Cultural Policy

April 30, 2009 by admin

2008, 110 pages. Western States Arts Federation, 1743 Wazee Street, Suite 300, Denver, Colorado, 80202, 303-629-1166, www.westaaf.org

http://www.taac.com/open-dialogue/open-dialogue-xi

Complete proceedings of the WESTAF-sponsored symposium, Open Dialogue XI, held in Denver, Colorado July 12-15, 2007. Presenters included Doudou Diène, A.B. Spellman, Louis LeRoy, Tatiana Reinoza Perkins, Maria-Rosario Jackson, and many more.


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April 30, 2009 by admin
Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy; Lawrence Lessig, Penguin Press, 2008, 352 pages. ISBN-10: 1594201722
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April 30, 2009 by admin
The headline and subhead above were not written by an arts grantmaker making a case to a board for the value of the arts in a foundation's portfolio or by an arts advocate speaking to a legislature about why the arts belong in a state budget. The headings come directly from The Guardian and Guardian Weekly of London, and Larry Elliott is The Guardian's economics editor. In the article that follows, Elliott refers to a new book, t by Richard Bronk of the London School of Economics and Political Science, published by Cambridge University Press.
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April 30, 2009 by admin

As a program officer at The San Francisco Foundation, I say “No” to artists and arts organizations daily. I try to soften the blow, detailing the reality of limited resources and an overabundance of projects, seldom discussing quality or appropriateness, thinking I am kinder in vagueness.

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April 30, 2009 by admin
Bill Ivey chaired the National Endowment for the Arts from 1998 through 2001, directed the Country Music Foundation from 1971 to 1998, and was twice elected chairman of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. He presently serves as founding director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University.
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April 30, 2009 by admin
Claudine Brown wants us to shore ourselves up with knowledge and examples of how much arts and culture are linked to everything we do. With this in mind, she offers us her own kit bag of reasons for sustaining arts and culture programs—and it's a big bag.
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October 11, 2008 by admin

189 pages, September 2008. WolfBrown, 8A Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02138. (617) 494-9300, www.wolfbrown.com.

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September 30, 2008 by admin

Note: this text was updated on this site on January 9, 2009.

No matter your political persuasion, your age or background, place or country of residence, your professional role or disciplinary affiliation, if you work in the nonprofit cultural sector—the presidential campaign that brought Barack Obama to the White House holds lessons for you. The campaign marks a watershed in popular consciousness, and we will all do well to adapt—or evolve—accordingly.

Some things to ponder:

1. People want to be inspired.

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September 30, 2008 by admin

Wacintanka (wah-cheenh-tanh-kah) defies single-word English translation. Ask a number of Lakota speakers and you will likely get a number of English translations: patience, persistence, endurance, and so forth. Condensed, I believe it means discipline and it can be quite a science. The science of Wacintanka. Sounds a bit like Tao Te Ching,* doesn't it? I don't know much about Tao, but wacintanka is very diverse in its application and permeates all that is good in the Lakota way of being.

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