"Cultural Funding and Financing: A Guide to New and Traditional Models in Arts and Culture" has just been published as an open-access volume by Palgrave Macmillan's series "Cultural Economics & the Creative Economy". The book was written by Dr Carolina Dalla Chiesa, Assistant Professor of Cultural Economics and Organizations at ESHCC, together with Anders Rykkja (Queen's University Belfast).
This work addresses fundamental questions facing artists, cultural organizations, and policymakers worldwide: What array of funding and financing options can artists, creators, and makers assemble to navigate the contemporary (more complex, more diversified) funding opportunities? What new ways do digital technologies create for them? How do traditional and emerging models coexist and complement each other?
In today's challenging economic and political climate, where traditional arts funding faces unprecedented pressures, this volume offers guidance and fresh perspectives. We have assembled 17 leading scholars who bridge theory and practice, offering both rigorous academic analysis and actionable insights for practitioners navigating the evolving funding landscape.
Dalla Chiesa and Rykkja provide comprehensive coverage on the financing of cultural initiatives, spanning traditional funding mechanisms (public subsidies, philanthropy, patronage) to cutting-edge digital models (crowdfunding, online patronage, matchfunding). This diversity is examined with a pragmatic and heterodox approach on both top-down institutional and bottom-up crowd-based legitimacy frameworks. They show rich empirical case studies, demonstrating financial sustainability strategies in real-world contexts. The work contains interdisciplinary perspectives grounding conceptual clarity in the lived complexity of cultural production.
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As an open-access publication (thanks to Erasmus University Rotterdam and Queen's University Belfast open-access funds), this book is freely available to scholars, practitioners, students, policymakers, and anyone passionate about the future of arts and cultural funding. Read the publication here.
The list of contributors: Lluís Bonet, Sigrid Hemels, Professor Francois Colbert, C.M., Helleke van den Braber, Christian Handke, Douglas Noonan, Ellen Loots, Yosha Wijngaarden, Rotem Shneor, Wojciech Hardy, Sophia Gaenssle, Sigbjørn Hjelmbrekke, Elisabetta Lazzaro, Aline Albertelli, Anna Mignosa, Marek Prokupek, Manel González-Piñero, PhD MBA, Alice Demattos Guimaraes and Nathalia Maehle.
