Entries tagged with Arts
Create Denver
April 15, 2010
This week in The Mile High City, creatives are mobilizing to strengthen the core vitality of their city as part of Create Denver. This fabulous video makes us wish we were there.
Energizing City Design
January 22, 2010
Building on the work of the Mayors’ Institute on City Design to transform communities by preparing mayors to be the chief urban designers of their cities, the National Endowment for the Arts has announced a new initiative to assist mayors in their design efforts.
The NEA Mayors' Institute on City…
Yet Another View on Arts Trends
June 19, 2009
Memphis College of Art President Jeff Nesin responded to Joe Cortright's view that the arts product and marketing need a major overhaul, given the fact that arts participation is declining.
"Why marketing or product? Maybe there's a shift, perhaps technological, perhaps cultural, probably both, that we need to acknowledge. I…
Arts Participation Revisited
June 19, 2009
Joe Cortright commented on the recent blog post on the new study showing the decline of participation in the arts:
"If you think about college-educated older people being a key market for arts, it is shocking to see these kinds of declines. That…
Declining Arts Participation
June 17, 2009
What is bad news for the arts can also be bad news for cities.
Arts Participation 2008: Highlights from a National Survey features top findings from the 2008 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts, conducted by the NEA in partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau. And the findings are…
A Leader for NEA
May 13, 2009
The President has his man to run the National Endowment for the Arts. The New York Times reports that Rocco Landesman, the colorful theatrical producer and race-track aficionado who brought hits like “Big River,” “Angels in America” and “The Producers” to Broadway, has…
The Value of Experiences
February 15, 2009
Of all the impacts of this recession, one has received no attention. I've been musing about what people will do with their time when they don't spend it working and shopping. I've seen the impact of unemployment of a family member twice. In both cases, exercise became a positive focus…
Highways and Bridges
February 7, 2009
I am ready to scream. Since when did building new highways and bridges become the only thing "real," the only thing "worthy," the only thing "smart," the only thing that is given a pass as "not pork"? Llistening to some members of Congress and the media, you would think that…
Social (and More) Impact of the Arts
September 28, 2008
Just checking out some terrific reports from the great Mark Stern and Susan Seifert who lead Social Impact of the Arts Project, a research center at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice.