New York City’s MOMA design curator Paola Antonelli describes the Spring 2008 groundbreaking show “Design and the Elastic Mind” — full of products and designs that reflect the way we think now. The exhibit examines the work of designers and scientists and the connections between the two. Presented by TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design), an organization that began as an annual conference on the California coast concerned with new and innovative ideas.
Students with Disabilities and the Core Arts Standards: Guiding Principles for Teachers
All teachers, regardless of their content area expertise, are required to teach students with disabilities.
Making Meaningful Connections: Characteristics of arts groups that engage new and diverse participants
We’re pleased to share new research about the qualities of arts organizations that are successfully engaging new and diverse participants. These characteristics, transferable and applicable to a wide variety of organizations, reflect the different facets of an organization that can build, strengthen and deepen connections to California’s communities.
PBS Teachers’ “Books on the Arts”
Each month, PBS Teachers delivers a new selection of books and web sites recommended for teachers and students across grade levels and subjects. Take a look at the special page dedicated to the arts.
Arts, Inc.: How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights by Bill Ivey
In this impassioned and persuasive book, Bill Ivey, the former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, assesses the current state of the arts in America and finds cause for alarm. Even as he celebrates our ever-emerging culture and the way it enriches our lives here at home while spreading the dream of democracy around the world, he points to a looming crisis. The expanding footprint of copyright, an unconstrained arts industry marketplace, and a government unwilling to engage culture as a serious arena for public policy have come together to undermine art, artistry, and cultural heritage–the expressive life of America. In eight succinct chapters, Ivey blends personal and professional memoir, policy analysis, and deeply held convictions to explore and define a coordinated vision for art, culture, and expression in American life.
Bill Ivey was the chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts from 1998 through 2001, was director of the Country Music Foundation from 1971 to 1998, and was twice elected Chairman of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. He presently serves as founding director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University, and is part of President-elect Obama’s transition team for arts and culture issues.
Policy Partners: Making the Case for State Investment in Culture
Innovations in State Cultural Policy is a project designed to help cultural leaders and decision makers strengthen their states’ cultural activity. Through illustrative studies, guides and covenings, the project aims to spark collaborations–state-level coalitions that span the arts, humanities, folklife and historic preservation–that can then work with state policy makers to increase the audiences and funding for culture. This guide to action seeks to illuminate diverse, innovative policy mechanisms that can be adapted by other states.
