Cultural Policy and the Arts
Professor Ann Daly
University of Texas (Spring 2005)
Course description
This graduate seminar is for anyone in the arts (artist, scholar,
critic, administrator, funder, activist, educator, journalist, producer, programmer,
policy-maker, board member, fan, etc.) who wants to contribute more effectively
to the ways that American culture is defined, shaped, and planned in the public
sphere. The course will serve as an introduction to the emerging field of cultural
policy—its discourses, literature, practices, communities, and institutions.
The notion of a coherent, articulated "cultural policy" in
America is a new but potentially transforming one. Although Americans claim
a laissez-faire approach to the arts, in fact, we do have laws—copyright and
the tax code, to name but two—that regulate the arts sector. The hope is that,
by making these now-fragmented policies more transparent, we, as a nation, can
have more productive dialogue about the role of the arts in our society.
How can we extend the academic sphere of cultural studies into
the public sphere of cultural policy? How can the arts community intersect with—and
intervene in—this newly developing rhetoric for justifying and funding the
arts in America? How can intellectuals leverage their case-making abilities
for a more active participation in the policy-making process?
Course texts
Available at the University Co-Op Bookstore:
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Course packet
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Gigi Bradford, Michael Gary, and Glenn Wallach, editors. The Politics
of Culture.
New York: The New Press, 2000.
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Joli Jensen. Is Art Good for Us? Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield,
2002.
Supplied to you free of charge:
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Center for Arts and Culture policy briefs
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Community, Culture and Globalization, edited by Don Adams & Arlene
Goldbard
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Creative Community: The Art of Cultural Development, edited by Don
Adams & Arlene Goldbard
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Northeast Ohio’s Arts & Culture Plan
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Progress Report 2001
Please note: where a website address is provided for a reading, please access
the reading online.
Grading
Over the course of the semester, you will develop an area of policy expertise
by developing a "portfolio" consisting of the following projects.
Deadlines are included in the course schedule.
| Biweekly news updates |
10% |
| Web links page |
10% |
| Op Ed piece |
20% |
| Symposium |
20% |
| Syllabus or grant program |
20% |
| Policy Brief |
20% |
Sorry, but late papers and projects are not accepted. No final grades of "incomplete"
will be assigned.
Course schedule
Tuesday, January 14: INTRODUCTION
Tuesday, January 21: IS ART GOOD FOR US?
Joli Jensen. Is Art Good for Us? Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield,
2002.
Tuesday, January 28: ARLENE GOLDBARD
Don Adams and Arlene Goldbard. "Grass Roots Vanguard." Community
Arts Network (online). http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/ archivefiles/2002/08/grass_roots_van.php
Don Adams and Arlene Goldbard. "Overlaps, Intersections and Conflicts:
An Introduction to Arts and Culture." Community Arts Network (online).
http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/ archivefiles/2002/03/overlaps_inters.php
Arlene Goldbard. "Community, Culture and Globalization."
Community, Culture and Globalization. New York: The Rockefeller
Foundation, 2002. pp. 7-29.
Arlene Goldbard. "The Cultural Policy Colonization of the West, or,
Fattening Frogs for Snakes." Cultural Policy in the West.
Denver: WESTAF, 2000. pp. 47-57.
Arlene Goldbard. "Memory, Money, and Persistence: Theater of Social
Change in Context." Theater 31, no.3 (2001): 127-137.
DUE: news update
Tuesday, February 4: FROM CULTURAL STUDIES TO CULTURAL POLICY
Tony Bennett. "Cultural Policy Beyond Aesthetics." Paper delivered
to the Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago, March 2000.
http://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/publications.html
Tony Bennett. "Putting Policy into Cultural Studies." Cultural
Studies. New York: Routledge, 1992. pp. 23-37.
Paul DiMaggio. "Cultural Policy Studies: What They Are and Why We
Need Them." Journal of Arts Management and Law 13, no. 1 (1983):
241-248.
Tom O’Regan. "(Mis)Taking Policy: Notes on the Cultural Policy
Debate." Cultural Studies 6, no. 3 (1992): 409-423.
Margaret Jane Wyszomirski. "Policy Communities and Policy Influence:
Securing a Government Role in Cultural Policy for the Twenty-First Century."
The Politics of Culture. New York: The Free Press, 2000.
pp. 94-107.
DUE: web links page
Tuesday, February 11: POLICY RESEARCH AND WRITING
Gabriella De Ferrari. "Private Art in Public." New York Times,
21 October 2002, A23.
Raymond J. Learsy. "To Encourage Great Art, Help Great Artists."
New York Times, 3 December 2002, A 31.
J. Mark Schuster. Informing Cultural Policy: The Research and Information
Infrastructure. Rutgers: Center for Urban Policy Research, 2002. pp.
1-51.
