New York City public high school students are not getting the arts education required by state regulations, according to an audit released today by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli.
Grantmakers in the Arts
February 28, 2014 by Tommer
Evidence-based philanthropy. To some, that phrase offers the promise of long-overdue rigor. If the first principle of philanthropy and social impact is to do good, then evidence-based philanthropy ensures that we honor its corollary: Do no harm.
To others, that phrase represents all that is going wrong with philanthropy and social innovation—the rise of the ivory-tower theorists and technocrats whose logic models and fixation with metrics blind them to real-world knowledge and common sense.
February 27, 2014 by Tommer
Robert Booker, executive director, Arizona Commission on the Arts connects the dots for nonprofit arts board members: "Often, when I meet with the Board of Directors of an Arizona arts organization or institution, I am asked to provide more money to the organization.
February 26, 2014 by Supporting Today's Artists
Since 1998, the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation has supported contemporary art exhibitions through its biennial Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award. This opportunity provides funding for thematic exhibitions that are fresh and experimental in nature, and for which other funding is not yet forthcoming. The award provides assistance at the beginning stage of the exhibition’s development and offers the curator the support needed to realize the concept.
February 26, 2014 by Tommer
A new study by Music Machine aggregated data on streaming music from Spotify users and broke down musical preferences by state and region. Previous research has analyzed the same data by gender and age.
February 25, 2014 by Steve in Arts Education
From Mark W. Anderson, reporting for NBC Chicago:
A new survey of 170 Chicago public elementary schools by Raise Your Hand Illinois found that 65 percent do not offer the expected minimum of two hours of arts education per week, as stated by both Mayor Emanuel and CPS officials.
February 21, 2014 by Steve
The 15th Annual WESTAF Cultural Policy Symposium, co-hosted by the California Arts Council and Frank Gehry Partners, will be available online via a live stream. Creativity and Innovation in Public Education: Areas of Need, Mechanisms for Change will take place on March 4, beginning at 8:45am PST, when arts and policy experts will gather at architect Frank Gehry’s studio in Santa Monica, California for a thought provoking symposium addressing critical issues facing the arts and education. A series of six sessions will follow throughout the day.
February 21, 2014 by Steve
Arlene Goldbard reports from the Staging Sustainability 2014 conference, recently held in Toronto:
In her concluding keynote for Staging Sustainability 2014, Adrienne Goehler exhorted conference attendees to support a “basic income grant” as a universal right. She put it succinctly: the current system forces overproduction in all realms, even art. The current system of grants for artists, inadequate in so many other ways, operates almost exclusively on a project basis, forcing artists who seek support to think in terms of novelty and output rather than allowing adequate time for work to evolve and emerge organically.