Visual arts
Key findings of this report are based on arts grants of $10,000 or more reported to the Foundation Center by 1,154 of the largest U.S. foundations.
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2007, 16 pages. Washington State Arts Commission, 711 Capitol Way, Suite 600, PO Box 42675, Olympia, WA 98504, 360-753-3860, www.arts.wa.gov
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The Washington State Arts Participation Initiative (API) was established in 2002, and provided fifteen model organizations around the state with modest multi-year grants designed to strengthen participation in the arts. Those chosen were all serving underserved communities
Read More...2006, 124 pages. The H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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Read More...2006, 184 pages. Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative, University of Chicago Press, 1437 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, www.philexin.org
This collection of essays about the creation of effective exhibitions, commissioned and published by the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative, serves as a useful guide for anyone involved in creating public displays. The essays are focused on art exhibitions
Read More...New Year's Day, 1980, found Arlene Goldbard living in Washington, D.C. monitoring and reporting on our nation's de facto cultural policy. The fact that Arlene was doing this says a lot about the leadership role that many of us were counting on the federal government to play in leveling the field so that our many U.S. cultures would have an equal chance to express themselves, to develop, and, inevitably, to cross-pollinate. It was a substantial and beautiful vision then, and remains so today.
Read More...Artist Rene Yung's presentation of this paper generated lively discussion at a forum of the Arts Loan Fund of Northern California Grantmakers, in October 2006. It was written just as Arlene Goldbard's new book, New Creative Community, was published. Although Yung refers to an earlier publication (Creative Community: The Art of Cultural Development, by Don Adams and Gold-bard, 2001), she touches on many of the same themes discussed by the authors of "The Art of Social Imagination" (page 27 in this Reader) and reveals how the ideas have been adopted by an artist in practice.