Highlights from the 2015 public opinion poll, Americans Speak Out About the Arts, conducted by Ipsos on behalf of Americans for the Arts.
Part of the Americans for the Arts Artists & Communities conversation series that pairs veteran community arts leaders with emerging community arts leaders to share...
Excerpted from Arts & America: Arts, Culture, and the Future of America’s Communities. This essay looks at the changing face of tourism in America, as well as the role that the arts may play in positively impacting those changes over the next 10–15 years. The...
Immigration has long stirred America’s imagination of its past and of the enduring value of the Republic to the world’s oppressed masses. No other society, we have believed, has been more hospitable to foreigners than ours. The historical settlement of newcomers brings to mind poignant narratives of journeys from desperate places to the Golden Door of modern American society.
This one pager provides an overview of the benefits of Cultural Tourism in the United States and includes the percentage of foreign visitors participating in arts & culture while visiting the U.S.
The essay that follows has two objectives. First, to provide a brief survey of some of the major cultural policy initiatives of the United States government from the 1930’s until recent times. Second, to underscore some of the broader patterns and trends that can be discerned in America’s cultural relations with other countries and other peoples.
Cull explores how "Black Watch" creativly addresses controversial topics such as war, racism, and consumerism.
Transcript of Robert MacNeil's lecture, for the 20th Annual Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy on March 12, 2007.
Towards Knowledge Societies focuses in particular on the foundations on which knowledge societies that will optimize sustainable human development are constructed.
This Monograph explores the role of culture in diplomacy, with a specific focus on international cultural exchange.