Following up on our lively discussion last class session, I present a post from the State of the Art blog written by James Undercofler. In this post, he discusses the recent NEA survey of public participation in the arts (available here). We discussed this survey briefly early on in the term, and there is a video about it on the Module 1 resources page…
Undercofler’s post urges arts administrators to think about the immediate future in considering how the Web and Internet-based delivery of arts is playing out right now. He asks:
Following the trends of exceptionally lower passive audience participation, especially in iconic genres and organizations, plus these two other trend items, what will the “live” arts world, especially the performing arts world look like in 5 years?
The full post is quite short, and his blog on the whole is definitely worth reading on a regular basis.
