Community Arts

April 30, 2009 by giarts-ts-admin

In the past two years, several prominent foundations at national, regional, and local levels have appointed new presidents. Such leadership transitions are likely to increase in the years ahead in keeping with the larger generational shift in the nonprofit sector. Very few of the new foundation leaders are likely to come from the arts sector, and many will have had little direct experience with our field.

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April 30, 2009 by giarts-ts-admin
When presidents and CEOs of foundations try to balance a range of equally justifiable social agendas, where are the arts? Sponsored by GIA, six foundation leaders spent a day and a half together discussing just this topic in the summer of 2008. The relevance of their conversation and the preliminary conclusions they drew are perhaps even more urgent today than they were then, as foundations face increasingly serious questions of priority.
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April 30, 2009 by giarts-ts-admin
The following piece is excerpted from the second of a two-part article written for the Community Arts Network, “The New New Deal.” Part one, published in December 2008, was titled, “the New New Deal: Public Service Jobs for Artists.” It described some of the things artists could do with public-service jobs. This excerpt is from part two, published February 24, 2009, “A New WPA for Artists: How and Why.” In this excerpt, Goldbard takes up the question of “why,” what are all the good reasons to support a new WPA for artists.
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April 30, 2009 by giarts-ts-admin
Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy; Lawrence Lessig, Penguin Press, 2008, 352 pages. ISBN-10: 1594201722
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April 30, 2009 by giarts-ts-admin

Gourd Girls
Priscilla Wilson
2005, 220 pages
Mt. Yonah Press, Sautee, Georgia

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September 30, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

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

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September 30, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

2007, 235 pages. National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts, 520 8th Avenue, Suite 302, New York NY, 10018, (212) 268-3337, www.nationalguild.org

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September 30, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

2008, 9 pages. New York Innovative Theatre Foundation, (212) 465-3347, www.nyitawards.com

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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.

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