ArtPride NJ: Growing Arts Advocacy Nationwide
“If you’re not networking, you’re not working.” – Denis Waitley We all have our networks at work and at home, online and in real time. The most valuable ones provide knowledge, insight into best...
View ArticleArtPride New Jersey: The Sticky Arts
The recent development of tax policy concerns in Trenton has raised a great deal of thought about where exactly the nonprofit arts sector fits in. Senator Tom Kean has introduced legislation (S334)...
View ArticleArtPride New Jersey: The Arts AND … Movement
Lessons Learned at #AFTACON2016 For nearly 60 years, Americans for the Arts has convened an annual convention for arts and community leaders to network and discuss strategies for building stronger...
View ArticleArt Pride NJ: Measuring the Arts — A One, Two Punch
How do we value the arts? How do we measure their impact and make that measurement count? On a personal level, we know the breathtaking power of a masterpiece, the exhilaration of a standing...
View ArticleArtPride NJ: Summer Reading 2016 — The Arts and Beyond!
As I eagerly await a week’s vacation in just 12 days on the beach of glorious Cape May, I’ve begun to sift through the pile of books that are stacking up on the bedside table and deciding which ones...
View ArticleArts Ed Now: I Support the Arts and I Vote!
Hannah, Alex and Ben Carr, whose mom is Stephanie Carr, ArtPride Program Manager, help register voters at Camden Jam on Saturday, Sept. 10. What’s your issue in the upcoming election? From gun control...
View ArticleArt Pride: Conversing Creatively
It’s National Arts & Humanities Month and in New Jersey that means it’s also Discover Jersey Arts Month, or its hashtag #ArtoberNJ. Every October, thousands of local arts and community leaders...
View ArticleArtPride NJ: Here Comes the Sun
2016 is over to everyone’s relief. For most it’s been “annus horribilis” which needs little or no translation. The amount of upset and turmoil from 18 months of presidential electioneering, raw social...
View ArticleArtPride New Jersey: Now is the Time
“Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.” It’s the (early) 70’s and that was the warm up drill in Mrs. Lester’s typing class where I learned to type over 100 words per...
View ArticleArts Ed Now: 2017 National Arts Advocacy Day
Just days before National Arts Advocacy Day, news hit of President Trump’s plan to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts in 2018. The announcement, though not entirely unexpected, sent a surge...
View ArticleArtPride NJ: Mapping the needs of a strong arts ecosystem in New Jersey
On May 11, thought leaders from within and outside New Jersey’s arts community gathered at Express Newark to discuss trends and conditions affecting New Jersey artists and the future of support for...
View ArticleArt Pride NJ: One Big Tool for the Arts Advocacy Toolkit
Did you attend an arts event last year? A performance, exhibit, music festival, or poetry reading? If you did, you are in great company. New Jersey nonprofit arts groups drew more than 7.5 million...
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