From Randy Kennedy and Steven Yaccino, writing for The New York Times:
Grantmakers in the Arts
January 10, 2014 by Steve
Eileen Cunniffe writes for Nonprofit Quarterly:
In the waning days of 2013, an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer cited examples of performing arts organizations experimenting with curtain times, holding some weeknight performances as early as 6:30 pm instead of the long-accepted standard of 8:00 pm. The reasons given included appealing to younger audiences, who might want to go somewhere else after the show; appealing to older audiences, who might appreciate getting home earlier; and appealing to everyone in between, who might find it easier to hire a babysitter or just to show up for work the next day. One of the early trends from this experimentation is that some midweek performances with earlier curtain times are pulling even with or outpacing once-hot Friday evening ticket sales.
January 9, 2014 by Steve
A post from the Policy Analysis for California Education:
Access to education in visual art, music, theatre, and dance is varied and unequal across public schools in the United States. Yet the extent of this inequality is largely undocumented. In a recent report from the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, the committee concluded that policymakers lack a basic understanding of access to arts education because there is no required data collection of the courses schools offer.
January 9, 2014 by Steve
The National Endowment for the Arts has announced that application guidelines are now available for Art Works and Challenge America Fast-Track at the NEA’s website. These guidelines are for projects anticipated to take place in 2015. The Art Works and Challenge America Fast-Track programs constitute 75 percent of the NEA’s annual direct grantmaking. In order to offer potential applicants the highest level of technical assistance, the NEA has scheduled webinars covering the basics of the Art Works funding category, how to apply to the NEA, how to select work samples, and how to prepare a strong application. After each presentation, there will be time for Q and A with NEA staff.
January 6, 2014 by Abigail
During the month of January, GIA's photo banner features grantees of GIA member the Sacatar Foundation. Founded in 2000, Sacatar created the first international artist residency program in South America. Under the auspices of Sacatar's sister organization, the Brazilian nonprofit Instituto Sacatar, 250 artists from over fifty countries have enjoyed airfare, studio, room, and board for eight-week residencies at Sacatar's beachside estate in Itaparica, Bahia, Brazil.
December 30, 2013 by Tommer
Steven J. Tepper, associate director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy and associate professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University, has been named dean of Arizona State University’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, effective July 1, 2014.
December 30, 2013 by Tommer
The work of GIA's Arts Education Funders Coalition is reported on Createquity.
December 18, 2013 by Steve
Foundation Center has released its annual publication “Key Facts on U.S. foundations.” In a new and more streamlined format, the 2013 edition includes estimates of giving by U.S. foundations in 2012 and it forcasts the direction of giving changes for 2013 based on survey data collected by Foundation Center. The report also documents the overall size of the U.S. foundation community and analyzes the funding priorities of the largest foundations.