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Rule Your Market—Blue Ocean Strategy Sidesteps the Sharks

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The Ann Arbor, Michigan-based team was motivated by the desire to find solutions for struggling businesses like the Detroit automobile producers. Clowns, acrobats, and trapeze artists entertain. Actually, the process is based on three decades of research conducted by authors Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Arts & Culture

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The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. They support artist-driven film and new media storytelling projects (documentary films) that explore aspects of inequality, as well as the organizations and networks that support these documentary projects.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Arts & Culture

Kindful

The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. They support artist-driven film and new media storytelling projects (documentary films) that explore aspects of inequality, as well as the organizations and networks that support these documentary projects.

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The Public Argument About Arts Support as Seen through the Lens of the Detroit Institute of Arts

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Earlier this month, the Detroit Institute of Arts was "saved" by a voter-approved property tax (called a "millage") in its three surrounding counties. As one Detroit Free Press commenter wrote: "You are not getting it. Several Detroit comments were in this vein. This perspective was rampant in Michigan.

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The Diversity Question in the Arts Blogosphere

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Some events: Aaron Dworkin , a pretty amazing individual in many ways, is putting together SphinxCon , a conference happening this weekend in Detroit with a focus on "empowering ideas for diversity in the arts." In some ways, what's more interesting is the world beyond this bubble. You should go and tell us all about it.

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Feelings and Participation

Museum 2.0

Lumin at Detroit Institute of Art Now on to the interactives…I’ve been thinking a great deal about the function of interactives in museums. In this case, I find the most interesting ones to be made by artists. I’d much rather think of museums as all rising with the tide, then being torpedoed one by one.

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No longer in extremis.

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The Detroit Institute of Arts has been a precious anchor where many of us have created memories that helped define who we are today. The label did not address that the artist sexually abused her, gave her syphilis, and colonized her home. It would be difficult to count the wonderful opportunities I’ve had here. I disagree.

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