Enghien-les-Bains (France) and Sapporo (Japan) have been designated UNESCO Cities of Media Arts, and Paducah, Kentucky (United States of America) is the most recent City of Crafts and Folk Arts.
The U.S. Senate approved a bipartisan amendment to the comprehensive immigration bill, which included a provision sponsored by Senators Pat Leahy (D-VT) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) known as the Arts Require Timely Service (“ARTS”) Act.
Our CEO and President, Robert Lynch, is in Chile this week to speak about arts and the economy to the Chilean-American Chamber of Commerce, the Minister of Culture, and other various entrepreneurs at a luncheon on Wednesday. Prior to his visit, he penned this opinion editorial for the Chilean business publication Pulso, which was published this morning. Posted here in English, but link to article in Spanish below:
Bob addresses Chilean arts and business leaders on partnerships between business and the arts. The video is in Spanish.
Speaking on the importance of art in cultural diplomacy.
President and CEO Bob Lynch spoke about the future of the arts in the United States at this gathering of international arts leaders and scholars at the University of the Arts Zurich. He also joined discussions about the place of the arts in other countries and the different funding, policy, and strategic partnerships paths that others are exploring.
Artist and Cultural Exchanges are a long-term and proven strategy for improving relations between countries, communities, and their peoples. Local Arts Agencies historically have supported, funded, and developed successful cultural exchange programs - but cultural diplomacy is one side of the global engagement coin. Learn how local arts agencies and their partners are employing economic development strategies such as expanding markets, encouraging trade, and fostering international cultural tourism to build bridges internationally while serving their communities locally.
How can arts organizations better understand and communicate the true value of their programs? This 60-minute briefing will cover new approaches to impact assessment under development in the U.S., U.K. and Australia.
Jeff Poulin
Annie Wu
Aaron Bisman
It was about six years ago, in 2007, sitting in my small Hong Kong apartment, that I put down ideas for a work practice that would use public art and modern culture as means of developing community and habitat. A practice where the arts would be used not just as an aesthetic to beautify or to activate space, but as productions of communality with the residents of a place and through a process that would open a space for community members to develop and connect.
Michelle Laflamme-Childs
Earl Bosworth
Panels and symposiums don’t normally draw large crowds, at least not like live music and marching bands do.
Gerard Atkinson
