From the Fractured Atlas Blog

• National Performing Arts Convention Rehash: Issue #1 Recently, I attended the National Performing Arts Convention (NPAC) in Denver.  This was a convening of 4000+ artists and arts administrators, many of whom are involved with groups such as the National Performance Network and Dance/USA (Open Arts Network partners), Theatre Communications Group, Opera America, and the League of American Orchestras, among others.  The convention [...]
• Andrew Taylor’s Open Source PSA One of the best blogs on arts administration out there is Andrew Taylor’s. In his post from this afternoon, Taylor proposes a contest to develop an arts advocacy public service announcement based on his rough storyboard concept. The idea is to balance messages about art’s functional community value and its intrinsic aethetic/experiential value. This is [...]
• Shoestring budgets & demographic diversity on Off-Off Broadway The New York Innovative Theater Foundation is currently conducting a demographic survey of theater artists producing in the off-off Broadway (OOB) community. Since they need about 6000 responses, I wanted to pass this along and encourage people to participate! The survey should only take about 4 minutes to complete and you can find it here. They [...]
• Public Theater Accepting Applications for 2009 Emerging Writers Group Dutifully passing this along from our friends at The Public Theater: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Candi Adams/ Sam Neuman 212-539-8642 press@publictheater.org THE PUBLIC THEATER NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR 2009 EMERGING WRITERS GROUP GUIDELINES AVAILABLE ONLINE FOR SECOND YEAR OF THIS GROUNDBREAKING INITIATIVE TIME WARNER CONTINUES AS FOUNDING SPONSOR June 10, 2008 – Expanding on its history of developing new plays [...]
• Fractured Atlas Members Win Best Musical Tony! (sort of) I just want to send a public congratulatory note to Back House Productions, a longtime Fractured Atlas organizational member, on the incredible success of In the Heights, the new Broadway show that won the coveted Best Musical award (also Best Score, Best Choreography, and Best Orchestrations) at the Tony Awards on Sunday. The show’s [...]
• Get Yer Soapbox Here! Just about a month after the Flickr announcement, we’ve got some more bling for your online member profile! If you’ve got a blog somewhere, the odds are pretty good that you’re publishing a feed (either RSS or Atom). Well, you can now enter your feed url into your profile settings and it will automatically pull [...]
• An Army of Artists “If every artist in America’s work force banded together, their ranks would be double the size of the United States Army,” reports Sam Roberts in today’s NY Times. This conclusion is drawn from a groundbreaking new report from the National Endowment for the Arts titled Artists in the Workforce: 1990-2005. I realize not everyone will [...]
• Ain’t We Pretty? The Fractured Atlas website got a face lift today. This is mostly cosmetic - a new graphic design, revamped navigation, and a few tidbits of new content. The functionality should all be unchanged. Love it? Hate it? Love it but hate the puke green dropdowns? Let us know what you think!
• Fractured Atlas on the Road: June 2008 We’re once again spanning the globe! O.K., we’re just spanning the country. But, still, come say hello if you’re at any of these events! Tuesday 6/10-Saturday 6/14 National Performing Arts Convention Place: Denver Performing Arts Center/Colorado Convention Center — Denver, CO In Attendance: Adam Natale, Arwen Lowbridge, & Bob Middleton (Board Member) Fractured Atlas has a booth next [...]
• Let there be space… Fractured Atlas is proud to announce our partnership with The Tank for next week’s symposium - if you are in NYC, please attend! Saving Our Cultural Capital: The Challenges Facing Independent Venues and Artists in Manhattan A symposium hosted by The Tank, Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy, and Fractured Atlas, in cooperation [...]

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