October 2, 2011
A Grant Maker Helps Incubate Innovation in the Arts
Joseph Schell
The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, in San Francisco, has been trying to draw visitors with events like this “silent disco” in May so the participants can discover the contemporary art the center presents.
Even before the recession, arts and culture organizations grappled with shifting tides: changing audience demographics, a struggle to appeal to younger patrons, and the competition posed by new technology. Then the economy crashed, drying up donations and plunging many arts groups into sink-or-swim situations.
“We’re entering a new chapter of fundamental redefinition and realignment,” says Ben Cameron, who oversees arts grants at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation,
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