Good morning: “And the beat goes on…………………” Wrap-Up: 3 to 4 day conferences are strange little experiences. None any more so than gatherings of arts leaders. Thrown together in one space, there is a usual breakdown in these things that … Continue reading
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This is my sixth and final post about the Grantmakers in the Arts 2010 conference, where I was invited to take part as a live blogger. It was tremendous fun: I got to write morning, noon, and night, which is … Continue reading
The first plenary session of this Grantmakers in The Arts’ conference focused on the National Capitalization Project, a GIA initiative launched this past January. It was premised on the plain truth that arts organizations are often under-capitalized. A task force … Continue reading
The Grantmakers in the Arts conference in Chicago is swirling around the question of capital and capitalization in the arts. So, we might as well define what exactly that is. Continue reading
Shine on me Let the light shine on me The Black Monks of Mississippi I spent the day at Grantmakers in The Arts’ Support for Individual Artists preconference (entitled Artists and Grantmakers: A Shared Enterprise). Dozens of artists and funders … Continue reading
Good morning. “And the beat goes on…………………….” Funders in Flux: I’m off to the Grantmakers in the Arts Conference in Chicago. Funders — government, corporate and foundation — from all over the country, gathering to make some sense of the … Continue reading
In spring 2009, GIA commissioned Helicon Collaborative to provide an overview of the recession’s effects on arts funders. We interviewed twenty-two diverse funders and reviewed results of electronic surveys of arts funders conducted by GIA and New York Grantmakers in the Arts. The findings were published in the summer 2009 Reader.
Friday, October 8, 11:00 AM PDT / 2:00 PM EDT [PASSED]
Steven Lawrence, director of research, Foundation Center
Holly Sidford, president, Helicon Collaborative
Angela Han, director of research, National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
Session 7 of the 2010 Web Conference Series
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(9-16-10) Washington State Arts Commission will host an online webinar on September 23, 2010, 10 am-11 am, to review and further discuss the recent successful Arts Participation Leadership Forum and Workshops presented in partnership with The Wallace Foundation. Arts organizations may gather their staff to participate in a discussion of emerging practices in Audience Engagement with nationally recognized researcher and consultant Alan Brown of WolfBrown together.
We can now treat culture not as one big blanket, but as the superimposition of many interwoven threads, each of which is individually addressable and connects different groups of people simultaneously…. In short, we’re seeing a shift from mass culture to massively parallel culture.
Chris Anderson, The Long Tail: Why the Future Is Selling Less of More