Last month Gov. Jindal proposed a budget that reduces arts funding by 33% over last year's budget. Last year's arts budget was already less than HALF of what it was in 2009. Arts leaders expect the continued cuts to cripple the state's cultural economy and tourism industry with a severe ripple effect. State arts funding supports a cultural economy that holds 148,500 Louisiana jobs and feeds a $10 billion industry.

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The Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA) is a federal act of congress which protects the rights of visual artists. Passed 20 years ago, VARA is often an opaque law whose protections are sometimes difficult to predict. Recently, the Arts Council presented a webinar on VARA with Ashlye Keaton, co-founder and supervising attorney of the ELLA Project, Running about 30 minutes, this webinar covers:

• Overview of meaning, origin and history of moral rights.
• Introduction to the Visual Artists Rights Act as part of the Copyright Act.
• Explanation of the rights to attribution and integrity granted to authors of works of art through VARA.
• Discussion of case studies applying and interpreting the scope of VARA.

To view this webinar, please click here.

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This webinar is presented in part with support from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. 

Ribbon Cutting: March 20, 2012 2:00pm, Norman Mayer Branch in Gentilly located at Foy St. near the intersection of Gentilly Blvd and Elysian Fields.

Norman Mayer Branch in Gentilly features a wall/sculpture integrated into the entrance foyer of the building by Rontherin Ratliff, a local artist who was trained and now works for the YA/YA program. Ratliff designed and built the piece, Way Down Yonder in New Orleans, out of aluminum, plexi-glass wood and plastic to reference New Orleans musical heritage.

For more information on all the new Signature Artwork pieces installed in the NOPL Library Branches click here: http://percent.artscouncilofneworleans.org/ 

New Orleans, LA — The Arts Council of New Orleans, on behalf of the City of New Orleans’ Percent For Art Program, is pleased to announces the winner of the EvacuSpots public art competition.

The EvacuSpots project is a unique partnership between the Percent For Art Program and the citizen’s volunteer group Evacuteer.org to support New Orleans Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness [NOHSEP]. The two organizations teamed up to solve one of the City’s emergent needs: to create clearly identifiable and iconic locations marking the exact City Assisted Evacuation Plan [CAEP] pick-up points. These are the locations throughout the City where citizens can gather to be transported out of town in the case of a mandatory evacuation. A test of the CAEP system in 2008 found that most citizens did not know where to go in their neighborhood to wait for the bus.

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An effective artist brand communicates your values and helps you attract new customers. Recently, Join Lindsay Glatz, Director of Marketing for the Arts Council of New Orleans presented a webinar on Branding the Arts. This webinar is now available for free streaming on demand. The webinar runs about thirty minutes and covers

• What we mean by branding?
• What makes a great brand.
• The importance of authenticity.
• How to best use graphic design.
• Integrating your brand into everything you do.

To view the webinar, please click here.

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This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support comes from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation

 

The Arts Council of New Orleans is pleased to annouce recipients of 2012 Community Arts Grants made possible with funding from the City of New Orleans. A multitude of arts activities will take place in Orleans Parish between January 1 - December 31, 2012 made possible, in part, with grant funds. Grants range from $2,230 to $24,530.

For a narrative list of Community Arts grantees, please click here.  

ELLA Project Supervising Attorney and Project Co-Founder has been named Best Music Attorney in the 2012 Best of the Beat Awards presented by Offbeat Magazine. Fourth year in a row for Ashlye. Congratulations to Ashlye for this well deserved honor!

ELLA Provides low to moderate income Louisiana artists and grass roots non-profits with pro bono legal assistance. If you need help from ELLA, please call 504-523-1465

The ELLA Project is a partnership of the Arts Council, Tipitina's Foundation and Tulane Law School, and received additional support from the Greater New Orleans Foundation, the Louisiana State Bar Association, and Capital One.  

The internet, YouTube, Ebay, and Facebook are great ways for artists to share their artwork, but there is a downside also: increased piracy of your artwork. Recently, the Arts Council and attorney and ELLA Project pro bono volunteer John H. Norris presented our latest webinar, Protecting your Art Online. The webinar lasts about 30 minutes and addresses:

• Understanding online copyright infringement.
• Problems from online piracy.
• Your rights and takedown notices.
• Step by step removal instructions.

You can now stream this webinar for free over the internet! To view the webinar, please click here.

To see all of the Arts Council's Arts Business Development webinars, just visit the webinars section of our website.

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These webinars are presented in part with support from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. 

This video was too good, we just had to share. Use dancers instead of powerpoint. That's science writer John Bohannon's "modest proposal." In this spellbinding choreographed talk from TEDxBrussels he makes his case by example, aided by dancers from Black Label Movement.

Click here to watch the video. 

New Orleans creative community is receiving significant international recognition recently. Last month the Arts Council completed and facilitated local artist interviews with Laura Dixon of The London Times to discuss the role the growing creative community has played in the recovery of our city. On November 4th her article appeared in the Arts section of the UK newspaper and today was picked up by The Australian as a featue in the Arts & Style section. To read Laura Dixon's article in it's entirety CLICK HERE to access the story online.

In national news, an Arts Council funded project was featured in the New York Times yesterday. Produced by New Orleans Airlift, the Bywater-based Music Box project is described by project curator Delaney Martin as “a shantytown-sound laboratory.” Sound interesting? CLICK HERE to read the New York Times Music Box feature article.