Charlie Ortiz, Executive Director of the WHIN Music Community Charter School, shares the vision and process behind their new $44 million home.

By my philosophy The finite, but imponderable Metaphysical Universe Embraces the definite, Ponderable, physical Universe. 'Finite' is not unitarily conceptual. 'Definite' is unitarily conceptual. I have mathematical proof ...

On NPR this morning is a short piece pondering the fates of the NEA and NEH under the second Trump administration. It is optimistic,...

“Singing Black” — Tibbett in “The Emperor Jones” at the Met (1933) Today’s online edition of “The American Scholar” carries

In this episode, we discuss recent developments in neuroscientific research on dance and creative movement. A transcript is available on the NEA website.

I see somewhere that the Prez-Elect is hawking guitars, his latest grift. (No indication of where they're made.) So how about shoelaces? Very strong. Easily knotted. Made in China. Only 2 cents each, pre-tariff.

Scholars and specialists addressed ethical and political considerations surrounding AI in collaborations with human creators. Topics ranged from AI aesthetics to the early history of machine learning, from multimedia art to computational research experiments with artificial intelligence, including AI biases and applications.

First, they define the community. Then ask what they need, not what they want. Finally, they don’t confuse it with ...

"The dodo bird cheered, swaggered, and strutted away."

Hubert Massey, public artist and fresco muralist at the Marygrove Conservancy, shares his creative process of creating extraordinary art that transforms public spaces.

A dear friend of mine died recently of a sudden heart attack. I discovered that the only music I found

These drawings, which appear in "di Umbria," a dossier of Gerard Bellaart drawings just published by Moloko, were not intended as commentary on current events. But I can't shake the sensation that they are.

Regardless of the elections, the issues haven’t changed for US nonprofit arts organizations. But the stakes are higher than ever. Life ...

When I was a child we had some really old Peanuts paperbacks, now long lost, and for reasons unknown – some spirit knew I...

Jérémy Jolley, Senior Director of Education & Community Engagement at the Seattle Symphony, shares how providing access to performance space impacts their partners and community.

Is charitable resistance just another instance of the Peter Principle at play at your nonprofit arts organization? For the uninitiated, ...

Pre-internet, the lines were pretty clear about the binary relationship between artist and audience. Artists created and audience consumed. In today’s digital world, the landscape is fluid—we create and express our identities by what we choose to share online. Sharing, or curating what we encounter both online and in the real world, is perceived as a creative act. In the online world, art doesn’t become activated until people decide to “do” something measurable with it.

Sally Blandón, Early Childhood and General Music Program Director at the Merit School of Music, shares the impact of their Music For All approach to programming.

Remember that war we talked about in February and March? Has it already started? (Image by HUNG QUACH from Pixabay). ...

Among minor casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic—at least in my neighborhood— were troops of parents and young children going door to door for Halloween,...