Based on two major surveys of more than 6,000 people, the report documents a wide range of cultural activity–in music, theater and drama, reading and writing, dance, and visual arts and crafts–happening outside of the boundaries of the traditional infrastructure of nonprofit arts organizations and facilities in two fast-growing and increasingly diverse inland regions of the state.
Issue Brief: Healthcare and the Arts
As Congress works toward a major reform of the national health care system, Americans for the Arts, the Society for Arts in Healthcare, and 19 other national associations have crafted a legislative request to strengthen the role of the arts in health care. The group hopes to provide creative arts therapists, artists, and arts organizations that do work in health care settings, either as volunteers or professionals, greater opportunity in this legislation.
BOOK: The Flight of the Creative Class, by Richard Florida
The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent by best-selling author Richard Florida, is the follow up to The Rise of the Creative Class. The book details how we can work to create a new American society that taps “the full creative capabilities of every human being.”
BOOK: Dialogues in Public Art, by Tom Finkelpearl
By the 1990s, public art had evolved far beyond the lonely monument on an open plaza. Now public artists might design the entire plaza, create an event to alter the social dynamics of an urban environment, or help reconstruct a neighborhood. This provocative volume presents a rich variety of interviews with people who create and experience public art — from an artist who mounted three bronze sculptures in the South Bronx to the bureaucrat who led the fight to have them removed.
BOOK: Along the Way, by Sandra Bloodworth and William Ayers
Featuring over 200 color photographs, Along the Way is a tour through New York’s underground museum of contemporary art, works commissioned by MTA Arts for Transit for the subway system and commuter rail lines. The text addresses the Arts for Transit program from its inception in 1985 and includes works by a number of artists including Roy Lichtenstein, Romare Bearden, Faith Ringgold, Mary Miss, and Michele Oka Doner. Discover how Arts for Transit commissions exemplify the principles of public art, relating directly to the places in which they are installed and the community around them.
BOOK: Civic Dialogue, Arts and Culture: Findings from Animating Democracy, by Pam Korza
Civic Dialogue, Arts & Culture explores the power of the arts and humanities to foster civic engagement and demonstrates how arts and humanities organizations can be vital civic and cultural institutions. This book examines the experiences of 37 arts and humanities projects, realized by a wide range of cultural organizations, and supported by Animating Democracy, a program of Americans for the Arts. These projects explored such issues as race relations, economic inequity, gentrification, school violence, and the influx of immigrants and refugees in communities, among others. The book shares the findings of this highly regarded initiative by capturing the perspectives of artists, cultural leaders, and community partners involved with these projects. Civic Dialogue, Arts & Culture contributes to deepening our understanding of the artistic, civic, and organizational dimensions of the work, as well as the principles and practices that underpin effective work.
