Monday
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| 8:00 - 9:30 Opening Plenary |
| 9:30 - 10:00 Break |
10:00 - 11:30 |
| Surviving the Arts PRESENTATION SESSION Organized by Esther Grimm, executive director, 3Arts |
| The Big Shift: The Velocity of Change in America's Aging Society PRESENTATION SESSION Organized by Rohit Burman, director, Culture and Public Broadcasting, Metlife Foundation; Gay Hanna, executive director, National Center for Creative Aging |
| How Strong is Your Social Net? A National Review of Arts Organizations’ Digital Communications Practices and Perceptions PRESENTATION SESSION Organized by Cinda Holt, business development specialist, Montana Arts Council; Tom Kaiden, president, Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance |
| Strategic Planning Towards Equitable Development: A Case Study PRESENTATION SESSION Organized by Roberta Uno, senior program officer, Ford Foundation; Risë Wilson, program manager, Leveraging Investments in Creativity |
| Working with Fiscal Sponsors: Creative and Effective Ways to Support the Breadth of the Arts in Your Community PRESENTATION SESSION Organized by Christine Elbel, executive director, Fleishhacker Foundation; Tere Romo, program officer, The San Francisco Foundation; San San Wong, director of grants, San Francisco Arts Commission |
| The Art of Copyright Reform SALON SESSION Organized by Helen Brunner, director, Media Democracy Fund; Yolanda Hippensteele, associate director, Media Democracy Fund; Maurine Knighton, program director, arts and culture, The Nathan Cummings Foundation |
| Arts Journalism 2.0: Five Action Plans for the Future of Arts Journalism PRESENTATION SESSION Organized by Bill O’Brien, senior advisor for program innovation, National Endowment for the Arts; Dennis Scholl, vice president/arts, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation |
| Capitalization Salon: Going One Step Further SALON SESSION Organized by Lisa Cremin, director, Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund |
| 11:30 - noon Break |
| noon - 1:30 Luncheon Plenary |
| 1:30 - 2:00 Break |
2:00 - 3:30 |
| Redistricting the Arts: When Boundaries are Drawn PRESENTATION SESSION Organized by Emiko Ono, program officer, performing arts, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation |
| Professional Development for Artists: A View from Three Sides of the Table PRESENTATION SESSION Organized by Alyson Pou, director, Professional Development Program, Creative Capital |
| Networks to Support Digital Media Learning for Youth PRESENTATION SESSION Organized by Kerry McCarthy, program officer for the arts, culture and historic preservation, The New York Community Trust |
| Americans and the Muslim World: Improving Understanding through the Arts PRESENTATION SESSION Organized by Caitlin Strokosch, executive director, Alliance of Artists Communities |
| Ethnic Media Audiences PRESENTATION SESSION Organized by Peter Pennekamp, executive director, Humboldt Area Foundation |
| Canaries in the Mineshaft: The State of Public Funding for the Arts SALON SESSION Organized by Robert Booker, executive director, Arizona Commission on the Arts |
| Shift Happens: What Do Demographic Shifts Mean for Grantmaker Policy and Practice? SALON SESSION Organized by Ted Russell, senior program officer, arts, The James Irvine Foundation |
| Equity in Private Foundation Support for Arts and Culture SALON SESSION Organized by Grantmakers in the Arts |
| 3:30 - 4:00 Break |
4:00 - 5:30 |
| Dance and Theater Grant Impact Research PRESENTATION SESSION Organized by Jane Preston, director of programs, New England Foundation for the Arts |
| Art of the AIDS Crisis at 30 PRESENTATION SESSION Organized by Frances Phillips, program director, arts and the Creative Work Fund, Walter and Elise Haas Fund |
| Mobilizing Support for Artists and Small Arts Organizations PRESENTATION SESSION Organized by Diane Sanchez, director of grantmaking & donor services, East Bay Community Foundation; Anne Vally, senior program officer, special initiatives, The James Irvine Foundation |
| Developing Sustainable Mission-Based Models for the New Economy PRESENTATION SESSION Organized by Ted Russell, senior program officer, arts, The James Irvine Foundation |
| Building Advocacy Networks PRESENTATION SESSION Organized by Sofia Klatzker, senior manager, Los Angeles County Arts Commission |
| Support for Individual Artists within an Arts and Culture Funding Program SALON SESSION Organized by Cynthia Gehrig, president, Jerome Foundation; Michael Royce, executive director, New York Foundation for the Arts |
| Creation | Migration | Change: Innovation and Evolving Art Forms PRESENTATION SESSION Organized by Timothy Dorsey, program officer, Open Society Foundations; Amy Kitchener, executive director, Alliance for California Traditional Arts; Tia Oros Peters, executive director, Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development; Lori Pourier, president, First Peoples Fund |
| Networks of Color: Development of a New Collaborative Model PRESENTATION SESSION Organized by Maria Lopez De Leon, executive director, National Association of Latino Arts and Culture |
| 6:30 Dine-arounds |
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Tuesday
