The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art has been awarded $100,000 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation’s Digital Resources grant program to support a project to preserve, arrange and create Web-searchable online electronic finding aids for 10 archival collections that are central to provenance research for the history of art during World War II.
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Posted on July 3, 2012 by Steve
Posted on July 3, 2012 by Tommer
Adam Huttler takes on the "New Models" mythology on the Fractured Atlas blog.
Who knows if I meet the definition of “expert”, but I’m happy to offer a few thoughts about what exactly is broken with the traditional arts organization construct: administrative bloat, unhealthy risk-aversion, and chronic undercapitalization, to name the first three that spring to mind.
Posted on July 2, 2012 by Abigail
In July, GIA's photo banner features exhibitions and programs sponsored by the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation. Founded in 1987 by Emily Hall Tremaine, the New Haven-based family foundation makes grants to support art, learning disabilities, and the environment, with a primary emphasis on education. The foundation's two signature arts awards are the Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award, through which the foundation supports curatorial excellence in the presentation of contemporary visual art, and Marketplace Empowerment for Artists, a program supporting professional development training for visual artists.
Posted on July 2, 2012 by Tommer
NASAA has released the annual State Arts Agency Fiscal Year 2013 Legislative Appropriations Preview report. This document summarizes how state arts agencies fared during this year's budget deliberations and includes information on the appropriations each state arts agency expects to receive for FY2013.
Posted on June 30, 2012 by Steve
The Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP), an annual online survey, data management, and institutional improvement system out of Indiana University, and a program designed to enhance the impact of arts-school education, has produced a nicely visualized online resource for the data collected in 2011. The data comes from 33,801 respondents to the SNAAP survey, and shows information on the degrees received, their current occupation, income, and debt, among other things. See the SnaapShot here.
Posted on June 30, 2012 by Steve
From Chad Bauman at Arts Marketing:
As managers, we like to mitigate risk, thinking that if we could just control our variables just a little more, that we would reach a utopia of risk free theater producing. It's a fool's errand. Since the beginning of the global economic crisis in 2008, the stakes have risen so high that it can feel like we don't have room to fail. But in failure, we find success.
Posted on June 29, 2012 by Steve
For All Ages: The GIA Guide to Funding Across the Lifespan is an expanded and updated version of a previous Grantmakers in Aging toolkit. It contains real-life programming, grantmaking strategies, and issues-based approaches to identifying, researching, and funding the multitude of needs arising from the aging of our society, and offers Grantmakers in Aging's own online tutorial on what to fund, guidance on demographic research, and profiles of foundations that are committed to aging as well as others just getting started in the field.
Posted on June 29, 2012 by Steve
From The Huffington Post, Adam Hutler, Executive Director of Fractured Atlas, outlines why the survival of the Affordable Care Act is good news for artists in the U.S.:
Our community offers a preview of the 21st century labor force. Untethered by traditional employment relationships, artists are mobile, independent, and compensated based on the fruits of their intellectual labors. They are also chronically underpaid and, when it comes to traditional employment benefits like health insurance, largely expected to fend for themselves.
Posted on June 28, 2012 by Steve
On July 1 the Citizens' Institute on Rural Design (CIRD) will commence as a partnership among the NEA, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Project for Public Spaces, along with the Orton Family Foundation and the CommunityMatters® Partnership. CIRD works to enhance the quality of life and economic viability of rural areas. CIRD does this through design workshops that gather local leaders together with experts in planning, design, and creative placemaking to assist with locally identified issues.
Posted on June 28, 2012 by Steve
From Rebecca Thomas and Rodney Christopher at Nonprofit Finance Fund:
A piece in yesterday's New York Times sounded a note that's all too familiar to our consultants at Nonprofit Finance Fund. “For Arts Institutions, Thinking Big Can Be Suicidal” highlighted a new study by the Cultural Policy Center at The University of Chicago showing that the enthusiasm for fancy new buildings and extensive renovations has put an incredible strain on arts institutions.