Readings

July 31, 2004 by giarts-ts-admin

One effect of attacks on the leading agencies supporting cultural pluralism in the not-for-profit sector, which began with the Reagan administration and continued through the Clinton presidency to the present day, has been to elevate the U.S. commercial arts at the expense of the not-for-profit arts.

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July 31, 2004 by giarts-ts-admin

Through the ages artists with disabilities have been important to our history and culture. Beethoven was deaf, Van Gogh was mentally ill, El Greco was visually impaired. For the most part we do not associate them with their disability. We celebrate their lives for the gifts of music and art that they left in our midst.

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July 31, 2004 by giarts-ts-admin

Earlier this year, John C. Barsness, executive director, Montana Arts, attended the Creative Clusters conference in Brighton, U.K., and agreed to write about it for the Reader. A few definitions from the Creative Clusters Web site http://www.creativeclusters.com may be helpful in advance.

Creative industries: In a very literal sense, the creative industries, and the artist-entrepreneurs at the heart of them, are the manufacturers of the information economy. Cultural industries are:

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    December 31, 2003 by giarts-ts-admin

    The Animating Democracy National Exchange on Art and Civic Dialogue
    Flint, Michigan, October 9-12, 2003

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    December 31, 2003 by giarts-ts-admin

    The full text of this article is not yet available on this site. Below is a brief excerpt. You can order a hard copy of the Reader in which it was published.

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    December 31, 2003 by giarts-ts-admin
    Oh chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer,
    Are you the leaf, the blossom or the hole?
    O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
    How can we know the dancer from the dance?
      — by William Butler Yeats
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    December 31, 2003 by giarts-ts-admin

    The full text of this article is not yet available on this site. Below is a brief excerpt.

    Some say the world will end by fire. Others say by ice. Here in Alaska, the land of snow and ice, we're beginning to feel the fire.

    In the summer of 2000 the Iñupiat community of Barrow—the farthest north settlement on the mainland of North America—had its first thunderstorm in history. Tuna were sighted in the Arctic Ocean. No one had ever seen them this far North before.

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    December 31, 2003 by giarts-ts-admin

    Ensembles are marked by a sustained commitment to collaboration..... The ensemble process allows for the development of a distinctive artistic vision and language unique to all artists involved.

    — excerpt from the Flintridge Foundation theater mission
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    December 31, 2003 by giarts-ts-admin
    One of the greatest challenges to the human mind is to comprehend and to gain access to those things we know exist but cannot see.
    — Hernando DeSoto, The Mystery of Capital
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    December 31, 2003 by giarts-ts-admin

    When the Council on Foundations meets in Toronto this April, GIA members in attendance will have the chance to meet a fledgling affinity group of Canadian arts funders that is putting together the 1st Canadian Arts Funders Forum.

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