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This is a two-part podcast: we begin with Christine Bial, the Director of Arts and Humanities Grants at Mid-America Arts Alliance which is a partner with National Endowment for the Arts in the Creative Forces Community Engagement Grant Program. She gives an overview of the program, its goals, scope, and examples of some of the programming. She also shares what was learned in … [Read more...] about Creative Forces NEA Military Arts Network

In this episode, we discuss arts programming in the context of the Surgeon General’s recent advisory on loneliness and isolation. A transcript is available here. … [Read more...] about Quick Study: Arts and the Surgeon General’s Health Advisory

According to results from the 2022 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA), 39.9 percent of U.S. adults, or 101.9 million, worked with indoor plants or gardened for pleasure in the course of a year. Despite population growth, this rate is comparable to the share of Americans who gardened five or ten years before. The consistently high rate of gardening, as a … [Read more...] about How Green Is Your Thumb? Gardening, Crafts Linked with Greater Life Satisfaction Early in Pandemic

In this episode, we consider a study about the rise in women authors and what the trend means for innovation in book publishing. A transcript is available here. … [Read more...] about Quick Study: Gender-Inclusive IP Creation Benefits Consumers