Grantmakers in the Arts

August 10, 2012 by Janet

By Janet Brown from her blog Better Together:

I enthusiastically encourage anyone who has ever been involved with an arts organization that renovated, expanded or built new; a board that said, “if we only had more seats, we could sell more tickets;” a feasibility study that overstated the need for the building and understated the community’s ability to raise funds; an elected official who said, “what our small city needs is a world-class __________ facility;” or a funder that has been asked to support a building project to read Set in Stone, a recently released report from the University of Chicago’s Cultural Policy Center and NORC.

The Scandalous Failure of Art and Music

August 8, 2012 by Steve

From Richard Dare at Huffington Post:

The predominant market way of life with its addictive seductions and pacifying pastimes seems to have sapped our collective energy for meaningful analysis and logical decision-making. Art can change that if we have the courage to let it play a more active role.

It's so much easier though to hold difficult questions at bay — to talk about art and music only in vague pseudo-academic terms, to pontificate about protecting the treasures of the past when we should be working instead to connect our most profound ideas, ambitions and dreams to our future. One cannot speak publicly about the meaning of great art or great music or great ideas without raising terrifying questions about who we are and why we have become this way and what the next chapter of our life should be. Fortunately though, these are the very questions that art is most well equipped to answer for us.

August 6, 2012 by Steve

The Boeing Company announced today that Ms. Deepa Gupta has joined The Boeing Company as Director of Education Initiatives and Strategy. Based in Chicago, Deepa will concentrate on enhancing Boeing's support of early learning, primary and secondary education aimed at developing the future work force. Prior to Boeing, Deepa served as a program officer for The MacArthur Foundation, and in May she joined the National Council on the Arts.

August 4, 2012 by Steve

Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue announced on August 3 the appointment of Carolyn Ramo as Executive Director. Ramo assumed the post as of July 24, 2012. Ramo brings over ten years of experience as a senior manager at a range of prominent New York galleries and institutions, where she has gained invaluable experience in innovative programming and artist-focused infrastructure.

August 3, 2012 by Steve

The Board of Directors of the Bush Foundation announced on July 30 that Jennifer Ford Reedy will join the organization as its next president. Reedy is the current chief of staff and vice president of strategy for Minnesota Philanthropy Partners (MN Partners), a network of organizations including The Saint Paul Foundation, Minnesota Community Foundation, F.R. Bigelow Foundation and the Mardag Foundation.

A Data Visualization of Art & Money

August 2, 2012 by Steve

From Elizabeth Quaglieri at technology In the Arts:

Looking for a well-worth-it distraction? Check out Art & Money, an animated art auction infographic by Jean Abbiateci. It visualizes metrics for the top 270 most expensive artworks sold in auction between 2008 and 2011.

August 2, 2012 by Steve

From Lorna Kneeland, Executive Director of PONCHO, guest blogging at 4Culture:

In the past few years, there has been a fair amount of public attention (but not enough) on the dire state and inequity of arts learning for K-12 students. The expectation that arts are an essential aspect to student education has been lost. This year in Seattle, not a single arts organization was deemed qualified for the Families and Education Levy. This is surprising given the great deal of research demonstrating the strong link that arts education has to academic success and social development.

August 2, 2012 by Steve

From Kelly Chen and Imani M. Cheers at PBS Newshour:

During tough economic times, arts and music programs are often some of the first programs cut in schools. But at Wolf Trap's Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts, investing in arts education has been a priority for the past 31 years.

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