Download or read book The Visual Artist and the New Funding Environment written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bureaucratizing the Muse written by Steven C. Dubin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1987-08-04 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Comprehensive Employment and Training Act made a dramatic entrace on the American economic and social stage in December 1973. No comparable commitment of public funds to subsidize jobs had occurred since the Works Progress Administration programs of the 1930s. An important beneficiary of CETA was the Artists-in-Residence program, in operation from 1977 to 1981. As part of the largest direct monetary transfer to artists since the WPA, AIR employed 108 Chicago-area artists each year in nine fields—from dance and music to video and graphic arts. Bureaucratizing the Muse is a study of the Chicago AIR program. By its very nature art is a nonrational process, even at times antirational, and the idea of organizing artists in this kind of work environment was an unusual one. Steven C. Dubin's account is a fascinating story of the tensions between struggling artists who need a paycheck but fear the compromise of their art and bureaucrats who need to produce measurable results.
Download or read book Financial Assistance for Artists written by Jason Uhl and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Financial Assistance for Artists' includes indepth information on grants, fellowships, publishers, galleries, and basic business practices for all artists. A relatively unknown source of funding to artists today is available via private foundations and organizations that provide monetary support only to individual artists. Making this assistance and these opportunities and ideas available to artisans world-wide will not only allow artists to focus on their craft more intensly, but will also benefit the art conosseur seeking new, innovative, and unique art from an artist focused on and devoted to his or her craft.
Download or read book Artangel and Financing British Art written by Charlotte Gould and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Artangel Trust has been credited with providing artists with all the money and logistics they need to create one-off dream projects. An independent art commissioning agency based in London, it has operated since 1985 and is responsible for producing some of the most striking ephemeral and site-specific artworks of the last decades, from Rachel Whiteread’s House to Jeremy Deller’s The Battle of Orgreave. Artangel’s existence spans three decades, which now form a coherent whole in terms of both art historical and political periodisation. It was launched as a reaction to the cuts in funding for the visual arts introduced by the Thatcher government in 1979 and has since adapted in a distinctive way to changing cultural policies. Its mixed economic model, the recourse to public, private and corporate funds, is the result of the more general hybridisation of funding encouraged by successive governments since the 1980s and offers a contemporary case study on broader questions concerning the specificities of British art patronage. This book aims to demonstrate that the singular way its directors have responded to the vagaries of public funding and harnessed new national attitudes to philanthropy has created a sustainable independent model, but also that it has been reflected more formally, in their approach to site. The locational art produced by the agency has indeed mirrored new distinctions between public and private spaces, it has reflected the social and economic changes the country has gone through and accompanied the new cultural geographies shaping London and the United Kingdom. Looking into whether their funding model might have had a formal incidence on the art they helped produce and on its relation to notions of publicness and privacy, the study of Artangel gives a fresh insight into new trends in British site-specific art.
Download or read book The Profitable Artist written by Artspire and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While all art is unique, the challenges artists face are shared regardless of background, experience, and artistic medium. With decades of experience training and helping artists, the expert staff of the New York Foundation for the Arts have compiled a “best practices” approach to planning and organizing an art career. In this book, NYFA has identified common problems, examined specialized areas of business, ?nance, marketing, and law, and distilled these topics in such a way that readers can digest them and apply them to their own experience and practice. Included are interviews, anecdotes, and in-depth case studies. The skills and guidelines in The Pro?table Artist will also translate effectively to teaching and mentoring opportunities that artists may encounter as their career progresses. This invaluable guide appeals to all artists in all disciplines of the literary, media, performing, and visual arts, from recent art school graduates to established artists undertaking new arts businesses to artists seeking more from their careers at any stage of their career.
Download or read book Patronizing the Arts written by Marjorie Garber and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the role of the arts in American culture? Is art an essential element? If so, how should we support it? Today, as in the past, artists need the funding, approval, and friendship of patrons whether they are individuals, corporations, governments, or nonprofit foundations. But as Patronizing the Arts shows, these relationships can be problematic, leaving artists "patronized"--both supported with funds and personal interest, while being condescended to for vocations misperceived as play rather than serious work. In this provocative book, Marjorie Garber looks at the history of patronage, explains how patronage has elevated and damaged the arts in modern culture, and argues for the university as a serious patron of the arts. With clarity and wit, Garber supports rethinking prejudices that oppose art's role in higher education, rejects assumptions of inequality between the sciences and humanities, and points to similarities between the making of fine art and the making of good science. She examines issues of artistic and monetary value, and transactions between high and popular culture. She even asks how college sports could provide a new way of thinking about arts funding. Using vivid anecdotes and telling details, Garber calls passionately for an increased attention to the arts, not just through government and private support, but as a core aspect of higher education. Compulsively readable, Patronizing the Arts challenges all who value the survival of artistic creation both in the present and future.
