STEM to STEAM with Drexel’s ExCITe Center
When I began working at Drexel University earlier this year, one of the most interesting developments that fell on my radar was hearing of College of Engineering’s Professor Youngmoo Kim’s directorship...
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Design Thinking Needed in Collaborative Workplace (from The pARTnership...
Karin Copeland Fostering and managing innovation is a continuous challenge for businesses. To meet this challenge it is critical to build a workplace culture that supports failure as an inevitability...
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Old Songs, New Opportunities
Erin Gough It is a familiar trope that early childhood teachers claim that they get as much out of teaching young ones as students get out of their lessons. They do it for the love of children, the...
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Open the Door & Come In: Celebrating Penny Balkin Bach
Liesel Fenner “Open the Door and Come In,” a sweet phrase invented as a fortune cookie prediction by her granddaughter, fully expresses the life and work of Penny Balkin Bach, Public Art Dialogue’s...
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Everything You Wanted to Know About Our Annual Public Art Preconference…But...
A local host committee has been working for months to organize tours and special events to show off public art in Pittsburgh during the 2013 Americans for the Arts Annual Convention to the most...
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Arts Advocacy: It’s Worth More Than Dollars & Cents
Julie Hawkins Why advocate for public funding of the arts? It’s a question I’ve never really asked myself, because it’s always been valuable to me. I grew up in North Carolina during the height of the...
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2013 Annual Convention Spotlight: Exploring Pittsburgh’s Art Community
Michelle Clesse An installation art museum, a nationally renowned glass studio, and a cartoon museum walk into a bar. Just kidding. Museums and studios do not have legs, and therefore, cannot walk...
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Arts Education Advocates Must Be AT the Table Before We End Up ON It
Erin Gough It has been an exciting few weeks for arts and arts education professionals and advocates in the nation’s capital. After a week of activities hosted by the Arts Education Partnership,...
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2013 Annual Convention Spotlight: Pittsburgh’s Persistent Courtship
Sam Laffey I love Pittsburgh. I mean it; I am a full on Pittsburgh-loving evangelist. I have a full-time job that I love here. I co-own a small business here. I own a house here. I wasn’t born here....
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Getting to Know Our Staff: Ten Questions with…Valerie Beaman
Valerie as a fairy in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at age 3 1/2. We recently launched a new series on ARTSblog that spotlights the staff at Americans for the Arts that I call “Ten Questions with…”, in...
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2013 Annual Convention Spotlight: Won’t You Be My…Partner or Collaborator?
Jamie Kasper Imagine a fast-growing, increasingly diverse school district with approximately 2,700 students in grades K–12, located 12 miles from the downtown area of a city. The district currently...
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A New Trend: Business Schools & Corporate Art Collections (from The...
“Demon Eye 1,” by Steinar Jakobsen, 2005, oil on alucore. From the Schwartz Art Collection of the Harvard Business School. In a recent development in the corporate art world, many of the most important...
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Wonky In Pittsburgh
David Pankratz I am new to Pittsburgh, having arrived here from Los Angeles on New Year’s Day 2013 to join the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council (GPAC) as its Research & Policy Director. It’s one of...
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Treading Art Team Suggests You Keep an Eye on Pittsburgh
Melissa LuVisi and Christine Smith of Treading Art Pittsburgh has vastly changed from what once was known as the “smoky city,” covered in smoke and grit, to a city that is open, architecturally...
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The One Not to Miss
Mara Walker June seems like convention season in the arts world. There are lots of national arts organizations developing educational and networking programs for their constituents. If you are an arts...
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Envisioning a City of Artists with “Soulful Stakes”
Kyle Bostian Pittsburgh is widely – and deservedly – touted for its transformation from declining industrial center to post-industrial success story, with much attention devoted to the role played by...
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Public Art Projects from Concecption to Installation
Nadine Wasserman As part of the Annual 2013 Americans for the Arts National Conference, the Public Art Network (PAN) Preconference, presents the opportunity for public art professionals to explore all...
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Follow Along at the 2013 Annual Convention
Not everyone can join us here in Pittsburgh at the 2013 Annual Convention and preconferences, but we’ve tried to make it as easy as possible to follow all the action online. The best place to take part...
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Can Art and Culture Districts Shape the Cities of the Future?
John Eger Welcome to the global economy and society. U.S. astronauts reflecting on their experiences in space all seemed to see the earth as one “big blue marble.” As NASA writes: “For the first time...
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Student Achievement: No longer “A little bit of Technical Skills and a lot of...
O.David Dietz In an ARTSblog post by Erin Gough on July 23, 2013, teachers are encouraged to be champions for the arts in ways that are often not a part of college preparatory curriculum. Erin notes...
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