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Americans for the Arts Resources (10) more

• National and Local Profiles of Cultural Support: Executive Summary
  In 1998, The Pew Charitable Trusts commissioned Americans for the Arts and The Ohio State University Arts Policy and Administration Program to analyze public and private sources of support for arts and culture. This report is the result of that research.
• Ten Characteristics of a Healthy Community: How the Arts Can Be Integrated
  A Report from the First Joint Convention of Americans for the Arts and the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
• Local Arts Agency Facts: Fiscal Year 2000
  In-depth findings from our Fiscal Year 2000 Survey of Local Arts Agencies.

News Articles (26) more

• ArtServe rally to focus attention on arts funding
  ArtServe organizes rally in Michigan to protet Gov. Jennifer Granholm's moratorium on $7.5 million in grants already promised to arts and cultural organizations.
• Public arts funding pays off for all
  ...when President Bush actually proposes an increase in the National Endowment for the Arts' budget (a modest increase, to be sure), we must acknowledge that what was once politically injurious is now deemed to be acting on behalf of the public good.
• ED. DEPT. GIVES ARTS PROGRAM CULTURE $OCK
  A decade-old, $67.5 million program to restore the arts in public schools has all but been eliminated in the Bloomberg administration's latest overhaul of the school system.

Project Profile (12) more

• The Cultural Alliance of Southeastern Michigan
  The Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan, in partnership with the McGregor Fund and the Hudson-Webber Foundation, creadted the Cultural Alliance of SouthEastern Michigan with the goal of bringing together arts and cultural organizations.
• The Dallas Arts Learning Initiative
  The Dallas Arts Learning Initiative – a partnership between the city, the district, the Wallace Foundation and Big Thought – is infusing more arts into the city, one school and neighborhood at a time. By 2009, the plan is to offer every Dallas Independent School District elementary school student 45 minutes of art and music instruction each week. And that's only a fraction of what they hope to accomplish.
• California Arts Council, Arts Marketing Institute: Cultural Tourism – An Introduction
  The California Arts Council initiative, Arts Marketing Institute, has created a web primer to help communities develop their cultural heritage assets to increase tourism.

Research Abstract (52) more

• Media Paints Arts Education in Fading Light
  The overall image presented of arts education in public schools is that arts are losing ground against more urgent educational priorities. News stories portray arts education as easily traded off in an era of cash-strapped school districts and an increasing focus on standardized testing.
• Keep Arts In Schools
  As a project for the Ford Foundation, Douglas Gould & Company is developing messages and conducting opinion research to determine how best to frame arts education for advocates who seek to build a constituency for lasting change. KeepArtsInSchools.org features the work we have executed to date on this project and seeks to arm advocates with the tools and resources they need to be more effective in their work and in their communications to keep arts education in public schools.
• International Networks and Arts Policy Research
  This article explores the possible impacts the large number of cultural policy networks could have on cultural policy research and cultural policymaking.

Sample Documents (15) more

• THE SHIFTING SANDS OF DEMAND: Trends in Cultural Participation
  Slideshow presentation by Wolf-Brown firm, commissioned by the Scottsdale Cultural Council. PDF Format
• AT THE INTERSECTION OF STATE GOVERNMENT AND THE ARTS
  Washington State Arts Commission 2007-2011 Strategic Plan
• Soul of the City: Investing in Hartford Arts: Big Bang, Not Fluff
  A 2005 op-ed by Ken Kahn in the Hartford Courant makes a broad case for community investment in the arts.