Several stars of stage, screen and fashion runways will join the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, a largely ceremonial, blue-ribbon group that advises President Obama on arts and cultural issues. Yo-Yo Ma, who played at Obama’s inauguration, … Continue reading
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Posted on November 3, 2009 by Tommer
Posted on November 2, 2009 by Tommer
The Arts & Civic Engagement Impact Initiative is informed and guided by a Working Group of arts practitioners, researchers, evaluators, and funders with keen interest in understanding the social and civic impact of arts-based civic engagement work. This briefing paper, … Continue reading
Posted on November 2, 2009 by Tommer
Based on a literature review drawing from the social sciences, humanities, and public policy, this new report by by Mark J. Stern and Susan C. Seifert of the Social Impact of the Arts Project at the University of Pennsylvania suggest … Continue reading
Posted on November 2, 2009 by Tommer
Based on 13 years of national research on integrating arts and culture into concepts of healthy communities, Senior Research Associate with the Urban Institute Maria Rosario Jackson observes how sound and worthy community arts programs with social and civic intention … Continue reading
Posted on November 2, 2009 by Tommer
The House and Senate on Thursday passed a budget increase for the National Endowment for the Arts and for the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Interior Appropriations Bill for fiscal year 2010 sets budgets for each agency at $167.5 … Continue reading
Posted on October 28, 2009 by Ian David Moss
It’s been a pleasure covering the 2009 Grantmakers in the Arts Conference for you all, and I hope you’ve enjoyed getting a glimpse into sessions you may have missed or the conference as a whole (if you didn’t have the … Continue reading
Posted on October 28, 2009 by giarts-ts-admin
Bolder Giving is offering a series of free hour-long telehone conversations with remarkable individual dnors. Founded by GIA member Anne Ellinger ( Zing Foundation), the first conversation will be with Mike Schaefer, the surviving life partner of an early Microsoft … Continue reading
Posted on October 27, 2009 by Janet
Diane Ravitch suggests three simple ways to provide the kind of education a parent wants for their child. Seems so simple. Maybe it’s time to simplify our approach to education reform… Well, I certainly agree with you that all kids … Continue reading
Posted on October 27, 2009 by Tommer
The closing keynote at the 2009 GIA conference in Brooklyn has generated some diverse responses. Jacqueline Trescott in the Washington Post Chris Jones in the Chicago Tribune David Ng in the LA Times Arts Beat in the New York Times … Continue reading
Posted on October 27, 2009 by Tommer
Check out this new site about the framework was developed by the Cultural Policy Working Group created on May 12th, 2009, following a White House Briefing on Art, Community, Social Justice, National Recovery. This Framework offers five concepts that hold … Continue reading