Participation / audience development

April 30, 2009 by admin

Historical data do not mean anything in this situation. There is no blueprint and there is no network. We are doing the best we can with a combination of hard facts and intuition. Every line item is up for grabs; every $1,000 is material. How we feel about it all depends on which newspaper we read that morning.

Managing Director, large performing arts group

Introduction

April 30, 2009 by admin

The following piece is excerpted from the second of a two-part article written for the Community Arts Network, “The New New Deal.” Part one, published in December 2008, was titled, “the New New Deal: Public Service Jobs for Artists.” It described some of the things artists could do with public-service jobs. This excerpt is from part two, published February 24, 2009, “A New WPA for Artists: How and Why.” In this excerpt, Goldbard takes up the question of “why,” what are all the good reasons to support a new WPA for artists.

All America's a Stage

April 30, 2009 by admin

2008, 8 pages. National Endowment for the Arts, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C., 20506, 202-682-5400, www.nea.gov

http://www.nea.gov/research/TheaterBrochure12-08.pdf

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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Artists Count

September 30, 2008 by admin

2007, 44 pages. Minnesota Citizens for the Arts, 2233 University Avenue West, Suite 355, St. Paul, Minnesota, 55144, (651) 251-0868, www.mncitizensforthearts.org

http://mncitizensforthearts.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/interioronlyfinal.pdf

We-think

September 30, 2008 by admin

2008, 256 pages. Published by Profile Books Ltd.

Presenting Dance

September 30, 2008 by admin

2008, 64 pages. Published by the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, 1211 Connecticut Ave NW, Suite 200, Washington, D.C., 20036, (202) 833-2787, www.artspresenters.org. Dance/USA, 1111 16th Street NW, Suite 300, Washington, D.C., 20036, (202) 833-1717, www.danceusa.org. Jacob's Pillow Dance, 358 George Carter Road, Becket, MA, 01223, (413) 243-9919, www.jacobspillow.org.

The Obama Zeitgeist

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 sectorthe 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 adaptor evolveaccordingly.

Some things to ponder:

1. People want to be inspired.

A Man for All Performances

September 30, 2008 by admin

Danny Newman, who died last year (2007) at the age of eighty-eight, was a major post- World War II patron of the arts, but his contributions were not personal checks. Rather, they lay in helping arts companiestheaters, orchestras, dance groups, operasbuild strong, committed audiences, providing the sound financial basis they needed to survive and flourish. His major tool was the promotion of subscriptions, a wide-ranging effort embodied in his book Subscribe Now! Building Arts Audiences through Dynamic Subscription Promotion.

Entering Cultural Communities

August 31, 2008 by admin

Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London, 2008, 297 pages, Edited by Diane Grams and Betty Farrell.