Funding Research
March 2004, 40 pages. Published by The American Assembly, 475 Riverside Drive, Suite 456, New York, NY, 10115, 212- 870-3500, www.americanassembly.org
This summary of proceedings from the 104th American Assembly, organized by Alberta Arthurs and Sandra Gibson, focuses on the multiple ways the academy and the performing arts relate to and reinforce each other.
Read More...July 2004, 60 pages. Published by the National Endowment for the Arts, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington DC, 20506, 202-682-5400, www.arts.endow.gov
Download pdf: http://www.nea.gov.pub/ReadingAtRisk.pdf
Read More...Recently, while sitting in a coffee shop in Chicago, I overheard a language that sounded familiar. Being a folklorist I'm sensitive to occupational language. You can blindfold me in front of conversations of cowboys or farmers and I will be able to pick out a number of things that distinguish their talk. And having a private language is not bad, it's a reality.
Read More...2004, 74 pages. Published by The Boston Foundation, 75 Arlington Street, Boston, MA, 02116, 617-338-1700, www.tbf.org
Download Report: www.tbf.org/tbfgen1.asp?id=1759
October 2003, 146 pages. Published by The Western States Arts Federation, 1743 Wazee St, Suite 300, Denver, CO, 80202, 303-607-9019, www.westaf.org
This book contains the proceedings from a symposium of the same name convened by WESTAF in October, 2003 that brought together practitioners, artists, and academics to discuss the opportunities and challenges facing state arts agencies.
Read More...Alternate ROOTS is a coalition of artists and cultural workers in the Southeastern USA; addressing racism and other oppressions has been integral to our mission for a long time. At our 2004 Annual Meeting this past August a panel of ROOTS' founding members discussed the function of ROOTS as a cultural continuation of the civil rights movement - beginning with our founding at the legendary Highlander Center in New Market, Tennessee.
Read More...This unique study combines Dun & Bradstreet data (as of January 2004) and geo-economic analysis to quantify and map business activity in six creative industries: museum/collections; performing arts; visual/photography; film/radio/TV; design/publishing; and schools/services. Creative industry reports on major metropolitan areas are on the Web site and reports on each of 437 congressional districts are available by request. Custom reports on specific geographic areas are also available for a fee.
Read More...2004, 48 pages. Published by Independent Television Service, 501 York Street, San Francisco, CA 94110, 415-35-6 8383, itvs@itvs.org , www.itvs.org, and Center for Social Media, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, 20036-801, 202-885- 3107, socialmedia@american.edu, www.centerforsocialmedia.org
Read More...2002, 77 pages, ISBN 0-9718102-0-6. Published by National Performance Network, PO Box 70435, New Orleans, LA, 70172, 504-595-8008, info@npnweb.org
Download pdf: http://www.npnweb.org/files/public/NAAMP_all.pdf
The final report of the National Arts Administration Mentorship Program includes overall documentation of the project, case studies, analysis of lessons learned, and recommendations for future development.
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