Thursday, October 24, 5:00 p.m. Pro Arts 150 Frank H Ogawa Plaza Oakland, California 94612 THIS EVENT IS FREE; RSVP NOW Calling all creatives to connect! Here’s an opportunity to mix and mingle with colleagues in the Bay Area artist and arts nonprofit community. Whether you are an established artist/arts professional, new to the arts community, […]
Thursday, October 17TH, 2013 5:00pm to 7:30pm ProArts Gallery 150 Frank H Ogawa Plaza Oakland CA 94612 Gain insight from local grantmakers into the individual artist funding process. Join us for this unique program featuring local Bay Area arts funders as they describe their organization’s funding priorities and guidelines, discuss regional arts and culture funding […]
What can our network do to make the arts sector healthier, and better reflect our values of empowerment, relevance, and diversity? EAP invites you, as a member of the network, to propose and help execute a project that helps to fulfill our mission. An online meet-up, a skill-share session, a social media campaign, or big […]
Meet the new crop of Emerging Arts Professionals fellows joining us for the 2013/14 session. A bright bunch with a diversity of interests and affiliations, the fellows will work over the next nine months to fulfill—and shape—EAP’s mission. For the 2013/14 session, we’ve broken out four key areas of inquiry based on feedback from the […]
By Becky Neil After a rousing and candid keynote panel on defining open systems, participants in the Emergence 2013 Networked Approaches track moved downstairs at SPUR for our first breakout session. Moderated by Maura Lafferty, independent PR consultant, this session’s topics focused on practical suggestions to improve collaboration between the arts and technology sectors. Maura gathered […]
By Sunshine Lampitoc As part of Emergence, Emerging Arts Professional’s daylong annual convening on June 3, 2013, a panel discussed what it means for a system to be open and healthy. Defining Diversity and Open Systems Defining and creating open systems involves many components but, for some reason, “diversity” has become the catch-all term for […]
By Carrie Blanding Former Hewlett Foundation president Paul Brest defines outcome-oriented philanthropy as “philanthropy where donors seek to achieve clearly defined goals; where they and their grantees pursue evidence-based strategies for achieving those goals; and where both parties monitor progress toward outcomes and assess their success in achieving them in order to make appropriate course […]
By Masha Rotfeld At Emergence, Emerging Arts Professional’s annual daylong convening on June 3, 2013, a daring and complicated group discussion facilitated by Arielle Julia Brown and Ernesto Sopprani centered on the participants’ viewpoints regarding failures and successes in community engagement. Brown, teaching theater artist at Destiny Arts Center and artistic director of The Love Balm Project, hailed […]
This is part two in a three-part series by Carrie Blanding on emerging trends in philanthropy. If you haven’t yet read George Overholser’s seminal piece “Building Is Not Buying,” you should stop everything and do it now. The essay is only ten pages long, but it packs a punch! In the piece, Overholser encourages nonprofits and […]
By Margot H. Knight A fishbowl marked the finish of Emergence 2013, Emerging Arts Professional’s daylong annual convening on June 4. Keeping the Talkative Fish Swimming Even though they can discriminate against the shy, I like fishbowls. I like fishbowls because they provide a focal point for condensing experiences and thoughts. Fishbowls are round and […]
