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How Art Can Strengthen Evaluation
Renan Snowden Let’s be honest: sometimes evaluation can feel like taking medicine. What’s more, the results of evaluation often take the form of dry reports that are unwelcoming and, at worst, hard to...
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12 Ways to Market Your Public Art (Part One)
Elysian McNiff It is a challenge to produce effective marketing strategies for our public art projects and programs. Public art administrators and artists are faced with limited resources; we all wish...
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Yesterday’s Tragedy in Boston
Robert L. Lynch The tragedy in Boston yesterday was horrific and inexplicable and all of us at Americans for the Arts send our deepest sympathy and thoughts to those injured and to their families. As...
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The Controversy of ‘Artist as Philanthropist’: When giving art away is okay
Sarah Berry Artwork IS work. That is the credo many artists inherit. Artists learn not to give away their art or services, and good art lovers should know not to ask. Yet all artists have been...
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A Future for Creative Youth Development
Jeff Poulin Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the Arts Education Partnership’s annual National Forum. Aside from the connecting with arts education friends and learning tons (I mean tons!) in...
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Connecting Creative Youth Development and In-School Arts Education
Laura Perille Is it possible to rapidly increase the level of arts education offered in an urban district? Based on the example of the Boston Public Schools (BPS) Arts Expansion Initiative launched in...
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NEA Supports Creative Youth Development
Terry Liu As an Arts Education Specialist at the National Endowment for the Arts, I am fortunate to see new blooms in the field of education. Earlier this year, I was honored to join more than 200...
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