query: research on beauty and economy
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[ed: thanks to Betty, Terri, and Ashwani for replying to Laurel's query.]
From: "Betty G. Robinson" <bgrobinson at verizon.net>
This might help:
There was a study done about 5 years ago, I think in Chicago, showing
the connection between reduced crime and access to green/park/outdoor
spaces. Sorry I don't have the reference. Betty Robinson
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From: "Terri McNichol" <tmcnichol at renassociates.com>
Dear Laurel,
I hope I am not stating the obvious in telling you that for years
Americans for the Arts has been sponsoring economic impact studies to
demonstrate how the arts/culture bring $$ to communities. Also, State
arts councils have been sponsoring cultural assessment plans for their
constituencies. There has also been the "down" side. Some feasibility
studies for new museum buildings overestimated visitor numbers for the
first few years, and therefore income expectations were not met causing
one to fold in Maryland, I believe. Many folks feel that too much focus
on the economic impact ovelooks the qualitiative part of the arts such
as a Rand report a few years back that advocated for keeping the focus
on more important indicators such as enchantment, wonder, etc.
Hope this helps.
Terri McNichol
Ren Associates
707 Alexander Rd., Bldg. 2 Ste. 208
Princeton, NJ 08540
Telephone +1.609.371.5354
Fax +1-609-243-0045
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t.mcnichol.1 at alumni.nyu.edu
Recent presentations:
"Art or Science: OD in China" at the Nineth Annual Sharing Day, May 3,
2007, New Jersey Organizational Development (OD)Network, NJ.
Co-presenter Wei Huang, Ph.D.
Presenter, "Inverting Western business models: why museum practices are
key to a new management paradigm." 2nd International Committee on
Management of International Council of Museums (International Council of
Museums standing committee on managementINTERCOM/ICOM) Meeting 2006 "New
Roles and Missions of Museums" Taipei, Taiwan, November 2-4, 2006.
"The Art of Leading the Museum." 4th Annual Critical Management Studies
Conference, Cambridge, UK, July 4-6, 2005.
See my article "Creative marketing strategies in small museums: up close
and innovative," in International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary
Sector Marketing Volume 10 Issue 4 - November 2005 (199 - 287) Special
Issue: Creativity and the Nonprofit Marketing Organization.
My essay on Appreciative Inquiry will be included in the Mental Models
chapter in the forthcoming book field book on The Sustainable Enterprise
to be published by Greenleaf Publishing, UK, and AMACOM in North America.
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From: Ashwani Vasishth <vasishth at csun.edu>
Here's a bibliography I started putting together a while back, that may
have some relevant references.
Cheers,
-
Ashwani
Vasishth ashwani at csun.edu (818) 677-6137
http://www.csun.edu/~vasishth/
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Public Art Benefits: Working Bibliography
Ashwani Vasishth vasishth at csun.edu March 30, 2008
Anonymous. 1994. "Vancouver's Downtown Improvement Creativeness
Strikes Gold," Economic Development Review, 12(2): 90. [The Downtown
Vancouver Business Improvement Association (DVBIA) is one of many
nonprofit societies in British Columbia that are comprised of property
and business owners within a particular geographic area. BIAs have the
mandate to enhance and maintain the area's commercial and social
viability. All persons who own or lease Class 5 (light industry) or
Class 6 (business) property within the designated area are eligible to
be members of the BIA. Annual budgets are determined by the property
owners and are funded through a special property tax on all Class 5 and
Class 6 properties within the specified area. The DVBIA was formed in
1990 to maintain and enhance downtown Vancouver as a place to live,
work, shop, visit, and have fun by developing and initiating innovative
programs and by promoting the unique assets of the area. The DVBIA has
initiated a number of successful programs, including the publication of
a list of free concerts and events downtown, an outdoor Christmas
Fantasyland, public art initiatives, and the Business Community
Fascimile Alert Computer System, which alerts businesses through
facsimile of criminal activity in the area.]
Arthurs, Alberta & Hodsoll, Frank. 1998. "The Importance of the Arts
Sector: How It Relates to the Public Purpose," Journal of Arts
Management, Law & Society, Summer 98, Vol. 28 Issue 2, p102(7). [Deals
with the importance of considering the arts as a `sector' and considers
the relationship between that sector and public purpose. Findings of the
ninety-second American Assembly convention in 1997 about arts;
Definition given by the American Assembly on the public purpose of the
arts; Main question posed at the assembly.]
Blair, John M & K David Pijawka & Frederick Steiner. (1998). "Public Art
In Mitigation Planning: The Experience of the Squaw Peak Parkway in
Phoenix," Journal of the American Planning Association, 64(2),
221-234. [Freeways often bring adverse visual and environmental
consequences. This study reports on two surveys of residents who were
asked for their views on using public art as a component of a freeway
mitigation program. The results suggest that the public strongly
supports public arts programs, but is ambivalent about their use for
freeway mitigation. Four factors contributed to a general disapproval of
the freeway public art program: the costs of the art, perceptions of a
low level of public involvement in selecting the art, lack of a regional
art theme, and inappropriate placement of the art. Although public art's
potential to raise controversy is familiar, emphasizing its use as a
freeway mitigation tool when other adverse freeway effects have not been
fully addressed can make matters worse and even jeopardize the
mitigation program as a whole. The paper considers the role of public
art in planning and how planners may reconcile the conflicting
objectives of the artists, the public, and local government.]