Please look over all the policy briefs from the Center for Arts and Culture,
and analyze in depth one of them.
Please bring to class one exemplary op-ed article.
DUE: news update
Tuesday, February 18: DEFINING CULTURAL POLICY
Caron Atlas. "Cultural Policy: In the Board Rooms and on the Streets."
Community Arts Network (online). http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/ archivefiles/2002/08/cultural_policy.php
"Building an Arts Policy Community." Proceedings of the
annual conference of Grantmakers in the Arts, 15 November 1999.
Joni M. Cherbo and Margaret J. Wyszomirski. "Mapping the Public Life
of the Arts in America." The Public Life of the Arts in America.
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2000. pp. 3-21.
Frank Hodsoll. "A National and Regional View of Cultural Policy."
Cultural Policy in the West. Denver: WESTAF, 2000. pp. 37-46.
Justin Lewis. "Designing a Cultural Policy." The Politics
of Culture. New York: The Free Press, 2000. pp. 79-93.
Lawrence Rothfield. "Cultural Policy Studies?! Cultural Policy Studies?!
Cultural Policy Studies?! A Guide for Perplexed Humanists." Working
paper delivered to the Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago,
April 1999.
http://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/publications.html
James Allen Smith. "Preface." The Politics of Culture.
New York: The Free Press, 2000. pp. ix-xi.
Gigi Bradford. "Introduction." The Politics of Culture.
New York: The Free Press, 2000. pp. 11-14.
DUE: 10-minute report on a cultural policy institution.
DUE: op ed piece
Tuesday, February 25: ART AND PUBLIC PURPOSE
The American Assembly. "The Arts and the Public Purpose." The
Politics of Culture. New York: The Free Press, 2000. pp. 64-70.
http://www.americanassembly.org/programs/theartPP_report.htm
Alberta Arthurs and Frank Hodsoll. "The 92nd American Assembly–A
Response to Criticism." Looking Ahead: A Collection of Papers
from the International Social Theory, Politics & the Arts Conference.
Philadelphia: Drexel University Press, 1999. pp. 52-55.
Charles M. Dorn. "The Mirror and the Lamp." Looking Ahead:
A Collection of Papers from the International Social Theory, Politics
& the Arts Conference. Philadelphia: Drexel University Press,
1999. pp. 42-47.
Neil Harris. "Art and the Public Purpose: The American Historical
Experience." The Philosophical Society of Texas Proceedings 1997.
Austin, TX: The Philosophical Society of Texas, 2000. pp. 9-24.
James E. Modrick. "Policy Preview: Any New Ideas from the American
Assembly?" Looking Ahead: A Collection of Papers from the International
Social Theory, Politics & the Arts Conference. Philadelphia:
Drexel University Press, 1999. pp. 48-51.
Louise Slaughter. "Promoting the Arts: Promoting the General Welfare."
The Philosophical Society of Texas Proceedings 1997. Austin, TX:
The Philosophical Society of Texas, 2000. pp. 25-37.
President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. Creative
America: A Report to the President. New York: The Free Press, 2000.
pp. 71-78.
Margaret J. Wyszomirski. "Raison d’Etat, Raisons des Arts: Thinking
about Public Purposes." The Public Life of the Arts in America.
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2000. pp. 50-78.
Christopher Zinn. "Cultural Agencies and Cultural Agency."
Cultural Policy in the West II Symposium Proceedings. Denver: WESTAF,
2001. pp. 115-119.
DUE: news update
Tuesday, March 4: COMMUNITY CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
Don Adams and Arlene Goldbard. Creative Community: The Art of Cultural
Development. New York: The Rockefeller Foundation, 2001.
Dolo Brooking. "Cultural Planning: Connecting Community to a Civil
Society." Looking Ahead: A Collection of Papers from the International
Social Theory, Politics & the Arts Conference. Philadelphia: Drexel
University Press, 1999. pp. 24-31.
William Cleveland. "Mapping the Field: Arts-Based Community Development."
Community Arts Network (online). http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/ archivefiles/2002/05/mapping_the_fie.php
Maria-Rosario Jackson. "Policy Research on Community Arts: A
Collective Endeavor." Community Arts Network (online). http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/ archivefiles/2002/07/policy_research.php
Northeast Ohio’s Arts & Culture Plan. Cleveland, OH: Community
Partnership for Arts and Culture, 2000. Progress Report 2001. Community
Partnership for Arts and Culture.
Elizabeth Strom. Strengthening Communities through Culture. Washington,
DC: Center for Arts and Culture, 2001.
Andrew Taylor. "The Experience Brokers: The New Role for Arts Administrators
in the Information Age." Cultural Policy in the West II Symposium
Proceedings. Philadelphia: Drexel University Press, 1999. pp. 66-71.
