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Recent News: Public and Cultural Policy
April 29, 2010
Education Secretary Arne Duncan: Arts Not a Frill
"The arts can no longer be treated as a frill," said U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan in an address to the Arts Education Partnership National Forum, April 9, 2010.
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April 27, 2010
UNESCO's 2nd World Conference on Arts Education
UNESCO's Second World Conference on Arts Education will be hosted by the Republic of Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in Seoul, May 25-28, 2010.
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April 20, 2010
Burbank Supports Arts Ed with a Whole City Block
Arts-education supporters in Burbank, Calif., are going all out to improve access to the arts in Burbank's schools with an entire city block of arts participation projects.
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April 20, 2010
Georgia House Votes to Eliminate Arts Council
The Georgia Capitol steps erupted with activity Monday, April 19, 2010, when musicians, actors and puppeteers gathered to protest arts funding cuts and the elimination of the Georgia Council for the Arts.
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April 7, 2010
E.U. Ministers Call for Culture in Economic Plan
European Union ministers have called for culture to be put at the "heart" of the bloc's new economic plan, the Europe 2020 strategy according to Helen Spongenberg on euobserver.com (4/6/10).
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30 Years and Counting: A Context for Building a Shared Cross-Cultural Commons:
Calling for an alternative economic vision that puts freedom, justice and equity at the core of society.
By Jack (John Kuo Wei) Tchen
(November 2007)
[classified]: stories that catalyze dialogue about diversity:
Four Virginia Tech students bridge the gap between university policy and individual experience. From Community Arts Perspectives, Vol. 1, No. 1.
By Laura Agnich, Kimberly Baker, Megan Carney and Shannon Turner
(June 2008)
A Bridge Conversation on Connecting Action and Academia in California's Central Valley:
Isao Fujimoto and Tim Marema on the power of "edgewalking."
By Tim Marema
(March 2008)
A Bridge Conversation on New Paradigms of Artful Change:
Can art be as powerful a vehicle for change as it can be a bastion for maintaining the status quo?
By Dudley Cocke, Peter Pennekamp and Craig McGarvey
(March 2008)
A Bridge Conversation on the Interweave of Culture and Ecology:
Ken Wilson and Caron Atlas talk about cultural context and creative philanthropy.
By Caron Atlas
(April 2008)
A Bridge Conversation on the Power of Art To Move People:
Ismael Ahmed and Anan Ameri discuss the extraordinary model of the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services.
By Anan Ameri
(March 2008)
A Lack of Guts and Intellectual Vigor Hobbles the Foundation World:
Article from The Chronicle for Philanthropy.
By Pablo Eisenberg
(April 2002)
A Proposed Job Swap To Save American Capitalism:
If Wall Street executives swapped jobs with artists, what would we gain?
By Liz Lerman
(March 2009)
A Response to the CAN Report:
Making progress in community arts: Is the Boomer generation blocking up the hall?
By Lee Ann Norman
(May 2006)
Art & The Public Purpose: A New Framework Launches:
Policy recommendations from the artists who attended the May 12, 2009, White House Briefing on Art, Community, Social Justice, National Recovery.
By Arlene Goldbard
(October 2009)
Art in a Democracy:
Recommendations for cultural policy by the director of Roadside Theater.
By Dudley Cocke
(October 2002)
Bridges, Translations and Change: The Arts as Infrastructure in 21st Century America:
Why the arts are, or should be, important in society. First published in High Performance #58/59, Vol. XV, No. 2/3, 1992.
By William Cleveland
(December 1999)
Campus-Community Partnerships: Supporting or Destroying the Field of Community Arts?:
While higher education trains students to work in the community, are community partners experiencing funding setbacks and closure?
By Sonia BasSheva Mańjon
(July 2008)
Chaos, Art and the Age of Uncertainty:
Integrating the arts into culture. This speech was originally delivered on November 1, 1997 at the annual conference of the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies.
By William Cleveland
(December 1999)
Community Arts 2008: The Year of the Great Leap:
CAN's year-end roundup of trends across the field.
By Linda Frye Burnham
(December 2008)
Community Arts, Popular Participation and Teatro Comunitario: Buenos Aires’ Programa Cultural en Barrios:
Grassroots cultural policy and community-based theater partner to support neighborhood-level activism in Buenos Aires.
By Ruth Juliet Wikler-Luker
(August 2007)
Community, Culture and Globalization:
Chapter One of "Community, Culture and Globalization," anthology published by the Rockefeller Foundation.
By Don Adams and Arlene Goldbard
(January 2002)
Creating a Monster: Capitalism in the Community Arts Classroom:
While grad students are learning the ins & outs of funding for nonprofits, some young innovators are turning away from that model.
By Brandi Rose
(September 2009)
Cultura para Todos: Colombian Community Arts... and politics:
Maybe political participation is what keeps the arts relevant and thriving in our communities.
By Susan Appe
(January 2007)
Cultural Policy: In the board rooms and on the streets:
Overview from a noted consultant to foundations and government agencies.
By Caron Atlas
(August 2002)
Dance and Older People: An Interview with Catherine Baumgartner:
A member of Minneapolis' intergenerational Kairos Dance Theatre talks about informing the White House on dance and aging.
