Digest: Studies, Books, Web Sites, and Other Publications

December 2003, 11 pages. Published by Americans for the Arts, 1000 Vermont Avenue NW, 6th floor, Washington, DC, 20005, 202-371-2830, info@artsusa.org, www.AmericansForTheArts.org

This monograph describes variations on the united arts fund model of providing arts support and provides a number of statistics from 2002 on arts fund fundraising and grantmaking.

2004, 74 pages. Published by The Boston Foundation, 75 Arlington Street, Boston, MA, 02116, 617-338-1700, www.tbf.org

Download Report: www.tbf.org/tbfgen1.asp?id=1759

2004, 222 pages, ISBN 0-9746383-0-7. Published by National Arts Journalism Program, 2950 Broadway, M.C. 7200, New York, NY, 10027, www.najp.org

This book expands on a 2002 conference of the same name and includes additional essays and material. The collection addresses how recent social, political, legal, economic and technological developments are placing fresh, and sometimes unintentional, constraints on the way art is created and distributed.

June 2004, 16 pages. Published by Performing Arts Research Coalition, 1156 15th Street, Suite 810, Washington, DC, 20005, 202-293-4466 x214, parc@operaamerica.org, www.operaamerica.org/parc

Download pdf: http://www.operaamerica.org/parc/PARCSummaryRpt.pdf

2004, 48 pages. Published by Independent Television Service, 501 York Street, San Francisco, CA 94110, 415-35-6 8383, itvs@itvs.org , www.itvs.org, and Center for Social Media, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, 20036-801, 202-885- 3107, socialmedia@american.edu, www.centerforsocialmedia.org

2004, 27 pages. Published by The Foundation Center, 79 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003-3076, 212-620-4230, www.fdncenter.org

Download pdf: http://fdncenter.org/research/trends_analysis/pdf/9_11relief_funds.pdf

May 2004, 53 pages. Published by Battelle Memorial Institute

Download pdf: http://www.flinn.org/docs/Vibrant_Culture-Thriving_Economy_full_213.pdf

The product of a multi-disciplinary task force in the greater Phoenix metropolitan area, this report makes the case, from an economic development point of view, for a central role for arts and culture in the region's future planning initiatives.

July 2003, 12 pages. Performing Arts Research Coalition, c/o OPERA America, 1156 15th St, NW, Suite 810, Washington, DC, 20005-1704, 202-293-4466 x214, parc@operaamerica.org

Download pdf: http://www.operaamerica.org/parc/PARCExecSummary.pdf

2002, 27 pages. Published by the Hybrid Vigor Institute, 1459 18th Street, Suite 189, San Francisco, CA, 94107, 415-543-8113, info@hybridvigor.org, www.hybridvigor.net

Download pdf: http://www.hybridvigor.net/interdis/pubs/hv_pub_interdis-2002.10.30.pdf

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The Center provides a variety of publications on cultural policy, their own as well as others, news links and online discussion forums in the "cultural commons."