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		<title>The Value of Public Funding in the Arts</title>
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The movement to provide public funding for the arts from federal, state and local resources began in earnest in the 1960’s as part of the ground swell of grass roots civic and civil promulgated by the Kennedy administration and implemented under the Johnson administration.
 
In current times, the Maine Arts Commission receives an appropriation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://virtualmac.edublogs.org/2008/06/06/the-value-of-public-funding-in-the-arts/</link>
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		<title>Local Arts Organizations and the Maine Arts Commission</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A question for Local Arts Organizations in Maine:  What is the best way to structure the relationship between local arts organizations and the Maine Arts Commission.  Should the relationship be more like partnerships?  Should the relationship remain more like independent organizations/grantees?   ..Your thoughts?
&#8211;Keith Ludden
Authored by kludden. Hosted by Edublogs.]]></description>
		<link>http://virtualmac.edublogs.org/2008/05/15/local-arts-organizations-and-the-maine-arts-commission/</link>
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		<title>Bangor Workshops</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The communications department has been working on the agency&#8217;s state-wide workshops for some months now. The publicity began with postcards and the magazine, and now has switched to the online outreach.
As with most of the organizations within Maine, time is always the hardest factor in deciding where to concentrate marketing efforts. The agency will soon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://virtualmac.edublogs.org/2008/05/07/agency-workshops/</link>
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		<title>Strengthening Community Arts Organizations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past year, the Maine Arts Commission has focused its Community Arts Development efforts on &#8220;capacity building,&#8221; or strengthening local community arts organizations.  What, in your opinion makes for strong community arts organizations?
Authored by kludden. Hosted by Edublogs.]]></description>
		<link>http://virtualmac.edublogs.org/2008/03/06/strengthening-community-arts-organizations/</link>
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		<title>Speaking on Public Art</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am interested to find out who Maine artists would like to have speak in our state about public art. On a similar note, what public art topics are Maine artists interested in learning more about?
Authored by MAC staff. Hosted by Edublogs.]]></description>
		<link>http://virtualmac.edublogs.org/2008/03/06/speaking-on-public-art-2/</link>
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		<title>How do you define community?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many ways to define community.  It can refer to a group of people who practice the same occupation, come from the same ethnic background, or live in the same town There are lots of overlapping elements to the concept of community and  that means all of us are members of multiple [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://virtualmac.edublogs.org/2008/02/04/how-do-you-define-community/</link>
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		<title>How to&#8230;Traditional Arts in Schools?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the best ways to make sure an adult appreciates the significance of traditional arts is to expose him or her to traditional arts as a young child.  In doing so, the child not only becomes more apreciative and knowledgeable of the art itself, but of the culture that spawned the art, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://virtualmac.edublogs.org/2008/02/01/traditional-arts-in-schools/</link>
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		<title>Is Net Art Public Art?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New forms of contemporary art have emerged that are reliant on the power of computers and the networks they exist in. One category of this new kind of art is called Net Art.
Net Art shares some key features of Public Art, and some pertinent differences. Net Art is work that relies on communication networks to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://virtualmac.edublogs.org/2008/01/30/virtual-public-art/</link>
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