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Paula Cleggett, Emerging Visual Artists Elect DC
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011Like most cities, artists, gallery owners, critics, curators, collectors and the curious weave a nebulous network to sustain a creative community. Unlike most cities, the DC art scene operates in the shadows of national monuments, free national art museums and internationally recognized art centers. Cities across the U.S. battle against the pervading myth that you can only make it as an artist in a culture-rich metropolis like New York, Los Angeles or Chicago. True, DC has distinct offerings and challenges…but clear indications show that emerging artists don’t settle for DC, they choose DC. More…
Steven Tepper, Uncle Henry is Wrong. There’s A Lot You Can Do With That Degree., Huffpost College
Thursday, September 8th, 2011Steven Tepper discusses findings from the SNAAP Project in Huffpost College, revealing that arts students are often happy and employed, despite the myths. About three million college students will approach graduation day wondering what the future holds. As if news about the sputtering economy and uncertain job prospects were not depressing enough, many will also More…
Steven Tepper and George D. Kuh, Let’s Get Serious About Cultivating Creativity, The Chronicle Review
Thursday, September 8th, 2011Steven Tepper and George D. Kuh discuss Snaap findings and the importance of cultivating creativity in their article, “Let’s Get Serious About Cultivating Creativity,” featured in The Chronicle Review. More…
Steven Tepper and Douglas Dempster, Iron Cage of Accountability
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011Steven Tepper and Douglas Dempster’s essay on the net price versus value of an art school education is featured on Inside Higher Ed. But how much is too much to pay for a college education? Can American higher education be more accountable, transparent, and forthcoming with telling measures of value without withering in Weber’s iron More…
Elizabeth Long Lingo, Finding and Assessment: Innovation Lab for the Performing Arts
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010“Innovation is a complex process—characterized by fits and starts of insight; stumbling and triumphs; newly discovered obstacles and opportunities; and ultimately, a deepening under-standing of the innovation process and facility with the strategies and tactics needed to bring an innovation to fruition.” In her assessment of EmcArts Innovation Lab, Elizabeth Long Lingo considers the Lab’s major contributions to the field as well as more specific measures of Lab success. More…
Bill Ivey, Expressive Life and the Public Interest, Arts Journal
Saturday, July 17th, 2010Late in my tenure as NEA chairman I awakened to the the truth that copyright extension, the DMCA, the demise of the USIA, and the 1996 Telecom Act had profoundly reshaped our cultural system, and no one from the “arts community” had been engaged in the runnup to these legislative, regulatory, and administrative transformations. What More…
Jason Kaufman and Steven Tepper, Groups or Gatherings? Sources of Political Engagement in 19th Century American Cities, International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations
Thursday, September 30th, 2004There is broad agreement that citizen participation is critical for successful democracy. Recently, scholars have linked such political participation with the notion of social capital—community-level resources, such as trust, norms, and networks, that foster collective action. Much uncertainty remains regarding the sources of social capital, however. Here we examine two different features of community life that are believed to nurture More…
Steven Tepper, Setting Agendas and Designing Alternatives: Policymaking and the Strategic Role of Meetings, Review of Policy Research
Thursday, September 30th, 2004This paper investigates the role of strategic forums—such as special commissions, task forces, roundtables,working groups, summits—in the policy process. Reviewing prominent theories about policymaking, the author suggests ways in which strategic forums might fit within these frameworks as an analytically distinct policy lever. The paper examines existing literature on such forums, and identifies characteristics of “meetings that matter”—those More…
Steven Tepper, The Creative Campus: How do we measure up?, The American Assembly for the 104th American Assembly
Thursday, September 23rd, 2004The subtitle of this essay, “How do we measure up?” is a bit misleading. I have not, nor has anyone as far as I know, ever tried to measure the creative impulse, creative output or creative environment of American universities. So, at least in terms of direct measures, I remain agnostic on the question of More…
Steven Tepper, Creative Assets and the Changing Economy, The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society
Monday, September 30th, 2002Many arts advocates and policymakers have argued that certain changes in the economy (globalization, digitalization, the rise of the “knowledge” worker, the boom in intellectual property, changes in leisure consumption) are having a catalytic effect on art and culture. In particular, the arts are heralded as engines of economic growth and development. Scholars and pundits More…
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