Preconferences
Three one-day pre-conferences will be offered on Sunday, October 18th, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, taking advantage of the wealth of resources in the New York area, and meeting in various locations near the conference hotel. Preconferences are part of the main conference, and examination of these topics will continue is sessions throughout the conference. To register for a preconference, you must register for the main conference.
Arts Education Preconference: The New Frontier For Arts Education
Opportunities in Arts Education: What’s Different Now?
We all know that the times they are changing for those involved in arts education. The new reality is that funders, nonprofits and schools are working with reduced budgets at the same time as education reform, stimulated by the new administration, is gaining traction nationally. Diane Mataraza will facilitate a discussion of the frontier issues in arts education, how funders can navigate new entry and exit points, and what opportunities we have to collaborate more effectively.
Sustaining Arts Education Advocacy at the Local Level: How do we organize our communities to engage in sustainable arts education advocacy?
This interactive session, led by Eric Zachary of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform, will take participants through the paces of organizing an arts education community that not only makes change possible but sustains that change for the future.
Other sessions relating to Arts Education:
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- From Programs to Advocacy: A Vicious or Virtuous Cycle? 1
- The Boston Public Schools Arts Planning Initiative: Supporting a Visionary Superintendent Through Collaboration, Data Collection, and Ongoing Coordination
- Hip Hop Arts and Education
- Ready For Liftoff: A Look at Federal Policies for Arts Education in FY2010—And How Philanthropy Can Position Itself to Make a Difference 1
- Mind the Gap: SNAAP—Tracking Results of Intensive Arts Training
- Creative Communities: Surrounding Children with The Arts in Dallas
- Creative Communities in Arts Education 1
1 sessions organized by the Arts Education Committee
Julie Fry, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (co-chair)
Richard Kessler, Center for Arts Education (co-chair)
Arnold Aprill, Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education
Jaime Bennett, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs
Moy Eng, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Carol Fineberg, NY Times Foundation
Stan Hutton, Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation
Susan McCalmont, Kirkpatrick Foundation
Frances Phillips, Walter and Elise Haas Foundation
Janice Pober, Sony Entertainment
Ellen Rudolph, Surdna Foundation
Sydney Sidwell, The Fry Foundation
Sarah Solotaroff, Urban Gateways
Lynn Stern, Surdna Foundation
Support For Individual Artists Preconference:
Optimism and Opportunities
This preconferenceand the individual artist track that runs throughout the conferencewill explore ways artists, artist-centered organizations, and arts funders are responding to a changing economy. This day of interactive dialogues among artists, organizations, and arts fundersfacilitated by Holly Sidfordwill be held at the Skylight Gallery, one of Brooklyn’s best-kept artistic secrets, in one of the country’s oldest and most significant community revitalization efforts, led by the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation.
Through panel presentations and small group discussions participants will examine opportunities for individual and collective actions to advance support for individual artists. Previous GIA artist-support themes such as developing strategic funding initiatives and supporting multiple options “other than money” will be included in the discussions.
Join colleagues at GIA’s longest-running pre-conference for always lively explorations, truth-telling, and discover ways the support system for artists is being reinvigorated and reimagined.
Preconference Schedule
Holly Sidford, Helicon Collaborative
Cindy Gehrig, Jerome Foundation
Eric Wallner, City of Ventura Cultural Affairs
GIA Individual Artist Committee
Brooklyn Artists Speak: Sustaining Practice
Fidelma McGinn, Artist Trust: Moderator
Xenobia Bailey, visual artist
A.K. Burns, Working Artists and the Greater Economy
Jeff Hnilicka, Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics
Ernesto Pujol, multimedia artist
Elizabeth Streb, STREB Lab for Action Mechanics
Funders, Other Organizations Speak: Sustaining Support
Ruby Lerner, Creative Capital: Moderator
Michael Bzdak, Ph.D., director, Corporate Contributions, Johnson and Johnson
Cornelia Carey, Craft Emergency Relief Fund
Linda Earle, Art Matters
Judilee Reed, Leveraging Investments in Creativity
Joe Smoke, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs
Carolyn Somers, Joan Mitchell Foundation
Breakout Sessions:
Artist-led brainstorming groups
Ways funders can respond to new ideas of artists‘ support
Panel: Report back from each group
Discussion: sharing and developing plans
Summary and Next Steps
Holly Sidford, Helicon Collaborative
Cindy Gehrig, Jerome Foundation
Eric Wallner, City of Ventura Cultural Affairs
Other sessions relating to Support for Individual Artists:
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- Social Networking Technology: Spaces for Creation, Engagement, Discourse and Promotion 2
- Creating Opportunity for Artists in Lean Times
- From Art to Action
- Support for Individual Artists: Putting Research and Data to Work 2
- Funders–More Than Just Another Pretty Face(book): Social Networking Revelations
- New Orleans in 2009: A City Undergoing Transformation 2
2 sessions organized by the Support for Individual Artists Committee
Ted Berger, Joan Mitchell Foundation (chair)
Kerrie Buitrago, Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Cornelia Carey, Craft Emergency Relief Fund
Cindy Gehrig, Jerome Foundation
Gary Knecht, Artists’ Legacy Foundation
Ruby Lerner, Creative Capital Foundation
Janet Rodriguez, JPMorgan Chase Global Philanthropy
Joyce Robinson, Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation
Carolyn Somers, Joan Mitchell Foundation
Caitlin Strokosch, Alliance of Artists Communities
Eric Wallner, City of Ventura Cultural Affairs
Arts And Social Justice Preconference
The Art and Social Justice Funders Group preconference program was developed in direct response to the requests of its members at the 2008 planning meeting. Members encouraged us to, establish outcomes for the work; engage in peer to peer dialogue; engage in collaborative projects that could expand and deepen the work; map the field of funders so that we can better understand the funding ecosystem and track the resources in the field; educate others about art as a tool for society; and engage in research about the positive impact of the work that places the work on a continuum.
