Blogs from Around the Network

ArtCorps
Art for Social Action

• Mid-year Reflection, ArtCorps-Style, Aug 20, 2010
• La reflexión de mitad de curso, al estilo ArtCorps, Aug 20, 2010
• I Don’t Make Art: I Open up the Creative Mind, Jul 30, 2010

Art Threat
political art & cultural policy

• Triumph for BC arts community, Sep 2, 2010
• Berlin bombed with 100,000 poems, Sep 1, 2010
• 60 Israeli actors boycott theatre in West Bank settlement, Aug 31, 2010

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

• What's an organization for?, Sep 2, 2010
• The myth of the artist in a mash-up world, Aug 31, 2010
• Economies of Life, Aug 26, 2010

ARTSblog

• What would your future look like?, Sep 2, 2010
• What do Ballet and Baseball Have in Common?, Sep 1, 2010
• Are We on the Same Page Here?, Aug 31, 2010

The Arts Catalyst
art | science | society

• Two chairs for Innovation - the tale of a remake, Nov 25, 2009
• Arctic Perspective Initiative announces the winners of its open architecture competition, Oct 28, 2009
• Soundings and transitions, Oct 22, 2009

Arts and Ecology

• Art, Ecology and Citizen Power, Apr 9, 2010
• The thing we shouldn’t be asking artists to do, Mar 26, 2010
• Another kind of model village…, Mar 23, 2010

ATA Blog
The Association of Teaching Artists (ATA) is a not for profit professional organization whose mission is to strengthen and serve Teaching Artists from all disciplines in New York State and beyond. Connect. Get jobs. Go Teach!

• Learning Experiences, Sep 1, 2010
• Planning & Improvisation, Aug 30, 2010
• Verses, Aug 26, 2010

BEN VOLTA

• POLYGON BLOOMS @ GROVER WASHINGTON JR. MIDDLE SCHOOL, Jun 18, 2010
• ART IN THE OPEN PHILADELPHIA: POLYGON BLOOMS essay by gerard brown, Jun 9, 2010
• POLYGON BLOOMS BLOG, Jun 3, 2010

Blog This Rock
The blog of Split This Rock Poetry Festival

• Poem of the Week: Thomas Sayers Ellis, Aug 31, 2010
• Tonight: A Reading from I GO TO THE RUINED PLACE, Aug 26, 2010
• Poem of the Week: Lauren K. Alleyne, Aug 25, 2010

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.

• What Can Indie Film Learn from Indie Music?, May 18, 2010
• Fair Use Question of the Month: Can I post recordings of me playing a video game?, May 18, 2010
• MYMM presentation: New Models for Impact Assessment, May 12, 2010

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

• Chapter 7: Artists Will Create the Future, Aug 15, 2010
• Chapter 6: One story at a time, Jun 24, 2010
• Chapter 5: How do you see the future?, Apr 26, 2010

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.

• ARRA Era Murals Part 2, Aug 1, 2010
• Murals Hitting a Brick Wall, Jun 10, 2010
• SPARC returns from El Salvador, May 5, 2010

Blog
Cornerstone Theater Company, telling our nation's stories.

• Teatro Jornalero Sin Fronteras Update: Census Tour and Performance West, Apr 12, 2010
• Teatro Jornalero Sin Fronteras Update, Mar 11, 2010
• 2009 Institute in Eureka, CA, Jan 21, 2010

Createquity.
Art in a Creative Society

• The Phoenix in Baltimore, Aug 29, 2010
• Interview with Helena Fruscio, Director, Berkshire Creative, Aug 23, 2010
• Around the horn: hello NYC edition, Aug 20, 2010

Creative Arts and Aging Network
Artful Aging ~ Making movements in the community to unite older adults and the arts.

• Are you a writer who needs a Push to Publish? Read on . . ., Sep 1, 2010
• It's August--it's Monday--sit back and enjoy the moment before the moment is gone . . ., Aug 30, 2010
• Turkish Marbling comes to Philadelphia, Aug 26, 2010

Creativity and Aging Blog

• AARP Features Adults who Turned to Art Later in Life, Aug 19, 2010
• Artist Couple's Quest to Accept Their Aging, Aug 17, 2010
• Don't Forget to Register for the NCCA Webinar Series!, Jul 20, 2010

CREATIVITY MATTERS by Judith Zausner
Topics that address creativity in the landscape of our lives today and as we age.

