National Arts Publications Database

The National Arts Publications Database is a bibliographic tool that gives access current and historical information on a multitude of topics related to arts administration and policy. The database contains over 7,000 bibliographic records—providing arts administrators, policy researchers, and advocates with an asset to help them locate information on arts policy and practice and arts administration resources and best practices. Many recent entries to the database may also include the actual publication for download as well. When possible, Americans for the Arts has included the publication for download, but in many cases the database is purely bibliographic by design.

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Author: Jennifer A. Sandlin and Jennifer I. Milam

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Media Type: Periodical (article)

"We theorize how culture jamming as practiced operates as critical public pedagogy, through the ways in which it (1) fosters participatory, resistant cultural production; (2) engages learners corporeally; (3) creates a (poetic) community politic;…

Categories: Participation, Cultural Planning, Community Development, Civic Dialogue and Social Change

Author: Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning

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Media Type: Report

This toolkit is intended to help municipalities incorporate arts and culture into their communities, enhance livability by improving quality of life, and become more attractive places to live, work, and play.

Categories: Cultural Planning, Community Development

Author: Zabel, Laura

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This paper from the National Endowment for the Arts, written by Springboard for the Arts' Laura Zabel, explores different strategies and techniques for integrating the arts into planning.

Categories: Cultural Planning, Community Development

Author: Else, Barbara; Clair, Dr. Alicia; Elis, Elisha; Farbman, Dr. Andrea; Garrison, Julie; Haynes, Tina; Hunter, Dr. Bryan; Pinkerton, Judith; Reuer, Dr. Barbara; Rook, Jenni; Rorke, Dr. Margaret; Simpson, Judy; and Vaudreuil, Rebecca.

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The American Music Therapy Association presented this 2014 briefing paper focused on music therapy programs provided to military personnel, their families, service members in transition, and Veterans on military installations, in military treatment…

Categories: Arts and Military

Author: Moriarty, Pia, Ph.D.

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Media Type: Periodical (article)

The study focused on the largest immigrant and refugee population groups in Santa Clara concluded that the participatory arts serve essential functions for Silicon Valley's immigrants and refugees in their ability to help them assimilate as well as…

Categories: Visual Art, Cultural Diversity, Community Development

Author: Jennifer L. Novak

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Media Type: Dissertation

By 2065, a record-breaking high of 1 in 3 US residents is projected to be either an immigrant or the child of an immigrant. How well immigrants and second-generation immigrants are settling into the US is of great importance to the well-being and…

Categories: Cultural Diversity

Author: Jennifer Novak-Leonard, Michael Reynolds, Ned English, and Norman Bradburn

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Media Type: Report

This report presents findings from the California Survey of Arts & Cultural Participation, a new study commissioned by The James Irvine Foundation and conducted by researchers at NORC at the University of Chicago. The Cultural Lives of…

Categories: Participation, Immigration, Cultural Planning, Cultural Diversity

Author: Pia Moriarty, Ph.D.

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Immigrant Participatory Arts examines immigrant communities in Silicon Valley and outlines how they make use of participatory arts as a tool of community cohesion and societal bridging.

Categories: Participation, Immigration

Author: Mark J. Stern; Susan C. Seifert; and Domenic Vitiello

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Migrants, Communities, and Culture examines migrant communities in Philadelphia and the impacts they have made on the arts and culture sector in the city.

Categories: Participation, Immigration, Community Development

Author: CollegeMatchUp.net

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Media Type: Infographic

Through this thorough and accessible infographic, College Match Up shows us the median salary, common responsibilities, necessary characteristics and education level for careers in Art, Design, Media, Marketing, Education, Art Therapies, as well as…

Categories: Creative Workforce, Creative Industries