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22001111 LLiisstt ooff PPaarrttiicciippaannttss Ellen Alberding, President, The Joyce Foundation Moises Kaufman, director and playwright, “The Jane Alexander, actor; former Chairman, National Laramie Project” Endowment for the Arts Robert L. Lynch, President and CEO, Lin Arison, Founder, National Foundation for Americans for the Arts Advancement in the Arts and YoungArts Anand Mahindra, Vice Chairman and Managing Delali Ayivor, YoungArts Level I Winner in Writing Director, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., India (Poetry) Cara Mertes, Director, Documentary Film Program and Barbara Schaffer Bacon, Co-Director, Animating Fund, Sundance Institute Democracy, Americans for the Arts Jeremy Nowak, President, William Penn Foundation Ann Beeson, Senior Fellow, Open Society Foundations Patrice O’Neill, filmmaker, “Not in Our Town” Angad Bhalla, filmmaker, “Herman’s House” Zachary Ostroff, YoungArts Silver Winner (Jazz) Albert Chao, President & CEO, Westlake Chemical Keri Putnam, Executive Director, Sundance Institute Margaret Coady, Director, Committee Encouraging Lisa Garcia Quiroz, Senior Vice President, Corporate Corporate Philanthropy Responsibility; Chief Diversity Officer, Time Warner Inc Joe Dilg, Managing Partner, Vinson & Elkins, LLP The Honorable Elizabeth Roberts, (Chairman, BCA Executive Board) Lt. Governor of Rhode Island Ken Fergeson, Chairman, NBC Oklahoma (Chairman, William Roper, President and CEO, Orton Family Americans for the Arts) Foundation Victoria Newton Ford, YoungArts Silver Winner Dennis Scholl, Vice President/Arts, (Writing) John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Rha Goddess, President and CEO, Edgar Smith, CEO, World Pac Paper Move the Crowd, LLC Jonathan Spector, President and CEO, Marian Godfrey, Chair, National Arts Policy The Conference Board Roundtable; Senior Director of Culture Initiatives, Diane Swonk, Senior Managing Director and Chief The Pew Charitable Trusts Economist, Mesirow Financial Robert Gupta, First Violinist, LA Philharmonic and Stanley Tucci, actor, board member, Founder/Director, Street Symphony Sundance Institute Lee Hirsch, filmmaker, “The Bully Project” Laura Zucker, Executive Director, LA County Arts Frank Hodsoll, President, Resource Center for Arts Commission and Culture; former Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts Bill Ivey, Director, Curb Center for Arts, Enterprise, and Public Policy, Vanderbilt University; former Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts .

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Chapter 13: “Fostering Civic Engagement Through the Arts: a Blueprint” by Devereaux
Chapter 13: “Fostering Civic Engagement Through the Arts: A Blueprint” by DeVereaux Art Policy and Advocacy Policy Quest The aim of this assignment is for you to learn about some of the important issues, events, and individuals in the history of arts policy in the United States. At the same time, you will be gaining research skills that will help you improve your research capacity in this course and others. The questions posed are intentionally posed in a way that requires you to do research and a bit of problem-solving to figure out exactly what information in needed. With that said, in this assignment, you should find information to respond to the posed questions by any means you can! What that means is that it is not readily obvious how you should answer the questions, where you should go to find the answers, or what answers are required. As a graduate student, you will encounter similar situations when you are conducting research for papers and projects you will complete. The ability to develop your own research leads based on vague or ambiguous ideas has great value for this reason. Keep in mind that “research” does not just pertain to looking things up in books. As a researcher, you should begin to discover the multiple ways you can track down data. A savvy researcher might, in fact, begin with a subject librarian who can show ways to facilitate the search. Before beginning this assignment, note that: All questions relate to the fields of arts management and arts policy, so you should find answers for each that relate to these areas.
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