Arts & Cultural Management Resources
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From the website: "Animating Democracy inspires, informs, promotes, and connects arts and culture as potent contributors to community, civic, and social change."
From the website: "Creating Quality offers a venue for teachers, community educators, artists, principals, researchers, nonprofit and civic leaders, policymakers, and others to learn about, collaborate on, and share strategies for ensuring that our children receive the best possible education."
Cultural Policy Center: University of Chicago
From the website: "The Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago is a nationally recognized interdisciplinary research center dedicated to informing policies that affect the arts, humanities and cultural heritage." See the link "Publications" on the left sidebar.
Institute of Museum and Library Services
From the website: "The mission of IMLS is to inspire libraries and museums to advance innovation, lifelong learning, and cultural and civic engagement. We provide leadership through research, policy development, and grant making."
Knowledge Bank for for arts management
"Here the wide ranging aspects of arts and cultural management are divided up into sub-sections, and within each of these sub-sections, we provide an introduction to the topic, and then a selected, collated and annotated set of resources, which might include links to key websites, downloadable materials, references to articles in magazines and journals, and books to buy or find in a library."
National Endowment for the Arts
"The Minnesota State Arts Board is a state agency that stimulates and encourages the creation, performance, and appreciation of the arts in the state." Check out the Publications link on the left sidebar.
Perpich Center for Arts Education (PCAE) Library
"The Perpich Center for Arts Education (PCAE) Library is an information and resource center for students, faculty, staff, and for the general public. The unique collection is focused on the arts and education, supporting the academic and arts curriculum at the Arts High School and K-12 arts education in Minnesota."
President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities
Links you to the Publications page. "Through its programs and activities PCAH helps to underscore the civic, social, educational, and historical value of arts and humanities in the life of our nation."
Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies
See the link Research and Publications. "The Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies periodically publishes working papers that highlight the findings of its research."
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This links you to their Research and Information page. Check out their "The National Arts Policy Database."
This links you to the Articles page. "Arts Management Network is an international information network for arts managers. It adresses primarily to professionals in the arts and creative sector. It is also a resource for academics, students, policy makers, researchers, regional and national authorities, business people, and journalists."
"The ArtsLab library is a resource provided to offer the community access to some of the resources that the ArtsLab Peer Learning Community has found to be especially insightful" including links to a variety of organizations and publications.
"The Aspen Institute mission is twofold: to foster values-based leadership, encouraging individuals to reflect on the ideals and ideas that define a good society, and to provide a neutral and balanced venue for discussing and acting on critical issues."
Association of Art Museum Directors
See the link for Position Papers and Reports.
Association of Arts Administration Educators
This web site, devoted to community-based art, also promotes "information exchange, research and critical dialogue within the field of community-based art."
European Network of Cultural Administration (ENCATC)
European network gathering together higher educational institutions and training organizations dealing with cultural management education and training.
International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies
Links you to their page on publications relating to arts and cultural policy.
Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network
"The Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network (KCAAEN) is a coalition of statewide non-profit Alliances for Arts Education working in partnership with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to support policies, practices, programs, and partnerships that ensure the arts are an essential part of American K-12 education."
Minnesota Council on Foundations
National Art Education Association (NAEA)
Click the link "Research & Knowledge" to find the latest research on arts education.
Click on the link "Our Work" to see the general contents of the site.
Mission is "To help improve policy and decision-making through research and analysis." This links you to their Reports and Bookstore page; also check out their Subject Area Bibliographies.
Economic and social policy research organization that has several publications on arts and culture. Click "search options" to focus your search. You can also Browse by very broad topic.
US Regional Arts Organizations
Web site of the six national arts organizations (including Arts Midwest). A great source for links.
Links to the Wallace Foundation Knowledge Center. "The Wallace Knowledge Center offers credible, useful knowledge that can help policymakers, practitioners, researchers and concerned citizens make progress in the fields in which they work."
Focuses on "Education and Learning; Food, Health and Well-Being; and Family Economic Security." See the link Resources.
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