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Uploaded to this blog post, you will find an audio podcast of Rha Goddess’s speech from the 2007 Americans for the Arts Annual Convention. Rha was the 2007 Leadership Innovator.

Rha Goddess is a performing artist and social-political activist. Her work, combining vibrant images, linguistic brilliance, hip-hop rhythms, and unflappable honesty, has been internationally featured in several compilations, forums, and festivals. Time magazine called her debut project, Soulah Vibe–one of the year’s coolest records. As founder and CEO of Divine Dime Entertainment, Ltd., she was one of the first women in Hip Hop to co-create, independently market, and commercially distribute her own music worldwide. Her activist work includes co-founding the Sista II Sista Freedom School for Young Women of Color. Goddess’s current projects include Meditations With The Goddess and The Next Wave of Women & Power/We Got Issues! We Got Issues! recognizes that young women have the power to preserve, repair, and protect families, communities and the globe, yet this power is often hidden behind unspoken personal and political issues. Goddess is giving voice to young women through visions, songs, and movement,with the goal to transform women’s ideas of leadership and power.

Audio and video files from previous events, as well as Americans for the Arts’ monthly podcast, can be accessed from our website. To listen to this podcast, please click on the play button below.

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Uploaded to this blog post, you will find an audio podcast of Mathew Gross’s speech from the 2007 Americans for the Arts Annual Convention. Mathew Gross was the 2007 Public Advocacy Innovator.

Mathew Gross “rewrote the rules of presidential politics” and “put blogging at the center of the Democrats’ nominating campaign” when he left his home in Moab, Utah to launch the first presidential campaign weblog for Howard Dean in March of 2003. As Director of Internet Communications for the Dean campaign, Gross helped to develop and implement the online strategy that raised more than $25 million online and built Blog for America into one of the top weblogs in the world, attracting more than 100,000 readers per day at the height of the primary season.

Audio and video files from previous events, as well as Americans for the Arts’ monthly podcast, can be accessed from our website. To listen to this podcast, please click on the play button below.

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Uploaded to this blog post, you will find an audio podcast of Dave Hickey’s speech from the 2007 Americans for the Arts Annual Convention. Dave Hickey was the 2007 Public Art Innovator.

MacArthur “Genius” award-winner Dave Hickey is the author of Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy. Hickey has served as owner-director of A Clean Well-Lighted Place Gallery in Austin, Tx; as Director of the Reese Palley Gallery in New York City; as Executive Editor of Art in America magazine; and as Contributing Editor to The Village Voice. He has written for most major American cultural publications, including Rolling Stone, Art News, ArtForum, Interview, Harper’s Magazine, Vanity Fair, Nest, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times. Reviewer Lawrence Weschler describes Hickey’s writing: “The generosity of the man’s verve–the suppleness of its profusions–can get to be downright ravishing. On top of which, the guy’s really funny.”

Audio and video files from previous events, as well as Americans for the Arts’ monthly podcast, can be accessed from our website. To listen to this podcast, please click on the play button below.

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The second edition of ArtCast, the monthly podcast of Americans for the Arts featuring President and CEO Robert L. Lynch, focuses on a recent trip that Bob took to China.  Bob traveled to China to speak about arts marketing at a conference held in Shanghai.  In this episode, Bob discusses the tremendous changes that China is going through and future plans for international collaborations.  While in China, Bob had the opportunity to interview several arts administrators and excerpts from the following interviews are included:

• Sun-man Tseng, Chair and Professor, Department of Arts Administration, Shanghai Conservatory of Music
• Pan Yong, Assistant Director, National Grand Theatre, Beijing
• Juliet Yang, student in the Arts Administration Department at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music

To listen to the podcast, please click on the play button below.

National Grand Theatre of Beijing

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Uploaded to this blog post, you will find an audio podcast from the MetLife Foundation National Arts Forum Series Culminating Event: The Role of Arts Education in Lifelong Productivity featuring arts education innovator Sir Ken Robinson from the 2007 Americans for the Arts Annual Convention.

This session featured an interview with Sir Ken Robinson, followed by a panel of respondents on the relationship between arts education and workforce development.  Exploring this theme allowed for a comprehensive discussion of the central role the arts can play in helping to create a workforce capable of achieving corporate and citizenship objectives.

Sir Ken Robinson, author of Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative, is an internationally recognized leader in the development of creativity, innovation and human resources. Now based in Los Angeles, he has worked with national governments in Europe and Asia, with international agencies, Fortune 500 companies, not-for-profit corporations and some of the world’s leading cultural organizations. They include the Royal Shakespeare Company, Sir Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, the Royal Ballet, the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, the European Commission, UNESCO, the Council of Europe, the J  Paul Getty Trust and the Education Commission of the States. For ten years he was Professor of Education at the University of Warwick in England and is now Professor Emeritus.

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Uploaded to this blog post, you will find Lyn Heward’s keynote speech from the 2007 Americans for the Arts Annual Convention. As they become available, Americans for the Arts will post the audio files from all six Innovators, the Annual Awards, and the AEPIII Plenary Session on the Audio and Video section of the website.  They will also be featured on the blog, and will be sent out via our RSS feed.

Cirque du Soleil is widely recognized as one of the most innovative and creative companies in the world today. As the President of Creative Content for Cirque du Soleil, Lyn was responsible for managing, guiding, and channeling the incredible creative force of the company’s designers, performers, artisans, and technicians into a product that was both breathtakingly original as well as commercially successful.  In this talk Lyn goes behind the scenes of this global enterprise to explore the nature of creativity and innovation. She provides practical suggestions as well as the inspiration to find and develop the creative spark that lives within us all. Making brilliant use of images and video from Cirque du Soleil’s groundbreaking shows, Heward concentrates on key issues-risk-taking, leadership, and teamwork-relevant to arts leaders and their partners in education, business, community, and government.

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Welcome to the launch of ArtsBlog and ArtCast.  ArtsBlog is the blog of Americans for the Arts and will feature posts by various staff members of Americans for the Arts as well as outside experts.  It is our hope that ArtsBlog will be a source of valued information and a home for important discussions.  Comments and questions on ArtsBlog are both welcomed and encouraged.

ArtCast is a monthly podcast produced by Americans for the Arts featuring Robert L. Lynch, President and CEO. To listen to ArtCast, click the play button below.

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