August 15, 2001
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Cultural Policy listserv August 15, 2001 |
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Allison Brugg
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Announcements from the Community
JULY, 24 2001- Governor Lincoln Almond charged an Arts Task Force "to examine the relationship between education reform and the arts, and to make policy recommendations on how the arts can have a significant impact on the educational agenda of Rhode Island." (Executive Order, March 25, 1999)Recommendations from the Governor's Literacy in the Arts Task Force call for an unprecedented collaboration of the three worlds in which young people live and learn each day--home, school, and community. "Predicated on our belief in the value of collaboration, the Task Force recommends the establishment of an organization to coordinate arts learning efforts incorporating home (parent/family involvement), school (K-12 education), and community (e.g., higher education, arts organizations, youth development agencies, ethnic organizations)."
An excellent national model for moving arts education advocacy from rhetoric to policy reality.
"I commend Rhode Island on the development of a plan for making the arts basic to curriculum. The initiative embodies the vision set forth in Visual Arts Education: Setting an Agenda for Improving Student Learning," says NAEA President Mac Arthur Goodwin. "This initiative provides an excellent national model for moving arts education advocacy from rhetoric to reality. This endeavor is concrete evidence that through substantive collaboration arts educators continue to inform policy decisions."
The Task Force members-who represented art, music, theatre, dance; business and industry; and education leaders-conducted an eighteen month-long study of the status of arts education in Rhode Island. The Task Force reviewed national research on arts education, met with national leaders, conducted a survey of state arts educators, received testimony from state arts education leaders, held public forums across the state, and met regularly to review information and compile recommendations.
The support structures and systems in place [were] not adequate to provide students with comprehensive arts learning.
The report stated that the arts are critical to education reform. "While Rhode Island is an arts-rich state, we found there is a lack of equity in physical and programmatic access to arts learning opportunities, both in and out of schools. While there are examples of excellence in many schools and communities, there is a lack of infrastructure statewide to ensure equal opportunity to learn for all children and youth. The support structures and systems in place are not adequate to provide students with comprehensive arts learning. In addition, there is insufficient statewide coordination of arts learning resources."
According to executive committee member Stephen Saunders, art supervisor of the Warwick Public Schools, "this project gets beyond advocacy and PR that focuses on general awareness and onto policy dialog, which can change the ways schools do business for student learning in arts education."
Members must stand up and be counted.
"What is needed now is for members, divisions, issues groups, and state associations to get busy with their responsibility of informing arts education policy in local schools, districts and states," said Thomas Hatfield, NAEA Executive Director. "The Rhode Island model serves as an exemplary example that it can be done. Members must stand up and be counted for increased student achievement in art education. If we do not, then investments of the past will be ignored like a puff of smoke on the horizon and the political battles over substance and content will become a remote event to those who should have been involved, but were not."
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Watch for a complete article in the October issue of NAEANews. Copies of "Visual Arts Education: Setting An Agenda For Improving Student Learning" can be down loaded (pdf) in the recent news section of the NAEA web site at www.naea-reston.org.
Every year, the program supports up to 15 artists at any stage of their career. Fellows receive $44,000 each for a fellowship that can last from 12 to 18 months. Applicants must be 25 years or older at the time of the application deadline and must be residents of either Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, or one of the 26 counties of northwestern Wisconsin (see guidelines for a complete listing of those counties). In addition, prospective applicants must have lived in one of these states for at least 12 of the 36 months preceding the application deadline.
Application deadlines for the 2002 fellowships are: October 26, 2001 for Visual Arts: Three Dimensional and Choreography/Multimedia/Performance Art-Storytelling; and November 2, 2001, for Visual Arts: Two Dimensional.
Fellowship categories for the 2003 cycle will be Literature (i.e., poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction); Music Composition; Scriptworks (playwriting and screenwriting); and Film/Video.
Contact:
Bush Foundation
332 Minnesota Street, East 900
St. Paul, Minnesota 55101
Tel: (651) 227-0891
Fax: (651) 297-6485
E-mail: info@bushfoundation.org
http://www.bushfoundation.org/programs/ArtistFellowsProg.htm
Original listing from Philanthropy News Digest
In April of 2002, the 5th Symposium will further our understanding of such issues by exploring how broad and innovative partnerships can solidify the historic and cultural continuum that allow a storied heritage site to exist in vital community settings. The Symposium will come to Santa Fe, the ideal site for seeing first hand how rich cultures and traditional communities are sustained through preservation. It is locally co-hosted by many partners, including Cornerstones Community Partnerships, Crocker LTD and the New Mexico Historic Preservation Division.
International, national and local speakers, intermixed with field discussions held in important heritage sites will provide an unparalleled open forum.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS:
The Intellectual Content Committee invites interested parties to submit 500 word abstracts that address the process of international cooperation in heritage conservation; how constructively to deal with issues of international and domestic politics in preservation; case histories that record success or failure in community-based efforts; and that discuss the values and pitfalls in partnerships among heritage professionals, communities and volunteers in the preservation context. Papers for oral as well as poster presentation/ session will be invited from the submittals. Deadline for abstracts is 31 August 2001.
