Local arts agencies, state arts agencies, arts funders supported through voter tax initiatives, and united arts funds are grappling with how to cultivate a twenty-first-century cultural community that reflects changing demographics, encourages innovation, embodies equity, and ensures a robust donor base and public commitment to the arts. Through interviews with sixteen leaders of public arts funders and united arts funds, Recalculating the Formula for Success: Public Arts Funders and United Arts Funds Reshape Strategies for the Twenty-First Century documents the new ways that these funders are approaching their work, rethinking longtime practices, and adapting to changing environments.
Native Arts & Cultures Foundation: Our First Five Years
Report on the work of the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation from 2009 to 2013.
Progressing Issues of Social Importance Through the Work of Indigenous Artists: A Social Impact Evaluation of the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation’s Pilot Community Inspiration Program
In 2014, the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) launched a new initiative, the Community Inspiration Program (CIP), which is rooted in the understanding that arts and cultures projects have an important role to play in motivating community engagement and supporting social change.
This report considers the social impacts of the 2014 CIP projects – what effects did they have on communities and on the issues, conversations, and connections that are critical in those communities? Its secondary purpose is to provide the NACF with ideas for how to improve its grant making in support of arts for community change.
Creative Placemaking Case Study: Brookland-Edgewood
This case study illustrates how Creative Placemaking, the deliberate integration of arts and culture into comprehensive community development, can serve as a critical catalyst in forming equitable living and working solutions for all the social, economic, and racial constituencies of a neighborhood. It also shows how Creative Placemaking depends on collaboration across several different sectors, each with different goals, mind-sets, work styles, and skills.
In the Brookland-Edgewood case, the multi-sector network of stakeholders included a forward-thinking government agency, a visionary nonprofit, a private developer, and the existing residents of a disadvantaged neighborhood.
Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account: State Employment and Compensation in 2014
This article provides an overview of BEA satellite accounts. It discusses source data and methodology for the arts and cultural production satellite account, offers a look at its statistics for specific industries, and notes some important next steps.
The CAP Report: 30 Ideas for the Creation, Activation & Preservation of Cultural Space
This report seeks to identify opportunities to increase cultural space, support innovation, strengthen neighborhoods and preserve the culture of Seattle.