DUE: symposium
SPRING BREAK
Tuesday, March 18: CULTURE AND ECONOMY
Arts & Economic Prosperity. Washington, DC: Americans for the
Arts, 2002.
http://www.americansforthearts.org/EconomicImpact/
"The Arts in the GDP." National Endowment for the Arts Research
Note #75, March 2000.
Paul DiMaggio. "Can Culture Survive the Marketplace?" Journal
of Arts Management and Law 13, no. 1 (Spring 1983): 61-87.
Jeffrey E. Garten. "Cities: Investing in Culture Is Simply Good Business."
Businesweek Online, 5 March 2001.
Bruce A. Seaman. "Arts Impact Studies: A Fashionable Excess."
The Politics of Culture. New York: The Free Press, 2000. pp. 266-285.
DUE: news update
Tuesday, March 25: CREATIVE ECONOMY, CREATIVE CLASS
The Creative Economy Initiative: A Blueprint for Investment in New England’s
Creative Economy. The New England Council, June 2001.
http://www.nefa.org/creativeeconomy/
Richard Florida. "The Rise of the Creative Class: Why Cities
without Gays and Rock Bands are Losing the Economic Development Race."
Washington Monthly, May 2002.
Ann M. Galligan. Creativity, Culture, Education, and the Workforce.
Washington, DC: Center for Arts and Culture, 2002.
Kieran Healy. "What’s New for Culture in the New Economy?"
The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society 32, no. 2 (Summer
2002): 86-103. http://www.culturalpolicy.org/pdf/Healy.pdf
Shalini Venturelli. From the Information Economy to the Creative
Economy: Moving Culture to the Center of International Public Policy.
Washington, DC: Center for Arts and Culture, 2000.
DUE: syllabus or grant program
Tuesday, April 1: FUNDING
Bruce A. Seaman. National Investment in the Arts. Washington, DC:
Center for Arts and Culture, 2002.
Peter Donnelly. "The Private Sector’s Role in Cultural Policy."
Cultural Policy in the West. Denver: WESTAF, 2000. pp. 73-80.
"International Data on Government Spending on the Arts." National
Endowment for the Arts Research Note #74, January 2000.
Michael Kammen. "Culture and the State in America." The Politics
of Culture. New York: The Free Press, 2000. pp. 114-140.
John Kreidler. "Leverage Lost: Evolution in the Nonprofit Arts Ecosystem."
The Politics of Culture. New York: The Free Press, 2000. pp. 147-168.
Loren Renz. "The Foundation Center’s 2002 Arts Funding Update."
http://fdncenter.org/research/trends_analysis/pdf/artupdt.pdf
J. Mark Schuster. "Who Should Pay (for the Arts and Culture)?
Who Should Decide? And What Difference Should It Make?" Unsettling
"Sensation": Arts-Policy Lessons from the Brooklyn Museum of
Art Controversy. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2001. pp.
72-89.
DUE: news update
Tuesday, April 8: NO CLASS
New Works Festival April 4 to April 13
Tuesday, April 15: CASE STUDY: ARTS FUNDING IN AUSTIN
All the following will be distributed via email attachments:
Audit Report: Cultural Arts Funding Process, Office of the City
Auditor, Austin, TX. September 2002.
Austin City Council worksession. Presentation by cultural consultants.
Robert Faires. "A Better Tomorrow." Austin Chronicle
22, no. 6 (11 October 2002).
Robert Faires. "The Audit." Austin Chronicle 22, no.
6 (11 October 2002).
Robert Faires. "Calling in the Experts." Austin Chronicle
22, no. 26 (11 October 2002).
DUE: news update
Tuesday, April 22: GLOBALIZATION
Don Adams and Arlene Goldbard. "Afterword." Community, Culture
and Globalization. New York: The Rockefeller Foundation, 2002. pp.
368-375.
Nestor Garcia Canclini. "Cultural Policy Options in the Context of
Globalization." The Politics of Culture. New York: The Free
Press, 2000. pp. 302-326.
Dee Davis. "Full Faith and Credit." Community, Culture and
Globalization. New York: The Rockefeller Foundation, 2002. pp. 174-187.
Harvey B. Feigenbaum. Globalization and Cultural Diplomacy. Washington,
DC: Center for Arts and Culture, 2001.
Vjeran Katunaric. "Global Perceptions of Cultural Policy."
Cultural Policy in the West II Symposium Proceedings. Denver: WESTAF,
2001. pp. 18-32.
Richard Kurin. "The New Study and Curation of Culture." The
Politics of Culture.New York: The Free Press, 2000. pp. 338-356.
Tomas Ybarra-Frausto. "Mutual Recognition of Diverse Cultural Contributions."
Cultural Policy in the West Symposium Proceedings. Denver: WESTAF,
2000. pp. 95-102.
Tuesday, April 29: POLICY ROUNDTABLE
DUE: policy brief
