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Art & Entertainments

Collier County commissioners’ questions delay arts implementation

By Jaime E. Love 1 month ago

Collier County has an arts and culture strategic plan, but no one to administer it — and won’t for another three months, after commissioners yanked a resolution Tuesday for the United Arts Council to administer its new arts and cultural strategic plan.

The decision, which mandates a 90-day revision period on the contract, followed more than an hour of questions and, occasionally, accusatory comments that suggested:

Commissioners are not familiar with operations of county arts organizations, including the UAC. Conversely, the UAC isn’t familiar with the level of details commissioners want on budgeting.
No one is offering solid figures on how much it will cost

Art & Entertainments

How do you teach performing arts when there are no performances? This school is learning

By Jaime E. Love 2 months ago

PHOENIX — For Monica Sauer Anthony, adapting to the challenge of a virtual classroom started with a reenvisioning of what it even means to teach at a performing arts school.

A choir can’t really rehearse in a virtual classroom much less give a live performance.

Neither can an orchestra.

There’s too much digital delay involved in streaming to get everybody synced up.

When Gov. Doug Ducey ordered Arizona schools to close in March because of the pandemic, Sauer Anthony was teaching Music History and Culture, and Beginning Woodwinds, Flute and Oboe Studies at Arizona School for the Arts in downtown Phoenix.

As ASA began to make the switch to online learning, Sauer Anthony, who’s since become arts director and vice principal of student services, said the faculty was trying to maintain as much of a sense of normalcy as it could.

Teachers changed their focus

They did some virtual

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We need to fight systemic inequalities in the arts to create a diverse talent pool

By Jaime E. Love 2 months ago

Arts need to be invested in all over Britain – not just London (Getty Images)

At the beginning of 2020, Arts Council England set out bold new plans with the potential to kickstart a radical shift in the cultural fabric of our country.

The ten year strategy focused on creativity and diversity and heralded a welcome shift from lofty “great art” language. It emphasised “everyday creativity” and moved away from elitist views of arts and culture, which made the arts inaccessible for so many – especially young people.

However, arts, culture and youth services have taken a real hit, with a decade of funding cuts and the impact of Covid-19, meaning many organisations face threat of closure.

This cannot happen – arts and culture are the soul of our communities and central to our lives, improving wellbeing and connecting people. We know that music-making, as an

Art & Entertainments

COVID-19 is taking a ‘frightening’ toll on Miami-Dade’s arts and culture groups

By Jaime E. Love 3 months ago

For the Frost Museum of Science, the first of Miami-Dade’s major cultural institutions to reopen in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, a salvaged summer season was supposed to be something of a grace note in a lost year. It didn’t quite work out that way.

When the museum opened in June, administrators were hoping to recapture enough summer traffic, usually the highest of the year, to steady its capsizing finances. But a resurgence of infections in July and August, strict capacity limits and many families’ continued reluctance to risk exposure — even with well-publicized safety protocols — kept ticket sales at just a quarter of the level of the summer before, CEO Frank Steslow said.

Now, if Congress fails to approve a second hefty federal bailout along the lines of the multi-billion aid program that helped the Frost ride out three months of total closure, Steslow said, the

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