While nobody truly knows what to expect 25 years from now, the convening indicated that cultural facility leaders in 2032 will require greater community-building skills, new leadership styles, and the ability to build different physical spaces.

<[p>This paper first explores the relationship between aesthetic and civic imagination and then links that discussion to a case example of an effort to use arts-based civic dialogue to generate a regional grassroots-based discussion concerning how to reposition an economically ailing area of Virginia.

Colleges are an important part of the creative sector. We offer what is all too rare: employment for artists, scientists, and other innovative thinkers in various disciplines; spaces to develop new work; and environments that ideally allow students and faculty members to experiment, take risks, and learn from their failures. But are our institutions playing the role that they should in helping to build the creative economy?

The Executive Summary for a 360 page report on how to target new customers, testing the capactiy of the market to maintain or expand audiences, identifying possibilites for audience diversification, ticketing strategies and recommendations for growth opportunities.

ACA's Strategic Workplan Detail for FY 2007

NEA report to Congress on PL 1) Participation in Interagency Streamlining Efforts 2) Grants.gov 3) Grants Management Line of Business. June 2005 through August 2006

Washington State Arts Commission 2007-2011 Strategic Plan

Creative economies can not only enhance life and revitalize communities, but also foster new industries and employment.

Overview of nonprofit cultural heritage organizations in the and a snapshot of their structure, finances and programs.

Envisioned as a means to map current research in the field and to identify areas of overlap as well as existing gaps, the directory compiles results of a Fall 2005 survey shared with numerous individuals and institutions involved in cultural policy research. The web-based questionnaire was designed to capture recent U.S.-based projects, publications and events that are both research-based and policy-focused.