With the conclusion of the Arts Participation Leadership Initiative (APLI), a four-year experiment to bolster audience engagement and arts participation conducted by the Washington State Arts Commission (ArtsWA) and The Wallace Foundation, ArtsWA remains committed to sharing the knowledge the project created and to growing a learning community around it. ArtsWA’s APLI web portal now…
Education policy is a complex tapestry in America, consisting of a dynamic mixture of federal, state and local resources and regulations. Within this multilayered system, many important decisions affecting the quality and availability of arts education are made at the state level. This year, a number of state legislatures introduced bills affecting arts education. Some…
State arts agencies are continually finding fresh ways to package information about the value of their agencies and to articulate the return on investment they provide to the state. Some recent additions to the portfolio of case-making tools used by state arts agencies include: How Does Public Funding for the Arts Impact Oklahoma? This compact…
The Washington State Arts Commission (WSAC) is offering a special series of learning events designed to help arts organizations understand and adapt to changing audiences and shifts in public arts participation. Activating Your Audience was led by nationally recognized researcher and consultant Alan Brown of WolfBrown. A forum, two workshops and a webinar all focused…
Adaptability and leadership remain critical to arts organizations during the recession, according to new research released by the Washington State Arts Commission (WSAC). In 2009, WSAC (with Helicon Collaborative) and the Seattle-based ArtsFundconducted parallel studies on the economic recession’s impact on cultural organizations in Washington state. WSAC’s report, Arts and Recession: The Economic Recession’s Impact on…
The Wallace Foundation and the Washington State Arts Commission (WSAC) have announced a four-year arts funding partnership designed to develop the skills and expertise of leaders of arts organizations to build arts participation. The partnership builds on WSAC’s past Wallace START Program that funded arts participation grants and learning for underserved communities. Nine Seattle arts organizations…
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