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SAAN Meeting
April
7, 2013
Washington, DC
Arts
Advocacy Day
April 8 - 9, 2013
Washington, DC
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The Cultural Congress
Hosted
by the Washington State Arts Alliance
April 22- 24, 2013
Seattle, WA
Arts
& Culture Legislative Visits Day
Hosted
by Citizens for the Arts in Pennsylvania & the PA Arts & Culture
Coalition
May 7, 2013
Harrisburg, PA
Arts Day
Hosted
by Ohio Citizens for the Arts
May 15, 2013
Columbus, OH
To
have your upcoming event featured in The SAANBox, contact Kim Kober at kkober@artsusa.org.
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Three Ann Arbor, Michigan students have inspired a piece
of legislation that, if signed into law, would establish a new means of
generating revenue for arts education in Michigan.
Rep. Douglas Geiss introduced a bill that would create a fundraising
license plate to support the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural
Affairs. The students were required to brainstorm a policy issue they
would like to know more about as well as complete a policy analysis and
research solutions and resolutions that are employed in other places.
This proposal was based on a similar bill in the state of California,
which also has experienced significant cuts to K-12 arts programs.
Mayor Michael B. Hancock and Denver Arts & Venues
have kicked off the city’s cultural planning process with the launch of
“Imagine2020: Creating a future for Denver’s culture.”
“Denver must have an ambitious plan to build on the city’s artistic and
cultural assets and creative energy to compete on a global stage,” Mayor
Hancock said. “Imagine 2020 is an opportunity for Denver to fuel our
economic engine through supporting our creative enterprises, exposing our
children to better arts education, and continuing to bring vibrancy and a
sense of community to our neighborhoods.” The city has not published a
cultural plan since 1989, which resulted in increased financial, policy
and program support for arts. Imagine 2020 seeks to connect the city’s
vast network of cultural assets and support systems to foster continued
growth, development and education of the arts. More information is
available at www.ImagineDenver2020.org.
Paul
Leopoulos, director of the THEA Foundation(Arts Advocacy in Education),
and Arkansas state Rep. James McLean, chair of the Arkansas House
Education Committee, made a pitch today to give a do pass to HB1689 to
create a pilot program in 15 schools to test the efficacy of the Arkansas
A+ arts-infused education model. A+ Schools
combine interdisciplinary teaching and daily arts instruction, teaching
the state’s mandated curriculum involves a collaborative,
many-disciplined approach, with the arts – dance, drama, music and visual
arts – continuously woven into every aspect of a child’s learning.
Arkansas A+ is being used by teachers in 12 schools now; McLean wants the
state to provide grants to 15 schools who apply to be trained in the A+
model.
Washington, DC Public Schools have announced plans to cut
more than $300,000 from an arts program. The Fillmore
Arts Center offers classes on two campuses in dance, digital arts,
theater, music, visual arts, creative writing and physical education to
students in eleven District of Columbia Public School’s elementary
schools this year. To fund the program, each participating school pays
what it otherwise would have toward in-school art and music teachers.
Four of the participating schools have decided to teach art and music
themselves, which cuts the program’s budget. For many of the other
schools, returning arts instruction to students' home schools would mean
losing access to facilities and tools and some schools lack any space for
music or art.
Several months ago, the city of Fort Worth, Texas formed
a task force to determine how to fund the arts. The
final recommendations from the city's task force proposal would gradually
reduce reliance on the general fund for the arts, and potentially raise
the amount of money available each year, based on the city's earnings
from unencumbered gas revenues. Task force members emphasized they want
the city to eventually return to strong levels of funding for the arts
that were in place before the downturn. Under the final recommendation, in
2014, $1.1 million would go to the arts, which would be a modest increase
from the $966,000 the city contributed last year. Of the $1.1 million,
$650,000 would come from the gas trust, and $450,000 from the general
fund. By fiscal 2022, the last projected year of general fund money for
the arts under the proposal, funding would rise to $1.34 million, based
on conservative projections for earnings growth. Of that, $1.25 million
would come from gas earnings, and $90,000 from the general fund.
The Lansing Board of Education in Michigan has approved a
five-year teachers’ contract that will get the Lansing School District
about $7 million closer to closing the next school year’s projected $9
million deficit. On the chopping block: 87 teaching
positions, including 50 elementary school art, music and physical
education teachers. The arts community appears ready to help, but it is
also concerned about the effect of the administration’s decision on arts
education. “Our role is to supplement music instruction that is being
given in public schools,” said Rhonda Buckley, executive director for
Michigan State University’s Community Music School. “We look forward to
helping any student who may not have adequate music instruction, but we
have no intention of replacing a public elementary school’s music
program.” CMS classes require tuition, but Buckley said the
organization offers financial assistance.
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Just six years ago, art education at a small, private
elementary school in Seminole, Florida was practically non-existent.