Submissions may be made electronically to fuvina@cstones.org or mailed/faxed to Francisco Uviña, Cornerstones Community Partnerships, 227 Otero St., Santa Fe NM 87501 USA. Fax: 1-505-982-2516
For a complete description, please see http://www.mediaaccess.org/employment/oa.html.
Please fax or email a detailed cover letter, resume, and references to the
attention of:
OA Position
Fax: (202) 466-7656.
Email: OA@mediaaccess.org.
No telephone calls please.
The editors are two arts managers from Weimar, Germany, a place, which is famous of its cultural history, not only in literature (Goethe, Schiller), music (Bach, Liszt), architecture (Bauhaus) or philosophy (Nietzsche). This newsletter wants to be a contemporary addition to print and online magazines. Our German edition is successful for 2 years with 24 issues. We invite you to forward this newsletter to other collegues and friends as well as to give us your comments and proposals to make this newsletter a helpful tool of communication between people, who have one of the most interesting jobs: managing the arts.
The Newsletter is for free. It has currently 1256 subscribers worldwide. Any feedback and contribution is warmly welcome. Send an email to info@artsmanagement.net. To subscribe this newsletter, visit the page http://www.artsmanagement.net/newsletter.html.
Editors:
Arts Management Network GbR
Dirk Heinze & Dirk Schuetz
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Education & the Creative Workforce
Technology's Effects on Culture
The Shape of the Creative Sector
Calendar of Events and Opportunities
Below, please find listings of new events, as well as those scheduled in August and September.
For events later than September, 2001 or to review past events, please visit the Center's
online calendar at http://www.culturalpolicy.org/resources/conf.cfm.
New Events
California Digital Arts Workshop (CDAW), entitled "The Arts and Streaming Media," announces the line-up for its weekend intensive program, running August 16-18. Curated by Julie Lazar, the Workshop has been designed to address and stimulate artistic exploration in the emerging field of new media. The two days of workshops are for juried participant-artists and were created to examine what streaming media means and what tools are necessary to integrate recorded (and live) audio and video within a user’s text-based Web site. This dynamic, multi-disciplinary workshop is comprised of artists and curators from around the world. The 2001AFI CDAW is sponsored by the California Arts Council and the Rockefeller Foundation. Additional support has been provided by ProMax Systems, Inc. and HostPro. As a way of furthering the global reach, excerpts from the summit sessions will be streamed on AFI’s Web site (www.AFIonline.org).
"AFI is providing a relevant context in which artists-and their curatorial advocates- take center stage in everything we’ve got planned," said Curator Julie Lazar. "Get ready for three great days of wildly diverse ideas, opinions and exchanges about the fastest growing arts pipeline and the medium of our times."
"With the advent of broadband technology, an entirely new canvas is open to the artist," stated Anna Marie Piersimoni, AFI’s Associate Director of New Media Ventures. "AFI, which stands at the intersection of art and new media, is the perfect host for the incredible cross-section of talented participant-artists and mentors assembled for this Workshop." The first two days of private mentoring sessions are specially scaled to be intimate and focused (three to five artists per session), with a range of informal, one-on-one technical and artistic critiques available. On the third day, panel presentations will be open to the public and an expanded range of topics will be examined. These will include:
Friday, August 17 at 8:00 p.m. at the Museum of Contemporary Art New Media Performance and Installation-co-presented by AFI and MOCA in association with Side Street Projects. This program will feature inventive performances by New York artists Jeremy Bernstein and Kurt Ralske and the premiere of Flood, a performance installation by Los Angeles artists Carole Kim and Jesse Gilbert.
Saturday, August 18 at 8:00 p.m. at AFI’s Mark Goodson Theater
Screenings of four short films from artists Janie Geiser (LOST MOTION), James Benning and
Burt Barr (O PANAMA), Lewis Klahr (PONY GLASS) and Pat O’Neill (TROUBLE IN THE IMAGE). The
filmmakers will be present.
There are no admission fees to attend the performances, summit or screenings, but reservations are required and can be made online at www.AFIonline.org/cdaw (seating is limited). For more information on the CDAW, please call 323.856.7862.
The aim of the conference is to systematically compare policy matters related to in-school cultural education for pupils in secondary education in the 12-18 age group in European countries. The objective is to achieve 'Europe-wide' representation. By involving researchers and academics, the organisers seek to broaden the horizon of policy experts and officials in the field and to provide more insight into policy and practice of cultural education.
The conference will contribute to the exchange of the knowledge and experience available for the benefit of the international community, which is involved as a stakeholder or as a part interested in cultural education.
The conference will result in recommendations, to be used by national and international authorities, such as the Council of Europe, the European Union and UNESCO, which are required to develop policy in order to influence future developments in the arts and culture and in society in a favourable way.
The conference is organized by the Boekman Foundation (study centre for the arts, culture and related policy in Amsterdam), the Cultuurnetwerk Nederland (Utrecht) and Erasmus University Rotterdam (Faculty of History and Arts, Department of the Study of Arts and Culture) -- in association with CIRCLE (Cultural Information and Research Centres Liaison in Europe), with the financial support of the Dutch ministry of Culture, Education and Science.
