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Advocacy
ArtsPath
Community
Building Through the Arts
The Assembly's ArtsPath program features a collection of
informational, educational, and inspirational speeches by the best
and the brightest in the world of the arts, culture, business and
politics, on the subject of community building and the arts, arts
education, humanities, culture, cultural leadership, economic development,
and leadership. Software necessary for accessing PDFs and sound
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- "The Salient
Issues" —thoughts and directions on the arts and
advocacy from Ben Cameron, Executive Director of Theatre Communications
Group, from the April 2002 issue of American Theatre magazine
- Regional theatre pioneer Zelda Fichandler delivers the 15th
Annual Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy—"Creativity
and the Public Mind", at National Arts Advocacy Day,
Washington, DC, March 11, 2002
- Read national arts leader Diane
Mataraza's keynote speech, containing the
"10 Commandments of Arts Advocacy," from the Assembly's
2001 Annual Statewide Arts Conference, October 5-6, 2001 at the
Central Wisconsin Cultural Center in Wisconsin Rapids.
- Keynote
speeches from the Americans for the Arts / National Assembly
of State Arts Agencies Conference in NYC, July 28-31, 2001, including
a fantastic and inspirational speech by renowned actor Ossie
Davis. Audio
- Frank Rich, writer, political analyst, and former theater critic
for the New York Times, giving the 2001 Nancy Hanks Lecture on
the Arts and Public Policy at the 2001 Arts Advocacy Day, March
20, 2001, in Washington, DC. PDF
Transcript Audio
Other Community Arts Speeches:
- Outgoing Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts Bill
Ivey spoke at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
on December 18, 2000. Title: "An American Cultural Bill of
Rights."
- Community Arts Councils: Historical Perspectives by Maryo
Ewell , Associate Director of the Colorado Council on the
Arts and daughter of the late Robert Gard, UW-Extension professor
and community arts visionary.
- "Downtown Development and the Arts: Madison's Overture
Project" by George Austin,
President, The Overture Foundation, Madison. Presented to the
Wisconsin State Legislature on Arts Day, March 15, 2000.
- Frank
Hodsoll, former NEA Director
- Robert
Bluestone (external link—select Classical
Guitarist Robert Bluestone:/Inside Arts Winter 1998 Article),
classical guitarist, arts educator and activist
- Thomas
Young, CEO Lockheed/Martin
- Larry
Irving on technology, Assist. Secretary for Communications
and Information, National Telecom- munications and Information
Administration, U.S. Dept. of Commerce
- Robert R. Archibald, President, Missouri Historical Society,
St Louis, MO on "Words and Places and the Art of Community."
PDF
Transcript
- Mary
Regan , 2nd Annual Robert Gard Lecture, 21st Annual Summer
Program in Arts Management. Arts Extension Service, University
of Massachusetts, Northampton, Massachusetts, June 17, 2000. Mary
Regan is the Executive Director of the North Carolina Arts Council
- "The Populist Arts Movement Altering the Face of America,"
the Inaugural Robert Gard Lecture of the Arts Extension Service
Summer Institute, UMassachusetts-Amherst, June 15, 1999, by Janet
L. Brown of South Dakota, one of America's most creative community
arts activitists.
- Leadership
for a Changing World Posts Essays on Leadership
Leadership for a Changing World seeks to recognize, strengthen
and support leaders, and to highlight the importance of leadership
in improving peoples' lives. In addition to the leadership award,
which is at the heart of Leadership for a Changing World, this
program also seeks to spark a national dialogue about leadership.
To that end, Leadership for a Changing World will periodically
post articles on leadership on our website.
- The Hidden Leaders
The first in a series of essays on leadership written by San Diego
Union-Tribune columnist and author Richard Louv, who has written
numerous articles and books on families and children, urban design,
the environment, personal ethics, and public leadership.
For more information on The Hidden Leaders,
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