Government arts funding in the US is typically paltry—and, alas, even that limited funding is often a political football, as Florida’s 2018 election campaign illustrates.
Why is Michael Bloomberg’s Bloomberg Philanthropies donating over $43 million collectively to 200 small and mid-size nonprofits arts organizations through its Arts Innovation and Management Program?
Based on an in-depth community engagement process, the St. Louis Regional Arts Commission is shifting public funds towards projects that emphasize “the convening power of the arts.”
An artist has paused her work at the California State University Long Beach’s University Art Museum after the museum director who collaborated with her was fired. Though the school denies it, the artist says the museum deliberately interrupted the work, which examined police violence against people of color.
Here’s a good example of how nonprofit strategic alliances have taken on a whole new flavor.
We are all familiar with nonprofits operating under one roof to share on common overhead expenses. But an example from New Zealand adds a shared performance space to the mix.
Nonprofits should leverage the arts to confront social issues in their communities, says this Ohio foundation.
In its “Sounds of Home” season, the Oregon Symphony took a risk with the world premiere of Gabriel Kahane’s oratorio, which examines homelessness and housing insecurity.
Funding artistic practice as social commentary might be one of the most fascinating grantmaking perches in the country right now.
In Dallas, a new nonprofit comedy theater finds that improv can be therapeutic with a wide range of caregivers and long-term-care residents, including people with autism, Alzheimer’s, anxiety, and brain injuries.
