One of my former colleagues used to complain that arts funders and administrators are “data paupers.” This must have been more than a decade ago. Even at the time, I questioned the assertion, but nowadays it may provoke stares. I mean, far from experiencing an arts data shortage, it often feels as though we’re swimming in the stuff. Quite apart from the increasingly … [Read more...] about Making Space for Indigenous Practices in Government Data about the Arts
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Art at the intersection: Saving a Community Legacy
Early last year for our magazine American Artscape , Paulette Beete wrote an article “Let Black Voices Ring Again” about the Mount Zion Baptist Church Preservation Society’s participation in the Citizens' Institute on Rural Design (CIRD) to rehabilitate a vacant but historically-significant Black church. In this podcast, we’re following up to trace the continuing impact of … [Read more...] about Art at the intersection: Saving a Community Legacy
Quick Study: Arts-Based Research Methods
In this episode, we consider “different ways of knowing”: how arts-based research can inform our understanding about—well—the arts. A transcript is available here. . … [Read more...] about Quick Study: Arts-Based Research Methods
Buyer’s Remorse in Higher Education—Some Questions for the Arts
In January 2014, President Obama caught flak from art historians when, speaking at a General Electric manufacturing plant in Waukesha, Wisconsin, he casually referred to their field of study. “I promise you,” he said, “folks can make a lot more potentially with skilled manufacturing or the trades than they might with an art history degree.” Immediately, Obama qualified his … [Read more...] about Buyer’s Remorse in Higher Education—Some Questions for the Arts
Afro-Dominican Loira Limbal talks about her film exploring extended day-care
Afro-Dominican filmmaker Loira Limbal’s documentary Through the Night is an intimate look at one home-based 24-hour day-care center in New Rochelle, the couple who runs the center and the mothers and children who need it. The film, which was co-produced and presented by the PBS program POV, examines the impossible situations workers who are single parents--primarily women and … [Read more...] about Afro-Dominican Loira Limbal talks about her film exploring extended day-care