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July 2004, 76 pages. The Community Arts Network
Download: The State of the Field of Community Cultural Development: Something New Emerges from the Community Arts Network.
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Read More...The lines between arts and environmental grantmaking often are sharply drawn. However, in the life of thriving communities, the two are integrally linked. As part of a roundtable discussion at last October's GIA conference, it was heartening to share vivid examples of how GIA members are exploring the intersections of environment and art.
Read More...2004. Centre for Creative Communities, 118 Commercial St., London E16NF, UK.
Read More...The following remarks were presented at a symposium that was part of the 2004 Ars Electronica Festival: TIMESHIFTThe World in Twenty-Five Years. This festival for art, technology, and society was founded in 1979 and is held annually in Linz, Austria. Joan Shigekawa, associate director of Creativity and Culture at the Rockefeller Foundation, spoke on the final panel of the symposium, “TOPIA,” which was designed to “present scenarios around a wide variety of topics relating to art, technology, and society.
Read More...2004, 42 pages. Marwen, 833 North Orleans St., Chicago, IL, 60610, 312-944-2418, www.marwen.org
Anyone who works (or lives) in the circle of adolescents can appreciate the complexity of developing effective arts programs for teens. Fuel documents the essential characteristics of one such program at Marwen, a Chicago cultural organization that provides high-quality visual arts instruction, college planning, and career development to young people (grades six to twelve) free of charge during out of school time.
Read More...The full text of this article is not yet available on this site. Below is a brief excerpt.
Five years ago, after more than twenty years as a nonprofit management consultant, I went back to the classroom to pursue a doctoral degree in organizational behavior. Although personal renewal was my primary goal, I was also eager to put a set of theoretical legs under two decades of consulting practice.
As the time came to choose my dissertation topic, I found myself gravitating to one of the most complex subjects in my consulting practicethe behavior of nonprofit founders.
Read More...2004, 45 pages. Published by Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago, 1155 E. 60th Street, Chicago, Il 60637, 773-834-5995
Download pdf: http://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/pdfs/grams_producing.pdf
Read More...2004, 51 pages. Published by Pew Internet & American Life Project, 1100 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20036, 202-296-0019, www.pewinternet.org
Download Report: http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2004/Artists-Musicians-and-the-Internet.aspx
Read More...2004, 88 pages, IBSN 0-8330-3650-5. Published by the RAND Corporation, 1700 Main Street, PO Box 2138, Santa Monica, CA, 90407-2138, 310-451-7002, www.rand.org
Download Report: http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9058/
Read More...2004, 32 pages. Published by the Center for Arts and Culture, Suite 505, 819 Seventh Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001-3772, 202-783-5277, www.culturalpolicy.org
This succinct booklet makes the case for the value of cultural diplomacy at this time when foreign opinion of the United States is extremely low, offers recommendations for improving cultural diplomacy, and summarizes other Center research on the topic.
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