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Survey Says: Local Arts Agencies & Public Art
Mitch Menchaca A local arts agency (LAA) promotes, supports, and develops the arts at the local level to strengthen the daily fabric of community living. Each LAA is as unique as the community it...
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Getting the Pulse: Our Local Arts Agency Listening Post
With the local arts community facing many challenges, American for the Arts wanted to develop a current picture of trends at the local level. So we developed the Local Arts Funding Listening Post: A...
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Getting the Pulse: The Local Arts Agency Listening Post Part II
Washington's Gorge Heritage Museum As part of the Local Arts Agency Listening Post we asked if folks had additional comments beyond the specific questions in the survey, and several members took us up...
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How Strong is Your Social Net? (Part 2)
Mary Trudel Our 2011 How Strong is Your Social Net? Survey – that gathered responses from more than 1,600 arts organizations across the country – explores adoption and usage of digital and social...
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Reader Content Survey for Americans for the Arts
Dear Readers, Look over to the right side of this page and check out the tag cloud. (You might have to scroll a little. It’s under the “featured video”.) Are your favorite topics there? We want to...
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Let Evaluations Be Fun, Be Life
Marc Maxson Think about the most fun you’ve had doing charity work. What was it that really appealed to you? Was it the smiling faces of kids playing a sport or painting a mural? Maybe it was the...
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Exploring Evaluation for Public Art: Arlington County as Laboratory
Dr. Elizabeth Morton This course had its origins in a graduate assignment I had back in the early 1990s. My intimidating professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design provided only two...
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Measuring Access to Arts Education, or Not Another Survey!
Deb Vaughn Since I started my job 4 ½ years ago, I have been looking for a way to quantify arts education. There are an overwhelming number of models circulating: Washington State did an invited,...
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What Do We Really Know About People Who Get Arts Degrees?
Sally Gaskill As it turns out, quite a bit. Since 2008, the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP) has surveyed graduates of arts training programs—people who received undergraduate and/or...
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Do Business Executives Believe Artistic Pursuits Add Value to Their Work?...
John Bryan Richard Florida’s The Rise of the Creative Class is now 11 years old, and the notion that left-brained corporate types can benefit from right-brained creative types is acknowledged as...
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