NEWSFEED: FEDERAL ERASURE OF U.S. ARTS, CULTURE, AND KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION
Several years ago, while teaching at Hampshire College, I began an occasional practice of aggregating urgent or critical arts news for reference in a class I created that I called “Tilling the Field: Reimagining Contemporary U.S. Arts Ecologies.” Since then, the name and its content have been revised and condensed several times. In its current Trinity College iteration, we’re calling it “Mapping Arts Economies.” In all its forms it is a space to consider the histories and societal frameworks that got us the current arts ecosystem. We take a circuitous journey through U.S. history of arts philanthropy, government support of… read more