This issue paper, National Investment in the Arts, is the sixth in the Art, Culture and the National Agenda series. Written by Dr. Bruce A. Seaman from Georgia State University, National Investment in the Arts looks at the ways in which the public sector supports the arts in America through direct grantmaking, tax policies, and other public policies. This issue paper, like others in the series, reflects the opinions and research of its author, who was informed by commissioned background papers and the assistance of the Center’s Research Advisory Council. The paper does not necessarily

The Center for Arts and Culture has published a year-long series of issue papers entitled Art, Culture, and the National Agenda to demonstrate how public policy decisions affect our nation's cultural life. This paper, the fifth in the series, looks at the relationship of education, creativity, and the 21st-century workforce.

This report is the result of the Art, Artists and Teaching symposium hosted by Bennington College in Vermont and the J. Paul Getty Trust. The symposium, held at Bennington College from June 23 -26, 2002, was designed to explore new ways to infuse the creative impulses of the arts and artists into education in America, positing new models of teaching and learning. Conversations by the two dozen leaders in art and education who participated in the symposium are summarized in the report.

This report on a year-long feasibility study shows that advocates on the state level are having success developing reliable funding for arts and culture through opportunistic coalition-building that brings together the interests of public and private, cultural and non-cultural groups and agencies.

In this article I describe in broad outline the nature of the transactions that define the arts sector and relationships between the for-profit and not-forprofit parts of it. I base the article on a component of a 2000 report to the Irvine Foundation, which itself was an outgrowth of the 1998 American Assembly entitled “Deals and Ideals: For-Profit and Not-for-Profit Arts Connections.”

This issue of The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society was drawn from discussions of the prospects for art, culture, and policy at the 26th Annual Conference on Social Theory, Politics and the Arts (STP&A). Co-sponsored by Americans for the Arts and the Center for Art and Culture, the symposium took place in Washington, D.C. from October 12th to 15th, 2000. Included is a collection of papers, remarks, and reports reflecting some of the positions expressed by policymakers, practitioners, and scholars concerning these issues.

One organization has defined cultural policy as, “in the aggregate, the values and principles, which guide any social entity in cultural affairs.”

This review will discuss how, despite a host of environmental challenges, arts policy entrepreneurs have been able to work with elected officials and other decision-makers to bring forth a wide array of innovations at the state level. The state arts policy community is active in the exchange of models, and makes good use of existing mechanisms that encourage the transfer and adaptation of policy ideas from state to state. Most of the mechanisms that assist with the transfer of ideas are fairly highly evolved, but opportunity certainly exists to strengthen these efforts or to develop new

While I expect that the heterogeneity of institutions in arts, historic preservation, and heritage/folklife parallel the situation in the humanities, it is nonetheless useful to state here that the financial, programmatic, and collaborative profiles of humanities institutions are highly individual -- e.g., some state archives are well financed and have broad areas of responsibilities while some others may be narrowly focused and disinclined to seek collaborations. Likewise state humanities councils vary in many ways, including how well and in which ways the state government provides support

Explores both the points of tension and the areas of common ground for understanding the relationship between religion and the arts in American life. Produced in collaboration with the Henry Luce Foundation, this anthology may be ordered through the New Press.