40 stories by "Laurie Baskin"
On Monday, the U.S. Department of Education released the results of the Fast Response Statistical Survey's (FRSS) Report on Arts Education, based on data gathered in the 2009-2010 school yea…
As we move into this year's appropriations cycle and gear up for Arts Advocacy Day, April 16 & 17, it is important to note some immediate policy challenges in Washington. There are a num…
In addition to last week’s announcement of the NEA Roundtable, I wanted to share three newsworthy items concerning arts education: 1) NYU Forum on Theatre for Young Audiences, Future D…
The National Endowment for the Arts will host a webcast, Improving Arts Learning through Standards & Assessment: A National Endowment for the Arts Research Roundtable on Tuesday, Februar…
The NEA recently posted its FY13 Grants for Arts Projects guidelines. As first reported in November, the NEA has confirmed that it will no longer be accepting consortium applications for FY1…
The State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) has launched Cultural Crossroads, an online network that will provide arts practitioners and managers a venue fo…
The National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago has released a landmark report on a three-year study of teaching artists (TAs) " artists who make teaching a part of …
This fall, the NEA announced new research regarding the status of artists in the American workforce. Artists and Arts Workers in the United States offers the first combined analysis of a…
On Friday, December 16, 2011, Congress approved a $146.255 million appropriation for the National Endowment for the Arts for FY12. The FY11 NEA appropriation was $155 million and this $9 mil…
The NEA has announced the first round of funding for FY12 totaling $22.543 million to support 863 grants to organizations and individual writers across the country. This round of funding is …
The Internet and Intellectual Property House Bill: Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)/ Senate Bill: Protect IP Act (PIPA) A pair of bills intended to prevent online piracy " theft of intellect…
"But the overwhelming fact"the thing that just colors me happy"is that education directors, theatre artists involved in arts learning and artistic directors convened and discussed and argued…
(Click here to watch the videos above) TCG has administered an Internship Program for many years, and this year it falls under our Education Department. We’ve worked to educate and inv…
The good news: President Obama's new jobs bill, released Monday, includes nonprofits in its tax credits that go to companies that hire veterans and long-term unemployed people. The tax credi…
No More Cuts! We need to stand up as a theatre community and let our voices be heard in Washington. I believe that it is vitally important that the federal government support the arts " that…
