Issue 1
Welcome to The Arts Politic and Issue 1: “The Economy Issue,” our guide to making the arts a resounding priority during these uncertain times. “The Economy Issue,” includes articles, poetry and visual art by emerging and established artists, thinkers, and leaders. This issue includes our “Special Report: The Arts & The Economy,” section as well as essays, interviews and a critical arts policy brief that provide working solutions for the arts through an economic lens. For making dynamic contributions to this our inaugural issue, we extend a special THANK YOU to each of our contributors.
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CONTENTS
THE ECONOMY ISSUE:
Our guide to making the arts a priority during these uncertain economic times.
Letters from the Editors
Founding Editors, Danielle Kline and Jasmine Mahmoud, bid you welcome to the inaugural issue of The Arts Politic with letters that address the impetus for this magazine and your role in the greater arts politics dialogue.
Letter to the Policymaker
Engaged citizen and Minnesota resident, Judy Clifford, writes to her state senator, and other policymakers, in support of the “Legacy Amendment.”
Opening Acts
BRIEFS & TRENDS.
BOTTOM LINE: “Twitter Challenge with Mayor Cory Booker.”
DIALOGUE with artists and activists from the historic White House arts meeting and Poetry Jam.
COLUMN: State of the Arts // Brandon Woolf
“Our Fishy NonProfit Sector” revisits early 20th–century tax language to carve out a better understanding of present-day nonprofit arts operational structures
COLUMN: Pop Politik // RonAmber
“Africa, African Accents and African-Americans: Name That Relationship!” examines HBO’s latest show to question global representations of blackness.
Special Report: The Arts and The Economy
ESSAYS by Arlene Goldbard, Greg Londe, Ardath Goldstein Weaver, and Doreen Jakob that explore cultural recovery as national recovery; 1950s CIA-led arts funding initiatives; economic-termed arts development in North Carolina; and a critique of arts-led economic policies.
TAP*MAP, features regional perspectives about the economy’s effect on art making and arts communities.
The Founding Editors close with a POLICY BRIEF detailing strategies for an economic-and-whole-scale recovery of the arts.
Exhibition
Visual artwork by Jeremy Novy, Nat Soti, Alonso Sanchez, Dennis Redmoon Darkeem, Jim Costanzo, Beth Loraine Bowman, Tomas Oliva, Erin McElroy, Art Hazelwood.
Poetry
By Rebecca Manery, Lily Mulholland, and Dudley Cocke.
Library
BOOK/TALK: Victoria Grieve speaks about her latest book, The Federal Art Project and the Creation of Middlebrow Culture, and FAP’s relevance to contemporary arts policy.
BOOK/TALK: Susan Somers-Willett (poet, and author of The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry) talks about the White House Poetry Jam and the troubling commercialization of slam poetry.
FILM/TALK: Filmmakers Liz Turner and Reese Dillard (Left Alone) discuss the economic implications of anti-same-sex marriage laws.
FILM & BOOK BRIEFS.
Datebook
A summer of arts politics workshops, concerts, plays, webinars & festivals.
Remembering
Augusto Boal, Director, Drama Theorist & Interventionist
Mary Perry Stone, Artist, Federal Art Project.
EndNote
“Art—Making a Difference” by Randy Martin