Arts Research

Building Arts Participation in Rural America: The Montana Story

May 31, 2008 by admin

2004, 55 pages. ArtsMarket, 1125 W. Kagy Blvd., Suite 100, Bozeman, MT 59715, (406) 582-4766, www.artsmarket.com

May 31, 2008 by admin

How can funders apply what they know about changes in the external environment—in demographics, use of free time, use of disposable income—to best serve and stabilize theaters and other mid-sized arts groups?

Sue Coliton, Paul G. Allen Family Foundation (moderator); Nancy Fushan, Bush Foundation; Lawrence Thoo, San Jose Office of Cultural Affairs; Ben Cameron, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (interlocutors).

Understanding Boston

May 31, 2008 by admin

2007, 79 pages. The Boston Foundation, 75 Arlington Street, Boston, MA 02116, (617) 338-1700, www.tbf.org
PDF Online: www.bostonindicators.org

Operating Support Grants

May 31, 2008 by admin

A continuation of the discussion on strategic operating support grants. Do these grants improve an organization's accountability and stability? How do private and public grantmakers sustain the arts ecosystem without creating an over-dependence on any one funder? When providing strategic operating support for organizational change, where does the funder's role end and the arts organization's board of directors' role begin and end?

Accountability vs. Trust

Creative Capital

May 31, 2008 by admin

2007, 33 pages. City of Santa Monica, Community and Cultural Services Dept., 1437 4th Street, Suite 310, PO Box 2200, Santa Monica, CA 90407

May 31, 2008 by admin

A working session to review the Coalition's draft publication, "A National Blueprint for Emergency Preparedness, Relief and Recovery for Artists," and other Coalition works in progress. Also, discussion of a draft plan to give grantmakers better resources for learning about emergency readiness, response, and recovery, and to improve and coordinate safety nets for artists during regional or national emergencies.

Cornelia Carey, Craft Emergency Relief Fund (moderator); Carolyn Somers, Joan Mitchell Foundation (interlocutor).

September 30, 2007 by admin

Performing Communities

August 31, 2007 by admin

2006, 240 pages. New Village Press, P.O. Box 3049, Oakland, CA 94609, 510-420-1361, www.newvillagepress.net

Relations

August 31, 2007 by admin

2006, 256 pages. The Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, 108 Cathedral Place, Santa Fe, NM 87501, 505-983-8900

What Makes a Great Exhibition?

August 31, 2007 by admin

2006, 184 pages. Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative, University of Chicago Press, 1437 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, www.philexin.org

This collection of essays about the creation of effective exhibitions, commissioned and published by the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative, serves as a useful guide for anyone involved in creating public displays. The essays are focused on art exhibitions