Arts Alliance Illinois and the Illinois Arts Council Agency held the 2013 One State Together in the Arts conference in late July for arts leaders, advocates and practitioners in Illinois. Video of the speakers is now available online
Grantmakers in the Arts
August 1, 2013 by Steve
From Tim Delaney and Lisa Maruyama at Huffington Post:
July 30, 2013 by Tommer
Some timely thinking on the arts, populism, and equity by Ian David Moss on Createquity.
July 30, 2013 by Steve
From Jeff Sommer, writing for The New York Times:
We have undervalued creativity and research. And despite the hoopla whenever Apple or Google releases a new product, we haven’t grasped the full significance of innovation.
That critique wouldn’t be surprising if it came from an underappreciated artist, scientist or technologist. But it’s being made in what may seem an unexpected quarter: the offices of the federal government. It’s the verdict of the experts who measure the American economy.
July 30, 2013 by Steve
From Mary Plummer, scpr.org:
As budgets worsened over the past several years, schools throughout California cut where they could, slashing arts budgets so deeply some students have been left with no arts education at all.
Arts educator Carl Schafer of Upland, has been on a campaign to increase that instruction for a year. And in his effort, he found a line in the California education code that shocked him: the state requires arts to be taught to California students.
July 30, 2013 by Steve
James V. Toscano responds to the Peter Buffett editorial on the blog The Good Counsel:
July 28, 2013 by Steve
Peter Buffett pens this editorial for The New York Times:
July 25, 2013 by Tommer
On Thursday, Darren Walker, 53, will take the next step in a career that has taken him from Harlem to world-famous foundations five and a half miles away in Midtown Manhattan. He is to be named president of the Ford Foundation, the nation’s second-largest philanthropic organization.