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The Arts and Civic Engagement: A Field Guide for Practice, Research, and Policy presents a comprehensive strategy through which policymakers, researchers, and practitioners can collaborate to bring a fuller understanding of the arts’ civic impact to...
Last Updated: July 9, 2014
The Worksheet to Define Indicators with Casemaking in Mind sets up five questions to methodically work through to help clarify and define indicators that matter to targeted stakeholders.
Last Updated: September 26, 2014
Changing World’s Literacy and Cultural Connections (LCC) is an in-school program to enhance instruction in arts, literacy and cultural awareness. Through the program students learn new ways to write, produce art, and make connections between...
Last Updated: March 6, 2015
BRITDOC’s Impact Field Guide & Toolkit is a series of modules that guide users to develop an evaluation approach for creative projects. Originally designed for use with documentary films, the guide and toolkit provide relevant information for...
Last Updated: March 6, 2015
If you’re thinking about becoming a photography professional, you’re going to need to take some photography courses and learn the basics. However, there’s more to it than just knowing how to get the best exposures and how to light an area. There...
Last Updated: July 20, 2015
Aesthetic Perspectives is a framework developed by Animating Democracy to enhance understanding and evaluation of Arts for Change—creative work at the intersection of arts and community/civic engagement, community development, and justice. Arts for...
Last Updated: May 23, 2017
In the Funder Companion to Animating Democracy’s framework, Aesthetic Perspectives: Attributes of Excellence in Arts for Change, author Chris Dwyer of RMC Research offers ideas and insights to help funders apply the framework to address their needs...
Last Updated: May 23, 2017
The Performing Artist Companion to Animating Democracy’s framework, Aesthetic Perspectives: Attributes of Excellence in Arts for Change, offers ideas and insights to help performing artists and performance companies apply the framework to address...
Last Updated: May 23, 2017
The Curator Companion to Animating Democracy’s framework, Aesthetic Perspectives: Attributes of Excellence in Arts for Change, offers ideas and insights to help curators working in/with visual arts and time- and performance-based projects to enhance...
Last Updated: May 23, 2017
The Educator Companion to Animating Democracy’s framework, Aesthetic Perspectives: Attributes of Excellence in Arts for Change, offers ideas and insights to help educators and students apply the framework in curriculum development, faculty/student...
Last Updated: May 23, 2017
The Evaluator / Researcher Companion guide to Animating Democracy’s framework, Aesthetic Perspectives: Attributes of Excellence in Arts for Change, offers ideas and insights to help evaluators and researchers apply the framework to address their...
Last Updated: May 23, 2017
Diving into Racial Equity written by Vanessa Whang, examines the MAP Fund’s deep examination of one of its foundational priorities—racial equity in arts and culture grantmaking—and ongoing efforts to change practices toward this goal. The MAP Fund...
Last Updated: December 9, 2019
Animating Democracy, a program of Americans for the Arts, and A Blade of Grass created the Municipal-Artist Partnership Guide (MAP), a practical digital resource to help artists and city leadership, as well as organizations supporting their efforts...
Last Updated: March 17, 2020
This comprehensive toolkit features customizable worksheets containing thoughtful questions, clarifying sidebars, and examples to help users plan, design, and partner to create meaningful engagement activities.
Last Updated: November 15, 2022
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