Download or read book Supporting Yourself as an Artist written by Deborah A. Hoover and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1985 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With all the resources available to assist them, why do most of the one million working artists in America lack the support they need for their creative work? In Supporting Yourself as an Artist, Deborah Hoover, a successful arts administrator, argues that the missing link is information--not only about where artists' resources are, but about what they are, and how to tap into them. This unique guide outlines a step-by-step approach by which artists can develop a critical network of individuals, organizations, and information resources that will enable them to support themselves well as artists. Based on eight years of research, during which she interviewed more than 100 artists nationwide, and on her own experience as arts administrator and fundraiser, Hoover illustrates how artists have obtained free or low-cost contriubtions of everything from printing services to tax assistance. She includes first-hand accounts from corporate represntatives, patrons of the arts, arts administrators, and artists themselves--people who are anxious and willing to help artists find adequate means of support. More than just another list of funding sources, Supporting Yourself as an Artist helps artists develop procedures for identifying the right funding source for a specific project, for witing proposals, requesting funds by phone or in person, dealing positively with rejection, and much, much more. Each page is filled with practical, easy-to-use information for painters, filmmakers, poets, playwrights--artists of every kind. Whether you live in New York, Portland, or Austin, if you are an artist supporting yourself by your art, you will find this an invaluable resource, to be used time and again in your career. "I only wish that this had been written sooner. It's a life-sustaining consomme: rich but transparently clear. An essential aid for financial muddleheads like me."--Richard Leacock, Filmmaker "This book is the artist's best guide to creating funding opportunities. It helps artists see how they can be as creative in funding their work as in making their work. This guide also provides a larger vision for funding artists that all arts administrators will find useful."Anne Hawley, Executive Director, Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities "An excellent job....It's comprehensive, lively, well-written, and filled with information available nowhere else. It should be required reading for every artist and every person who is concerned with the support of individual artists."--Starr Ockenga, Photographer A practical handbook on how to survive as an independent artist .Contains solid, easy-to-use information on everything from getting funds to getting help on taxes to getting free equipment .Based on interviews with more than 100 practicing artists plus the author's own extensive experience as the director of MIT's innovative program for the arts About the Author: Deborah A. Hoover, formerly Executive Director of the Council for the Arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is now a cultural advisor to the Gambian government."
Download or read book Arts Programming for the Anthropocene written by Bill Gilbert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-21 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arts Programming for the Anthropocene argues for a role for the arts as an engaged, professional practice in contemporary culture, charting the evolution of arts over the previous half century from a primarily solitary practice involved with its own internal dialogue to one actively seeking a larger discourse. The chapters investigate the origin and evolution of five academic field programs on three continents, mapping developments in field pedagogy in the arts over the past twenty years. Drawing upon the collective experience of artists and academicians in the United States, Australia, and Greece operating in a wide range of social and environmental contexts, it makes the case for the necessity of an update to ensure the real world relevance and applicability of tertiary arts education. Based on thirty years of experimentation in arts pedagogy, including the creation of the Land Arts of the American West (LAAW) program and Art and Ecology discipline at the University of New Mexico, this book is written for arts practitioners, aspiring artists, art educators, and those interested in how the arts can contribute to strengthening cultural resiliency in the face of rapid environmental change.
Download or read book The Artist s Guide to Grant Writing written by Gigi Rosenberg and published by Watson-Guptill. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Artist’s Guide to Grant Writing is designed to transform readers from starving artists fumbling to get by into working artists who confidently tap into all the resources at their disposal. Written in an engaging and down-to-earth tone, this comprehensive guide includes time-tested strategies, anecdotes from successful grant writers, and tips from grant officers and fundraising specialists. The book is targeted at both professional and aspiring writers, performers, and visual artists who need concrete information about how to write winning grant applications and fundraise creatively so that they can finance their artistic dreams.
Download or read book Convergence of Contemporary Art Visual Culture and Global Civic Engagement written by Shin, Ryan and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art is a multi-faceted part of human society, and often is used for more than purely aesthetic purposes. When used as a narrative on modern society, art can actively engage citizens in cultural and pedagogical discussions. Convergence of Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Global Civic Engagement is a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly material on the relationship between popular media, art, and visual culture, analyzing how this intersection promotes global pedagogy and learning. Highlighting relevant perspectives from both international and community levels, this book is ideally designed for professionals, upper-level students, researchers, and academics interested in the role of art in global learning.
