An award to recognize outstanding service by young Canadian Arts Managers

Belgian case study highlights the importance of providing value and understanding the user in the development of digital services

An article about Arts Funding of The Canada Council

The project was intended to mentor the next generation of arts administrators working in small and mid-sized artist-centered organizations, released in 2002.

This article provides organizations with an introduction to enabling an online donation campaign and briefly explores a number of issues organizations should consider.

Today, like in many other fields, people working in the field of art also need a knowledge of business administration. Both the artistic and daily use of photography make the sector well known by all. As photographical products are widely used, different sections of the sector need different business techniques to satisfy customer expectations. In this paper, the establishment of a Quality House, which is an important tool of Quality Function Deployment, is considered with an example from the photography sector.

This article analyses the economic dimension of a set of activities grouped under the heading, Culture and Leisure Industry, from three complementary perspectives: national (Spain), sectoral and regional.

Can we translate the good news of Chorus Americas chorus impact study into larger audiences for choral music?

by Ellen Rosewall

This anthology was created to raise the profile of community cultural development practice around the world by offering a rich mixture of experiences, ideas and stories that demonstrate the validity of this work as a stimulus to pluralism, participation and equity in cultural life, and as a response to globalizations pull toward the standardization of commercial culture.

InteractivA '01 was born as a reaction to the big biennials of electronic art, to the marginalisation experienced by new media artists with limited access to technology, and to the need for creating a space for future generations.This is a brief case study by Raul Ferrera-Balanquet, how to create new media art in a Latin American context.

In recent years, the Rockefeller Foundations Creativity & Culture program has fostered exploration of the emerging relationship between art and new digital media.

THEORIZING CULTURAL HERITAGE
2004-2007

Source:
James Early or Carla Borden
Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Smithsonian Institution
Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Smithsonian Institution

Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellows at the Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage will help expand and refine a theoretical framework for cultural heritage discourse that reflects the perspectives, activities, and participation of academic specialists, civil society groups, and public cultural organizations and that can inform dialogues across social, political, and disciplinary boundaries.

Cultural heritage is today a rubric of ever-expanding scope in the international arena, and increasingly so in the United States. Its meaning largely determined by experts, cultural heritage is used as a basis for multinational, national, state, and local programs. Cultural heritage is also the focus of ideas and programs generated by hundreds of non-governmental organizations, ethnic, regional, and community-based groups...

Excerpts from Community Cultural Planning Handbook: A guide for community leaders

Research Reports of the Arts Council of Finland No 26, Merja Heikkinen; (The Arts Council of Finland in co-operation with the Nordic Cultural Institute 2003) Available from the Arts Council of Finland. Email: tkt-kirjasto@minedu.fi

Is there a Nordic model for supporting artists, and if there is, how does it work? The book presents the results of a study comparing public policy toward artists in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Direct financial support for individual artists is one of the characteristic features of the Nordic arts policy. The report examines the historical development of state support for artists, the objectives, decision-making, and policy measures adopted, the volume and distribution of support, and research findings on the situation of artists in the Nordic countries.

CULTIVATING CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS
Chamber Music Americas 2003 Education and Residency Institute
17-19 October
Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL

A FORUM FOR EXCHANGING OUTREACH IDEAS, EXPERIENCES, AND TECHNIQUES FOR CHAMBER MUSIC AND JAZZ ENSEMBLES, PRESENTERS, AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS

As competition increases, organizations trying to expand their market share in the branch they operate, have started showing a growing interest to the concept of quality for the products and services they produce. In Turkey, it is possible to consider firms in the photography sector as organizations and examine them according to the way they approach quality....

Author Stephen Belth opens his essay by reminding readers that the growth of the arts in the Unites States since the 1960s has been, in his words, staggering. As this decade ends, the numbers of symphony orchestra concertgoers are numbered in the tens of millions. He then posits that organizational stability for orchestras requires steady audience growth, and proceeds to explore ways in which to accomplish that growth.

The Financing and Managing of Culture in the US and in France: New Synergies and Interdependencies Between Private and Public Sources of Support;
March 6-7, 2003, Paris

This symposium was organised by the French-American Foundation and the Centre Français des Fondations and hosted at the French Ministry of Finance in Paris. It attracted over 400 participants and panellists. On the American side, foundations and the corporate world were represented, as well as scholars and researchers, and arts managers. French speakers included an overwhelming number of senior civil servants, museum directors (the French performing arts appeared slightly under-represented), experts on tax and non-profit law, and political scientists. The importance of the topic to the French political agenda was marked by the delivery of the opening and closing remarks by a representative of the Ministry of Culture and by the Minister of the Budget Alain Lambert.

Carnegie Mellon's Master of Arts Management (MAM) program has signed an agreement with three educational institutions in Italy to help restore, utilize and manage historical cultural sites in Italy's Piedmont region.

The MAM program, an interdisciplinary joint program of the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and the College of Fine Arts, will work with the University of Bologna's Department of Economics and Management, The Polytechnic Institute of Turin's 2nd Faculty of Architecture and the Fitzcarraldo Foundation in Turin.

Authors are sometimes lax in their business affairs. Indeed, an astute observer once commented that authors and agents do lunch not contracts. However, to avoid disputes concerning rights of authorship and ownership, whenever two or more people collaborate to write or develop a creative project, it's wise to have a written collaboration agreement (or appropriate work for hire agreement) that defines each party's rights and obligations. Absent a written agreement, ownership of the authors' creative efforts will be governed by copyright law and the courts not necessarily according to the parties' intention.