State of the Artist note: This post, from Laura Zabel, is in response to our Visualizing Artists’ Careers project, which you can see here. I can’t stop looking at these graphics. I love the unbalanced stars that show us just how different each person’s trajectory and career is. And somehow simultaneously demonstrate how important [...]
This is a call out to all the crackerjack arts administrators out there, working behind the scenes to make it happen. Same goes for you—loyal arts patrons, showing up for every show in town, coming through for your local arts community. I know you. I’m one of you. We belong to the same tribe. [...]
The Topic Was Air from Works Progress on Vimeo. As artists who often work across disciplines, we’re excited by efforts to get beyond silo thinking. Thankfully, there seem to be more and more of these silo-busting projects out there! An awareness is building both in and outside the arts community about the possibilities of collaboration [...]
Skewing the Lens from Works Progress on Vimeo. “It’s hard sometimes to think outside your own very complicated, very personal, very busy, life-is-overwhelming lens, but when you go to the theater, what I want is… that moment where all of the sudden your world explodes from that lens into this huge connection to the world.” [...]
McKnight Foundation’s Artist Fellowships 30th anniversary celebration from Minneapolis on Vimeo. This summer, we celebrated the 30th Anniversary of the McKnight Artist Fellowship program with a bang. No, wait–bang isn’t the right word. We celebrated with live music, participatory dance, spinning tops, commemorative flags, handmade rainsticks, narrative tree branches, original poetry, regal sashes, and more [...]