By Renya Larson
(October 2005)
Demarginalizing Art:
CAN reviews the Centre for Creative Communities' "Creative Community Building through Cross-Sector Collaboration, a European Mapping and Consultation Initiative."
By Caron Atlas
(July 2005)
End Cultural Isolationism:
No wonder America is hated in the world. Our government's policy of cultural isolationism is to blame.
By Dudley Cocke
(November 2001)
Going Green with Public Art Policy:
Critical questions about the relationship between environmental sustainability and the arts.
By Elizabeth Bostwick
(December 2008)
Growing Together: Artists & Farmers Meet in Lancashire:
Conference Report: Creative Rural Industries, Lancaster, England, September 2006.
By Linda Frye Burnham
(October 2006)
Higher Ground: Informal Arts, Cultural Policy and the Evolving Role of Nonprofits:
With the rise of the creative class, prosumers, Pro-ams and Net-Geners, are our nonprofit cultural institutions becoming outdated?
By Tom Borrup
(July 2007)
How Face-to-Face Art Changes Lives: Cornerstone's Bill Rauch testifies before Congress:
Cornerstone's Bill Rauch testifies before Congress.
By Bill Rauch
(September 1999)
Listening for the Lexicon of Cultural Shift:
New language from old wisdom about community art as lived experience.
By Linda Frye Burnham
(May 2007)
Policy Research on Community Arts: A Collective Endeavor:
An overview of the policies and methods of research in community arts from the director of the Culture, Creativity and Communities Program at the Urban Institute.
By Maria-Rosario Jackson
(July 2002)
Promoting Social Justice with San Francisco's Most Creative Capital:
A Public Health official argues for social justice through the arts in the City by the Bay.
By Maria X. Martinez
(April 2009)
Really Caring: Why a comprehensive healthcare system includes the arts:
A commentary on the role the arts can play in healthcare. Published in High Performance #74, Vol. XIX, No. 4, 1996.
By Susan Perlstein
(December 1999)
Reform or Enrichment: Policy Mandates and Program Goals in Community Youth Arts:
More and more attention is being paid to what kids do after school.
By Lori Hager
(November 2008)
Rez CAP:
Across a thousand miles, two cultures, two communities come together: MICA and the Dakota Nation.
By John Peacock
(July 2008)
States of Shock & Unknowing: On Documenting the Wake of Katrina & Rita in Southern Louisiana:
The making of a shocking video on America's environmental disaster. Includes video clips.
By John Sullivan
(April 2006)
The Arts and Community Strengthening:
Script of a talk given at conference of Michigan Association of Community Arts Agencies, November 8, 2000. Short history of community arts, and more.
By Maryo Gard Ewell
(May 2001)
The Community Cultural Development Field:
First chapter of Don Adams and Arlene Goldbard's "Creative Community: The Art of Cultural Development," book commissioned by Rockefeller Foundation in 2001.
By Don Adams and Arlene Goldbard
(August 2001)
The Creative Economy: Views from Abroad:
A report from the Creative Clusters international conference in Glasgow, and thoughts on what community-based art can bring to the table.
By Tom Borrup
(January 2009)
The Funder's Tale:
An award-winning Canadian storyteller ponders his new job: community-arts grants officer.
By Dan Yashinsky
(June 2007)
The Joy of Producing Some Lovely Thing and Freeing Some Craving for Expression:
Lecture to the Biennial State Arts Conference, Des Moines, Iowa.
By Dudley Cocke
(April 2000)
The Long, Hot Summer of Service: Community Artists on The Job:
New national service initiatives are making headlines, generating new hopes for community arts jobs.
By Arlene Goldbard
(July 2009)
The New New Deal 2009: Public Service Jobs for Artists?:
A case for publicly supported, socially useful work for artists in schools, communities and social institutions.
By Arlene Goldbard
(December 2008)
The New New Deal, Part 2 - A New WPA for Artists: How and Why:
Details on what a new WPA for artists might look like. And what it could cost.
By Arlene Goldbard
(January 2009)
The Path of Stories: Artists and The Thousand Kites Project:
A long, deep look into a multi-arts collaboration that's starting a national conversation about the U.S. prison industrial complex. Includes video.
By Arlene Goldbard
(May 2008)
Trouble in Oz: Australia's Community Cultural Development Programs Threatened:
What to do about the dimming of a shining beacon of possibility for cultural democracy.
By Arlene Goldbard
(March 2005)
Voices from the Battlefront: Achieving Cultural Equity Through Critical Analysis:
Artists call for a cultural policy of global pluralism that deeply respects local life and its tradition bearers.
By Jamie Haft
(September 2009)
Warts and All: The Partnership that Built a Community Arts Graduate Program:
Sometimes the most difficult partner relationships are the ones inside the institution.
By Nicole Garneau and Phyllis Johnson
(July 2008)
Where Has All the Grassroots Touring Gone?:
A N.Y. symposium talks about radical reduction in touring of new American plays, and its effect on communities nationwide.
By Dudley Cocke
(June 2006)
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From the Archive...
" There must be many great voices singing out the lore and legend of America from a thousand hilltops, and there must be students to listen and to learn, and writers encouraged to use the materials."
—Robert Gard, quoted by Dudley Cocke in
The Joy of Producing Some Lovely Thing and Freeing Some Craving for Expression
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