[David J. McGraw] challenges the received wisdom that nonprofit arts organizations last (and should last) eternally. How this became the prevailing wisdom is important question, perhaps only answerable by future cultural historians. Certainly a nonprofit business model that prizes sustainability over effectiveness is one factor. As McGraw indicates, [there] may be other factors as well.

“The undergraduate and graduate students involved in Marissa McClure’s service-learning course not only volunteer with a local nonprofit but also act as extensions of the organization. The University of Arizona class, “Community, Culture, and Art Education,” is unconventional and unique in nature – a collaborative effort to inform and engage students in community-based art education.… [...]

“David McGraw, theater arts lecturer and production stage manager at the University of Iowa, knows firsthand what it’s like to be a part of a dying arts organization.… While in college, the theater company he was involved with for two years suddenly closed.… So McGraw, 38, created a new concept for arts organizations that he [...]

“For this end-of-year podcast episode, we take a look at numerous trends in the technology sector and their implications for nonprofit arts and culture organizations. David [Dombrosky] talks with Brian Newman.… Their conversation explores ways in which the trends identified in Brian’s essay will impact the creative sector as well as how arts organizations can [...]

“David McGraw, theater arts lecturer and production stage manager at the University of Iowa, knows firsthand what it’s like to be a part of a dying arts organization.… While in college, the theater company he was involved with for two years suddenly closed.… So McGraw, 38, created a new concept for arts organizations that he [...]

“For the 20UNDER40 authors, the future of the arts lies in what’s possible, not in what has been the status quo. ‘Why do we do what we do in the arts?’ is the taste in their mouths they wake up with in the morning. The conversation surrounding the possibilities to new alternatives to practice and [...]

“…if you haven’t bought (or otherwise finagled) your copy [of 20UNDER40] yet, what on earth are you waiting for? If you’re searching for the vanguard — the real vanguard — of the arts and arts education in this, the start of the second decade of the 21st century, this is it. Waketh thyself up. Twenty [...]

“Edited by Edward P. Clapp and featuring essays by 20 under-40 arts leaders and thinkers, 20UNDER40: Re-Inventing the Arts and Arts Education for the 21st Century is a late-2010/early-2011 must-read, although if you do try to read it in a single sitting, the only person responsible for the splattered brain matter will unquestionably, dear reader, [...]

“Edward Clapp, the editor of 20Under40: Re-Inventing the Arts and Arts Education for the 21st Century, came to San Diego this past August to do a workshop on the arts for the San Diego Foundation. The talk, and now the book, is intended to shake things up a bit when thinking about the arts and [...]