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Assoc. Prof. Constance DeVereaux

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Arts Leadership and Cultural Management, University of Connecticut, USA
Interests: cultural policy; cultural management; cultural sustainability; cultural hybridity

Prof. emerita Milena Dragicevic Sesic

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Faculty of Dramatic Arts, University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia
Interests: cultural policy; cultural management; art activism, urban culture; cultural sustainability

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Dear Colleagues,

Without management and policy, sustainability is merely a word. How do we manage for sustainability, especially in the context of culture—sustainability’s fourth pillar (Hawkes, 2001)?

This Special Issue examines how governments, institutions, organizations, communities, and individuals contribute to sustainability through management and policy.

Our focus is on sustainability, broadly conceived; as more than the environment and preservation of natural resources. We are interested in culture-led sustainable development, sustainability of culture and cultural identity, of art/practice and expression, sustainability of arts/cultural organizations, how cultural sustainability endorses the sustainability of culturally or socially divided communities, and reflection on innovative ways to sustain economies through cultural and creative entrepreneurship and their challenges. We are also interested in the sustainability of cultural policy and management research models, methods, and theories, sustainability in the inherent relationships between arts/culture and the environment, environment as the basis for cultural sustainability, sustainability of artists’ life, work, and related issues. We invite research and reflection on how the delivery of arts and culture events, and support of arts/culture, may negatively affect sustainability. The key is how cultural management and policy (together or individually) figure into sustainability. Finally, reflections on cultural sustainability in crisis times, such as the Covid pandemic, are welcome.

Assoc. Prof. Constance DeVereaux
Prof. emerita Milena Dragicevic Sesic
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cultural management
cultural policy
intersectionality
sustainability in cultural management

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15 pages, 428 KiB

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Sustainability of Artists in Precarious Times; How Arts Producers and Individual Artists Have Adapted during a Pandemic

by Josephine Caust

Sustainability 2021, 13(24), 13561; https://doi.org/10.3390/su132413561 - 8 Dec 2021

Cited by 5 | Viewed by 4154

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Making a living as an artist, whatever the discipline, is challenging. In addition to skills and talents, artists need resilience, adaptability, creativity, and the ability to withstand endless setbacks and rejections. Most critically, they need an on-going, stable income. Several studies have demonstrated that the income of most artists is usually very low. To survive, artists often find other sources of income aside from their creative work. Ideally, they also need a place to work, the capacity to do their work and a sense of validation from others of their work. When your livelihood disappears over night because of a pandemic, how do you then sustain that creative work? Using multiple sources of data and a qualitative methodology, including case studies and interviews, this paper addresses the ways that artists and producers from different art forms have addressed these challenges in Australia. It is concluded that while the impact of the pandemic on artists’ lives has been considerable, some artists have been able to survive, adapt, and move forward. Full article

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Potential of Marketing Communication as a Sustainability Tool in the Context of Castle Museums

by Michal Lukáč, Katarína Stachová, Zdenko Stacho, Gabriela Pajtinková Bartáková and Katarína Gubíniová

Sustainability 2021, 13(15), 8191; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13158191 - 22 Jul 2021

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Based on the OECD research from 2020, tourism is one of the biggest and fast-growing sectors of the world economy. Tourism plays a key role in job creation as well as in added value creation. In 2018, the revenue from tourism in Slovakia totaled EUR 2.7 billion, which is EUR 4.7% more than the year before, where the mentioned refers to 3% GDP and 27.6% of the services-related exports. The authors drew their attention to identifying some marketing communication tools’ impact on the castle museum attendance in Slovakia and analyzed the degree and dynamics of the communication structure implementation in the context of cultural heritage. In general, 5840 cultural tourists were interviewed during three restricted cycles: 2006–2009, 2011–2014, and 2016–2019; the interviewing was held through the questionnaires only during the summer seasons. The study herein shows that the quality perception of the carried out offline marketing communication activities and the visit intention itself have significant influence on the interest of customers in repeated visits to castle museums. Full article

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