Securing private funding for the arts and arts education is more competitive than ever given the ongoing recession. So, how do we make the case for supporting the arts and how do we maintain a vital relationship with the private sector in spite of the funding downturn? How do we define the relevance of the [...]

Every bit of visibility helps, in the nonprofit world, so we’re giving this new social media strategy a shot.  If you appreciate the service, advocacy and development work that Arts Wisconsin does, then tell the world!
You have an exciting opportunity to help Arts Wisconsin make even more of a difference across Wisconsin. The website [...]

My colleague and friend Barry Hessenius, former director of both the California Arts Council and the California Assembly of Local Arts Agencies, now a blogger and consultant on arts policy issues, has posted five New Year’s resolutions that every nonprofit arts organization and arts endeavor should pledge to accomplish in 2010.  Barry is a practical [...]

The National Endowment for the Arts hosted a very interesting forum on the Cultural Workforce on November 20.  The archive version is now available on the NEA’s Art Works site.
Click here for the archive.  The video and PowerPoint slides for each presentation can be viewed in the same format as the live webcast. Links are [...]

People much smarter than me (than I?) have written reams on the meaning, purpose and use of FaceBook and Twitter in our lives, at work and at play.  People like me tend to say, “Why, six months ago I didn’t even know what FaceBook was and now I use it all the time!” and that’s [...]

Michael Kaiser, director of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, is making a 50-state tour this year to speak on the “Arts in Crisis” – what’s happening to the arts sector in these difficult economic times, and recommendations for action.
Mr. Kaiser will be in Madison on Monday, August 24, 2-5 pm, [...]

One of the most important issues in the global arts and creative economy world these days is the awareness that “attention must be paid” to the next generation of arts leaders. The arts world is changing, as the world is changing, and the forces that are shaping emerging leaders today and into the future [...]