Part 1. Making the Case for the Arts as a Strategy for Social Justice
and Civic Engagement
Organized by Barbara Schaffer Bacon and Pam Korza, co-directors, Animating Democracy, Americans for the Arts; Klare Shaw, senior associate, Barr Foundation.
Presented by Barbara Schaffer Bacon; Pam Korza; Klare Shaw; Suzanne Callahan, founder, Callahan Consulting for the Arts; Rha Goddess, artist, 1+1+1=ONE; Maria Rosario Jackson, Urban Institute; Christine Lamas Weinberg, Culture for Change project manager, Barr Foundation.
Initiatives are underway to measure the viability and impact of art and social justice programs. Along with other projects, the Barr Foundation recently evaluated the Culture for Change Project which trained out-of-school practitioners—youth workers, artists, and staff—in youth development, social justice and artistic expression with the belief that youth will find new means of empowerment through creative processes.
Animating Democracy is implementing the Arts & Civic Engagement Impact Initiative to advance understanding of and help make the case for the social efficacy of arts-based civic engagement work. It aims to better understand: How do we motivate evaluative thinking as a value held by arts organizations and artists and equip them to measure social change? What evidence really matters to practitioners, but also to funders and policymakers and what’s reasonable to ask of practitioners?
This session will share what these initiatives have learned as well as offer approaches and tools for evaluating what difference they make.
Related Links:
Arts & Civic Engagement Impact InitiativeShifting Expectations: An Urban Planner’s Reflections on Evaluating Community-based Arts
by Maria Rosario Jackson, senior researcher, Urban Institute
Civic Engagement and the Arts: Issues of Conceptualization and Measurement
by Mark J. Stern and Susan C. Seifert, Social Impact of the Arts Project,
University of Pennsylvania
Arts and Civic Engagement: Briefing Paper for the Working Group of the Arts & Civic Engagement Impact Initiative
by M. Christine Dwyer, RMC Research
Part 2. New Media and the Arts: A Force for Change
Organized by Roberta Uno, senior program officer, Ford Foundation; Claudine K. Brown, director, Arts and Culture Program, Nathan Cummings Foundation.
Presented by William Crow, associate museum educator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Ken Ikeda, executive director, Bay Area Video Coalition; Barry Joseph, online leadership director, Global Kids, Inc.; Marlène Ramírez-Cancio, co-founder and co-director, Fulana; Leba Haber Rubinoff, co-founder, Mobile Movement.
Innovations in media are making it possible for artists to engage audiences in creative and unprecedented ways. Whether it is through the innovative use of interactive websites, games for change, or viral film shorts that educate the public; the media sector has provided readily-accessible tools that have changed how we work and whom we might work with.
This session will include 5-minute presentations that cover the following topics: Easy Access, New Platforms and Broad Impact.
In each category, three panelists will familiarize participants with innovations and new directions through their specific work. They will provide examples of easily accessible (mostly free) programs that can be used to structure information in unique and entertaining formats as they educate and inform constituents, build communities, and reach larger publics. They will explore and demonstrate the power of new platforms for delivering information; and share with us the impact of their work, i.e. who they have reached, in what manner, and the outcomes of their strategies.
Participants should come to the session prepared to share resources and successful media strategies with their peers.
Related Links:
Citizen Engagement LaboratoryBay Area Video Coalition
The NOLA Project
Where My Ladies At?
Fulana Latino Video + Performance Collective
Global Kids
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Teacher Resources
Other sessions relating to Social Justice:
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- Creative Stimulus and Community Recovery: A Cross-sector Roundtable 3
- Communities in Transition
- International Models for Coalition Building: Art as a Catalyst for Change 3
- Then & Now: An Examination of Gender and Race/Ethnicity in the Contexts of Art Creation and Production/Exhibition
- Voices from the Cultural Battlefront Reports: New Leverage Points to Advance Social Justice and Cultural Equity
3 sessions organized by the Art and Social Justice Committee
Claudine Brown, Nathan Cummings Foundation (chair)
Caron Atlas
Radha Blank, Nathan Cummings Foundation
Roberta Uno, Ford Foundation
Michelle Coffey, Lambent Foundation
Lorraine Marasigan, Cricket Island Foundation
Iris Morales, Union Square Awards
Barbara Schaffer Bacon, Americans for the Arts
Klare Shaw, Barr Foundation