by Savannah Barrett Published in October 2013, “Culture in Agriculture: The Cooperative Extension Service as an Alternative Rural Arts Model” aimed to “inform rural arts practitioners, community arts academics, and policy makers of the limitations of existing resource investment in rural areas and need for additional rural arts organizational models.” The piece also […]
By Miguel Juárez Twenty-years ago I published the article “The Invisible Careers for Latinos: Public History and Museum Studies,” in CultureWork. Although some would argue that there has been some progress for Latinos and persons of color, I think very little has transpired. Given the 2016 election, it has become imperative for us to […]
By David B. Pankratz In 1997, I wrote “The Nonprofit and Commercial Arts: Understanding Future Options” for CultureWork. At the time I was an independent scholar in the Los Angeles area and could easily cite local examples of cross-over interactions between these sectors involving artists and producers, arts and entertainment organizations, professional service organizations, […]
by Alice Parman Collections: The Holy of Holies As the 21st century began, museum professionals wondered if museums had been eclipsed by the Internet; why pay to view real objects that are pictured online? In Do Museums Still Need Objects? (2010), Stephen Conn argued that museums would continue to find a raison d’être. And […]
