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Tell about the South. What's it like there? What do they do there? Why do they live there? Why do they live at all?
William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom
Read More...The American South is a geographical entity, a historical fact, a place in the imagination, and the homeland of an array of Americans who consider themselves southerners. The region is often shrouded in romance and myth, but its realities are as intriguing, as intricate, as its legends.
2008, 171 pages. WolfBrown, Red Maple Court, 10627 Jones Street, Suite 301A, Fairfax, VA, 22030, (703) 591-3661, www.wolfbrown.com
http://www.wolfbrown.com/images/books/ImpactStudyFinalVersionFullReport.pdf
Read More...Danny Newman, who died last year (2007) at the age of eighty-eight, was a major post- World War II patron of the arts, but his contributions were not personal checks. Rather, they lay in helping arts companiestheaters, orchestras, dance groups, operasbuild strong, committed audiences, providing the sound financial basis they needed to survive and flourish. His major tool was the promotion of subscriptions, a wide-ranging effort embodied in his book Subscribe Now! Building Arts Audiences through Dynamic Subscription Promotion.
Read More...2008, 49 pages. Bush Foundation, 332 Minnesota Street, Suite E-900, Saint Paul, MN, 55101, (651) 227-0891, www.bushfoundation.org
http://www.bushfoundation.org/publications/BushFellowsReport.pdf
Read More...Jaime Cortez was an arts and culture fellow at the San Francisco Foundation for two years. At the end of his fellowship, he and the other outgoing fellows were asked to read a prepared farewell statement to the board and staff of the foundation. Following is his closing presentation, given on July 9, 2008.
Read More...2008, 265 pages. Center for Cultural Innovation, 244 S. San Pedro Street, Suite 401, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, (213) 687-8577, www.cciarts.org
This resource guide is written for working artists across the U.S, providing information and advice for the "self-employed creative entrepreneur." Included are basic principles behind career and business planning, marketing and promotions, budgeting and money management, legal issues relevant to artists, and financing for creative work.
Read More...2007, 29 pages. Creative Trust, 215 Spadina Avenue, Suite 129, Toronto, ON, M5T 2C7, (416) 506-9047, www.creativetrust.ca
http://www.creativetrust.ca/download/CT_Evaluation_Report_Year3.pdf
Read More...2007, 235 pages. National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts, 520 8th Avenue, Suite 302, New York NY, 10018, (212) 268-3337, www.nationalguild.org
Read More...2008, 100 pages. Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305,
(650) 723-2146, www.gsb.stanford.edu
2008, 33 pages. Grantcraft, The Ford Foundation, 320 East 43rd Street, New York, NY, 10017,
(212) 573-4879, www.grantcraft.org