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What are the factors that influence the success of the arts within the
community?
What are the factors that influence the success of the arts within the community?
Trixi Navarrete
University of Central Florida
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What are the factors that influence the success of the arts within the
community?
Introduction
Take a look at the United States today! Look at the city around you; notice the types of
business and organizations in your city. After observing, ask yourself: how well does
my community promote the arts? As I pondered this myself, and looked around for
creative and art related centers, I found that the art communities in my city are few and
far between. As a student of the arts, I have grown to discover that the creative outlets
are primarily found in the metropolitan areas. More in-depth research of art centered
businesses, organizations and creative communities shows a few integrated topics of
importance. In regards to the question,
What are the factors that influence the success
of the arts within the community?
This
paper will address influences that affect the arts
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What are the factors that influence the success of the arts within the
community?
discipline for this issue the very little will be improved to foster the arts. Or another
possible outcome that might be caused by looking at just one discipline will be the
decrease in quality of the arts due to the focus in the results of economy or results of
the polices made. Therefore, pioneering the arts must be tackled through an
interdisciplinary lens.
Economic
Americans for the Arts. (2007). Arts & Economic prosperity III: The economic impact of
nonprofit arts and culture organization and their audiences. Washington, DC:
American for the Arts.
The credentials of this source can be attributed to the team of Policy and
Research Department staff of Americans for the Arts. Along with the leadership of
Robert L. Lynch as CEO. The national report has a wide and deep scope of the arts
influencing the success of the economy and along with the following topics: creative
economy, challenges of funding, economic performances, nonprofit arts and culture.
The objective of the authors perspective was very thorough, professional and
unbiased to personal preferences. Any limitations, that were not covered were all noted
as areas: of exclusions. The material discussion was very persuasive. I see the article
supporting many different focusing regards to factors that influence the arts.
Klamer, A., & Petrova, L. (2007). Financing the arts: the consequences of interaction
among
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Preece, S. B. (2015). Acquiring Start-Up Funding for New Arts Organizations. Nonprofit
Management And Leadership, 25(4), 463-474.
The credentials of this author are proceed by the title of Doctor of Philosophy at
Indiana University. This article included information that addressed and analyzed the
revenue sources for art organizations. After reading the material and seeing how
meticulously the data was collected for this article and in addition to voice of the writer
addressing the issues of advocacy in the arts, I feel he addressed his argument with an
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open mind and concluded with much logic and statistical data to reinforce the original
concerns.
Policies
Lewis, L., & McKay, S. W. (2008). Seeking Policies for Cultural Democracy:
Examining the Past, Present, and Future of U.S. Nonprofit Arts. Studies in
Art Education, (4). 294.
The credentials of these authors stem from an art education background from Virginia
Common Wealth University (Mckay), and University of North Texas (Lewis). Lewis also
has the experience with an art leadership program under under the Priddy
Scholarships in Arts Leadership. The objectivity of the writers is very strong towards
the advocacy of nonprofit art funds. They argue that our current way of funding is
impoverishing the local artists of the US, and they address the importance of
re-examining the policies in place for nonprofit funding of the arts. After reading the
article the content does debate their possible solutions as a pressing focus. However,
despite the strong voicing of opinion, the two writers made a strong case to their
position. The authors looked at the situation through multiply areas of influence, they
stated a wide scope of evidence to support their findings. Overall this article was so
well dressed that much of my further investigation came from sources of comments
noticed in this article.
Strom, E., & Cook, A. (2004). Old Pictures in New Frames: Issue Definition and
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spoke fairly with on the material that she discussed displaying her knowledge as
realistic facts rather than addressing grants as the superior way of funding the arts.
This article was useful in the sense of gathering deeper insight to the world of
foundation funding. However, I use this article as enhancement to the topics discussed
in Lewis & Mckay article. In regards to the conclusion of this article communicates the
various areas grant funding affects in funding the arts.
Cultural
Fleming, R. C.. (2009). Creative Economic Development, Sustainability, and Exclusion
in Rural Areas.
Geographical Review
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99
(1), 6180. Retrieved from
http://www.jstor.org/stable/40377366
The credentials of Fleming, stem back from holding a doctorate degree in
anthropology from the University of Colorado, Boulder. The authors perspective
on the topic is was very specific to studying the area of Chatham County, North
Carolina. The author spoke on topics of creative economy, sustainability and
demographics. Flemings article brings up many good concerns and informs the
reader of what would help be the appropriate skills or tasks to aid a creative
economy in the midst of a rural area. Despite the date having surveys and data
from a narrow scope in geographically I believe the suggested application to
sustain the arts is of great value.
Fallon, M. (2012). An Arts Funding revolution. Public Art Review, (47), 38-4.
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Micheal Fallon is a writer based in the minneapolis area with various articles and
publications in the following places: St. Paul Pioneer Press, Pittsburgh City Paper,
Minneapolis-St. Paul magazine, the Utne Reader, Public Art Review, American Craft,
and Art in America. Along authoring, Creating the Future: Art and Los Angeles in the
1970s (Counterpoint Press, 2014). This article was voiced in a base tone for
supporting and advocating creative placemaking . The article brought in some other
creditable sources in the thoughts and effects towards pioneering art the arts in the
community. In addition, with insight of what caused organizations to earn their grants
and the effectiveness of grants. The contributions of this article work towards voicing
the sustainability of the arts.
Wood, Elsie. (2007). [Review of Works of Heart: Building Village through the Arts].
Children, Youth and Environments, 17(4), 438441. Retrieved from
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7721/chilyoutenvi.17.4.0438
Wood earned her credentials from Lesley University in Cambridge,
Massachusetts with a masters of Education in the field of Creative Arts.She holds
a director position for the non-profit organization Society for creative going in
boulder, Colorado and has 30 years experience in the creative arts. Her interests
include developing and facilitating community-based creative arts programming.
Despite the extensive credibility of the authors the article content leans towards a
partiality in regards tone of voice as well as suggested solutions. Much of the
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thoughts given does support previous articles.Wood supports the same data of
other articles with an underlying ethos of emotion. This article can be used to
gage passion in connection to advocacy and how it influences success of the
arts.
Ivey, B. J. (2008). Arts, Inc. [electronic resource] : how greed and neglect have
destroyed our cultural rights. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.
Ivey is a director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy at
Vanderbilt University and former NEA Chair. The information of this writing is
brief and summaries an interesting view on holding a cultural right to the arts.
Despite the important concerns of the article the basis to using this article would
be light. The main focus of to using this article is to contribute to the evidence of
sustainability. The objectivity of Ivey was even-handed in addresses the the art
ecology.
Conclusion
In conclusion, by integrating the three disciplines of economics (economy), Politics
(policies), and Sociology (culture) individuals can have a greater influence in change of
our current art organizational structure. The structure, and in which we manage the art
organizations is paramount to how the organization will serve and support the
community around them.
The
culture of the organization must be in congruence with
what the community needs. By meeting the needs of the community the next stage of
influence is addressed is the factors of economy, which we consider, as how the
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community spends their money on the arts, along with the funding models that
maintain the sustainability of the organization. However before the above topics can be
put into action most art organizations will need to meet the requirements of political
policies. Therefore all disciplines effects one another causing the efforts of pioneering
the Arts to be an interdisciplinary effort.