Conference Sessions
Monday |
| 8:00 - 9:30 Breakfast Plenary |
| 9:30 - 9:50 Break |
9:50 - 10:50 |
| IDEA LAB Salon with Marshall Davis Jones Regency C-2, Second Floor Mezzanine |
| IDEA LAB Salon with Carin Kuoni Regency C-1, Second Floor Mezzanine |
| IDEA LAB Salon with Favianna Rodriguez Washington B, Third Floor |
| IDEA LAB Salon Byron Au Yong Washington C, Third Floor |
| Building Demand for the Arts Washington A, Third Floor Organized by Ben Cameron, Program Director for the Arts, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. |
| The Politics of Public Support for the Arts/Putting the Culture Wars Behind Us Congress A, Fourth Floor Organized by Nathan Birnbaum, Cultural Affairs Administrator, City of Santa Monica, and Randy Engstrom, Director, Office of Arts and Culture, City of Seattle. |
| Arts Education Funders Coalition: Update on Federal Advocacy Congress B, Fourth Floor Organized by Grantmakers in the Arts. |
| Cultural Policy: Developing and Reporting on Cultural Indicators Congress C, Fourth Floor Organized and moderated by Sofia Klatzker, Director of Grants and Professional Development, Los Angeles County Arts Commission. |
| 10:50 - 11:10 Break |
11:10 - 12:40 |
| Invisible » Visible: New Native Voices on the Forefront of Change Washington A, Third Floor Organized by Reuben Roqueni, Program Director, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. |
| MicroFest USA: Expanding Creative Placemaking Conversations Washington B, Third Floor Organized and presented by Pam Korza, Co-Director, Animating Democracy, Americans for the Arts, and Mark Valdez, Executive Director, Network of Ensemble Theaters. |
| Turnaround Arts: Using the Arts as Part of the Toolkit in High-Poverty, Low-Performing Schools Washington C, Third Floor Organized by Rachel Goslins, Executive Director, President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. |
| Artists ARE Entrepreneurs Regency C-1, Second Floor Mezzanine Organized by Heather Pontonio, Program Officer, Art, Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation. |
| What will your Sandy be? Using Disaster-Related Philanthropy to Strengthen Communities Congress C, Fourth Floor Organized by Mary Margaret Schoenfeld, Coordinator, National Coalition for Arts’ Preparedness and Emergency Response. |
| Cultural Kitchens: Nurturing Creative Practice Regency C-2, Second Floor Mezzanine Organized by Mary-Kim Arnold, Grants Program Officer, Rhode Island Foundation. |
| Innovative Crossroads: The Intersection of Creativity, Health, and Aging Congress A, Fourth Floor Organized by Gay Hanna, Executive Director, National Center for Creative Aging, and Colin Pekruhn, Program Associate, Grantmakers in Health. |
| GIA’s Benchmark Research on Support for Individual Artists: An Update Congress B, Fourth Floor Organized by Grantmakers in the Arts. |
| 12:40 - 2:30 Break |
| 1:00 - 2:30 Lunchon Plenary |
| 2:30 - 3:00 Break |
3:00 - 4:30 |
| TCG’s Audience (R)Evolution: Updates from the Field Congress C, Fourth Floor Organized by Teresa Eyring, Executive Director, Theatre Communications Group. |
| Explore, Create, Share: Digital Media and Arts Learning for Youth Congress A, Fourth Floor Organized by Kerry McCarthy, Program Officer, Arts and Historic Preservation, New York Community Trust. |
| Don’t Let My Sad Expression Give You the Wrong Impression: The Tiers of a Grantmaker Washington B, Third Floor Organized by Esther Grimm, Executive Director, 3Arts. |
| Cross-Team Collaborations Washington C, Third Floor Organized by Jessica Garz, Program Officer, Thriving Cultures, Surdna Foundation, and Judilee Reed, Program Director, Surdna Foundation. |
| Capitalization in Practice: Moving from Conversation to Action Regency C-1, Second Floor Mezzanine Organized by Liz Curtis, President, TDC, and Rebecca Thomas, Vice President, Nonprofit Finance Fund. |
| Placemaking: Revolution or Evolution? Congress B, Fourth Floor Organized by Grantmakers in the Arts. |
| Human-Centered Design 101 Washington A, Third Floor Organized by Peter Handler, Programs Director, The Richard H. Dreihaus Foundation. |
| Action Steps to Building Equity and Resisting Racism Regency C-2, Mezzanine Second Floor Organized by Judi Jennings, Executive Director, The Kentucky Foundation for Women, and Justin Laing, Program Officer, Arts & Culture Program, The Heinz Endowments. |
| 6:30 Dine-arounds |
Tuesday |
| 8:00 - 9:30 Breakfast Plenary |
