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The following remarks were presented at a symposium that was part of the 2004 Ars Electronica Festival: TIMESHIFT—The World in Twenty-Five Years. This festival for art, technology, and society was founded in 1979 and is held annually in Linz, Austria. Joan Shigekawa, associate director of Creativity and Culture at the Rockefeller Foundation, spoke on the final panel of the symposium, “TOPIA,” which was designed to “present scenarios around a wide variety of topics relating to art, technology, and society.

2004, 42 pages. Marwen, 833 North Orleans St., Chicago, IL, 60610, 312-944-2418, www.marwen.org

Anyone who works (or lives) in the circle of adolescents can appreciate the complexity of developing effective arts programs for teens. Fuel documents the essential characteristics of one such program at Marwen, a Chicago cultural organization that provides high-quality visual arts instruction, college planning, and career development to young people (grades six to twelve) free of charge during out of school time.

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Five years ago, after more than twenty years as a nonprofit management consultant, I went back to the classroom to pursue a doctoral degree in organizational behavior. Although personal renewal was my primary goal, I was also eager to put a set of theoretical legs under two decades of consulting practice.

As the time came to choose my dissertation topic, I found myself gravitating to one of the most complex subjects in my consulting practice—the behavior of nonprofit founders.

2004, 45 pages. Published by Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago, 1155 E. 60th Street, Chicago, Il 60637, 773-834-5995

Download pdf: http://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/pdfs/grams_producing.pdf

2004, 51 pages. Published by Pew Internet & American Life Project, 1100 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20036, 202-296-0019, www.pewinternet.org

Download Report: http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2004/Artists-Musicians-and-the-Internet.aspx

2004, 88 pages, IBSN 0-8330-3650-5. Published by the RAND Corporation, 1700 Main Street, PO Box 2138, Santa Monica, CA, 90407-2138, 310-451-7002, www.rand.org

Download Report: http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9058/

2004, 32 pages. Published by the Center for Arts and Culture, Suite 505, 819 Seventh Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001-3772, 202-783-5277, www.culturalpolicy.org

This succinct booklet makes the case for the value of cultural diplomacy at this time when foreign opinion of the United States is extremely low, offers recommendations for improving cultural diplomacy, and summarizes other Center research on the topic.

2004, 72 pages. Published by the Alliance for Artists Communities, 255 South Main Street, Providence, RI, 02903, 401-351-4320, www.artistcommunities.org

Download Report: http://www.artistcommunities.org/resource-library/publications/engaging-communities-lessons-learned

2004, 167 pages. IBSN 0-931201-89-6. Published by the American Association of Museums, 1575 Eye Street NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC, 20005, www.aam-us.org

The final product of the Pew Charitable Trusts' Program for Art Museums and Communities, this book describes the transformation and partnerships developed by the eleven museums participating in the program over seven years.

2004, 37 pages. Published by National Craft Emergency Relief Fund, 73 Main Street, #37, Montpelier, VT, 05602, 802-229-2306, www.craftemergency.org

This report offers the results of a nationwide survey undertaken by CERF to establish a snapshot of the state of crafts artists, and guide the future programs of the organization.