Download or read book Local Arts Agencies written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Community Art written by Kate Crehan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring key issues for the anthropology of art and art theory, this fascinating text provides the first in-depth study of community art from an anthropological perspective.The book focuses on the forty year history of Free Form Arts Trust, an arts group that played a major part in the 1970s struggle to carve out a space for community arts in Britain. Turning their back on the world of gallery art, the fine-artist founders of Free Form were determined to use their visual expertise to connect, through collaborative art projects, with the working-class people excluded by the established art world. In seeking to give the residents of poor communities a greater role in shaping their built environment, the artists' aesthetic practice would be transformed.Community Art examines this process of aesthetic transformation and its rejection of the individualized practice of the gallery artist. The Free Form story calls into question common understandings of the categories of "art," "expertise," and "community," and makes this story relevant beyond late twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century Britain.
Download or read book Arts and Culture in the Metropolis written by Kevin F. McCarthy and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nonprofit arts currently face an environment that challenges the way the arts have grown and raises the prospect of future consolidation. Cognizant of these problems, William Penn Foundation and the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance asked RAND to examine the condition of Philadelphia's arts and culture sector and recommend actions to ensure its sustainability. The authors identify the sources and characteristics of this new environment and describe the ways local arts communities are responding to the challenges confronting them. In the course of their analysis of eleven metropolitan regions, including Baltimore, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, Detroit, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Phoenix, and Pittsburgh, they introduce two novel ways of examining the local arts sector. First, they focus on the relationship among the three components of communities' "arts ecology": their arts infrastructures; the support systems upon which the arts depend; and the sociodemographic, economic, and the political environment in which they operate. Second, they create a new framework for describing and evaluating the range of support services that communities provide to their arts sectors. They then use this framework to analyze the components of Philadelphia's arts ecology and assess its specific strengths and weaknesses.
Download or read book Screen Ecologies written by Larissa Hjorth and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images of environmental disaster and degradation have become part of our everyday media diet. This visual culture focusing on environmental deterioration represents a wider recognition of the political, economic, and cultural forces that are responsible for our ongoing environmental crisis. And yet efforts to raise awareness about environmental issues through digital and visual media are riddled with irony, because the resource extraction, manufacturing, transportation, and waste associated with digital devices contribute to environmental damage and climate change. Screen Ecologies examines the relationship of media, art, and climate change in the Asia-Pacific region -- a key site of both environmental degradation and the production and consumption of climate-aware screen art and media. Screen Ecologies shows how new media and visual artists provide alternative ways for understanding the entanglements of media and the environment in the Asia-Pacific. It investigates such topics as artists' exploration of alternative ways to represent the environment; regional stories of media innovation and climate change; the tensions between amateur and professional art; the emergence of biennials, triennials, and new arts organizations; the theme of water in regional art; new models for networked collaboration; and social media's move from private to public realms. A generous selection of illustrations shows a range of artist's projects.
Download or read book Visual Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Environmental Sustainability in the Southern California Visual Arts Field written by Cynthia Joy Naideau and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the climate crisis continues to penetrate the news and everyday lives of Earth's inhabitants, this paper aims to investigate how visual arts organizations can do their part in contributing positively to the contemporary environmental movement. This text will explore the role of environmental sustainability in visual arts organizations in Southern California as well as the role that these institutions have in the contemporary environmental movement. The paper will also examine how visual arts organizations try to be more environmentally conscious and what actions they are taking or what limitations they might find to doing so. Through the use of an electronically disseminated survey, sent to the community of visual arts organizations of varying types including museums, galleries, and art centers in Southern California, and semi-structured interviews with administrators in the field I was able to gain a sense of the environmentally sustainable practices in the sector. Looking at the literature surrounding the field, it is clear that little has been explored with regards to the visual arts' impact on the climate movement. To understand where this field fits within the larger scientific field, this paper will provide context about the history of environmentalism within the United States and more regional Southern California, explore pivotal legislation that might influence the actions of these organizations, and look at environmental scientific data to understand the quantitative impact of actions. To prepare for the future of the field, the text will also explore different green business practices currently enacted by organizations as well as the possibility and potential for artist involvement in the contemporary environmental movement. The results of the surveys and interviews indicated that administrators in the visual arts field were actively participating in actions with an environmentally sustainable objective however, there is always more that could be done to point the future of climate change in the right direction. While some admitted their own leadership was limiting their organization's abilities to improve eco-friendly habits, others noted that resistance from stakeholders and staff made it difficult to focus on making sustainable changes. Seeing as many visual arts organizations are nonprofits, getting most of their funding from outside sources such as grant makers, individual major givers, and corporate funders, budgets had to be focused on the bottom line for operations and had little accessory funds to devote to big, long-term environmentally sustainable changes. In order to progress the field, future steps should be taken to ensure that these organizations are both not limited in taking action but encouraged to. By looking at the ideals of funders, ways to activate peers within the field, and determining if and what incentives are effective in increasing participation, the visual arts field could have a big impact on the contemporary environmental movement on an individual and industry basis.