| 9:30 - 9:50 Break |
9:50 - 10:50 |
| IDEA LAB Salon with Germaine Ingram Commonwealth A, Second Floor |
| IDEA LAB Salon with Tim Carpenter Washington C, Third Floor |
| IDEA LAB Salon with Claire Chase Washington A, Third Floor |
| The Arts Next Door: Neighborhood-Based Community Arts Training Institute Commonwealth C, Second Floor Organized by Roseann Weiss, Director of Community and Public Arts, St. Louis Regional Arts Commission. |
| Alternate Funding Tools: Program-Related Investments Washington B, Third Floor Organized by Regina Smith, Senior Program Officer, Kresge Foundation. |
| The Care and Feeding of Hybrid Performance Regency C-2, Second Floor Mezzanine Organized by Moira Brennan, MAP Fund Program Director, MAP Fund. |
| CultureBlocks: Bringing Arts and Culture into the Urban Policy Mix Commonwealth B, Second Floor Organized by Moira Baylson, Deputy Cultural Officer, City of Philadelphia, Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy. |
| Who Are Our Constituents? Regency C-1, Second Floor Mezzanine Organized by Laura Zucker, Executive Director, Los Angeles County Arts Commission. |
| 10:50 - 11:10 Break |
11:10 - 12:10 |
| No Idea Is Too Ridiculous: An Experiment in Creative Practice Washington A, Third Floor Organized by Paula Marincola, Executive Director, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. |
| PechaKucha: Innovative Planning and Design for Civic Arts Projects Washington C, Third Floor Organized by Nathan Birnbaum, Cultural Affairs Administrator, City of Santa Monica Cultural Affairs, and Peter James, Senior Planner, Strategic and Transportation Planning, City of Santa Monica. |
| Rethinking the Grant Panel Commonwealth B, Second Floor Organized by Ian David Moss, Research Director, Fractured Atlas. |
| Creating and Nurturing Quality Arts Education in Two Cities Commonwealth A, Second Floor Organized by Ruth Mercado-Zizzo, Boston Public Schools Arts Expansion Initiative Director, EdVestors, with Jennifer Bransom, Director of Program Accountability, Big Thought. |
| Supporting Artists in Community Settings Regency C-1, Second Floor Mezzanine Organized by Grantmakers in the Arts. |
| The Doris Duke Performing Artist Initiative: Lessons Learned Regency C-2, Second Floor Mezzanine Organized by Ruby Lerner, President, Creative Capital Foundation. |
| Talking Straight About Money: What’s Next for GIA’s Capitalization Movement? Washington B, Third Floor Organized by Grantmakers in the Arts. |
| Federal Research on Arts Participation: Findings from the 2012 SPPA Commonwealth C, Second Floor Organized by Sunil Iyengar, Director of Research & Analysis, National Endowment for the Arts. |
| 12:10 - 12:30 Break |
| 12:30 - 2:00 Luncheon Plenary |
| 2:00 - 2:30 Break |
2:30 - 5:30 (Offsite Sessions) |
Space is limited at offsite sessions, so a ticket is required. Tickets will be available at the registration desk beginning at 7:30 am on Tuesday morning. If the tickets for a given session are gone, you will know that it is filled and can make another choice. Buses for offsite sessions will leave at 2:30 pm at the location on your ticket. |
| Challenges, Opportunities, and Impacts at the Intersection of Art and Science The URBN Center at Drexel University Organized by Bill O’Brien, Senior Advisor for Program Innovation, National Endowment for the Arts. |
| Creative Placemaking and the New Frontiers of Funding Arden Theatre Company Organized by Jeremy Nowak, Interim Director, ArtPlace America, and Dennis Scholl, Vice President/Arts, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. |
| Growing to Reflect the Neighborhood: Community Engagement in an Evolving Community Fleisher Art Memorial Organized by Lucas Held, Director of Communications, The Wallace Foundation. |
| Social Justice, Participatory Arts and Immigrant Experiences Philadelphia Folklore Project Organized by Amy Kitchener, Executive Director, Alliance for California Traditional Arts, and Russell Rodriguez, Program Manager, Alliance for California Traditional Arts. |
| Public Art and Public Agencies: Integrating Art into Municipal Planning, Process, and Service Delivery Southeast by Southeast Organized by Gary Steuer, President, Bonfils-Stanton Foundation. |
| Philadelphia: Recovery, Renewal and Transformation The Village of Arts and Humanities Organized by Angela Johnson Peters, Senior Advisor, The Lia Fund. |
| 6:45 Buses Depart for Reception at Barnes Foundation |