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Arts & Culture
What's Going On...
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Nonprofit Disaster Preparedness
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Are you prepared for emergencies and disasters? Is your arts agency or organization? In the past few years, we've witnessed an increase in both natural and man-made disasters throughout the United States. More and more emergencies can happen unexpectedly in communities just like yours, to people like you. Often, the arts are one of the first things people turn to in times of need. Make sure you're able to support your community in these tough times.
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Is the Cultural Sector Ready to Move Beyond Data for Data's Sake?
As any internet geek or high-priced consultant will be happy to tell you, we find ourselves today in the age of Big Data. You know, the era when science and numbers are supposed to solve all our problems forever? That one. And yet in the cultural sector, according to a report published earlier this year, we don't have the data we need; we don't know what to do with the data we have; and even if we did, we still wouldn't use it to make decisions. (Okay, that may be oversimplifying things a bit...but not by much.)
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These 12 Childhood Art Techniques Can Help Adults Relieve Stress
Priscilla Frank, The Huffington Post
Making art doesn't necessarily sound like a stress reliever. Finding inspiration, keeping concentration, finding your artistic voice -- these things demand extreme attention, time and effort. Yet there is something about expressing your creative side that can help put your mind at ease.
Most forms of art making involve both logic and creativity -- for example, coloring inside the lines and mixing and matching colors to your preference. The combination of vision and precise motor skills also leads to an all-encompassing experience that captivates the brain, pushing other stressors out of the picture, at least temporarily. "The idea that creative expression can make a powerful contribution to the healing process has been embraced in many different cultures," Heather L. Stuckey and Jeremy Nobel wrote in the American Journal of Public Health. Caregivers involved with creative arts intervention methods at cancer treatment centers in particular "reported significantly reduced stress, decreased anxiety, and increased positive emotions after taking part in the intervention."
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Adapting a Studio to a Changing Economy
Cherie Haas, Editor, ArtistsNetwork
Having a studio space in which to create your art is a gift. With that space-be it modest or illustrious-comes a sense of dedication to your craft. In a world that doesn't always take art seriously, having an art studio establishes a sense of importance for creativity, as well as providing shelter from the storm of dissenters. Not to say that one must have a designated space, but it's rather nice to, surely.
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NOT All Enterprise is Social!
Paul Hogan, Nonprofit Quarterly
Back in May of 2014, NPQ published an essay by Buzz Schmidt entitled "All Enterprise is Social," which asserts that all enterprise should be judged on its contributions to and debits from a number of different categories of capital, which he defines. Finding ways of measuring these "credits and debits" that would be acceptable equally to shareholder and social entrepreneur would promote greater activity in all categories and eliminate any real differences between the enterprises. For me, however, the approach could unintentionally do more harm than good.
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Arts Services Initiative of Western New York promotes the cultural sector's vital role
in economic development and the community through
capacity building, collaboration, and advocacy.
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