"This crisis presents many opportunities and fronts for change. It demands creativity, a quality in which our sector specializes. Can the hard-hit arts community broaden its vision? Develop a more compelling case? Link arms with its cultural industry and community partners? Insist on new public initiatives? Commission some good mezzo-economic analysis?". Read the viewpoint of Prof. Ann Markusen in the Grantmakers in the Arts Reader: Volume 20, No. 3, Fall 2009.

Ann Markusen is an economist, professor and director of the Project on Regional and Industrial Economics at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota.