GIA Reader (2000-present)

GIA Reader (2000-present)

August 9, 2011 by giarts-ts-admin

Reading the journals, blogs, and press in the philanthropic sector, one would think there is a conspiracy afoot to create meaningless buzzwords. Somewhere in a secret underground laboratory, teams of evil linguists work overtime coining new words and phrases designed to bewilder grantwriters and obfuscate funders' true intentions—a covert operation designed to keep grant money from being awarded.

It would be cool if this were true, but I am inclined to think otherwise.

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August 8, 2011 by giarts-ts-admin

May 28, 2011

Today more than ever, states that want to be competitive need a policy agenda that supports and nurtures the creativity and economic productivity of their citizens. With his veto of funding for the Kansas Arts Commission, Governor Sam Brownback has now declared his opinion that Kansas is too poor for that. The real poverty expressed in this action is not of the pocketbook; state arts agencies yield excellent return on investment in jobs and tax revenues.

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August 8, 2011 by giarts-ts-admin

“Small Righteous Angers” is an excerpt from Hiking the Horizontal: Field Notes from a Choreographer, copyright 2011 by Liz Lerman and reprinted by permission of Wesleyan University Press. All rights reserved.

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August 8, 2011 by giarts-ts-admin
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.
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