Jenny Toomey
Jenny Toomey
August 31, 2007 by giarts-ts-admin
Changing media policy has affected and will continue to shape how art is made and distributed, whose voices are heard, and who has access to those voices. To take an angle on this multifaceted subject, we invited two articulate media experts into a conversation about their workwork that has profound implications for artists and for social justice activists. Jenny Toomey, executive director of the Future of Music Coalition, interviews Loris Taylor, executive director of Native Public Media.
Read More...September 30, 2005 by giarts-ts-admin
Emily Dickinson couldn't have found a more perfect way to describe how so many artists and artist advocates approach the world.1 It is tempting to give ourselves over to the rare work that fires our inspiration, and shut the door on everything else. It is often only in nurturing isolation and fringe communities that new ideas find their full flower. But there is a danger in the isolation.
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