MySpace Music Points Way To Free Music Economy
Wired, 10/1/2008
"The internet was supposed to level the playing field between signed and unsigned artists, giving each a way to reach fans without middlemen or kingmakers. And we might get there still. But judging from the major labels' equity stakes in MySpace Music (not to mention imeem and LaLa among others), music's future as a free economy could actually turn out more restrictive than its past, until these sites figure out how to compensate artists of every stripe fairly."
http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/10/myspace-music-p.html
‘Creative economy : Results of three-year study discussed
Benton County Daily Record (AR), 9/11/2008
"A group of 50 leaders in the government, civic and arts communities met at Compton Gardens in Bentonville [AR] on Wednesday morning to hear and discuss results from a three-year study on Arkansas' Creative Economy. . . . The study revealed that although Arkansas has been known primarily as a manufacturing state, the slowing economy is making way for more and more creative industries to be pursued. . . . Upon the recommendations of the study, the move now goes to push for state funding to enhance the creative economy."
http://nwanews.com/bcdr/News/65585/
Will Artists and Designers Save the Economy of the Los Angeles Region?
MarketWatch - PRNewswire, 10/1/2008
"Artists, designers and 'creative types' drive the diverse economy of the Los Angeles region, according to a new report from the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC). Data shows that 'creativity' is the #2 business sector in Los Angeles and Orange County, generating nearly 1 million jobs and over $100 billion in sales/receipts from the arts, design and entertainment industries combined. (Tourism and Hospitality is the # 1 business sector in the Los Angeles region.)"
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/artists-designers-save-economy-los/story.aspx?guid=%7B09C17F86-EEFA-4162-B519-09BC7B032FCF%7D&dist=hppr
Arts Organization Calls for Preservation of Arts Spaces in Overcrowded Public Schools
MarketWatch - PRNewswire, 10/3/2008
At a rally at City Hall and at a City Council hearing, "[t]he Center for Arts Education sounded a call for the preservation of disappearing arts spaces in New York City's public schools. 'Easing overcrowding and providing adequate classroom space for public school students should be a top priority for New York City,' said Doug Israel, Director of Research and Policy for The Center for Arts Education (CAE), 'however, this should not be done by seizing and converting dedicated facilities necessary to support learning in the arts. Unfortunately, music rooms, dance spaces, black box theaters and art studios have been divided, walled, and turned into academic classrooms or commandeered for other purposes.'"
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/arts-organization-calls-preservation-arts/story.aspx?guid=%7BBA676100-C364-40A3-AFA0-339FA9947C92%7D&dist=hppr
Although she describes the relationship between art and higher education as "long and uneasy," Marjorie Garber argues, "It may be that the time has come for the university to become a patron of the arts, embracing and funding the actual making of art on a new scale, and bringing to bear all its institutional traditions of judgment, peer review, and freedom of ideas. An open-minded patronage, providing courses taught by the most talented artists - in the same way that the university seeks the most talented philosophers, psychologists, and physicists - could change both the way we learn, and the way we encounter the world."
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/10/05/higher_art/
Program uses art to reinforce core curriculum
KSL-TV (Salt Lake City, UT), 10/2/2008
"Nearly 60 elementary schools in Utah are using art to help students get smart. It's all because of a new state-funded art program. Research suggests that art can actually help students with core subjects like math, science and English. The Beverley Taylor Sorenson Arts Learning Program is helping schools mix the two together. . . . The program was funded by the Legislature back in March, and almost $16 million will be paid out over the next four years."
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=4424358
Report urges city to invest in the arts
Portland Press Herald (ME), 10/2/2008
"A steering committee wants the Portland City Council to start and help fund an agency that would promote creative enterprises and innovative investment in Maine's largest city, according to a report to be released today. The Creative Economy Steering Committee recommends that the council establish a nonprofit corporation to attract more artists, designers, engineers and other creative people to Portland. The Creative Portland Corp. would be the driving force in a public-private partnership that would build on the more than $30 million generated by arts and cultural organizations in the city each year. The 19-page report also recommends that the council establish a Creative Economy Tax-Increment Financing District, where a portion of new property taxes could be used to finance the corporation and its programs."
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=213453&ac=PHnws
