For the first time, the National Endowment for the Arts looks at future job prospects for a variety of artist occupations in Artist Employment Projections through 2018. This report examines the projected growth rate for artist occupations through 2018, over which time artist occupations will increase by 11 percent, compared with an overall increase in the labor force of 10 percent.
Grantmakers in the Arts
June 30, 2011 by Steve
June 30, 2011 by Steve
The latest from Craft Emergency Relief Fund Artists' Emergency Resources:
As flooding in Minot, North Dakota becomes the latest focus of our nation’s attention, those of us at CERF+ are taking a moment to reflect on our emergency relief assistance for the first half of 2011. From our view, the floods, tornadoes, wildfires and other natural disasters that have affected much of the country are being felt very deeply by artists. In a typical year natural disasters account for 20% of our assistance to craft artists, but so far this year 34% of our assistance has been for natural disasters.
June 30, 2011 by Steve
Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity will host a webinar on July 27 titled Marking Progress: Evaluating Movement Toward Racial Justice.
This webinar will address challenges, offer examples of current evaluative efforts, and share suggestions to help us ask the right questions from various roles of community activist, advocate, researcher, or funder. More importantly, we will conduct an interactive session to ensure that we hear what funders, activists and others are struggling with or learning in their own evaluations.
June 29, 2011 by Tommer
(Since this article was published, the SC Senate also voted to override the governor.)
The voting board was mostly green Wednesday as members of the South Carolina House of Representatives overrode the majority of Gov. Nikki Haley’s vetoes.
On Tuesday, Haley vetoed 35 items out of the state’s budget. The vetoes accounted for more than $150 million of the $6 billion state budget.
June 29, 2011 by Tommer
A fine essay on Blue Avocado by former arts and culture program officer at the San Francisco Foundation, John Killacky.
June 29, 2011 by Tommer
Nathan James, Seattle Awesome Foundation trustee, has just launched a new blog series on mapping philanthropic trends.
June 28, 2011 by Tommer
This news from Jonathan Katz at NASAA.
Today, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley issued a line-item veto of the fiscal year 2012 budget for the South Carolina Arts Commission (SCAC). The legislature now can consider an override, for which there is a successful precedent in South Carolina.
June 28, 2011 by Steve
Emerging Leaders of New York Arts, the New York City-based networking and professional development group, will host a discussion on Wednesday, June 29, at 6pm titled Data = Sexy: Everything You Wanted to Know (But Were Afraid to Ask) About the Arts’ Love Affair with Numbers. Guests include Esther Robinson, Arthome; Ian David Moss, Fractured Atlas; Aaron Schwartzbord, The Pearl Theatre Company; Anne Coates, Alliance for the Arts; and Arin Sullivan of The Pew Charitable Trusts.