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Bob Lynch, President and CEO of Americans for the Arts, talks with Jamie Boese about what makes the Green Paper initiative so revolutionary. Both Jamie and Bob invite our readers and listeners to let their voices be heard as we plan for the future of the arts field and different art disciplines.
Green Paper topics and partners can be found here.
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Bob Lynch, President & CEO of Americans for the Arts, discusses the upcoming National Arts Advocacy Day in Washington, D.C. on April 12-13, and talks about memories from past events.
For more information on National Arts Advocacy Day click here. And you can also find video highlights from last year’s event, including Josh Groban and Wynton Marsalis, on this page.
We ask that you post your favorite Arts Advocacy Day memory below!
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Bob Lynch, President & CEO of Americans for the Arts, discusses the slippage in current private sector giving and addresses the private sector giving blog salon taking place on ARTSblog from March 8-12.
Bob also makes specific references to blog posts by Janet Brown, Julie Muraco, and Mark Brewer and urges visitors to catch up on the the blog posts from the salon.
To find the Salon blog posts in one place, use the Salon March 10 tag.
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Robert Lynch, President & CEO of Americans for the Arts, takes this ArtCast as an opportunity to thank all the tireless partners who helped make 2009 such a big year for Americans from the Arts. He reviews some of the key successes of 2009 and then discusses the 50th anniversary of Americans for the Arts, which begins in January 2010. He also focuses on this year’s Annual Convention, which will be a Half-Century Summit in Baltimore, Maryland from June 25 – 27. For more information on the Summit, visit our website.
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Bob Lynch, President and CEO of Americans for the Arts, discusses his recent participation in a symposium at Princeton University entitled “The Arts and the Economic Crisis.” The symposium hosted a number of well-known names like Philip Seymour Hoffman, Peter Sellers, and Toni Morrison among many others. In this ArtCast, he focuses on the discussion of how different arts organizations, from nonprofit arts to for-profit arts organizations, are dealing with the downturn in the economy.
I want to congratulate the Emerging Leaders Network, the leaders of the 20UNDER40 project, and other stakeholders who helped make last week’s Emerging Leaders Salon possible. As one of the thousands of visitors reading these Salon posts on ARTSblog last week, I can say I am heartened not only by the keen level of discussion, but also by the great diversity of participants and readers who have commented. I find it striking and encouraging that the arts field always comes together in a united front to make our community stronger, despite the challenges of the economy and changing cultural landscape, as well as strong differing opinions.
These kinds of insightful dialogues between powerhouse voices in the arts field such as Eric Booth and Ramona Baker and vigorous burgeoning leaders such as Edward Clapp and Ruby Classen, make me feel proud of the inherent community the arts bring to us all. I am also humbled at the enormous amount of work so many members, stakeholders, and staff of Americans for the Arts have played over the last ten years to advance new voices in the arts. It was in 1999 at a Winston-Salem Convocation focused on the future of the arts that the Emerging Leader program was born. In just ten short years the Emerging Leader Network has grown from an idea and then a Council to a full-fledged collection of over 1,000 leaders and stakeholders of all levels who are looking to ensure the health of arts leadership. Where our staff once had conference calls with a few emerging leader representatives scattered across the country, our Network now hosts dozens of Creative Conversations from coast to coast—hundreds of emerging leaders deeply engaged in their own communities. Read the rest of this entry »
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Bob Lynch, President & CEO of Americans for the Arts, discusses the recent gathering of the National Arts Policy Roundtable which took place in September at Robert Redford’s Sundance Preserve in Utah. The annual Roundtable brings together top leaders from the arts, philanthropy, business, education and government and this year’s convening focused on the role of the arts in strengthening and inspiring the 21st century global community through cultural exchange and diplomacy.
For more information on the National Arts Policy Roundtable visit our website where you will find the history of the program and reports from the past three years of the convenings. (Note that the 2009 report is still forthcoming).
