Idea Lab Conversation: Arts + Funding

Idea Lab Conversation: Arts + Funding
Friday, November 13 at 3 PM

How has Congress considered the arts in its trillion dollars of coronavirus relief funding? Join Brandon LaReau, PhD student, artist, and activist for an informal overview of the ways the federal government has attempted to provide relief funding to artists and venues forced out of work due to the global pandemic.

Links

National Independent Venue Association
https://www.nivassoc.org

United States Congress
https://www.congress.gov

More about cultural policy:

Podcast interview with Steven Tepper
http://ideasforcreativeexploration.com/podcasts/ice007.html

More information on the 2020 Spotlight on the Arts festival, including a schedule of events, can be found at arts.uga.edu as well as on the Arts Council Facebook page (facebook.com/UGAarts), Twitter feed (@UGA_arts) or Instagram (instagram.com/uga_arts).

Reading Room: “Guidance for Rewarding and Recognizing Community Engaged Scholarship in the Arts”

Reading Room: “Guidance for Rewarding and Recognizing Community Engaged Scholarship in the Arts”

Big Ten Arts Administrators Report
Source: https://www.a2ru.org/new-report-on-guidance-for-rewarding-recognizing-community-engaged-scholarship-in-the-arts/

Our goal is to share this document widely to assist humanities, arts, and design faculty members and administrators—deans, department chairs, faculty councils—at many institutions around the country. It will give courage to those wishing to create a culture within an institution (especially at the department and college level) that values a wider range of scholarship than many current promotion and tenure guidelines allow. It offers tangible recommendations that a department, school, or college can implement for organizational change that might not be possible at the institutional level, which is even more complex.

Idea Lab Conversation: Madeline Bates

Idea Lab Conversation: Arts + Community with Madeline Bates
Wednesday, October 14 at 2 PM

How can organizations, businesses, and artists work together to support vibrant communities? Join Madeline Bates, Creature Comforts Brewing Company Community Specialist and Program Lead of “Get Artistic,” an initiative to help creative communities thrive. Free and open to the public via Zoom.

Links:

http://getcurious.com/get-artistic/
http://getcurious.com/get-artistic-2020/

Idea Lab Conversation: Arts + Sustainability

Idea Lab Conversation: Arts + Sustainability
Friday, October 9 at 3 PM

How do creative communities develop more sustainable approaches to materials? Join Abigail West, artist, activist, and recent Creature Comforts artist-in-residence for an informal conversation about reclamation and creative reuse in businesses, makerspaces, and artist studios. Free and open to the public via Zoom.

Links

https://www.abigailwest.net
http://getcurious.com/air-2020-craft-guide/
http://getcurious.com/final-thoughts-from-abigail-west/

Reading Room: Creative Workforce Proposal

Reading Room: To Rebuild and Reimagine the United States Post-Pandemic, We Must Put Creative Workers to Work

By Americans for the Arts
Source:https://www.americansforthearts.org/news-room/arts-mobilization-center/creative-workers-to-work

To thrive post-pandemic, the United States must leverage our creative power, putting creative workers to work rebuilding, reimagining, unifying, and healing communities in every state and territory, as well as within tribal lands. Below, we propose 15 specific actions that the next Administration can take to activate the creative economy within a comprehensive national recovery strategy.

Reading Room: “Inside-out sustainability”

Reading Room: “Inside-out sustainability: the neglect of inner worlds”
By Christopher D. Ives, Rebecca Freeth, and Joern Fischer
Source:
https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1829258/inside-out-sustainability-the-neglect-of-inner-worlds

“Sustainability science must take inner life more seriously by considering how language shapes and is shaped by paradigms about the world, prioritising enquiry into how spirituality, contemplation and sustainability transformation relate, and encouraging scholars and practitioners to intentionally cultivate their inner worlds to strengthen inner resources necessary for addressing sustainability challenges.”