Carolyn Jack
Editor and CEO, Geniocity.comA project of The Genius Group LLC
Creative Nerve
More experts join Miller arts hearing
A new message that arrived yesterday from the office of U.S. Rep. George Miller says that no specific results from the upcoming Thursday House Education & Labor Committee hearing on the arts, the economy and employment can be anticipated right now.
The e-mail said, “It is a little premature at this point to know what will come from these hearings because a variety of viewpoints will be shared about the cause and effects of the economic downturn on the arts and music industry. ”
Miller’s online outreach specialist, Mike Kruger, did report that subsequent arts hearings will continue the discussion about the value of the arts to local communities and the economy.
Meanwhile, the list of experts testifying at the Thursday hearing has increased by a few names: Joanne Florino, executive director of the Roy H. Park family’s Triad Foundation, Inc., in Ithaca , N.Y.; Bruce Ridge, musician and chairman, International Conference of Symphony and Opera Musicians, Raleigh, N.C.; and John Thomasian, director, National Governors’ Association Center for Best Practices, Washington, D.C.