Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...
At the Oregon Arts Commission, “Sustaining Arts” means asking nonprofits what they need
Oregon ArtsWatch: For nonprofits, “operating support” is a deceptively mundane name for one of the most thrilling envelopes that will ever show up in the mail. Most grants are for project support, where you pitch a funder on the one slice of your overall work that best fits their interests; operating support is what fills the gaps in between.
Performing arts leaders issue copyright warning over UK government’s AI plans
Arts policy | The Guardian: More than 30 performing arts leaders in the UK, including the bosses of the National Theatre, Opera North and the Royal Albert Hall, have joined the chorus of creative industry concern about the government’s plans to let artificial intelligence companies use artists’ work without permission.
The 20 Women Playwrights Who Have Won Pulitzer Prizes
New York Theater: In honor of Women’s History Month, here are the 20 women playwrights who have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, an annual award given for “a distinguished play by an American author…dealing with American life” that began in 1917, and will be awarded next on May 5, 2025.
Comedian Nikki Glaser Admits ‘Real Fear’ of Roasting Trump
www.thedailybeast.com: Speaking on the red carpet Sunday for the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, which this year went to Conan O’Brien (selected before Trump’s overhaul of the center), Glaser told The Hill that she used to steer clear of politics in her comedy because “I don’t want to alienate anyone.” But that’s changed, she said. “I’m at the point now that if I don’t say something political, it’s because I’m scared to.”
How COVID Changed TV Production Forever
variety.com: Five years ago this week, the television industry rose to the challenge of keeping news, daytime and late-night talk shows and other topical series on the air during the harsh early months of the COVID pandemic.