• CHALLENGING ART, Aug 30, 2010
• Famous Octogenarians in the Arts, Jul 25, 2010
• Imagination, Creativity & Confidence, Jul 18, 2010

Education and Community Programs
Just another Walker Blogs weblog

• Views from the Open Field: 10 Highlights from the Summer, Sep 1, 2010
• Lessons Learned 3: Chris Kennedy, Aug 31, 2010
• Interview with Auctioneer, Glen Fladeboe, Aug 31, 2010

Arlene Goldbard
culture, politics and spirituality

• I Have a Nightmare: Glenn Beck and The Big Lie, Aug 29, 2010
• Virtuality: Annals of Online Dating, Part One, Aug 23, 2010
• Abbey Lincoln and The Next Great Artist, Aug 16, 2010

GIA News's blog
The mission of Grantmakers in the Arts (GIA) is to provide leadership and service to advance the use of philanthropic resources on behalf of arts and culture. GIA is the only national association of private and public funders making grants to artists and arts organizations in America.

• National Endowment for the Arts Announces $100,000 in NEA Distinguished New Play Development Project Grants, Sep 2, 2010
• Abigail Disney on Preserving the Estate Tax, Sep 1, 2010
• Guardian 'Directors' Debate' is a Good Read for Arts Funders Everywhere, Aug 27, 2010

The Groundswell Blog
Dedicated to critical cultural production at the intersection of art and activism.

• Critical Views 5 at Red Sun Press – Call for Submissions, Aug 16, 2010
• Notes for a People’s Atlas of Greater Boston, Jul 29, 2010
• Pizza is Political – Designer Hwang Kim Inserts DVDs into Ideological Circuits, Jul 27, 2010

Independent Arts & Media
Strengthening the Culture of Democracy

• 2009 Milestones for Indy Arts, Jan 1, 2010
• 2009 Milestones for Indy Arts, Jan 1, 2010
• Donate to Indy Arts via PayPal!, Dec 11, 2009

Inside Stories
Conversations and commentary on storytelling in its many forms.

• THE HIV STORY PROJECT -- TO KNOW THEM IS TO LOVE THEM, Aug 31, 2010
• THE SOCIAL GOOD SUMMIT -- SEPT. 20 IN NYC, AND ONLINE, Aug 30, 2010
• YOUR LESBIAN AUNT'S ATTIC, Aug 22, 2010

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!

• Hip Hop and Social Justice Initiative, Jun 10, 2010
• Understanding State Government Appropriations For the Arts: 1976-1999, May 22, 2010
• Understanding State Government Appropriations For the Arts: 1976-1999, May 22, 2010

Keep Arts in Schools - Join the Discussion

• Arts Learning Advocates Spring into Action, Apr 21, 2010
• ESEA Revisions Bring Art Back in Spotlight, Mar 19, 2010
• Weigh in On NCLB, Feb 25, 2010

National Endowment for the Arts
New content on the National Endowment for the Arts web site

• The Mayors' Institute on City Design 25th Anniversary Initiative Grants Announced, Jul 20, 2010
• NEA ARTS, Jul 15, 2010
• Big Read Grants Announced, Jul 15, 2010

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

• What’s the Hubbub?, Jun 16, 2010
• Save Our Prison Farms, Jun 2, 2010
• Toward a Just Metropolis Comes to the Bay Area, May 26, 2010

Open Society Institute: Media and Arts
Media and Arts

• At Home in Europe Project Events at Copenhagen Eid Festival, Sep 10, 2010
• Remembrance: Five Years On, Aug 29, 2010
• Supporting the Extraordinary: Open Society in New Orleans, Aug 27, 2010

Provisions Library
Provisions for the Arts of Social Change

• New Provisions Library Website – Soft Launch, Jul 31, 2010
• Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Solar King, Jul 30, 2010
• Taryn Simon’s Contraband Reveals Strange Objects, Cultural Insight, Jul 30, 2010

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

• Tattoos on the Heart, Jun 7, 2010
• By Heart on 7th Avenue Project, May 2, 2010
• Prison Creative Art Project’s 15th Annual Art Show, Mar 31, 2010