Random Acts of Culture™
Throughout the country, many performing groups have taken to public forums to display Random Acts of Culture™ (supported generously by the Knight Foundation) covering all art forms including music,...
View ArticleFormer President Clinton Supports Arkansas Arts Education Program
Over the weekend, former President Bill Clinton made headlines in his home state of Arkansas discussing education. His message was one that many of us already know: the dropout rate is increasing and...
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Art-Filled Learning: A Way of Life
Michelle Burrows The school is buzzing. Classrooms are alive with children moving, singing, working together, learning. In this room, kindergarteners are creating “movement mountains,” their growing...
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Tweeting Your Way to a Better Conference
Tara Connolly The Southern Entrepreneurship in the Arts conference (SEA), an initiative of the North Carolina Entrepreneurship Center (NCEC) in partnership with national group Self Employment in the...
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Blurring the Boundaries—New Paradigms for Public Art
Susan Pontious This session was billed as one that would explore the “new normal” for public art by considering programs, events, partnerships, and policies required for sustaining vital, culturally...
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Documenting the Return On Our Investments
Robert Bush We love data at the Arts & Science Council (ASC). We are fortunate to have access to resources, but we also have to make choices about how we direct them to support the sector, and...
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The Arts: Making a Difference at the DNC
Bob Lynch at the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa. The Convention Halls are creative chaos. The streets are jammed with animated participants holding placards, engaged in heated dialogue...
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A Moving Picture is Worth a Million Words
Katherine Mooring “Charlotte in 2012″ is becoming quite a theme this year, as we prepare to welcome our fabulous arts marketing and development peers from across the country to the National Arts...
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Americans for the Arts & Arts Action Fund Statement on the 2012 Elections
On behalf of Americans for the Arts and the Arts Action Fund, I wish to congratulate President Barack Obama and all of the national, state, and local elected leaders across the country who won their...
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The National Arts Marketing Project Conference Comes to Charlotte
Katherine Mooring “Charlotte in 2012” is becoming quite a theme this year, as we prepare to welcome more than 600 arts marketing and development practitioners from across the country to the National...
View ArticleKRIS Wine ‘Art of Education’ Contest Winners Unveiled
As you saw in a previous ARTSblog post, Brunswick Acres Elementary School in Kendall Park, NJ was very dedicated to winning the third annual “Art of Education” contest sponsored by KRIS Wine and...
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#NAMPC Takeaways
Shoshana Fanizza I wanted to start out by giving you the link to my Storify—My #NAMPC experience via Twitter. I ended up winning the Most Tweets Award [at the National Arts Marketing Project Conference...
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Testing, 1, 2, 3: Measuring and Improving Your ROI
Katryn Geane While sitting in the second row of seats looking at heat and confetti maps of sample websites, I was reminded of the number one reason I love attending the National Arts Marketing Project...
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Small Enough to Succeed
Doug Borwick I have, for most of my life, been suspicious of the “growth is good” assumption that we often make in this country or did as I was growing up. (Sometimes when I replay in my mind the...
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New Cabinet Nominees Have Pro-Arts Records
Robert L. Lynch Just a few weeks ago, President Obama nominated two talented and accomplished individuals to lead the U.S. Commerce Department and U.S. Transportation Department. Penny Pritzker of...
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My Turn: For a Humane Tax Reform
John R. Killacky Vermont, like many states, is considering comprehensive tax reform. Committees in the Vermont Senate and House developed proposals last legislative session and systemic changes seem...
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Learning Elsewhere: Digital storytelling and collaborative media production
Christopher Lee Kennedy In 2003, one woman’s 58-year collection of thrift was rediscovered by her grandson and transformed into a living museum and artist residency program called Elsewhere. Today, we...
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Top 10 Reasons to Support the Arts in 2014
Randy Cohen There is an old quote attributed to John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich: “If any man will draw up his case, and put his name at the foot of the first page, I will give him an immediate...
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A New Vision for Arts Education
Ayanna Hudson The Arts Endowment’s vision is that every student is engaged and empowered through an excellent arts education. This statement reflects a fundamental belief that all students should have...
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“Shift Change”: Transitions in Public Art Programs Today
Nationwide, it is no longer a question of whether or not the field of public art is going to change. It is more appropriate now to ask why the changes are happening and how can we keep up. Many of the...
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