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A Healthy Arts Ecosystem
Green Leaves – by Flickr user Thangaraj Kumaravel, Creative Commons license (For the most up-to-date version of our healthy arts ecosystem definition, please see this page.) At its core, Createquity is...
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Arts Policy Library: Fusing Arts, Culture and Social Change
(For a quick summary of this post, see “Fusing Arts, Culture and Social Change: the condensed version.”) Holly Sidford’s “Fusing Arts, Culture and Social Change: High Impact Strategies for...
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Fusing Arts, Culture and Social Change: the condensed version
This is a skin-and-bones summary of my full Arts Policy Library write up. Head that way for a much more thorough and nuanced discussion of “Fusing.” Holly Sidford’s “Fusing Arts, Culture and Social...
View ArticleSolving the Underpants Gnomes Problem: Towards an Evidence-Based Arts Policy
That’s the title of a talk I presented via the University of Chicago’s Cultural Policy Center on November 14, 2012. It’s long, but I think it’s one of the more significant things I’ve done recently and...
View ArticleAround the Horn: Marian McPartland edition
Compiled by Talia Gibas, Daniel Reid, Lindsey Cosgrove, Jena Lee, and Ian David Moss ART AND THE GOVERNMENT Australia is relatively fresh off the adoption of a national cultural policy, and with that...
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The Virtues and Pitfalls of Open Contests
An interesting back and forth on “contest philanthropy” took place recently in the pixel-pages of Stanford Social Innovation Review between Mayur Patel, the wunderkind VP of Strategy and Assessment for...
View ArticleVideo-blogging from GIA: Day 3
Our third and final Grantmakers in the Arts conference video blog is our meatiest yet, covering curation as a moral imperative, rethinking the grant panel, expanding outside of our arts silos, and the...
View ArticleSupporting Excellence in the Arts – Lessons from GIA 2013
To this newcomer, the 2013 Grantmakers in the Arts conference in Philadelphia was a whirlwind tour through dozens of ideas and themes that have currency among arts funders, from creative placemaking to...
View ArticleAround the horn: Big Papi edition
ART AND THE GOVERNMENT Glenn Beck is at it again: the right-wing broadcaster recently attacked the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture along with the Imagining America initiative on his Internet show,...
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Netflix Is Taking Over (and Other January Stories)
“Netflix” by flickr user Jenny Cestnik. This month, Netflix moved one step closer to media domination, launching its streaming service in 130 countries, bringing the total number of...
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