Jun 21, 2019

A cultural event happens every nine minutes in the Greater Boston area, serving about 21 million people a year—nearly four times more people than attend Red Sox, Patriots, Bruins, and Celtics games combined. Along with bringing in people to events, the arts industry contributes $2 billion annually to the local economy.

Jun 18, 2019
M. F. Husain, Arab Astronomy, 2008, Acrylic on canvas, 195 x 235 cm.

Ambitious new art and cultural projects are opening in Qatar as the country gears up to welcome a flood of visitors for the FIFA World Cup in 2022.The newly opened national museum, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, is a national project which hosts immersive art to provide a space for the past and the future to meet.

Jun 14, 2019
Boston Skyline, Image Credit- Lesley Becker/Globe Staff: Adobe

Research from The Boston Foundation and Barr Foundation has shown that Boston, MA, needs to further prioritize investment in an arts ecosystem in order to elevate new perspectives, encourage diversity, and make communities more inclusive and vibrant in an era of increasing demographic change. 

Jun 12, 2019
Photo of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera

This June marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising against police harassment and discrimination on LGBTQ individuals. It was recently announced that a monument honoring Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera will be installed in New York. The work was commissioned by She Built NYC, a public arts campaign aiming to highlight women trailblazers to celebrate and bring public awareness towards their accomplishments and historical impacts.

Jun 11, 2019
Students protest in favor of the arts.

Hundreds of high school students at LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts staged a sit-in protest in favor of retaining LaGuardia’s historically arts focused curriculum rather than shifting towards stricter academic requirements.

May 28, 2019

Mindful Music Moments, a relaxation program based in Ohio, collaborated with the Cleveland Orchestra to provide students in the Greater Cleveland area classical listening segments to decompress and relax before the school day starts.

May 23, 2019

Americans for the Arts Artists Committee member Shepard Fairey was one of 31 artists who recently contributed public art to Dr. Maya Angelou Community High School in South Los Angeles, where two dozen new murals turned the drab building into “an explosion of color and story.”

May 17, 2019

Through Community Connections, Creative Forces is building networks of arts organizations in communities surrounding clinical sites, allowing patients to continue participating in the arts after treatment to ensure a successful transition back to civilian life. The networks also will provide options for service members and veterans who have not received clinical therapy, but would benefit from hands-on experiences with the arts.

May 13, 2019

Leading as an executive director rarely has a roadmap. Madison Cario sheds some light on how to be intentional in their first 100 days at the helm as Executive Director of the Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) in Portland, Oregon.

May 13, 2019

Waiting in line at the DMV is something all Americans dread. But the Maryland Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Administration has partnered with Prince George’s County Memorial Library System to place a short story kiosk, call Short Edition, in the Beltsville MVA branch. 

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