Cultural Sustainability in the New (Oakland)
Randolph Belle & Family This post originally appeared during the Emerging Arts Professionals/San Francisco Bay Area’s blog salon entitled “Cultural Policy 101″ earlier this month. You can view all...
View ArticleReclaiming Art
Xavier Cortada In using arts and culture to build community, we often forget that the greatest resource isn’t necessarily the program we design, or the object we create, or the idea we generate. It is...
View ArticleThe Act of Discovery for a Community
Bill Mackey Many of the comments inspired further thoughts on my desire to create community based art projects that embrace satire or humor without an apparent or direct tie to any institution (be it...
View ArticleBlending Fine Art, Commercialism, & Technology (Part 1)
Donald Brinkman I am pleased to have the opportunity to blog about art and its relationship to the corporate world — it is a topic of significant interest to me. I make no claims at being an expert on...
View ArticleBack to the Future (Part 2)
Erik Takeshita The deeper the roots, the stronger we are. I have a print in my office made by a teen from The Point Community Development Corporation with this on it. I couldn’t agree more. We need to...
View ArticleA “New Kind of Future” for the Bronx
Nancy Biberman Last month, The New York Times documented an incredible group of local artists coming together to turn a rundown (but not forgotten) Bronx building into a work of art. The canvas was the...
View ArticleCultural Historians: Paying Homage to the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
Molly O'Connor Working part time at a bookstore to pay for college, it was in 2001 when I first learned about the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. I was shelving books when I came across a copy of Up from the...
View ArticleGreat Art Comes Only from Those Willing to be Vulnerable
Victoria Ford “Great art comes from great pain.” A fully loaded and explosive statement if ever there was one, this is the primary proposition in Christopher Zara’s recent book Tortured Artists, a...
View Article500 Artists, Gardens Celebrate Florida’s 500th Birthday
On Easter Sunday 1513, Ponce de Leon landed his three ships on the eastern shore of the peninsula where I live. Claiming the land for Spain, he named the place La Florida, (for the Spanish word “flor”...
View ArticleFrom the Big Lick to Big Ideas: Capitalizing on Culture in Roanoke
Kate Preston Keeney Like many of my high school classmates, I never had plans to stay in my hometown of Roanoke, located in southwestern Virginia. Among other reasons, it seemed to lack that something...
View ArticleBreaking Barriers and Embracing Change: A History of the Apollo Theater
Aryana Anderson Before the Apollo Theater opened for its inaugural performance on January 26 1934, Harlem’s 125th street was a shopping center for residents in the mostly white upper-middle class...
View ArticleThe Role of the Arts in the Service of History
Gerard Atkinson An unexpected part of the internship job description—being called upon to be a documentary judge. In addition to my work in the Research Services team at Americans for the Arts, I was...
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