Economic Turmoil and Change

• ARCHIVE OF THE NEA CULTURAL WORKFORCE FORUM IS ONLINE

  2009 Nov 26

  The video archive of the NEA’s Cultural Workforce Forum, a day-long presentation of research by primarily East-coast academics, and short on front-line practitioners, is now available in its entirety. – Tommer Here’s the link to the archive Tagged: Current Research, NEA

• STUDIO PROTECTOR: AN ARTIST’S GUIDE TO EMERGENCIES

  2009 Nov 25

  Craft Emergency Relief Fund has published Studio Protector: An Artist’s Guide to Emergencies. The fun-to-use, indispensable wall guide and companion web site, www.studioprotector.org, is for artists who want to cover their A’s (their art, assets and archives, that is) in the event of an emergency. Nationally known paper engineer Carol Barton and a team of artists [...]

• FOUNDATION CENTER PUBLISHES THE CELEBRITY FOUNDATION DIRECTORY

  2009 Nov 24

  Through their private foundations, many notable individuals have made significant contributions to help underserved populations and provide support for medical research, green technology, and countless other causes they care about. This new directory, in downloadable PDF format, includes detailed descriptions of more than 1,600 foundations started by VIPs in the fields of business, entertainment, politics, [...]

• L.I.N.C. SURVEY ON ARTISTS IN THE RECESSION

  2009 Nov 24

  A major new survey of American artists and how they are weathering the economic downturn has found that slightly more than half experienced a drop in income from 2008 to 2009, a blow to an already struggling group, two thirds of whose members reported that they earned less than $40,000 last year. Read the NYTimes summary Download [...]

• ARLENE GOLDBARD ON ARTISTS AND CULTURAL RECOVERY

  2009 Nov 24

  Tagged: Artists, Public Policy

• NEW RESEARCH ON NEUROEDUCATION AND THE ARTS AVAILABLE FROM THE DANA FOUNDATION

  2009 Nov 19

  Neuroeducation: Learning, Arts, and the Brain, the culmination of a summit sponsored by The Johns Hopkins University School of Education’s Neuro-Education Initiative, focuses on the convergence of neuroscientific research and teaching and learning, with an emphasis on the arts. This free publication features a prolegomenon by the late Dana Chairman William Safire and full text of [...]