Volume 1, Findings: Overview of the Field, 504 pages; Volume 2, Considerations in Foundation Practice, 547 pages; 2010, Aspen Institute, Washington, DC
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2011, 332 pages, Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT
Liz Lerman's body of work has come to symbolize the participatory community arts movement, and this collection of essays delightfully chronicles both her artistic growth as a choreographer and the intellectual process that led her to this path that revolutionized the ways in which dance is developed, performed, and experienced.
The following article was excerpted from the blog of Euan Craig, a potter who was living in Mashiko, Japan, at the time of the March 11 earthquake. He provides a very personal account of that event and its aftermath. Euan's writing style reminds us that in a world of chaos and with so much out of our control, what's most important is right around us if we slow down and pay attention.
— Cornelia Carey, CERF+
— Cornelia Carey, CERF+
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This article, reprinted from British quarterly Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, chronicles the multiple unintended effects of policy decisions at the NEA on the democratic arts movement. At the time of this publication we are seeing significant decreases in arts and cultural funding at the local and state level, and continuing movement toward the elimination of public arts funding agencies across the country.
Maryo Gard Ewell worked for more than thirty years in arts administration. Her special field during most of that time was the symbiotic relationship between arts programs and community development. Since her retirement in 2003 from the Colorado Council on the Arts, she has worked as a consultant, conference organizer, and speaker in community and arts development. Ewell literally grew up in the community arts movement.
Knight Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) today are launching an eight-city competition seeking new models for local arts journalism in the digital age. The initiative seeks to rethink how traditional media systems function, harnessing the latest tools and technology to make the transition to the new information environment. Winners of the Knight/NEA Community Arts Journalism Challenge will use the latest tools for storytelling and engaging readers to create model programs that could be replicated in other communities.
The latest from Craft Emergency Relief Fund Artists' Emergency Resources:
As flooding in Minot, North Dakota becomes the latest focus of our nation’s attention, those of us at CERF+ are taking a moment to reflect on our emergency relief assistance for the first half of 2011. From our view, the floods, tornadoes, wildfires and other natural disasters that have affected much of the country are being felt very deeply by artists. In a typical year natural disasters account for 20% of our assistance to craft artists, but so far this year 34% of our assistance has been for natural disasters.
Emerging Leaders of New York Arts, the New York City-based networking and professional development group, will host a discussion on Wednesday, June 29, at 6pm titled Data = Sexy: Everything You Wanted to Know (But Were Afraid to Ask) About the Arts’ Love Affair with Numbers. Guests include Esther Robinson, Arthome; Ian David Moss, Fractured Atlas; Aaron Schwartzbord, The Pearl Theatre Company; Anne Coates, Alliance for the Arts; and Arin Sullivan of The Pew Charitable Trusts.
ArtsReady, a project of SouthArts, is a collaborative and interactive website with emergency preparedness tools to protect artists and their artwork from floods, tornadoes, and other calamities. Users have access a shared calendar, discussion forums, member profiles, photo gallery, file storage, etc. Check it out at http://artsready.groupsite.com.