In today’s lead-up to arts advocacy season, consider these things about ARTS North Carolina’s Legislative Agenda item to pass a high school graduation requirement in the arts: The initiative is fully supported by the North Carolina Arts Council agency and their Board of Directors and the Department of Cultural Resources, Linda Carlisle Secretary. DCR has [...]
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof recently wrote, “To visit Haiti is to know that its problem isn’t its people. They are its treasure – smart, industrious and hospitable…” and I would add “creative.” Before January 12, to visit Haiti was to witness art at every turn. Paintings for sale hung on concrete walls in [...]
Arts Access, in partnership with the North Carolina Arts Council, is offering arts organizations across the state the opportunity to learn more about accessibility for people with disabilities. Gather with others in the field seeking information and resources for achieving accessibility to share experiences and learn methods that will build a foundation to support access [...]
ARTS Day 2010 will be held May 18 & 19, and more than any year in our history, it is imperative that people come to Raleigh and demonstrate their support for public funding for the arts. Since 2010 is an election year, it is essential to establish the presence of arts in election issues. Did [...]
All of us have seen the studies and reports: Nationally, the nonprofit arts and culture industry generates $166.2 billion in economic activity every year—$63.1 billion in spending by organizations and an additional $103.1 billion in event-related spending by their audiences. Additionally the nonprofit arts and culture industry provides: 5.7 million full-time equivalent jobs $104.2 billion [...]
The NEA’s recently released research, Arts Participation 2008, begins with a quote from John Updike: “Whatever art offered the men and women of previous eras, what it offers our own, it seems to me, is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.” (http://www.arts.gov/news/news09/SPPA-highlights.html) Updike’s quote proves my point that people have been blogging [...]
