A theatrical show can raise significant sums and, at the same time, create enduring community spirit. Step by step, Lets Put on a Show covers everything needed: securing rights, choosing material, finding a venue, budgeting, scheduling, working with children, using musicians, building sets, handling lights, publicizing, and much more. Anecdotes from producers, directors, and participants share the agony, the ecstasy, and the just plain fun of getting a show up and making money for a good cause while doing it.


?Gail Brown is a former elementary teacher and a veteran fundraiser. She has overseen more than one hundred productions, raising money for community and educational projects. The author of The Big Event, she lives in Case Grande, Arizona.

Colleen Schuerlein is a teacher, minister, and fundraiser. She has produced events with such celebrities as the Neville Brothers, Kenny Loggins, Dr. Wayne Dyer, and many others. She lives in Portland, Oregon.



Paperback: 191 pages

Publisher: Allworth Press (June 14, 2006)

Public Art by the Book is a nuts and bolts guide for arts professionals and volunteers creating public art in their communities. Should a public art program depend on public funding, public-private partnerships, or both? What are the roles that citizens can play in their community's public art program? Can artists themselves ever initiate public artworks?
With a wealth of wisdom on practical issues, this book offers information on a variety of topics such as public art planning, funding, and governance; establishing legal agreements with artists; and commissioning single artworks or creating comprehensive art programs.



Since the earliest monuments and memorials were installed in the United States, definitions of public art have continued to evolve. Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency saw the creation of the Works Progress Administration and the beginning of comprehensive federally sponsored art programs, and 1950s Philadelphia became the first city to pass percent-for-art legislation. As artists have turned their attention toward creating in the public realm rather than simply placing their art in public spaces, public art has assumed a much broader role in community life than ever before. Since the 1990s, the public art resources available to artists and their communities have greatly expanded.Today there are more than three hundred government-funded public art programs in the United States, in addition to scores of public-private partnerships and private agencies creating art in public spaces.



Public Art by the Book is the definitive resource for information on public art for local government, arts agencies, arts professionals, and artists themselves. Examples included are cited from cities such as Charlotte, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix, Portland, San Diego, and Seattle.

Barbara Goldstein is public art program director for San Jose's Office of Cultural Affairs.



Publisher: University of Washington Press (July, 2005)

ISBN-13: 978-0295985213

Acknowledged as the nation's foremost expert on audience development involving America's growing multicultural population by the Arts and Business Council, Donna Walker-Kuhne has now written the first book describing her strategies and methods to engage diverse communities as participants for arts and culture. By offering strategic collaborations and efforts to develop and sustain nontraditional audiences, this book will directly impact the stability and future of America's cultural and artistic landscape. Donna Walker-Kuhne has spent the last 20 years developing and refining these principles with such success as both the Broadway and national touring productions of Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk, as well as transforming the audiences at one of the U.S.'s most important and visible arts institutions, New York's Public Theater. This book is a practical and inspirational guide on ways to invite, engage and partner with culturally diverse communities, and how to enfranchise those communities into the fabric of arts and culture in the United States.

Donna Walker-Kuhne is the president of Walker International Communications Group. From 1993 to 2002, she served as the marketing director for the Public Theater in New York, where she originated a range of audience-development activities for children, students and adults throughout New York City. Ms. Walker-Kuhne is an Adjunct Professor in marketing the arts at Fordham University, Brooklyn College and New York University. She was formerly marketing director for Dance Theatre of Harlem. Ms. Walker-Kuhne has given numerous workshops and presentations for arts groups throughout the U.S., including the Arts and Business Council, League of American Theaters and Producers, the Department of Cultural Affairs, and the National Endowment for Arts to name a few. She has been nominated for the Ford Foundation's 2001 Leadership for a Changing World Fellowship.


Paperback: 192 pages

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group (January 15, 2005)

This publication is the first serious attempt to gather together a wide range of views dealing with te history, theory and practice of community arts in Ireland. Not an academic book, it contains twelve essays as well as the edited transcripts of two fora, that range from a general arts-history perspective to the particular experiences of artists working with and in communities.

The book argues that arts and culture should be at the centre of all political, social, educational, individual and communal activity, particularly in this time of unprecedented and sometimes dangerous change, for Ireland and the world at large. This vision is underpinned by the belief in the right of people to contribute to and participate fully in culture. These values, the authors go on to assert as they share their varied experiences, are as relevant today as they were forty or four hundred years ago.


Paperback 250 pages (November 2004)

Publisher: New Island Books

Complete Title: Get Sorted: How to Get Organised,Sort the Budget and Go for Funding for Your Youth Arts Project


A practical, easy to use, resourceful guide covering all you need to know to run a successful youth arts project, complimenting the Artsplan GET SORTED series of training courses, written by Ruth Jones, previously Director of Artswork. A woman who knows how to get funding, since starting a career in youth arts in the 1980s Ruth has successfully fundraised for a vast array of projects. From the very small to the very large she has put together irresistible funding applications and secured grants ranging from £50 to £250,000. She is, in short, someone who knows what shes talking about!


"This is an essential guide, and should be in every fundraisers travel bag... and it would do some funders good to read it too!" Rick Hall, NESTA


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Paperback 96 pages (May 22, 2004)

Publisher: Artsplan Publications, a Division of Artswork

Arts organizations across the country are actively expanding their efforts to increase public participation in their programs. This report presents the findings of a RAND study sponsored by the Wallace-Reader's Digest Funds that looks at the process by which individuals become involved in the arts and attempts to identify ways in which arts institutions can most effectively influence this process. The report presents a behavioral model that identifies the main factors influencing individual decisions about the arts, based on site visits to institutions that have been particularly successful in attracting participants to their programs and in-depth interviews with the directors of more than 100 institutions that have received grants from the Wallace-Reader's Digest Funds and the Knight Foundation to encourage greater involvement in the arts. The model and a set of guidelines to help institutions approach the task of participation building constitute a framework that can assist in devising participation-building approaches that fit with an institution's overall purpose and mission, its available resources, and the community environment in which it operates--in other words, a framework that will enable arts institutions to take an integrative approach to building participation in the arts.