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    Culture and Commerce

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    Illustrates the possibilities and challenges of making partnerships between economic development agencies and traditional arts organizations work. Examines the outcome of eight collaborations that were formed as part of a partnership funding initiative

    Investing in Creativity: A Study of the Support Structure for U.S. Artists

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    Documents and analyzes the environment of support for individual artists. Provides a framework for analysis of various dimensions of the support structure, nationally and in specific sites across the U.S. Includes support programs and policy initiatives

    An Object in its Own Domain : How Hispano New Mexican santos Are Situated In Space

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    Cet article considĂšre que les statues de saints hispaniques du Nouveau-Mexique, les santos, sont de puissants vecteurs de diffĂ©rence, dont le potentiel en cette matiĂšre transcende les contextes interethniques — sacrĂ©, laĂŻc, de l’art mondial et des marchĂ©s — dans lesquels ils se dĂ©placent. En dĂ©crivant comment les santos sont investis du pouvoir de dĂ©passer les formes disparates, et comment un santo gĂ©nĂšre un puissant halo au-delĂ  de sa propre forme, je soutiens que cette « situation dans l’espace » permet aux santos, non seulement de rĂ©sister aux dĂ©finitions lorsqu’ils sont placĂ©s dans des arrangements spatiaux larges tels que « le centre », « la scĂšne » ou les « frontiĂšres », mais qu’en rĂ©alitĂ© ils redĂ©finissent ces espaces plus larges dans leurs propres termes. Ils peuvent ĂȘtre altĂ©rĂ©s, dĂ©placĂ©s et revendiquĂ©s indĂ©pendamment des grands espaces ; aussi, ces objets qui portent en eux-mĂȘmes un tel « positionnement spatial » devraient ĂȘtre reconnus comme partie intĂ©grante du rĂ©pertoire des pratiques culturelles de rĂ©sistance ; ce sont des vĂ©hicules sĂ©miotiques « premiers » que les participants peuvent utiliser dans des contextes de revendications de position, d’autoritĂ© et d’autonomie, Ă  travers des affirmations, des contestations ou des nĂ©gociations portant sur l’espace.This article characterizes Hispano New Mexican images of saints (santos) as powerful mediators of difference whose potency in that capacity transcends the interethnic sacred, civic, art world and market contexts in which they move. Describing how santos are invested with the power to encompass disparate forms drawn into a powerful halo a santo generates beyond its own embodiment, I argue that this “situation in space” not only makes santos resistant to being defined within broader spatial arrangements such as the “center”, “stage” and “boundary”, but that it actually works to redefine these larger spaces in the santos’ own terms. Because they can be altered, relocated and reclaimed in ways that large spaces cannot, objects that carry such a “spatial situatedness” should be recognized as part of the repertoire of cultural practices of resistance, prime semiotic vehicles for participants to use in contexts where claims to place, authority and autonomy are made through assertions about, contests over, and negotiations of space
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