Cultural Policy

April 30, 2009 by giarts-ts-admin

The headline and subhead above were not written by an arts grantmaker making a case to a board for the value of the arts in a foundation's portfolio or by an arts advocate speaking to a legislature about why the arts belong in a state budget. The headings come directly from The Guardian and Guardian Weekly of London, and Larry Elliott is The Guardian's economics editor. In the article that follows, Elliott refers to a new book, t by Richard Bronk of the London School of Economics and Political Science, published by Cambridge University Press.

October 11, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

189 pages, September 2008. WolfBrown, 8A Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02138. (617) 494-9300, www.wolfbrown.com.

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Good & Plenty

September 30, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

2006, 196 pages. Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, NJ, 08540, (609) 258-4900, press.princeton.edu

September 30, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

2008, 214 pages. Published by Rutgers University Press, 100 Joyce Kilmer Avenue,
Piscataway, NJ, 08854, (732) 445-7762, www.rutgerspress.rutgers.edu

September 30, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

2007, 304 pages. Published by Community Arts Network, www.communityarts.net

www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archivefiles/2006/06/where_has_all_t.php

The Obama Zeitgeist

September 30, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

Note: this text was updated on this site on January 9, 2009.

No matter your political persuasion, your age or background, place or country of residence, your professional role or disciplinary affiliation, if you work in the nonprofit cultural sectorthe presidential campaign that brought Barack Obama to the White House holds lessons for you. The campaign marks a watershed in popular consciousness, and we will all do well to adaptor evolveaccordingly.

Some things to ponder:

1. People want to be inspired.

Wacintanka

September 30, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

Wacintanka (wah-cheenh-tanh-kah) defies single-word English translation. Ask a number of Lakota speakers and you will likely get a number of English translations: patience, persistence, endurance, and so forth. Condensed, I believe it means discipline and it can be quite a science. The science of Wacintanka. Sounds a bit like Tao Te Ching,^* doesn't it? I don't know much about Tao, but wacintanka is very diverse in its application and permeates all that is good in the Lakota way of being.

September 30, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

Between 2006 and 2008, the Social Impact of the Arts Project, a research group at the University of Pennsylvania (SIAP), collaborated with The Reinvestment Fund (TRF), a community development financial institution, on an investigation of the creative sector's potential contribution to neighborhood economic and community development.

Arts and Culture in the Metropolis

September 30, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

2007, 124 pages. RAND Corporation, www.rand.org

www.ncarts.org/elements/docs/RAND%20Metropolis%2007%20includes%20Charlotte.pdf

CultureWork

September 30, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

aad.uoregon.edu/index.cfm?mode=culturework

CultureWork is an electronic publication of the University of Oregon Center for Community Arts and Cultural Policy. Its mission is to provide timely workplace-oriented information on culture, the arts, education, and community.