{"id":387,"date":"2003-10-20T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-20T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2003\/10\/conferencepalooza\/"},"modified":"2003-10-20T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-20T07:01:00","slug":"conferencepalooza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/conferencepalooza.php","title":{"rendered":"Conferencepalooza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in Seattle early this week at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giarts.org\/Conf03\/conf03index.html\">Grantmakers in the Arts conference<\/a>&#8230;lots of foundations and program officers trying to make sense of a down economy. The upshot is that I&#8217;ll likely be patchy in my posts this week, but that I&#8217;ll also emerge with some new links and fresh thoughts (okay, perhaps not fresh, but at least freshened by the Pacific Northwest air).<\/p>\n<p>\nA first volley: after arriving in Seattle I visited the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pikeplacemarket.org\/\">Pike Place Market<\/a>, famous for the fish throwing and old farmer&#8217;s market charm. I noticed that the floor tiles had become naming opportunities for lots of individual supporters&#8230;much like the floortiles or commemorative bricks of a new performing arts center or public piazza. So, at some point, this central marketplace became unsustainable as a market but necessary as a cultural institution (for tourists and local flavor).<\/p>\n<p>\nOdds are that they&#8217;re already planning an endowment campaign and starting a fish-throwing school to ensure the future of this cultural icon&#8230;perhaps there will be a conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in Seattle early this week at the Grantmakers in the Arts conference&#8230;lots of foundations and program officers trying to make sense of a down economy. The upshot is that I&#8217;ll likely be patchy in my posts this week, but that I&#8217;ll also emerge with some new links and fresh thoughts (okay, perhaps not fresh, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}