsayer? from John Killacky at Burlington Free Press
- Public Theater Artistic Director Says ‘Our Audience Was Misled’ by Daisey, from Scott Heller at The New York Times
- Daisy attempts to move on.
Posted on March 22, 2012 by Steve
New York Foundation of Arts has selected five artists to be the 2012 NYFA Hall of Fame Honorees. Architects Elizabeth Diller + Ricardo Scofidio; multi-media artist Christian Marclay; playwright Suzan-Lori Parks; and patron of the arts Ben Rodriguez-Cubeñas will be so honored on Monday, April 30, 2012.
Posted on March 22, 2012 by Steve
From Erik Robelen at Education Week:
Several education experts recently made the case for the importance of ensuring topics such as history, science, and the arts get adequate classroom time and attention as states and districts begin to implement the Common Core State Standards. The issue was the focus of a March 15 event hosted by the Washington-based research and advocacy group Common Core, which has just announced plans to create a set of curriculum maps
Posted on March 20, 2012 by Steve
The Nonprofit Finance Fund is hosting a webinar called The Case for Change Capital in the Arts: Building Vibrant and viable Cultural Organizations. Presented by NFF's Rodney Christopher and Rebecca Thomas, the webinar will take place 3:00pm EDT / noon PDT on Thursday, April 19. Also participating in the webinar presentation are Cynthia Hedstrom and Jamie Poskin of The Wooster Group, and Amanda Nelson and Thomas Cott of Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation.
Posted on March 17, 2012 by Steve
From Patricia Cohen at The New York Times:
Online financial crowd-sourcing of artists still represents only a smidgen of the more than $8 billion that private individuals donate to the arts each year. Nonetheless, the speedy proliferation of such Web sites has attracted notice. “Everybody right now is looking for ways to exploit technology to maximize and customize the ways people engage with the arts,” said Sunil Iyengar, research director at the National Endowment for the Arts.
Posted on March 16, 2012 by Steve
The Friday installment of the weeklong Clout: A Blogfest on Art and Political Power is penned by Dudley Cocke, artistic director of Roadside Theater and a former GIA Board member:
...So the question is: What would it take for a theater like Roadside to have real political clout? Part of the answer: For low income, working class, and middle class audience members like ours to have real political clout.
This raises the question of how, in our democracy, the majority of us have become subjugated to a wealthy minority of us. When we talk about the arts gaining political power, I think this is the bigger problem we need to address, and I’m worried that we’ve lost the democratic infrastructure to pursue a solution.
Posted on March 15, 2012 by Steve
Ariel Schwartz for Co.Exist:
Stick a bunch of artists, web designers, developers, and hackers in a room, and what do you get? A visual and acoustic representation of Bay Area earthquake data, a sound collage of randomly dialed phone numbers, and on-the-fly digital art created from MP3 files.
Posted on March 15, 2012 by Steve
The latest installment of the online discussion Clout: A Blogfest on Art and Political Power is Ra Joy, executive director of Arts Alliance Illinois:
The best way to move the needle on arts policy issues (whether it’s Barry’s NEA budget or Arlene’s WPA 2.0 idea) is to create strong grassroots and grasstops networks that transcend age, race, ethnicity, geography, and other factors.
Posted on March 15, 2012 by Steve
Theatre Bay Area has published Counting New Beans: Intrinsic Impact and the Value of Art, a book that builds from “Measuring the Intrinsic Impact of Live Theatre,” the final report of a two-year national research study, prepared by research firm WolfBrown. Interviews with 20 prominent artistic directors, as well as essays by Diane Ragsdale, Arlene Goldbard, Rebecca Novick and others, are all available in the book.