Author: Cutler, Bruce

Publication Year: 1967

Media Type: Book

Summary:

This volume is a record of how arts organizations and concerned individuals and community leaders began to write a blueprint for a concerted, statewide program of action in the arts. The immediate occasion was the First Kansas Conference on the Arts, with more than five hundred delegates representing ninety Kansas communities attending, which was held in Wichita, September 29-October 1, 1966. The entire proceedings of this conference, transcribed and edited including the remarks of seventy-nine panelists and speakers and the question and answer sessions, make up the contents of this volume. The assumption of most of the delegates was clear: the arts are an essential part of the life of the communities of the state of Kansas. The problem to be resolved was: how can concerned individuals and groups make the arts more effective forces in community life in our state?

Abstract:

This volume is a record of how arts organizations and concerned individuals and community leaders began to write a blueprint for a concerted, statewide program of action in the arts. The immediate occasion was the First Kansas Conference on the Arts, with more than five hundred delegates representing ninety Kansas communities attending, which was held in Wichita, September 29-October 1, 1966. The entire proceedings of this conference, transcribed and edited including the remarks of seventy-nine panelists and speakers and the question and answer sessions, make up the contents of this volume. The assumption of most of the delegates was clear: the arts are an essential part of the life of the communities of the state of Kansas. The problem to be resolved was: how can concerned individuals and groups make the arts more effective forces in community life in our state?

This volume is the step-by-step account of suggested ways in which communities can accomplish that goal. It offers assistance in deciding on the roles which the arts can play in community life; it indicates ways in which communities can organize their artistic resources; it offers suggestions for methods of fund-raising and publicity to set programs in motion; and it opens up a discussion of the ways in which a state government can provide assistance in coordinating and channeling the work of community arts councils and groups.

CONTENTS
1. Objectives:
         The Kansas Cultural Arts Commission by Governor William H. Avery.
         Keynote address by Martin Umansky.
         New Managers and new money for the arts by George M. Irwin.
         The politics of art by David Morton .
         Strategy for the arts by Lawrence Kelly.
         The management of opportunity by Michael K. Newton.

2. Approaches:
         Governing boards, their selection and role by Mrs. G. Robert Herberger.
         Fund raising from public and private sources by Todd Seymour.
         Panel discussion: Community Arts Councils.
         Panel discussion: Publicity and public relations.
         Panel discussion: cultural exchange programs.

3. Music:
         Panel discussion: Community and regional music programs.
         Panel discussion: Booking musical attractions. 
         Panel discussion: Young Audiences, Inc. 
         Panel discussion: Music in the schools

4. Theatre:
         Panel discussion: How to start a community theatre.
         Panel discussion: Active community theatre programs.
         Panel discussion: Booking touring theatrical attractions.
         Panel discussion: Drama in the schools.

5. Panel discussion: The Dance.

6. Art:
         Panel discussion: What will sell and how to sell it.
         Panel discussion: Art exhibitions.
         Panel discussion: How to organize and run a sales and rental gallery.
         Panel discussion: How to start a private collection.
         Lecture-Demonstration by William Kienbusch.
         Panel discussion: Art in the schools.

7. Panel discussion: Creative Writing.

Arts & Intersections:

Categories: Advocacy