Around various holidays art instructor Shannon Marshall would visit each
classroom to create themed craft projects with the students. Now the art
program is thriving, with Marshall leading innovative weekly art lessons
for each class and students clamoring to join the Art Club. Initially,
Marshall reached into her pockets or relied on donations from other
parents to fund the fledgling program. But this year the school worked
the art program into the budget, offering $1,000 for needed art supplies
– furniture, drying shelves, clip wire to hang finished works – and a
modest stipend for Marshall. And the Parent Teacher League helped
repurpose a storage room so that Marshall has a set place to offer art
instruction, rather than have her wander from classroom to classroom.
Living
Arts, an arts and cultural organization that serves Southwest Detroit,
will soon become a Wolf Trap site. Wolf Trap is a
national arts and culture educational program, and their partnering with
Living Arts will double the scope of their El Arte arts-infused education
program. One aspect of the Wolf Trap partnership is that it will provide
some training to visiting artists in STEM education, among other
things. The visiting artists work with teachers, so that when the
visits end, teachers have some tools in their toolbox to teach their
students. "It will help our artists go deeper into the work they are
doing with children," says Roberta Lucas, El Arte Early Learning
Program director for Living Arts.
National Value of Volunteer Time
The 2012 value of volunteer time is $22.14/hour, a
35-cent increase from 2011. The value of volunteer time provides one way
to measure the impact millions of individuals make with each hour they
dedicate to make a difference. According to Urban Institute,
nonprofits employ approximately 13.7 million workers – about 10 percent
of the American work force – and account for about 5.5 percent of GDP.
According to the Corporation for National Community Service, about 64.3
million Americans, or 26.8 percent of the adult population gave 7.9
billion hours of volunteer service worth $171 billion in 2011; estimates
for 2012 will be released this summer. State-by-state figures for the value of volunteer time
are also available on the Independent Sector website. You can use
this figure to calculate the immense value of your own volunteers and
share it with others in the nonprofit and philanthropic sector.
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LinkedIn
Groups and Company Pages for Nonprofits
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 1 PM EDT
This webinar begins with a general introduction to LinkedIn, a social
network with more than 200 million professionals worldwide. Nonprofits
are increasingly participating in the LinkedIn community through LinkedIn
Groups and Company Pages. This webinar will teach you how to successfully
create, manage, and promote a LinkedIn Group for your nonprofit and
highlight best practices and demonstrate how to manage discussions,
subgroups, templates, and announcements.
Also discussed is how to tap into the power of LinkedIn Company Pages
already created and managed by others that are related to your mission
and programs. The webinar closes with information on how to claim and
set-up your organization’s Company Page and an exploration of the
ever-expanding Company Page tool set.
How Nonprofits Can Successfully Use YouTube and Create
Video Content for the Social Web
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at 1 PM EDT
This webinar begins with a demonstration of how nonprofits can
successfully design and launch a YouTube Channel for both desktop and
mobile viewing – even if the nonprofit isn’t currently producing videos.
The webinar discusses the basic hardware and software needed to create
videos in-house on a limited budget. The webinar also demonstrates
click-by-click the features of YouTube’s Nonprofit Program, highlights
best practices, explores the extensive YouTube toolset, and showcases
nonprofits that are exceling in their use of video. Finally, the webinar
will closes with a brief exploration of Vimeo, UStream, and Vine and
discusses how your nonprofit can make your video storytelling mobile.
Webinars Hosted
by Americans for the Arts
EVALUATION IN ACTION! Series
EVALUATION IN ACTION! webinars hone in on common
evaluation challenges artists, arts organizations, and their community
partners face. Each offers specific stories, techniques or tools, along
with conceptual frameworks to guide thinking and design. The goal of the
series is to sharpen evaluative thinking and build confidence and can-do
capacity in evaluation methods that produce meaningful, useful information!
EVALUATION IN
ACTION! is supported by the Nathan Cummings, Lambent, and Open Societies
Foundations.
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EVALUATION IN ACTION!
Credible Qualitative Design & Analysis
April 18, 2013 at 3:00 PM EDT
Anecdotes and qualitative evidence are
critical to communicating the transformative effects of arts and culture
and giving a full sense of impact of arts for change work. Learn how to
collect and analyze qualitative data that's credible. Qualitative
information is important for indicating changes in awareness, attitudes,
the content and tenor of public dialogue, and in describing the role,
nature, and efficacy of aesthetic activity. But it is often considered
"soft" evidence. Through multiple evaluation stories by arts
practitioners that touch on ethnographic and other qualitative
approaches, this webinar illuminates principles to support systematic
planning for, and collection and analysis of qualitative data so that
findings hold water. You'll learn how to select and prepare credible
evaluators and/or observers, methods to summarize and analyze qualitative
data such as interview and focus group documentation, dialogue and
meeting notes, and dialogues; and how to combine qualitative and
quantitative information to communicate concise and compelling results.
Presented By: M. Christine Dwyer, RMC
Research and Amy Kitchener, Executive Director Alliance for California
Traditional Arts
Business Speak: Can We Talk? Series
With the launch of The pARTnership Movement in 2012
we explored mutually beneficial ways of partnering with business to
further both arts and business goals. With this series we will provide
detailed instructions for the methods and models to create successful
partnerships.
