In less than two years the Asian Art Museum has gone from being on the brink of bankruptcy to catapulting itself as prominent institution for contemporary Asian art. The presentation was made at the California Association of Museums’ annual conference to serve as an example for other institutions.
Arts Organizations and Public Health: Developing Relationships and Programs to Address Local Health Priorities
Over the course of seven years, Partners for Livable Communities collaborated with the Ford Foundation on an initiative known as Shifting Sands: Arts, Culture and Neighborhood Change. The core of this initiative was a collective of nine community-based arts and cultural institutions working to become more integrated with the community development issues in their immediate neighborhoods. This primer was designed for the arts organization that wishes to initiate programming focused on local health issues, or create partnerships with health groups in order to best meet the needs of the community. Best practices are included.
Stories for Change: Leadership Examples of Expanding the Arts to New Audiences
Stories for Change is a compendium of best practices that builds upon
the findings of Culture Connects All: Rethinking Audiences in Times of Demographic Change, the 2010 report by Partners for Livable Communities. Stories for Change responds to the request for more stories: additional best
practices that showcase the strategies of many unique organizations, not
generally in the spotlight, that have designed arts and cultural programs,
and some non-arts programs, to serve older adults and immigrants.
Data Matters – Fall 2012 Issue
The Cultural Data Project is excited to announce the release of the fall 2012 issue of Data Matters, our newsletter for participating arts and cultural organizations. In this issue: Meet our researchers, and discover how your data is fueling the case for the arts and cultural sector; Learn how to give your organization a financial health check-up with the Financial Health Analysis; Discover helpful hints for media organizations and literary organizations, plus tips for organizations operating under a parent … and much more.
Otis Report on the Creative Economy of the Los Angeles Region 2012
The 2012 Otis Report on the Creative Economy of the Los Angeles Region is the sixth edition of an annual report commissioned by Otis College of Art and Design to do the impossible: quantify creativity by analyzing the financial impact of creative industries and practitioners in the Los Angeles region. It puts real numbers to creativity.
The findings continue to astound. The economy driven by the arts, design, and entertainment again ranks 4th out of 66 industry clusters in L.A. County. Supporting one in eight jobs in the region in 2011, the creative economy had a total regional output of $230 billion in revenues. The creative economy is undeniably powerful in Southern California. Like sunshine and diversity, creativity is a defining resource of our region.
Holding a Mirror Up to Nature: Psychological Vulnerability in Actors
For actors, the imaginative psychological process of realizing the life of a character is fundamental. Given this ability, we asked the question, do actors demonstrate increased psychological self-other awareness, including more resolution for past mourning, as compared with a control group?
