GIA Reader (2000-present)

February 3, 2013 by giarts-ts-admin

Creative placemaking is electrifying communities large and small around the country. Mayors, public agencies, and arts organizations are finding each other and committing to new initiatives. That’s a wonderful thing, whether or not their proposals are funded by national initiatives such as the National Endowment for the Arts’ Our Town program or ArtPlace.

February 3, 2013 by giarts-ts-admin

The following is an expanded version of my essay “Creative Placemaking and the Politics of Belonging and Dis-belonging,” first published on the Arts in a Changing America website. I’ve been asked to prepare it for the GIA Reader audience and to reflect further on the topic of belonging as it relates to my work as a public funder.

White Trees (poem)

February 3, 2013 by giarts-ts-admin

Before the Red River (poem)

February 3, 2013 by giarts-ts-admin

Pony Precepts

February 3, 2013 by giarts-ts-admin

Right now I’m learning from a four-hundred-pound animal with the brain of a three-year-old child, as I train a Shetland pony to pull a cart. Ponies, like horses, are prey animals whose first instinct is to flee, so this can be a daunting and humbling task. Anything new is suspect, a first encounter with the unfamiliar unsettling.

An Interview with Rocco Landesman

February 3, 2013 by giarts-ts-admin

Rocco Landesman spoke for the first time in the role of the tenth chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts at the 2009 GIA conference, Navigating the Art of Change. The Brooklyn convening was subtitled “The Recession Conference,” which Landesman, stating the obvious, translated as “the news is bad.” Nonetheless, he urged us to be optimistic. “Art is the most optimistic of activities.… There is grandeur in art. There is boldness. There is even, to use a very loaded word, the possibility for change, and we mortals need that.”

February 3, 2013 by giarts-ts-admin

In May 2012 I was invited to speak at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts’ Cultural Summit 2012, which took place at the school in September. The school is on Deer Isle, part of the coastal archipelago that stitches Maine to the Atlantic Ocean, and that also includes Vinalhaven Island, my family’s home. This article is adapted from my speech.

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“Only Connect the Prose and the Passion” (12 Mb)

Building Communities, Not Audiences

October 1, 2012 by giarts-ts-admin

Edited by Doug Borwick. 2012, 372 pages, ArtsEngaged, Winston-Salem, NC

October 1, 2012 by giarts-ts-admin

Edwidge Danticat. 2010, 208 pages, Princeton University Press

Cultural Equity Dialogues

October 1, 2012 by giarts-ts-admin

Artistic Marginalization is the fifth article in Alliance for California Traditional Arts’ Cultural Equity Dialogues. Based on ACTA’s community forum, Building Cultural Equity Through the Traditional Arts, held in Los Angeles in February 2010, the Cultural Equity Dialogues were a series of online, interactive articles exploring topics relating to cultural equity and folk and traditional arts.

Jerry Yoshitomi, Meaning Matters LLC