This new project was designed to: document arts education in every school in the state through a statewide-mandated survey; combine the survey findings with other information to create a 360-degree view of arts education; broadly disseminate the results of the survey; create a model that may be deployed in other states; and develop an ongoing system to update, maintain and distribute arts education information across the state.

This Monograph is for individuals in all aspects of the field who are prepared to embrace the change and innovation necessary to successfully move the field forward.

The development of affordable spaces for artists to live and/or work is certainly an important matter for artists, but it can also be an important issue for people concerned with a range of social issues, including economic development, civic engagement, community collective action and community quality of life. This report considers how artist space developments have been positioned and the arguments made to garner support for them, the advocacy strategies used, and the impacts claimed or anticipated.

This new version of The Arts in the Small Community - a National Plan maintains the organization and all the "big" and timeless ideas of the original as well as the examples from the five test communities, but has supplemented it with contemporary examples from communities all across the country including urban and suburban. Discussions on business, public education, and communications were rewritten to reflect the evolution on these fronts in the past thirty-five years. An appendix summarizes what is happening in the test communities today.

In 2011, 97% of New Jersey students had access to arts education in their schools, with music and visual art nearly universally available. The number of NJ students with daily access to arts has increased by 54,000 since 2006.

This article examines local politics, racial attitudes, and public art standards in Richmond, VA, through the lens of a case study- the erection of the Arthur Ashe statue on Monument Avenue.

The Center for Arts & Culture, in partnership with the Arts Council of Fairfax County and George Mason University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts, sponsored a summit on Wednesday, May 25, 2005 at GMU’s Mason Hall. The summit, “Fairfax County Cultural Policy: A Challenge to Our Community,” attracted over 70 attendees. Participants represented a broad cross-section of the county’s arts & cultural, political and business community. What follows is a two page summary and recommendations document.

Local Acts presents a long-overdue survey of community-based performance from its early roots, through its flourishing during the politically-turbulent 1960s, to present-day popular culture.

Published by the OECD. Building on recent international case studies, Culture and Local Development shows how public policies can foster culture as a lever for local economic development in terms of partnerships, tax relief, and other innovative instruments. The book also sets out the implications for national governments in the fields of education and intellectual property rights.

Although the arts are considered to be a fundamental learning area in Illinois according to 1985 legislation, about one-third of the students in any elementary grade receive no instruction in the arts. Inconsistencies in the delivery of arts education also exist among schools within large urban districts and between suburban school districts.