Recent developments both regionally and nationally – the Detroit Symphony announced the end of it’s 26-week strike on April 8 and the U.S. congress has passed a budget for fiscal year 2011 (on April 12) . These decisions have come at a the cost of goodwill amongst some constituents and require much work still to [...] Read more »
Earlier this year, NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman created waves throughout the arts field with his presentation at Arena Stage theater in Washington D.C. The convening included over 100 representatives from arts organizations around the country hosted by The American Voice New Play Institute from January 26-29, 2011. A few blogs and resources focused on the [...] Read more »
Arts Funding in the U.S: NEA operation manual Created by Congress in 1965 by Lyndon B. Johnson, The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is the overarching funding body of the arts in the United States. Despite the agency’s rocky history (from the culture wars and almost annihilation in the 80′s to its constantly shrinking [...] Read more »
How do Americans participate in the arts and culture? The NEA released it’s most recent Survey of Public Participation in the Arts last week. Data regarding performing arts participation corroborates previously documented audience trends. Both the 2002 and 2008 studies noted these audience demographic characteristics of classical music (defined as symphony, choral, and chamber music [...] Read more »
After a brief sojourn to San Francisco in October, I am now reconnecting my thoughts of economics and the arts through my search for a position in symphony management. Regardless of career aspirations, arts administrators need a strong foundation of management tools to govern their organizations effectively in the current economic climate. Discussions of increasing audiences, donated [...] Read more »
