Columbus will join 208 other communities in the 2008-2009
Big Read, an initiative by the National Endowment for the Arts
to restore reading to the center of American culture, the
Greater Columbus Arts Council announced last month.
The Big Read celebration, which will take place in May and
June of next year, will be funded by a $20,000 grant from the
NEA.
The GCAC will partner with Thurber House, the Columbus
Museum of Art, Ohio Alliance for Arts Education, Columbus
Metropolitan Libraries, the Asian Festival, The Ohio State
University, and other local organizations to host multiple
arts based events centered on Amy Tan’s novel The Joy Luck
Club.
Artists
in the Workforce: 1990-2005 report
The National Endowment
for the Arts (NEA) recently released its Artists in the
Workforce: 1990-2005 report. It’s the
first nationwide look at artists’ demographic and employment
patterns in the 21st century.
The study gathered new statistics from the U.S. Census
Bureau to find out more about working artist trends, how the
trends have changed in the past 30 years and detailed
information on specific artist occupations.
Working artists are
one of the largest classes of workers in the nation, numbering
almost two million. That’s only slightly
smaller than the U.S. military’s active-duty and reserve
personnel (2.2 million). That means artists
represent 1.4 percent of the U.S. Labor force.
Artists represent a larger group than the legal
profession (lawyers, judges and paralegals), medical doctors
(physicians, surgeons and dentists) or agricultural workers
(farmers, ranchers, foresters and
fishers).
“Artists now play a huge but mostly unrecognized role in
the new American economy of the 21st century,” said NEA
Chairman Dana Gioia. “This report shows how important American
artists are to both our nation’s cultural vitality and
economic prosperity of our communities.”
For a complete
version of the report including key findings and profiles of
11 artist occupations and detailed information by state,
region gender and other categories visit http://www.maildogmanager.com/link.html?url=73&client=ohioartscouncil&campaign=184&email=##L@##H.
Conference for Community
Arts Education
The National Guild of
Community Schools of the Arts will host the Conference for Community Arts Education in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from October 29 –
November 1, 2008.
The conference will
include networking events, guest speakers, round table
discussions, professional development workshops, and program
showcases that address topics such as quality, access,
collaboration, and sustainability in community arts education,
determining program impact, internet marketing, and making a
case for community arts education. Delegates will also have
the opportunity to tour some of Philadelphia’s
community arts education organizations.
For more information,
please visit http://www.maildogmanager.com/link.html?url=220&client=ohioartscouncil&campaign=184&email=##L@##H
GOVERNOR TO HOST EDUCATION REFORM FORUMS
Ohio Governor
Ted Strickland plans to host 12 forums across the state
this summer focusing on reforming education in
Ohio.
“There is nothing
more important to Ohio's economic future than making
sure that we have a world-class system of education,”
Strickland said. "These forums are the
beginning of a conversation with the people of
Ohio
about how best to reform education in our great
state."
The “Governor’s
Conversation on Education” forums will focus on the six
principles for education reform as outlined in the Governor’s
State of the State address as well as specific policy ideas
for fostering a system of education in Ohio that is
innovative, personalized and linked to economic prosperity. A
second round of education forums will be held later in the
fall of 2008 and will focus on how to properly finance a truly
reformed system of education. The governor plans to introduce
his education reform proposal in 2009.
Strickland also
launched a Web site, http://www.maildogmanager.com/link.html?url=221&client=ohioartscouncil&campaign=184&email=##L@##H, which provides the public and
forum participants with details about the regional forums and
will include ways to submit feedback during and after the
forums.
The Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery will present
Midwestern Visions of Impressionism: 1890 – 1930 from
July 31 – October 12, 2008.
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Come experience the compelling world music
of the Mamadou Diabate ensemble where the sounds of
ancient instruments come together with the richness of
West African tradition and the freshness of Grammy
nominated kora player Mamadou Diabate. Mamadou Diabate
and his ensemble are touring the state as part of the
Ohio Arts Council’s Summer International Music and
Performing Arts in Communities Tour (IMPACT).
