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TAP/MAP

The Economic Landscape

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With RANA FAYEZ, BOB FREITAS, BARBARA FUGATE, MIKE LATVIS, ARIN MAYA LAWRENCE, REBECCA MANERY, ANN MARKUSEN, GENE MENERAY, MALLORY D. PIERCE, BRIDGETTE RAITZ, and ARDATH GOLDSTEIN WEAVER
Published: Issue 1, Summer 2009
Part of SPECIAL REPORT: The Arts & The Economy

How is the economic downturn affecting artists, arts communities, art making, and arts policies? To answer these questions and to gain regional perspectives, The Arts Politic developed TAP*MAP, an exciting feature which will TAP into diverse voice-portraits of pressing arts politic issues. For the inaugural issue, TAP*MAP features artists, academics, arts administrators, arts council staff and activists from across the United States who, together, construct a more vivid and detailed map of the arts/economic terrain. [...]