Author: Brockman, Chris and Ferrand, Beverly

Publication Year: 1973

Media Type: Report

Summary:

Abstract:

The Joint Legislative Committee on the Arts was formed in an effort to increase the state's awareness of the arts in our life. Initially the Committee began by looking at the organizations that make possible a cultural life in Michigan. The Committee also was was concerned with the functions and operations of the Michigan Council for the Arts and accordingly our interim report of 1973 dealt directly with these two areas and recommended that additional data be gathered to formulate a more comprehensive report on the arts in Michigan. This report represents the results of that effort and incorporates some of the relevant information contained in the earlier interim report.

Our task, therefore, is not just limited to documentation, as so much of this report attests, but rather to looking ahead to the future in our state and to giving the recognition and status to that area of activity that comes closest to expressing the humanity in mankind.

Because the contents of this report are so varied - but nevertheless all come under the umbrella of the arts - it was necessary to summarize each chapter separately and to attach there the appropriate recommendations. (p. VII)

CONTENTS
Foreword.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction: A rationale for the arts.
Nonprofit community arts organizations.
Recommendations.
Public radio and television.
The Michigan council for the arts.
Elementary, intermediate and secondary school surveys.
Recommendations.
Colleges and universities.
Community colleges.
The appendices:
     A. Community arts organizations.
     B. The public schools survey: questionnaire design and sampling methodology.
     C. Elementary school survey tables.
     D. Intermediate school survey tables.
     E. Secondary school survey tables.

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Categories: Funding