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Supporting Artists With Disabilities

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This recent holiday season, Benetech began supporting an innovative organization that helps people with disabilities develop their creative abilities and become working artists. Creativity Explored works with more than 120 artists with developmental disabilities, providing services that help these artists create, exhibit, and sell their art.

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Putting Culture at the Core of Your Business

Fast Company Tech

These executives have built their companies around their respective cultures, from creating iced teas derived from ingredients native to the Caribbean, to designing moccasins in partnership with Indigenous artists, to putting a fresh spin on Japanese mochi.

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8% of Montréal’s workforce employed in cultural occupations

Charity Village

Hill Strategies, with support from the Conseil des arts de Montréal, released the statistical profile of the 20,900 professional artists in Montreal. According to data, 8% of Montréal’s workforce is employed in cultural occupations.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Arts & Culture

Bloomerang

Similar to the list I shared for nonprofits focusing on education , arts and culture tends to be a very popular issue area for American foundations. The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. Funding Priority: Arts & Culture.

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Golden State Warriors release an album from their own record label featuring Bay Area artists

Fast Company Tech

The projectfeaturing more than a dozen Bay Area music artists, including E-40 , Too $hort, Saweetie , G-Eazy, Goapele, LaRussell, and Larry Junearrives just in time for the league’s All-Star Game weekend in San Francisco. P-Lo played a key role in bringing together the Bay Areas top artists, contributing to all nine tracks on the album.

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Get inside the minds of first-time travelers in this new documentary

Mashable Tech

Inner Portrait , a new documentary from Turkish Airlines and media artist Refik Anadol, helps us visualize and articulate the change we feel when traveling, backed by data and technology. It first premiered at Istanbul’s Atatürk Cultural Center (AKM) several months ago, and is currently available to stream on Hulu.

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NFTs are changing cultural value creation

TechCrunch

Then we talked culture. Could residual incomes from the reselling of NFTs constitute a material revenue base for future artists, and how broad can the value-experiment go? Because we’ve seen it over and over again: Artist blows up on TikTok, and you know, somebody does a dance to them, and then that video blows up.

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