Industrial designers develop the concepts for manufactured products such as cars, home and electronic appliances, sporting goods, toys, and more. Working in a range of industries, industrial designers combine art, business, and engineering to make products and improve systems that people use every day.
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An Uneven Canvas: Inequalities in Artistic Training and Careers
This year’s annual report focuses on inequalities
that persist in the training and careers of arts
school graduates from diverse backgrounds.
In particular, the report explores gaps in school
experience; career opportunities and barriers;
and income based on gender, race/ethnicity, and
socioeconomic status (SES).
Arts Organizations and Digital Technologies
The internet and social media are integral to the arts in America. A survey of arts organizations that have received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) finds that technology use permeates these organizations, their marketing and education efforts, and even their performance offerings. Moreover, many organizations are using the internet and social media to expand the number of online performances and exhibits, grow their audience, sell tickets, and raise funds online, while allowing patrons to share content, leave comments, and even post their own content on organizations’ sites.
Working with Volunteers Tool Kit
Volunteers are a critical component of any arts organization. From ushers to fundraising, to pro-bono consulting and board service, volunteers expand the capacity of a nonprofit. Volunteers also create an entry point for establishing a relationship with businesses. While this tool-kit focuses on skills-based volunteering, much of the advice is applicable to all types of volunteers.
Culture Connects All: Rethinking Audiences in Times of Demographic Change
Arts and cultural organizations traditionally have two main roles: the production of arts or cultural activities, and the presentation of them to an audience. Both of these fundamentally involve people, as producers or as spectators; it is people who give cultural organizations their means and purpose.
Given this importance, when demographics change, cultural organizations
must pay attention; and demographics are indeed changing. Two of the fastest growing population groups present a timely opportunity for engagement but are at risk for being ignored by many cultural organizations that could benefit from their participation. Which are these two rapidly expanding populations? They are the rising tide of immigrants and older adults.
VISAS: The Journey to the U.S.
From Susan Elliot, editor, Musical America Special Reports — We’ve all heard the countless visa “horror stories” about the cancelled performance, the artist left at the airport, the clueless official who hasn’t heard of the venue called the Metropolitan Opera House. It’s as if the process of securing visas for foreign artists to perform on these shores is overseen by Mr. Murphy himself, carefully insuring his famous law that “everything that can go wrong, will go wrong.” Seeking a way to defeat him, we have gathered the experts and devoted an entire issue to stories to inform and enlighten about the subject of U.S. visas for visiting artists.
