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Americans for the Arts Resources (20) more

• United Arts Funds: Meeting the Challenge of Increased Private Sector Support for the Arts
  In communities of all sizes, united arts funds (UAF) are working to broaden the base of support for the arts, promote excellence in the arts and arts management, and to ensure that arts organizations are financially stable.
• Local Arts Agencies: Crisis and Opportunity
  With the arts community facing many challenged, Americans for the Arts engaged Wolf, Keens & Co. to develop a more current and complete picture of what is happening in the LAA field so that others may learn new strategies for growing and survival.
• 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

News Articles (127) more

• Gimme culture! Arts blossom in Gulf Arab desert
  Long derided as a cultural desert, the Gulf art scene is beginning to blossom.
• Now Showing - Des Moines' Creative Class
  Iowa and Des Moines' efforts to cultivate a "creative economy" and are signs that the capital city could compete nationally for creative talent.
• Arts groups creating ways to lure young audiences
  Young professionals don't get their information through traditional media, and they might need an extra push to get them inside area theaters.

Project Profile (20) more

• smARTstart
  Arts & Business Council of Chicago created smARTstart, an online resource center for small or new arts nonprofits.
• 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.

Research Abstract (50) more

• Colleges as Catalysts for the Creative Class
  Colleges are an important part of the creative sector. We offer what is all too rare: employment for artists, scientists, and other innovative thinkers in various disciplines; spaces to develop new work; and environments that ideally allow students and faculty members to experiment, take risks, and learn from their failures. But are our institutions playing the role that they should in helping to build the creative economy?
• Arts in the Balance: Arts Funding in Los Angeles County: 1998-2005
  The purpose of this study is to gain a clearer picture of arts funding in Los Angeles in the context of the region’s wider cultural economy, and to look longitudinally at how funding flows and patterns have changed over the past five years.
• Funding Culture: The Report of the Task Force on the Public Funding of Cultural Institutions in Northeastern Illinois
  This report analyzes the public funding for 12 major cultural institutions in Cook County that receive property tax-based funding from the Chicago Park District or the Forest Preserve District of Cook County. It makes recommendations for alternative funding sources that could stabilize the public funding for these and other institutions.

Sample Documents (32) more

• THE SHIFTING SANDS OF DEMAND: Trends in Cultural Participation
  Slideshow presentation by Wolf-Brown firm, commissioned by the Scottsdale Cultural Council. PDF Format
• Geodemographic Mapping Study Executive Summary
  The Executive Summary for a 360 page report on how to target new customers, testing the capactiy of the market to maintain or expand audiences, identifying possibilites for audience diversification, ticketing strategies and recommendations for growth opportunities.
• Portland Creative Economy Summit Report
  On May 31, 2006, Mayor Cohen convened Portland’s Creative Economy Summit. Over two hundred members of the Creative Economy attended the event, which was held in the Merrill Rehearsal Hall. After introductory remarks, the participants divided into three groups: creative individuals, creative organizations, and creative enterprises. Each group worked to develop three action steps for enhancing Portland’s creative economy; and at the end of the Summit, this list of nine steps was reduced by the full group to three final recommendations.