Fleming, Ronald Lee; Goldman, Melissa Tapper. 2005. "Public Art For
The Public," Public Interest, Spring 2005 Issue 159, p55-76. [This
article focuses on public art in the U.S. as of March 2005. There used
to be two federal programs dedicated to funding public art. Now there is
one. The key to understanding the divergence between the two programs
lies in a concept that seems so intuitive once stated that it is almost
surprising that it encounters so much resistance in the art world--the
distinction between public art and gallery art. Unlike gallery art,
public art must not be mindful merely of artistic concerns, but must
also be attentive to the contextual aspect of its siting--it is created
not to stand on its own, but to augment a larger public space. It is as
much a question of public utility, associational significance, and
expectations as it is a matter of the quality of particular pieces of
art. The Art in Public Places Program of the U.S. National Endowment for
the Arts collapsed because it remained stubbornly out of touch with this
reality. The Art in Architecture Program of the U.S. General Services
Administration, on the other hand, has thrived under a new model that
recognizes the difference between gallery art and public art, and that
takes account of the sensibilities of the people who will have to see
the artwork every day.]
Gee, Constance B. 2007. "Valuing the Arts on Their Own Terms? (Ceci
n'est pas une pipe)," Arts Education Policy Review, Jan2007, Vol. 108
Issue 3, p3-12. [Profound differences exist between the ways in which
arts educators and artists personally value the arts and the rationales
offered via arts advocacy campaigns for public arts support. The author
argues that those discrepancies carry grave consequences for
K-university arts education. The author describes means by which to
better reconcile valuing the arts for their intrinsic qualities with
intense political pressure to justify arts education in terms of its
alleged ability to improve students' math and reading skills and to
address concerns of social justice and economic development. This
article was adapted from a keynote speech given by the author on 13
October 2006 for the 62nd annual meeting of The National Association of
Schools of Art and Design. ]
Hall, Tim & Smith, Chereen. 2004. "Public Art in the City: Meanings,
Values, Attitudes and Roles," Advances in Art, Urban Futures, 2004,
Vol. 4, p175-180. [Outlines the context within which a new research
project on public art has been commissioned to make a substantive
attempt to examine public art through its audiences. Claims made in the
context of urban regeneration; Research questions; Social impact of the
aesthetic improvements associated with public art projects.]
Hiller, Terry R. (2001). "Coming Changes In Public Arts," The Futurist,
35(6), 46-51. [Before the end of the twenty-first century, art
galleries and museums will transform themselves into dynamic providers
of education and entertainment worldwide. An array of trends, led by
technological innovation, is already reshaping how art will be
experienced. Advancing technology will drive most of the changes in the
public arts. The first arts institutions to benefit will be the ones
that value creativity over systems and that can adapt new technologies
to further their missions. They will be bold enough to take calculated
risks, ultimately capturing public imagination and securing private funds.]
Lee, Pamela M. 1998. "Public Art and the Spaces of Democracy,"
Assemblage, Apr 98 Issue 35, p80(7). [Evaluates the international art
fairs, Documenta and Skulptur Projekte that have references to the
debate surrounding art and the public sphere. Observations on the
failure to differentiate current artistic practice from the earlier
models of art; How the gentrification of New York's Union Square was
justified; Curatorial strategies of the exhibitions.]
Meeks, Suzanne & Moore, Nancy G. & Edwards, Joseph F. "Art, Wellness,
and Innovation: Heads Up Kentucky! Puts Psychology's Contribution to
Healthy Living in the Public Eye," Professional Psychology: Research &
Practice, Oct2006, Vol. 37 Issue 5, p467-471. [The Kentucky
Psychological Association (KPA) Foundation is an organization that 2
years ago had little name recognition in its community or the state. In
the past year, the KPA Foundation has contributed a major public art
project to the city in which it resides, enhanced its financial assets,
introduced educational material on the mind-body connection to public
forums across the community, been the subject of feature articles in
some of the community's major publications, taken health promotion
curriculum to public elementary schools, and achieved national
recognition for its public education campaign. This article describes
the successful "Heads Up Kentucky!" campaign and the mobilization of the
membership in the state's psychological association to make the fruits
of psychological science accessible to members of the public.]
Sharp, Joanne & Pollock, Venda & Paddison, Ronan. 2005. "Just Art For
A Just City: Public Art And Social Inclusion In Urban Regeneration,"
Urban Studies, May 2005, Vol. 42 Issue 5/6, p1001-1023. [ In this
article, it is shown how cultural policy, and in particular public art,
intersects with the processes of urban restructuring and how it is a
contributor, but also antidote, to the conflict that typically surrounds
the restructuring of urban space. The particular focus of the paper is
on investigating how public art can be inclusionary/exclusionary as part
of the wider project of urban regeneration. The first part of the paper
examines examples in which public art intervention has attempted to
generate inclusion. Subsequently, attention focuses more on examples in
which the public art has been perceived as an aspect of cultural
domination and has thus provoked resistance. Throughout, it is argued
that the processes through which artworks become installed into the
urban fabric are critical to the successful development of inclusion.]
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> From: "Laurel Opgaard" <laurel_dti at sbcglobal.net>
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> Has anyone got, or ever seen a study showing the correlation between
> aesthetically pleasing communities and positive economic growth? I am in
> the process of beginning a public art program for our downtown and need to
> find information to pass along to an 'artistically challenged' group of
> community leaders. I think hard numbers would very likely be the most
> persuasive argument to woo them over to my way of thinking, and hopefully
> funding for my project.
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> Laurel Opgaard
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