September 6, 2009 Mr. Rocco Landesman Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts 1100 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, DC 20506 Dear Mr. Landesman: First of all, allow me to congratulate you on being confirmed as the new Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. Over the past 18 months, I have had the pleasure of [...]
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Open Letter to Rocco Landesman
Posted in Values, tagged Alexis de Tocqueville, NEA, Robert Brustein, Rocco Landesman on September 6, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Spalding Gray: Tell Stories, Listen — Make Art
Posted in Inspiration, Place, Values on September 1, 2009 | 10 Comments »
In an interview in 1991, Spalding Gray said: “Personal storytelling is very important to me because we’ve become so media-ized that we begin to think the stories the stars tell on Johnny Carson are more important than ours. And whenever I interview people, interview the audience onstage, and I draw their stories out, the audience [...]
Eric Booth
Posted in Inspiration, Values, tagged Eric Booth on May 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is a wonderful speech by Eric Booth, author of “The Everyday Work of Art” and head of the Mentoring and Arts Education Program at Julliard. In many ways, the questions he asks and the ideas he puts forward could easily stand at the center of the <100K Project. The speech is called “Finding the [...]
Value 2: Multiple Disciplines
Posted in Values, tagged Values on May 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
While this project began focused solely on the theatre, and while theatre will continue to be a central part of any arts organization created by the <100K Project, I now believe that a vibrant arts organization demands a wide variety of arts activities in order to truly be of the community. I look to the [...]
Value 1: The Focus is on Small and Rural Communities
Posted in Values, tagged decentralization, small and rural communities, Values on May 27, 2009 | 8 Comments »
“I guess in all my years, what I heard more than anything was: a town of less than 50,000 population cannot support a discount store for very long.” Sam Walton To start off this post with a quote from Sam Walton, the King of Wal-Mart, is something I am loathe to do. As readers of [...]
