From Azeem Azhar, founder and CEO of Peer Index, on gigaom.com:
Grantmakers in the Arts
August 10, 2011 by Tommer
Poet Philip Levine is to be named the next US Poet Laureate.
“He’s the laureate, if you like, of the industrial heartland,” said James Billington, librarian of Congress. “It’s a very, very American voice. I don’t know that in other countries you get poetry of that quality about the ordinary workingman.”
August 10, 2011 by Steve
Barry's second question for the policy panel:
Many contend that arts education advocacy has largely been a failure. Others disagree. Where are the successes? Where will funding come from in the future to implement policy?
August 10, 2011 by Steve
Full details of the GIA 2011 Conference Sessions are now available from the conference website. You can now see when individual session will occur and who the presenters will be, as well as any online resources associated with them.
August 8, 2011 by Steve
Violinist and MacArthur Fellow Sebastian Ruth is profiled on the String Visions website. In 1997, Ruth founded Community MusicWorks, a non-profit based in the West End neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island. For fourteen years, CMW and Sebastian Ruth have empowered the lives of urban youth and families through classical music.
August 8, 2011 by Steve
From a Lawrence Journal-World editorial:
August 8, 2011 by Steve
Barry Hessenius's blog at Westaf has spent the past two weeks focused on Arts Education in the context of Practice and Fieldbuilding. This week the discussion turns to Policy with a new panel of respondents:
- Janet Brown, Executive Director, Grantmakers in the Arts
- Cyrus Driver, Program Learning and Innovation, Ford Foundation
- Bob Lynch, President and CEO, Americans for the Arts
- Narric Rome, Senior Director for Federal Affairs and Arts Education, Americans for the Arts
- Laurie Schell, outgoing Executive Director, California Alliance for Arts Education
August 5, 2011 by Steve
The latest addition to the National Endowment for the Arts web site is a full section devoted to the Our Town Communities where you will find photos and more information about the 51 creative placemaking projects recently awarded NEA grants to support community development through the arts and design.