The Artist's Guide to Grant Writing
The Artist's Guide to Grant Writing

Author: Gigi Rosenberg

Publisher: Watson-Guptill

Published: 2010-12-14

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0823000702

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The Artist’s Guide to Grant Writing is designed to transform readers from starving artists fumbling to get by into working artists who confidently tap into all the resources at their disposal. Written in an engaging and down-to-earth tone, this comprehensive guide includes time-tested strategies, anecdotes from successful grant writers, and tips from grant officers and fundraising specialists. The book is targeted at both professional and aspiring writers, performers, and visual artists who need concrete information about how to write winning grant applications and fundraise creatively so that they can finance their artistic dreams.

Gospel Memories
Gospel Memories

Author: Jake Owensby

Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2016-02-10

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 0819232653

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Gain a sense of God’s presence in the turning points of your life.

Some People Let You Down
Some People Let You Down

Author: Mike Alberti

Publisher: University of North Texas Press

Published: 2020-11-13

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 157441822X

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The nine stories in Mike Alberti’s debut collection shine a sharp light on small-town American life —not the Arcadian small towns of yesteryear, but the old mill towns hanging on after the mill has stopped running, the deserted agricultural communities in the middle of vast industrial farms, places where bad luck has become part of the weather. But even in these blighted, neglected landscapes, the possibility of renewal always presents itself: there is hope for these places and the characters who inhabit them. In these fresh, innovative stories, some people let you down, but some people don’t.

Contemporary Art and the Digitization of Everyday Life
Contemporary Art and the Digitization of Everyday Life

Author: Janet Kraynak

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2020-11-10

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0520303911

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Digitization is the animating force of everyday life. Rather than defining it as a technology or a medium, Contemporary Art and the Digitization of Everyday Life argues that digitization is a socio-historical process that is contributing to the erosion of democracy and an increase in political inequality, specifically along racial, ethnic, and gender lines. Taking a historical approach, Janet Kraynak finds that the seeds of these developments are paradoxically related to the ideology of digital utopianism that emerged in the late 1960s with the rise of a social model of computing, a set of beliefs furthered by the neo-liberal tech ideology in the 1990s, and the popularization of networked computing. The result of this ongoing cultural worldview, which dovetails with the principles of progressive artistic strategies of the past, is a critical blindness in art historical discourse that ultimately compromises art’s historically important role in furthering radical democratic aims.

Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?

Author: Roz Chast

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2014-05-06

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1620406381

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#1 New York Times Bestseller 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST In her first memoir, New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. When it came to her elderly mother and father, Roz held to the practices of denial, avoidance, and distraction. But when Elizabeth Chast climbed a ladder to locate an old souvenir from the “crazy closet”-with predictable results-the tools that had served Roz well through her parents' seventies, eighties, and into their early nineties could no longer be deployed. While the particulars are Chast-ian in their idiosyncrasies-an anxious father who had relied heavily on his wife for stability as he slipped into dementia and a former assistant principal mother whose overbearing personality had sidelined Roz for decades-the themes are universal: adult children accepting a parental role; aging and unstable parents leaving a family home for an institution; dealing with uncomfortable physical intimacies; managing logistics; and hiring strangers to provide the most personal care. An amazing portrait of two lives at their end and an only child coping as best she can, Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant will show the full range of Roz Chast's talent as cartoonist and storyteller.

Hokusai
Hokusai

Author: Timothy Clark

Publisher:

Published: 2017-05

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9780500094068

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A major publication on Hokusai's remarkable late work, incorporating fresh scholarship on the sublime paintings and prints the artist created in the last thirty years of his life

The Diabolist
The Diabolist

Author: Layton Green

Publisher: Sixth Street Press

Published: 2021-06

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9781955804004

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Globe-hopping detectives Dominic Grey and Professor Viktor Radek have a distinct specialty: they investigate matters that involve mysterious or unexplained phenomena. Crimes that other agencies can't or won't touch.When a controversial religious leader is immolated in the Mission District of San Francisco, the local police chalk it up to a bizarre suicide. Yet witnesses claim a mysterious robed figure set fire to the priest. When a cult leader in Paris dies under similar circumstances, Interpol asks Grey and Viktor for help.Convinced the culprit is a charismatic New Age prophet who has become an Internet sensation, Grey and Viktor undergo a perilous journey into the world of the occult as they try to penetrate the prophet's inner circle. Along the way, they realize the prophet has ties to Viktor's past, and that a far more sinister plan is afoot-a plan that, if successful, will shake the world to its core.From the catacombs of Paris to London's nefarious East End, from the haunted walls of York to a lost fortress in the Sicilian wilderness, Viktor and Grey's latest case plunges them into a vortex of modern-day black magic, ancient heresies, and the most dangerous place of all: the cobwebbed corners of their own pasts.

Creativity and Persistence
Creativity and Persistence

Author: National Endowment for the Arts

Publisher:

Published: 2020-08-06

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780578714257

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The National Endowment for the Arts commemorates how the arts were critical to the ultimate success of the women's suffrage movement--just as they have been critical to countless social and political movements before and since. The arts--from poetry to visual arts to fashion--have a unique ability to serve as a rallying cry, disseminating messages across large audiences, and inspiring us in a way that few other things can.