'Funding for the Arts' Month: Arts and Community Engagement
Is crowdsourcing through online contests for arts funding "pandering" to the public? On PhilanTopic, features editor Kyoko Uchida explores how philanthropic support for active engagement in the arts by more diverse audiences serves to strengthen community and social cohesion by enabling different segments of society to experience together how various cultures define, make, and enjoy art....
Grantmaking for a Broader Definition of Arts Engagement
Sharon DeMark, an arts program officer at Minnesota Philanthropy Partners, talks about the evolving definition of the arts in the U.S. — and opportunities for arts funders to reach more communities....
Joel Wachs, President, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Philanthropy News Digest chats with the president of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts about funding for the arts in a weak economic recovery and the impending sale of the rest of Warhol's estate....
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