Blogs from Around the Network

This page features links to recent entries in some of the blogs we pay attention to around the Web because they often have relevance to the material we publish on CAN. They are relayed electronically to the CAN site through rss feeds and the page updates four times a day. CAN has no control over their content.

Arlene Goldbard
culture, politics and spirituality

• Arlene’s Wager, Jul 3, 2009
• Michael, Jun 26, 2009
• The Secret of Survival, Jun 19, 2009

MARK VALLEN'S "ART FOR A CHANGE"
A working artist's weblog for art theory and commentary.

• Exhibition: Man's Inhumanity to Man, Mar 31, 2009
• El Salvador Presente, Mar 17, 2009
• LACMA’s $25 Million Choo-Choo Train, Mar 7, 2009

Art Threat
persuasive political art

• Stephen Harper to appear at Art Threat Party, May 28, 2009
• The arrogance of architecture: Graspierre and Laksa’s Afterlife of Buildings, May 25, 2009
• British Columbia re-elects right wing party despite video/film activism, May 14, 2009

The Artful Manager
Andrew Taylor on the business of arts & culture

• Truth, beauty, trust, Jun 30, 2009
• Considering the Creative Ecology, Jun 29, 2009
• A glimpse inside the Obama arts policy, Jun 23, 2009

Arnold Aprill's blog

ARTSBLOG
Americans for the Arts is the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America.

• ArtCast: Say Yes to President Obama’s National Volunteer Campaign, Jul 2, 2009
• Public Space, IKEA and NASCAR: A Bit About Partnerships + the Arts, Jul 2, 2009
• Valuing Cultural Diplomacy and Engagement for the 21st Century (from ArtsWatch), Jul 1, 2009

The Arts Catalyst
art | science | society

• Biorama 2: troglodites to thrombolites, Jul 1, 2009
• Audience blog from Eye of the Storm, Jun 24, 2009
• Eye of the Storm Live Blog, Jun 18, 2009

Arts and Ecology
Tagline here

• Gustav Metzger: artists “taking moral standpoints”, Jul 3, 2009
• Tim Smit: sustainability as “hippy shit”, Jul 2, 2009
• Ed Miliband’s summer reading, Jun 29, 2009

Blog This Rock
The blog of Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness

• 2010 Poets and Contest Winners Announced!, Jun 30, 2009
• Get a Personalized Poem from Workshop Leader and Poet, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Jun 26, 2009
• Last Call For Panel Proposals!, Jun 25, 2009

Creativity and Aging
Sponsored by the National Center for Creative Aging

• Time to Move Conference in the United Kingdom, Jun 30, 2009
• Civic Engagement Symposium in San Francisco, Jun 4, 2009
• Creative Age Symposium: Creating Creative Futures!, Jun 3, 2009

The Center for Social Media
The Center for Social Media showcases and analyzes strategies to use media as creative tools for public knowledge and action. It focuses on social documentaries for civil society and democracy, and on the public media environment that supports them. The Center is part of the School of Communication at American University.

• New Organizing Institute’s New Media Training, Jul 2, 2009
• Blogging from the PDF 2009: Twitter as a promising tool to increase social action, Jul 1, 2009
• Fair Use Question of the Month: Free Legal Advice for Fair Use, Jun 30, 2009

Center for the Study of Art and Community
A Rotary Blog about community cultural development.

• Chapter 4: The Story, "Story" and the Ides of Iraq, Jul 1, 2009
• Chapter 3: Art is a temporary condition, Jun 4, 2009
• Chapter 2: Seizing the Reins, May 11, 2009

Community Arts and Murals
This blog reports on participatory and community based visual arts projects. We will examine how projects transform the places we live, change and save lives, transcend differences, challenge stereotypes and build a more egalitarian and democratic society.

• Long Live Northland Poster Collective!, Jun 26, 2009
• Arts for All Mural Project, May 26, 2009
• Paulo Freire Freedom School Mural, May 19, 2009

Cornerstone Theater Company Blog
Cornerstone Theater Company is a multi-ethnic, ensemble-based theater company. We commission and produce new plays, both original works and contemporary adaptations of classics, which combine the artistry of professional and community collaborators. By making theater with and for people of many ages, cultures and levels of theatrical experience, Cornerstone builds bridges between and within diverse communities in our home city of Los Angeles and nationwide.

• Day Laborer Theater Troupe Update, Mar 18, 2009
• Cornerstone Remembers Rod Prichard and Brenda Killian, Mar 11, 2009
• Day Laborer Theater Troupe Update, Mar 8, 2009

Education and Community Programs
Just another Walker Blogs weblog

• Fantastic Fourth Bike Parade & Contest, Jul 3, 2009
• It Takes Two to Tango!, Jul 1, 2009
• Dr. Ronald Mallett speaks on time travel at the Walker, Jun 26, 2009

Economic Turmoil and Change
a blog for Arts Funders about the economic crisis

• ARTS GIVING IN AUSTRALIA ON THE RISE, Jul 3, 2009
• SUDDENLY HE’S EVERYWHERE, Jul 2, 2009
• TWO PRETTY AMAZING RESOURCES, Jul 1, 2009

Independent Arts & Media
Strengthening the Culture of Democracy

• Director's Blog: Nonprofit Karma, Jun 24, 2009
• Legendary Jazz Scribe Pens Jazzheimer's Story, Jun 23, 2009
• Indy Arts Sponsoree Brings Jazz for Healing, May 6, 2009

IssueLab: Arts and Culture
IssueLab is an online publishing forum for nonprofit research. We carry 35 news feeds covering a variety of social issues and provide direct access to full research works. You are viewing our "Arts and Culture" news feed. Create a LabRat account at www.issuelab.org/accounts/create and access all of our feeds for free -- and tag, rate, and review research to boot! IssueLab - bringing nonprofit research into focus. Join us!

• In Pursuit of Happiness Research: Is It Reliable? What Does It Imply for Policy?, Jul 1, 2009
• Broadcast Localism and the Lessons of the Fairness Doctrine, Jun 29, 2009
• Arts at the Core: Every School, Every Student, Jun 22, 2009

New Village Commons
Welcome to New Village Commons — a space for sharing news and views about grassroots community building!

• Dirt! the Movie, Jun 18, 2009
• Turning Legs into Roots: A New Village Press Intern Re-learns Walking, Apr 22, 2009
• CAN Reviews Arts for Change, Apr 16, 2009

The Park

• Claustrophobic Cubicles, May 27, 2009
• Insightful Perspectives, May 26, 2009
• Garbage, May 21, 2009

Portland Public Art

• Hiatus, Apr 18, 2009
• Historical art trove is Jefferson High legacy, Nov 8, 2008
• Gresham mayor blames artwork for vandalism, Nov 7, 2008

Judith Tannenbaum
Judith Tannenbaum is a writer and teacher whose work has focused on community arts and issues of cultural democracy.

• their teacher let them down, Mar 19, 2009
• arts in this crisis, Feb 7, 2009
• prison arts coalition, Oct 30, 2008