Businesses often promote volunteerism as one of the key elements of
employee engagement and arts organizations are looking for ways to
increase involvement with skilled volunteers. Learn practical strategies
on how to build and fund a successful volunteer program in your
community.
Presented by:
Deborah Edward, Executive Director, Business for Culture and the Arts;
Susan Myers, Associate Director, Business for Culture and the Arts; Megan
Low, Director of Services, Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston.
This webinar is
presented in partnership with the Arts & Business Council of New York
and is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City
Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and
by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor
Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
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The SAANBox
Goes to the Hill
The SAANBox will be on hiatus until Monday, April 15, as we head to
Capitol Hill for Arts Advocacy Day next week.
Registration is now open for the 2013 Americans for the
Arts Annual Convention!
This year, arts leaders from across the country will gather in
Pittsburgh, PA from June 14-16 to find ways to improve the story of how
the arts build better lives, communities, and workplaces. A series of
exciting speakers and arts innovators will discuss why the arts are the
best kept secret when it comes to building healthy, diverse, and engaged
communities. Our Annual Convention also provides an opportunity for peer
groups interested arts education, cultural diversity, emerging leaders,
public art, fundraising, and more to meet each year to connect and share
their work.
In addition, three preconferences offer attendees a chance to dig
deeper:
The
Public Art Network Preconference explores critical
issues facing the field and includes case study tours illustrating how
Public Art contributes to Pittsburgh’s distinction as America’s most livable
city. The Public Art Network Preconference is generously sponsored by
McKay Lodge Conservation Laboratory.
Our first ever Cultural/Arts
and Entertainment Districts Preconference examines
Pittsburgh in depth—and is your opportunity to see up-close how arts
& entertainment and cultural districts work. The Cultural/Arts and
Entertainment Districts Preconference is generously sponsored by The
Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation and the National Endowment for the
Arts.
The Emerging Leaders Preconference
teaches participants to adapt at the individual level in order to more
effectively lead change in their communities. The Emerging Leaders
Preconference is generously sponsored by Carnegie Mellon University
Master of Arts Management Program.
2013 Year in Review is open for project
submissions
Deadline: Friday, April 5, 2013
Applying to Year in Review is free and applications can be submitted
online through publicartist.org. When logging in please identify yourself
as either an arts administrator/curator or artist. Either category of
professional can apply with multiple project submissions. Eligible
projects must have been completed in calendar year 2012. This year’s
jurors are John Carson, Head of the Art School, Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh; Norie Sato, Artist, Seattle; Justine Topfer,
Curator – Out of the Box Projects and Project Manager, San Francisco Arts
Commission. Finalist selected projects will be presented at the Public
Art Preconference and included in the 2013 Year in Review CDRom,
available in our bookstore. To review prior Year in Review selected
projects, check out our Year in Review webpage. If you have questions about the
PAN Award or Year in Review please contact us: pan@artusa.org
National
Endowment for the Arts to Present Guidelines Webinar for Challenge
America Fast-Track
Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 3 PM EDT
NEA's Challenge America Fast-Track Director, Michael Killoren, will
present a webinar to help potential applicants navigate the application
materials and process. There will be an overview presentation of CAFT
guidelines, followed by a Q & A. The Challenge America
Fast-Track category of funding supports primarily small and
mid-sized organizations for projects that extend the reach of the arts to
underserved populations—those whose opportunities to experience the arts
are limited by geography, ethnicity, economics, or disability. The
Challenge America Fast Track deadline is May 23, 2013.
Now Accepting Nominations for Public Leadership in the
Arts Awards
Public Leadership in the Arts awards are given in recognition of an
elected official or artist who plays an important role in the advancement
of the arts and arts education within his or her community, and whose
vision and leadership provide heightened visibility to the value of the
arts. Applications are now being accepted for Lieutenant Governors, State
Legislators and County Officials. Applications are due May 17, 2013 for
Lieutenant Governors and County Officials and June 21, 2013 for State
Legislators. If you have questions, please e-mail Jay Dick, the Senior Director of State and Local
Government Affairs at Americans for the Arts.
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Spotlight
on... Californians for the Arts
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The
Californians for the Arts' (CFTA) board met with legislators in the state
capital of Sacramento to persuade them to increase funding for the
arts.
To illustrate their point, the Californians for the Arts' Board presented each
legislator with a box of crayons and asked him or her to pick his or her
favorite color, then they informed the legislators that the single crayon
cost what the state of California is spending per resident on the arts
from the General Fund: 3 cents. Presenting a large and a small box of
crayons, the board said the large box cost what the state of New York is
spending per resident on the arts: $5.46. Two large boxes cost what
Minnesota is spending per resident, $11.48. The small 24-crayon box was
the amount they proposed California spend per resident on the arts: $2.
Those meetings were held on February 13. On March 13, arts leaders,
including Brad, again met with legislators, this time to discuss a bill, authored by Assembly Member Adrin Nazarian,
that would increase appropriations for the California Arts Council from
$1M to $75M.
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