Innovating Through Artistry
Press Release from The NEA, July 19th, 2011 Cultural industries are economic powerhouses and states have the data to prove it, according to a new analysis from the National Endowment for the Arts. Drawing on data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Arts and the GDP: Value Added by Selected Cultural Industries is a new NEA … [Read more...]
Thanks Chip Hessenflow for sending this our way! By Christopher Borrelli, Tribune reporter 4:14 p.m. CDT, June 20, 2011 Poetry makes nothing happen. So said W.H. Auden. Who never lived in Chicago. Or knew Don Share. Share is the senior editor of Poetry magazine, the venerable Chicago-based literary institution. It … [Read more...]
This video was created from a workshop on developing community through creativity at The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at The University of Illinois. This is a very worthy 7 minutes. http://youtu.be/OfrRd5IMRVs … [Read more...]
Our 2010 most read posts are interestingly some oldies but goodies. From our top 25, 14 are from 2007 through 2009. Our oldest post from 2007, which also happens to be our #1 post, is about my journey writing a book. So for all you writers out there, this list just goes to show you that it's important to get your writing our there … [Read more...]
This article appeared in The Wall Street Journey on May 19th and was written by Daniel Grant. Art, we are told again and again, is a business. But teaching art is also a business. For a growing number of artists, professional training is taking place at for-profit art schools, rather than at nonprofit colleges, and the number of these … [Read more...]
Well, today I leave for Washington for my first PNB-NAPEO (Partners for a New Beginning- North Africa Partners for Economic Opportunity) Summit. Madeline Albright will kick off our meeting and then we will spend two days in meetings that range from a PNB overview from the ground to Entrepreneurship for Women in the Middle East … [Read more...]
SNAAP is a wonderful long overdue project to track the lives and careers of arts graduates. I am so happy to see this work begin. However, with 13,851 respondents this does not (yet) even represent 1% of our sector. All the same, it is a beginning! So kudo's to George Kuh and Sally Galski. This has great long term potential to … [Read more...]
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