For registration information, visit http://www.amustoramuse.org.
Currently there is considerable discussion about the latest re- organisational proposals for the arts funding system in England. Change, however, is not confined to the UK. Other countries have also been re-appraising their cultural policies and, in some cases, their funding and decision-making structures in different tiers of governance and within arm's-length agencies.
This one-day seminar at City University, London, aims to explore the reasons behind this felt need for change and, more specifically, to identify its nature. The seminar will also address the potential impacts of this re-thinking of cultural governance on the cultural sector and reflect on the lessons that can be learned.
International Intelligence on Culture and City University (Department of Arts Policy & Management), London, are bringing together a leading group of cultural policy advisers and researchers from the USA, Finland, Hungary, Hong Kong and the UK to discuss these issues and trends.
The seminar will examine a number of drivers for policy change, highlighting cultural policies from around the world that are image, re-organisation or employment-led, opportunist in intent or defensive in nature. The programme will also include discussion of the future of welfare-led cultural strategies, the broadening of policy frameworks and trends for re-centralisation and decentralisation in the context of countries in Europe, North America, East and South East Asia and Australasia.
The speakers will include:
The seminar will interest policymakers at national, regional and local level and Students of cultural policy and management in the UK as well as internationally. This is an exceptional opportunity to hear and engage with some leading international policy analysts as well as policymakers with direct experience of change.
Contact: Ana Gaio, Lecturer in Arts Policy & Management, Department of Arts Policy &
Management, City University, Barbican Centre, London EC2Y 8HB
E-mail: a.i.gaio@city.ac.uk
http://www.city.ac.uk/artspol/
The theme of the 2001 Annual Meeting, "Cities of the Future," is meant to
reflect on the meaning of urbanization for human societies and social
relations, not just in wealthy industrial nations, but in those that are
rapidly industrializing as well as those that lag behind. What are the
social organizations, economic structures, ecological patterns, and
cultural forms that exist in cities now? How do they vary across the globe? What do
they tell us about our urban future? And what does an urban future imply
for the countryside, and for those regions of the planet that are not
incorporated into a global capitalism rooted in huge urban agglomerations?
These are some of the questions that we seek to address in the 2001 Annual
Meeting, on the threshold of global urbanism.
E-mail: meetings@asanet.org
http://www.asanet.org/convention/homepage.html
The Congress will provide an overview of researches, studies and state-of-the-art of
knowledge in different fields of architectural heritage related to the conservation and
restoration of monuments, buildings, historic towns, archaeological sites and other
structures built from the earliest times til the end of the 19th century. The Congress will
highlight the role that different techniques, technologies and materials have played in the
history of architecture, their relationship with the environmental conditions in different
parts of the world (climate, seismically, etc.). A special session will be devoted to the
structure of the 20th century and to the perspectives for the third millennium. The Congress
will be concluded with a panel discussion whose aim is to propose concrete project proposals
for the region likely to find international sponsorship.
Themes:
For more information, visit http://www.unesco.org/archi2000
This conference aims to explore the implications of the 'new technologies'
in terms of both teaching and research and, crucially, in broader social
and ethical terms. The conference will focus not on technical aspects,
but on the wider issues of ethics, gender, cognition, and ideologies and,
indeed, theologies of the object in the new virtual world. Major keynote
speakers will present their latest thinking and there will also be
workshop sessions led by eminent specialists on archiving, exhibiting and
online teaching. The conference will provide an opportunity for the
sharing of perspectives on the use and the implications of new
technologies in research and teaching in the arts and humanities. It will
also be an occasion for active participation in workshops and the sharing
of good practice.
Contact: Nicola Cotton, Department of French, University College, London
n.cotton@ucl.ac.uk
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/newtechnologies/
We invite you to participate in the cast01 conference on intersections of
artistic, cultural, technological and scientific issues of: LIVING IN
MIXED REALITIES. Topics:
ITTI 2001 is the second annual conference aimed at providing information to
American Indian Tribal Leaders and other interested parties to help increase
telecommunications services to tribal residents. At IIT 2001, the FCC and
NECA will bring together their own experts, along with representatives from
other federal government agencies, telecommunication companies and emerging
technology firms, to inform tribal governments about various facets of
telecommunications services and how different technologies, regulatory
rules, and government programs can be used to benefit tribal communities.
Contact: Nancy Plon, nplon@fcc.gov
http://www.fcc.gov/indians/ITTI/
(This event posting originally appeared on the Digital Divide Network)
Talk about your issues and discover what you should know about:
This is a major international conference exploring the issues of:
The conference will have a special -- but not exclusive -- focus on urban
and community cultural policy and planning issues of relevance to
government agencies, NGOs, policy-makers and researchers who are stakeholders in the
new cultural policy. The conference will feature national and international
keynote presentations from: UNESCO; OECD; Council of Europe; European
Commission Arts Councils; Local Government; National Ministries; NGOs and
Civic Networks; Leading International Practitioners and Researchers.
http://human.ntu.ac.uk/cppru or http://human.ntu.ac.uk/converge@nottingham/
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