Center for the Arts and Public Policy |
College of Fine Arts • Donald McGlothlin, Ph.D. |
Center for the Arts and Public Policy |
The Center for the Arts and Public Policy (CAPP), the first interdisciplinary center of this type in the United States, was approved by the Florida Board of Regents in February, 1988. The Center was established to provide the philosophy and structure to link UF's Cultural Plaza (the Harn Museum Art, the Phillips Center for Performing Arts, and the Florida Museum of Natural History) with campus arts programs and other programs that relate to public policy issues thereby bringing the arts into the mainstream of the university community.
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The purpose of CAPP is to provide a forum for the discussion and analysis of arts and public policy issues. Such issues may include, but are not limited to, the arts in education, public funding for the arts, the economic impact of the arts, percentage for arts programs, patronage systems, health hazards of artists' materials, copyright laws, cultural diplomacy, arts administration, etc. |
Because the future of the arts is always uncertain and the political winds ever changing, CAPP continually engages in ongoing projects such as exploring the funding of culture in a bottom line-driven society, the ever-present problems of artists' health, and the legal and ethical implications of the arts in academe. |