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SUMMARY:The Geography of Arts and Culture: An Occupational Approach - Prof
 essor Ann Markusen\, University of Minnesota
DTSTART:20110127T123000Z
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CONTACT:Professor Michael Bravo
DESCRIPTION:Compared with cultural industries\, cultural workers are under
 studied in economic geography and regional science\, reflecting in general
  a misplaced emphasis on industries at the expense of occupations.  Artist
 s (including musicians\, actors\, dancers\, writers\, designers) are uniqu
 e in their high rates of high self-employment\, propensity to relocate int
 er-regionally\, and ability to work across commercial\, non-profit and com
 munity sectors. Markusen offers a number of hypotheses about how self-empl
 oyed artists choose to locate among regions and neighborhoods and how this
  varies across career cycles. She also contends that the occupational stru
 cture of a cultural industry in one place will not necessarily resemble th
 at in another. Using US Census data (a one in five sample of the entire US
  population)\, Markusen provides evidence for these propositions and explo
 res how arts and cultural workers are distributed among cultural and other
  industries and across major US metros.  The talk also explores artists' r
 oles in creative placemaking--the deliberate shaping of regions\, neighbor
 hoods and small towns through cultural initiatives--and how these can be e
 valuated. The analysis demonstrates the use of occupations to conceptualiz
 e the regional workforce and to study urban and regional economies compara
 tively.
LOCATION:Hardy Building 101\, Downing Site (please note change of venue)
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