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Bob Lynch, President & CEO of Americans for the Arts, discusses the recent National Arts Awards which took place on October 7th in New York City. In this podcast he focuses on the value of honoring partners for the work they do and making sure their advocacy stories gain attention in the media.
Find more information on the 2009 National Arts Awards here.
Senator Edward M. Kennedy was a titan for the arts, and I know the national arts community joins me in mourning his passing.
Ever since The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts was opened as a living memorial to the late president, Senator Kennedy has carried forth the arts and humanities legacy that his brother began. He powerfully advocated the need to nurture creativity and to broaden access to artistic excellence in the U.S. Senate, and his leadership extended to co-founding and co-chairing the Senate Arts Caucus.
Throughout his work, he carried strong messages of freedom of expression, tolerance, and creative rights. He spoke staunchly of the central role of the federal government in supporting American cultural life, inspiring bipartisan cooperation among his colleagues. Senator Kennedy was the recipient of our own 1999 Congressional Arts Leadership Award, and in 2004, introduced his friend Doris Kearns Goodwin as our Nancy Hanks Lecturer on Arts and Public Policy at The Kennedy Center. Read the rest of this entry »
This afternoon, the U.S. Senate confirmed Broadway producer Rocco Landesman to serve as the next National Endowment for the Arts chair and former Congressman Jim Leach to serve as National Endowment for the Humanities chair. Americans for the Arts President and CEO Robert L. Lynch issued the following statement:
“Today’s Senate confirmation of Rocco Landesman to serve as the next National Endowment for the Arts chair and Congressman Jim Leach to serve as National Endowment for the Humanities chair marks a moment of great opportunity for our nation’s cultural agencies. Landesman embarks as Chair of the nation’s arts agency with a robust agenda, an upward trajectory of funding, broad Congressional approval, and a White House committed to attracting national attention to the value of the arts and integrating them into broader domestic policies.
“Through his service in Congress, Jim Leach proved himself to be a strong leader and strategist on behalf of both the arts and the humanities. I am certain he will lead the NEH to support the innovative and critical work of the nation’s humanities groups.”
The New York Times has more.
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Bob Lynch, President and CEO of Americans for the Arts, discusses “United We Serve,” this summer’s national volunteer campaign organized by the Obama Administration. He proposes that the arts community can demonstrate the huge impact it makes in communities across the country through its myriad of arts and volunteer programs.
Find more information at http://serve.artsusa.org.
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Bob Lynch, President and CEO of Americans for the Arts, discusses how awards presentations and special events can better integrate the arts and artists throughout programs. He concentrates on the recent 33rd Annual Arts Awards of the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville as a successful example of careful use and placement of the arts within a special event.
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Bob Lynch, President and CEO of Americans for the Arts, discusses the Forum for New Ideas which will take place on May 5th in New York City. The Forum is organized by the Business Committee for the Arts and is designed to bring about ideas that transcend traditional boundaries when thinking about the connection between business and the arts. This Forum will address core issues that businesses are facing today and how the arts can act as a channel of improvement for these areas by increasing employee morale and engagement. Speakers include Randy Cohen, Vice President of Local Arts Advancement, Americans for the Arts; Jonathan Spector, CEO, Conference Board; and Krista Pilot, Senior Vice President, Dan Klores Communications.
Register for the Forum.
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Bob Lynch, President and CEO of Americans for the Arts, talks about a recent event at the John Brademas Center for the Study of Congress at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Bob describes how the Arts & Artifacts Indemnity Act and other United States arts policy can be powerful global diplomatic tools.
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Bob Lynch, President and CEO of Americans for the Arts, discusses a recent event at the British Consul-General’s residence in New York City that focused on sustainable practices in the arts. Environmental sustainability—in tandem with economic sustainability—is a core theme of the 2009 Annual Convention in Seattle, Washington this June.
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Alec Baldwin and Nigel Lythgoe talk about the state of the arts in America at Arts Advocacy Day 2012. The acclaimed actor and famed producer discuss arts education and what inspires them.
