Public Art

2008, 130 pages. Published by Heyday Books, P.O. Box 9145, Berkeley, CA, 94709, O(510) 549-3564, www.heydaybooks.co

2008, 126 pages. The Dana Foundation, 745 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10151, (212) 223-4040, www.dana.org

http://www.dana.org/news/publications/publication.aspx?id=10760

2008, 37 pages. Bush Foundation, 332 Minnesota Street, Suite E-900, Saint Paul, MN, 55101,
(651) 227-0891, www.bushfoundation.org

http://www.bushfoundation.org/publications/BAF_Art_BookSpreads.pdf

This report chronicles the first 30 years of the Bush Artist Fellows program through profiles of 10 fellows, several essays by fellows and observers, and excerpts from fellows' creative work.

2008, 77 pages. Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, 6 West 48th Street, 10th Floor, New York, NY, 10036, (212) 812-4335, www.rockpa.org

http://rockpa.org/pdfs/Philanthropy_in_a_Changing_Society_full.pdf

2008, 43 pages. Hill Strategies Research, Inc., Hamilton, Ontario, (877) 445-5494, www.hillstrategies.com

http://www.hillstrategies.com/docs/Social_effects_culture.pdf

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.

Danny Newman, who died last year (2007) at the age of eighty-eight, was a major post- World War II patron of the arts, but his contributions were not personal checks. Rather, they lay in helping arts companies—theaters, orchestras, dance groups, operas—build strong, committed audiences, providing the sound financial basis they needed to survive and flourish. His major tool was the promotion of subscriptions, a wide-ranging effort embodied in his book Subscribe Now! Building Arts Audiences through Dynamic Subscription Promotion.

2008, 326 pages. Published by New Village Press, PO Box 3049 Oakland, CA, 94609, 
(510) 420-1361, www.newvillagepress.net

Jaime Cortez was an arts and culture fellow at the San Francisco Foundation for two years. At the end of his fellowship, he and the other outgoing fellows were asked to read a prepared farewell statement to the board and staff of the foundation. Following is his closing presentation, given on July 9, 2008.