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| 8:00 - 9:00 Roundtables |
| 9:00 - 9:30 Break |
9:30 - 11:00 |
| Designing Resilient Communities PRESENTATION SESSION Organized by Sunny Fischer, executive director, The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation; Peter Handler, program director, The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation; Ellen Rudolph, program director, Thriving Cultures, Surdna Foundation |
| The Local Arts Index: Benchmarks, Measures & Community Aspirations PRESENTATION SESSION Organized by Randy Cohen, vice president of research and policy, Americans for the Arts |
| Community Health and the Participatory Arts: Crucial Issues and Exciting Opportunities PRESENTATION SESSION Organized by Maria Rosario Jackson, senior research associate in the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Center and director of the Culture, Creativity, and Communities Program, Urban Institute; Amy Kitchener, executive director, Alliance for California Traditional Arts |
| Enabling Engagement: Launching Irvine’s New Arts Strategy PRESENTATION SESSION Organized by Josephine Ramirez, program director, arts, The James Irvine Foundation |
| Creating Community through Media Works PRESENTATION SESSION Organized by Mark Valdez, executive director, Network of Ensemble Theaters |
| Crossing Borders: International Cultural Exchange SALON SESSION Organized by Alan Cooper, executive director, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation |
| Grantmaking with a Racial Equity Lens SALON SESSION Organized by Justin Laing, program officer, Arts & Culture Program, The Heinz Endowments |
| 11:30 - 1:30 Luncheon Plenary |
| 1:30 - 2:00 Break |
2:00 - 5:00 (Offsite Sessions) |
Space is limited at offsite sessions, so a ticket is required. Tickets will be available at the registration desk beginning at 7:00 am on Tuesday morning. If the tickets for a session are all gone, you will know that it is full and can make another choice.
Buses for offsite sessions will depart from the main entrance of the hotel at 2:00 pm on Tuesday. |
Cultural Equity Grantmaking: How Far Have We Come? What’s Next?
Organized by San San Wong, director of grants, San Francisco Arts Commission |
Engaging Practice: Making Cultural Spaces for Local and Transnational Dialogues
Organized by Amy Kitchener, executive director, Alliance for California Traditional Arts; Frances Phillips, program director, Arts & The Creative Work Fund, Walter and Elise Haas Fund |
How Do We Know a Good Arts Education Program When We See It?
Organized by Julie Fry, program officer, Performing Arts Program, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; Stan Hutton, senior program officer, Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation |
Turning Museums Inside Out
Organized by Frances Phillips, program director, Arts & The Creative Work Fund, Walter and Elise Haas Fund |
Queering the Arts: Aesthetics and Economies
Organized by Kevin Seaman, program assistant, arts and culture, The San Francisco Foundation; Beatrice Thomas, program associate, San Francisco Arts Commission |
Too Progressive, Too Elite: Public Value and the Paradox of the Arts
Organized by Barbara Schaffer Bacon, co-director, Animating Democracy, Americans for the Arts; Marete Wester, director of arts policy, Americans for the Arts |
| 7:00 Dinner at the Oakland Museum of California, sponsored by Bank of America |
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Wednesday
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| 8:00 - 9:00 Roundtables |
9:30 - 11:00 |
| This Is Not a Time for Protests: Relevance in Philanthropy and Artistic Practice SALON SESSION Organized by Michelle Coffey, executive director, Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation; Timothy Dorsey, program officer, Open Society Foundations; Lori Pourier, president, First Peoples Fund |
| Creative Fusion: The Cleveland Foundation's International Artist in Residence Program PRESENTATION SESSION Organized by Kathleen Cerveny, director of institutional learning and arts initiatives, The Cleveland Foundation |
| What to Do When the *$!# Hits the Fan PRESENTATION SESSION Organized by Cornelia Carey, executive director, CERF+; Mollie Lakin-Hayes, deputy director, South Arts |
| Forward to the Past PRESENTATION SESSION Organized by Frances Phillips, program director, arts and The Creative Work Fund; Walter and Elise Haas Fund; Shelley Trott, arts program officer, Kenneth Rainin Foundation |
| Don't Get Pwnd! | A Video-gaming Salon for Grantmakers PRESENTATION SESSION Organized by Marian Godfrey, senior director, cultural initiatives, The Pew Charitable Trusts; Ron Ragin, program officer, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation |
| Building a Larger Table: Cross-Sector Collaborations in the Arts PRESENTATION SESSION Organized by Leslie Ito, program officer, California Community Foundation; Emiko Ono, program officer, performing arts, The Wiliam and Flora Hewlett Foundation |
| The Challenge of Change: Public Policy Advocacy for Arts in Education SALON SESSION Organized by Richard Kessler, dean, Mannes College The New School for Music |
| 11:00 - 11:30 Break |
| 11:30 - 1:00 Closing Brunch Plenary |
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