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Teacher Gets to Core Curriculum through the Blues
Jon rocks out with students. By day I am an elementary school teacher; by night I’m a wannabe blues musician. For years I kept these two callings separate, but with the Kids Like Blues Band, I found a...
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Idea Sharing and Project Scaling: Tools to Survive
Laura Belcher Does it ever feel like you are constantly having to start from scratch? New marketing campaigns—new collateral materials—new social media strategies—new community engagement ideas—the...
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Creating, Collaborating, Connecting with Art, Activism, and the Internet
Xavier Cortada At the end of the last millennium, when the internet was young, I installed two webcams in my studio and invited people watching me out in cyberspace to share their ideas in a chat room....
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Go Deep to Go Wide
Attendees enjoy an Allied Media Conference session. Organizers often believe we have to choose between breadth and depth. Do we prioritize meaningful relationships or strive to “reach” the greatest...
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500 Artists, Gardens Celebrate Florida’s 500th Birthday
On Easter Sunday 1513, Ponce de Leon landed his three ships on the eastern shore of the peninsula where I live. Claiming the land for Spain, he named the place La Florida, (for the Spanish word “flor”...
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The How-and-Whys of Our Top 10 Most Viewed Posts of 2012
Tim Mikulski Everyone loves a top 10 list. Sure, it seems the lists are everywhere this time of year—to the point that you’d think that we’ve over-saturated the market for them, right? Wrong. The best...
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Technology Driving Arts Attendance, Engagement, & Fundraising
John Eger In the last decade alone, any business without a web presence—without an online, interactive website—was simply, not in business. Or wouldn’t be for long. The government and nonprofit sector...
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Theatre Brings New Perspective to Global Health Issues (from The pARTnership...
Bruce Whitacre “We have a euphoria inhibitor in Stage 2 trials,” explained the drug company executive to the bio-tech venture capitalist. I paused. I told him that we in theatre seek euphoria wherever...
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The Space Race
Chase Maggiano There are a few things I have come to believe are true: Justin Bieber’s monkey is more famous than I will ever be; there are more self-proclaimed artists in the world than at any time in...
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Bringing Backstage Onstage with Social Media
Kelly Page Imagine, if we saw social media more like an artist’s studio or cafe and less like a marketing channel? While walking through the exhibit, Building: Inside Studio Gang Architects at the Arts...
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8 Ways a Cultural Event Can Transcend Genre, Geography & Demographics
P. Scott Cunningham Three years ago, a group of friends and I started to dream up what a lot of people considered impossible: a festival that would bring poetry to all 2.6 million residents of Greater...
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Moving On…
Tim Mikulski This is my 149th ARTSblog post as a writer. It’s also my last—at least as a staff member here at Americans for the Arts. I have been with the organization for almost six years and started...
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What Audiences Expect from Arts Marketers: Four Technology Must-dos
Amelia Northrup-Simpson One of the pleasures of attending the NAMP conference is seeing how the field of arts marketing evolves each year as new technologies emerge. Social media, mobile technology,...
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Everything Arts + Education + Technology in 2014
Jessica Wilt It’s the start of a New Year and technology will continue to be a hot arts education topic in 2014. Since launching my own ArtsEdTechNYC venture last spring, I’ve immersed myself in many...
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A Tending
Aracelis Girmay I begin with that which is languageless. Gesture, wordless calls of grief or joy, exclamation, a dancer’s body moving in time. What John Edgar Wideman calls, in his essay “In Praise of...
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