Registration is still open for the next installment of GIA's 2012 Web Conference Series. Arts and Health: New Momentum for Artists and Communities is presented by Anita Boles, executive director of the Society for the Arts in Healthcare, and Gay Powell Hannah, executive director of the National Center for Creative Aging. The webinar begins tomorrow, July 10, at 11:00 PDT, 2:00 EDT.
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Reporting for the Charleston Regional Business Journal, James T. Hammond writes:
Gov. Nikki Haley on Friday vetoed 81 line items in the General Assembly fiscal year 2012-2013 budget, including all funding for two state agencies: the South Carolina Arts Commission and the Sea Grant Consortium...the S.C. Arts Commission will be closed pending Legislative action, accordig to the organization's website...In order to overturn Haley's vetoes, the House and the Senate must each vote by a two-thirds majority to keep the General Assembly's version of the vetoed line item.
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From Diane Ragsdale on her Jumper blog:
I attended the Theatre Communications Group conference in Boston a couple weeks ago. On the first day of the conference Michael Maso, managing director of the Huntington Theatre, was presented with an award recognizing his contributions to the American theater. Towards the end of a humorous and lovely acceptance speech, Maso switched gears and used the opportunity to share thoughts on those that would question the priorities and processes of large institutional theaters.
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From Soren Peterson at The Huffington Post:
Developing creative individuals takes a society that values and promotes curious, proactive qualities, interdependence, responsibility and accountability. The process of building these well-rounded citizens starts with kindergarten and continues throughout life, constantly disseminating and transferring learning to the next generation.
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The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art has been awarded $100,000 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation’s Digital Resources grant program to support a project to preserve, arrange and create Web-searchable online electronic finding aids for 10 archival collections that are central to provenance research for the history of art during World War II.
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Adam Huttler takes on the "New Models" mythology on the Fractured Atlas blog.
Who knows if I meet the definition of “expert”, but I’m happy to offer a few thoughts about what exactly is broken with the traditional arts organization construct: administrative bloat, unhealthy risk-aversion, and chronic undercapitalization, to name the first three that spring to mind.
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In July, GIA's photo banner features exhibitions and programs sponsored by the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation. Founded in 1987 by Emily Hall Tremaine, the New Haven-based family foundation makes grants to support art, learning disabilities, and the environment, with a primary emphasis on education. The foundation's two signature arts awards are the Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award, through which the foundation supports curatorial excellence in the presentation of contemporary visual art, and Marketplace Empowerment for Artists, a program supporting professional development training for visual artists.
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NASAA has released the annual State Arts Agency Fiscal Year 2013 Legislative Appropriations Preview report. This document summarizes how state arts agencies fared during this year's budget deliberations and includes information on the appropriations each state arts agency expects to receive for FY2013.
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The Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP), an annual online survey, data management, and institutional improvement system out of Indiana University, and a program designed to enhance the impact of arts-school education, has produced a nicely visualized online resource for the data collected in 2011. The data comes from 33,801 respondents to the SNAAP survey, and shows information on the degrees received, their current occupation, income, and debt, among other things. See the SnaapShot here.
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From Chad Bauman at Arts Marketing:
As managers, we like to mitigate risk, thinking that if we could just control our variables just a little more, that we would reach a utopia of risk free theater producing. It's a fool's errand. Since the beginning of the global economic crisis in 2008, the stakes have risen so high that it can feel like we don't have room to fail. But in failure, we find success.