The City of Santa Monica Community and Cultural Services Department has hired Shannon Daut to lead its Cultural Affairs Division.
Portland, Oregon's Regional Arts & Culture Council received a $30,000 grant earlier this week to be used for Right Brain, an initiative providing integrated arts programming for K-8 students. The Right Brain Initiative works with classroom teachers and arts educators to unite the Arts with core subjects, allowing both to become more accessible to all students. In its eighth year, programming will reach over 26,000 students in Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington Counties in Oregon.
Phoenix, AZ (May 10, 2016) - The $9.6 billion fiscal year 2017 budget signed today by Governor Doug Ducey includes a $1.5 million appropriation to the Arizona Commission on the Arts. The additional funding represents a 50% increase over the 49-year-old state agency's current fiscal year budget. Derived from interest accrued on the state's Rainy Day Fund, this one-time allocation will not increase overall state spending.
In this interview, Creative Time Reports Editor-in-Chief Marisa Mazria Katz talks with Australian artist Grace McQuilten, founder of the
The New York Times recently profiled the rigorous four-year academic and arts program, The Center for Visual and Performing Arts, at Suitland High School in District Heights, MD. The program has survived budget cuts, neighborhood violence, a constant shortage of art supplies, and dwindling enrollment to be a crucible for emerging artists, many of them African-Americans, and some now rising to national prominence.
In this article by Popular Science, contributer Charles Q. Choi discusses a recent study published by Royal Society's Open Science in which researchers take a quantitative look at the relationship between Street Art and neighborhood property values.
Artist Jen Lewin's multimedia light sculpture, The Pool will be exhibited May 7-11, 2016 from dusk until 10pm at NYCxDESIGN's Design Pavilion at the Astor Place Plaza in Greenwich Village, NYC.
This playful sculpture invites viewers to interact with the work, with the space, as well as with each other. The Pool was most recently featured at Light City 2016 in Baltimore, MD and next will be touring the west coast.
Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. talked to the Las Vegas Academy of the Arts in Las Vegas, NV on Thursday and emphasized the importance of a well-rounded education for every student in America. More, he acknowledged the vital role of the arts in rethinking education.
Under the new law, he said:
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts recently announced the Owensboro Public Schools Board of Education in Owensboro, KY has received the 28th annual Kennedy Center and National School Boards Association (NSBA) Award for exemplary leadership in arts education.
The award, which includes a $10,000 prize, was presented by Mario R. Rossero, Senior Vice President of Education at the Kennedy Center, at the National School Boards Association’s Annual Conference in Boston, MA.
The California State Senate Education Committee heard testimony today on SB 916, the Theatre and Dance Act (which legislators have dubbed "TADA!") that would establish single-subject credentials for dance and theater. The committee members voted in unanimous support, 9-0, and one senator called it "absolute[ly] awesome."
NEW YORK CITY (MAY 2, 2016) – Internationally renowned interactive artist Jen Lewin is exhibiting her prolific light based sculpture The Pool at DESIGN PAVILION during NYCxDESIGN.
Through its Open Spaces program, the Kenneth Rainin Foundation recently released a funding opporunity for temporary public art projects in Oakland and San Francisco. As a means to support projects that "engage communities, showcase artistic experimentation, and energize public spaces" the Rainin Foundation is accepting applications from artists and nonprofit organzations. Letters of interest will be accepted between May 6 and June 30, and up to four grants will be accepted ranging from $50,000 to $200,000.
The Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston recently created a helpful video in which their mission, programs, and network are explained. It features examples of partnerships that the council can help facilitate and how these partnerships support a broader arts “ecosystem."
"I forget how we first found out about the CS accelerator, but our first reaction to the description was that it sounded perfect for us — if we’d be able to get in. I think the application deadline was earlier than we thought we were ready for (we had considered looking into accelerators around the end of 2015, not mid-2015), but our CEO Shivani is hands down amazing at taking (and making) opportunities regardless of how ‘ready’ we feel, which keeps up our team’s momentum."
The mural, designed by Ashley Brossart, features vignettes depicting life in the Shawnee neighborhood of Louisville.
