A few years ago, Dennis Scholl, the Vice President of Arts for the Knight Foundation, stumbled across a YouTube video of a spontaneous opera performance in an open-air market in Valencia, Spain. The video moved Scholl, a former attorney and lifelong art lover, to think outside the box when it came to promoting the classical arts for the Knight Foundation, especially at a time when, according to the National Endowment for the Arts, classical performances are more sparsely attended than ever.
Grantmakers in the Arts
June 21, 2011 by Tommer
June 20, 2011 by Steve
Professional basketball player and art collector Grant Hill has signed on as a Campaign Spokesperson for The Choice is Art, a promotional campaign for the arts in Arizona. Already airing on COX Media television stations, Mr. Hill is featured in a donor-sponsored public service announcement wherein he offers support to the campaign, and personal testimony about the impact of the arts on the lives of Arizona’s youth.
June 20, 2011 by Abigail
Please join us tomorrow, June 21, at 2:00 EST/11:00 PST for Arts Education | Common Core: What Are the Possibilities for the Arts?, a web-based presentation by Julie Fry of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and Richard Kessler of The Center for Arts Education.
June 20, 2011 by Abigail
Starting today, Paul Brest, president of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, will be the guest blogger on the GIA Talk Back blog! Read his initial post on general operating support and project overhead funding and join the conversation here.
June 20, 2011 by Steve
From The Chronicle of Philanthropy:
June 17, 2011 by Abigail
Earlier this month, Theatre Bay Area released The Tangled Web: Social Media in the Arts, a survey of 207 international arts organizations on their use of social media. Reviewing the report on his blog New Beans, Clayton Lord makes the following, logical-to-me assessment:
What I find fascinating in these results (and let’s be honest, they’re really top-line, and don’t (by design) go into much depth on the reasoning behind the decisions made by these organizations) is the various spectrums of depth vs. breadth depending on the organization.
June 16, 2011 by Abigail
From a June 12 post on Barry's Blog:
I wonder how many tickets are sold in the aggregate to arts events in a given week across the whole country? In a month? Over the course of a whole year? Is that data available anywhere? Can we even make an educated guess? It must be a lot of people (tickets), and a substantial amount of money in the aggregate, despite not being what it once was or what it ought to be.
June 15, 2011 by Steve
The New School, in New York City, announced a variety of new appointments today, including the appointment of Richard Kessler as dean of Mannes College, The New School for Music. The New School comprises seven distinct schools focusing on social sciences, liberal arts, administration and management, design and performing arts.