{"id":1385,"date":"2010-01-21T08:43:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T16:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2010\/01\/the_arts_ripple_effect\/"},"modified":"2010-01-21T08:43:38","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T16:43:38","slug":"the_arts_ripple_effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/the_arts_ripple_effect.php","title":{"rendered":"The Arts Ripple Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at the Fine Arts Fund in Cincinnati were clearly getting tired of the standard public conversation about arts and culture, particularly as it relates to the public responsibility to support the arts. So, they decided to look deeply, listen deeply, and reframe the way they were going to talk about it. Better yet, they decided to share that process with the world through their new report, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fineartsfund.org\/arts_ripple_effect\"><i>The Arts Ripple Effect: A Research-Based Strategy to Build Shared Responsibility for the Arts<\/i><\/a>. Said they:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After a year of investigation into the topic, this research finds that public responsibility for the arts is undermined by deeply entrenched perceptions that have nothing to do with government and everything to do with understanding of the arts. Members of the public typically have positive feelings toward the arts, some quite strong, but how they think about the arts is shaped by a number of common default patterns that obscure a sense of public responsibility in this area.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Among those &#8216;default patterns&#8217; are the assumption that the arts are a private matter about individual experience and expression, that the arts are &#8216;goods&#8217; to be consumed and therefore subject to the same marketplace rules as any other product (the winners sustain themselves), that the arts provide a passive experience that is &#8216;delivered&#8217; to the community, and that the arts are a lower priority.<\/p>\n<p>In response, the report suggests a different message as the foundation of public arts discourse. In a nutshell:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The arts create &#8221;ripple effects&#8221; of benefits throughout our community. Among these, two seem particularly resonant:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A vibrant, thriving economy, where neighborhoods are more lively, communities are revitalized, tourists and residents are attracted, and so on.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A more connected population, where diverse groups share common experiences, hear new perspectives, understand each other better, and such.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There are lots of connections between this report&#8217;s approach and the earlier work of Alan Brown (where he reframed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolfbrown.com\/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&amp;cntnt01articleid=29&amp;cntnt01origid=414&amp;cntnt01detailtemplate=articles_detail&amp;cntnt01returnid=417\">Architecture of Value<\/a> back in 2006, and suggested a ripple effect emanating from the personal engagement with artistic experience that flows out to social and civic value). But there&#8217;s plenty of room for bigger, broader, and more public conversation about how the arts engage our community life, and how we talk about that engagement with those who don&#8217;t see it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at the Fine Arts Fund in Cincinnati were clearly getting tired of the standard public conversation about arts and culture, particularly as it relates to the public responsibility to support the arts. So, they decided to look deeply, listen deeply, and reframe the way they were going to talk about it. 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