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Mar.20.2012 Clout: A Blogfest on Art and Political Power. Part 7: A Wrap-Up from Me This is my final installment in a weeklong blogfest on art and political power I’m cohosting with blogger Barry Hessenius. To readers who aren’t as obsessed with this subject as we are, thanks for hanging in! I promise my next blog will be about something completely different (reader’s choice, if...	Mar.19.2012 Clout: A Blogfest on Art and Political Power. Part 6: Barry Hessenius This is the sixth installment in a weeklong blogfest on art and political power I’m cohosting with blogger Barry Hessenius, former Director of the California Arts Council; President of the California Assembly of Local Arts Agencies; Executive Director LINES Ballet. Author (Hardball Lobbying for...
Mar.16.2012 Clout: A Blogfest on Art and Political Power. Part 5: Dudley Cocke This fifth installment in a weeklong blogfest on art and political power I’m cohosting with blogger Barry Hessenius was authored by Dudley Cocke, Artistic Director of Roadside Theater, a stage director, teacher, writer, and media producer. He has taught theater at Cornell University, the College...	Mar.15.2012 Clout: A Blogfest on Art and Political Power. Part 4: Ra Joy This fourth installment in a weeklong blogfest on art and political power I’m cohosting with blogger Barry Hessenius was authored by Ra Joy, Executive Director of Arts Alliance Illinois, an artist and arts advocate with extensive experience in public policy and the congressional arena. Prior to...
Mar.14.2012 Clout: A Blogfest on Art and Political Power. Part 3: Diane Ragsdale This third installment in a weeklong blogfest on art and political power I’m cohosting with blogger Barry Hessenius was authored by Diane Ragsdale, currently attending Erasmus University in Rotterdam (in the Netherlands), where she is researching the impact of economic forces on US nonprofit...	Mar.12.2012 Clout: A Blogfest on Art and Political Power. Part 1: Arlene Goldbard & Barry Hessenius Over the next week, I’m co-hosting this special blogfest on art and political power, planned with blogger Barry Hessenius, former Director of the California Arts Council; President of the California Assembly of Local Arts Agencies; Executive Director LINES Ballet. Author (Hardball Lobbying for...
Feb.15.2011 Life Implicates Art, Part 3: The Great Reframing Note: This is the third in a rapid series addressing the current crisis in arts funding and how to head off future crises. Here's a combined link to all three. After this, I return to my normal rhythm of posting an essay once or twice a week. My two previous essays focused first on the deeper...	Sep.22.2009 THE VALUE OF THE ARTS Today I want to write about the value of the arts in our society. What prompted me to write today was listening in my car to SAmuel Barber's "Adagio for STrings" and Rodrigo's "Adagio" in his guitar Conerto in D min. The NPR commentator said that Barber's piece was often called...
Jun.19.2009 The Secret of Survival This is the first section of a talk I gave on 19 June 2009 at the National Summit of Ensemble Theaters, meeting at the University of San Francisco. Download the full text from my Website (scroll down under "Talks and Speeches" to "The Secret of Survival"). I’ve just moved back...