News 10.26.09

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In this Issue

~ Career Trajectories : Not All Straight Arrows – Listen to Maia Rosal, Marc Vogl and Evelyn Orantes
~ The Emerging Leader Salon on ARTSblog hosted by 20under40 and the Emerging Leader Networks of Americans for the Arts
~ GrantMakers in the Arts 2009 – Brooklyn: New Leaders & New Models
~ Great Links from You!
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Hi!

Career Trajectories : Not All Straight Arrows – Listen to Maia Rosal, Marc Vogl and Evelyn Orantes
How is your fall going so far? Well I hope. Thanks so much to everyone who made it out to Creative Conversation 2009: Career Trajectories : Not All Straight Arrows at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. If you missed it, Check out our FaceBook page for a link to recordings and photos.

The Emerging Leader Networks of Americans for the Arts are hosting over forty Creative Conversations all over the country during October, National Arts & Humanities month. It’s an interesting glimpse into what’s on the mind of our peers nationwide. Building Leadership Capacity in TX, Leveraging Networks in Long Beach, Arts & Social Entrepreneurship in NY.

The Emerging Leader Salon on ARTSblog hosted by 20under40 and the Emerging Leader Networks of Americans for the Arts
Last week, the Emerging Leaders Network of Americans for the Arts and the 20UNDER40 anthology hosted an Emerging Leaders Salon on ARTSblog. Diverse arts professionals discussed the impending generational shift in arts leadership and the value of emerging leaders to the field. Read the posts and continue the conversation through your ideas, comments, and personal stories.

One of my favorites – Never Mind “What Do We Do Next?” What Do We Do FIRST? And Who’s Going to Fund It? – By Eric Clapp, editor and project director of 20UNDER40 and a doctoral student at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.

GrantMakers in the Arts 2009 – Brooklyn: New Leaders & New Models
Speaking of who’s gonna fund it, I was lucky enough to attend the Grantmakers in the Arts (GIA) conference in Brooklyn last week. This years theme –  Recession : Navigating the Art of Change.  For the first time GIA invited a blogger to cover the conference in its entirety, emerging leader Ian Moss.  Yeah! An account of the proceedings, with a great finale – Brunch with Rocco –  the closing speech by recently appointed chairman of the National Endowments for the Arts, Rocco Landesman is available here: His message ART WORKS.

This was my first time at a GIA conference and I was honored to participate in a panel titled, Changing the Game: New Models, New Leaders, New Ideas for the Arts with Heather Cohn, managing director, Flux Theatre Ensemble; Nicole Derse, national training director, Organizing for America and Adam Huttler, executive director, Fractured Atlas.
Big ups to all the California and Pittsburgh, PA (my hometown) people who took the time to say hello. It was lovely to see you in Brooklyn.
7 Great Links from You!
And Thanks for sharing!

1.) Can foundations co-op social movements?  In Creating a Monster: Capitalism in the Community Arts Classroom, a young arts administrator asks “How can we overcome the dominant power structure of corporate-controlled foundations?”
2.) A posting on the topic of “How’s this whole nonprofit thing working out for you?” from the Harvard Business Review.
3.) Have you heard? The Freelancers Union is modernizing the labor movement.
4.) Insightful stories from six senior executives who have spent their entire careers in the nonprofit sector about how they moved into leadership roles. Great tips!
5.) Tim Brown, the chief executive of the design firm IDEO, says leaders may not have all the answers, but need to ask the right kinds of questions.
6.) Great TED talk from Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love on nurturing creativity, brushing up against genius and staying sane.
7.) Wow! A comprehensive 5-point plan to strengthen New York’s art sector. There are some great ideas here.

Thanks for reading!
Do you have great links to share? Post them on the FaceBook page. Let’s build up this pool of knowledge.

Career Trajectories: Listen online

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Audio recordings from our Creative Conversation, “Career Trajectories: Not All Straight Arrows” (click for mp3 or right-click to download):

Panelist Presentations (~40 min)

Group Discussion (~45 min)

The panelists were:

  • Maia Rosal, Managing Director, Joe Goode Performance Group
  • Marc Vogl, Program Officer, Performing Arts Program, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
  • Evelyn Orantes, Cultural Arts Developer, Education Department, Oakland Museum of California

We had brief presentations by each of the panelists, then an open forum for discussion. It all went down this past Tuesday, October 13, 2009, at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center.

News from SFBAEAP

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Happy National Arts & Humanities Month!

1.) A Fall Mixer at the de Young – Photos, Thanks! & Stay Tuned

2.) Upcoming Event! Creative Conversation 2009:
Career Trajectories – Not A Straight Arrow
10/13/09
JUST ADDED! Ellen Oh, Executive Director, Kearny Street Workshop

3.) Local Emerging Leader responds to The Biggest Problem Facing the Arts

4.) Rosetta Thurman: Next generation leadership for social change

5.) Bay Area News!

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1.)
A Fall Mixer at the de Young – Photos, Thanks! & Stay Tuned

It was great to see so many of you at the Fall Mixer at
the de Young. Thank you for coming out. Photos from
the event are NOW posted on the FaceBook page.
Check out your lovely and handsome selves.
http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=42171556599&view=all

Thanks again to our partner for this event, the de Young Museum, and to Wait Cellars for their generous in-kind
donation. Visit Wait’s website tosupport an emerging local winery:http://www.waitcellars.com/

Stay tuned for a message from Renee Baldocchi, the
de Young’s Director of Public Programs, for future
opportunities for collaboration.

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2.)
Upcoming Event!

Creative Conversation 2009: Career Trajectories –
Not A Straight Arrow
Tuesday, October 13th, 7:00p-9:00p at Oakland
Asian Cultural Center

Join SFBAEAP for a panel and roundtable discussion with-

Evelyn Orantes, Cultural Arts Developer,
Education Department, Oakland Museum of California

Maia Rosal, Managing Director, Joe Goode Performance Group

Marc Vogl, Program Officer, Performing Arts Program,
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

JUST ADDED!
Ellen Oh, Executive Director, Kearny Street Workshop, the Bay area’s oldest Asian Pacific American multidisciplinary arts organization.

Read their bios and reserve your spot herehttp://cc09.eventbrite.com/

$6 online or $8 at the door (to cover basic event expenses)

Who are you? What do you do? Where have you been? Where
are you going? Whether you are emerging, mid-career or established this is a discussion for YOU.

Jump on BART, get off at the Oakland 12 Street Station,
walk 5 minutes and meet us there.

Creative Conversations are a national discussion initiative
began 5 years ago by the Emerging Leader Council of
Americans for the Arts.

Creative Conversations are local gatherings of emerging
leaders in communities across the country and are part of a grassroots movement to elevate the profile of arts in America during National Arts & Humanities Month every October.

Visit http://maps.artsusa.org/creativeconversations/ for information on what’s going on around the country.

We still need a few volunteers. Let me know if you’re
available. You can earn free admission to this and future
SFBAEAP events.

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3.)
The Biggest Problem Facing the Arts: Thoughts from
Michael Kaiser & local emerging leader Rachel Fink.

Michael Kaiser, President of the John F. Kennedy Performing
Arts Center in Washington D.C., and author of The Art of the Turnaround, wrote recently,

“The main challenge the arts world must address is the lack
of a large, trained corps of managers who know how to find resources, attract audiences and other constituents and
provide support to our artists.”

More at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-kaiser/the-biggest-problem-facin_b_279108.html

Rachel Fink, Bay Area emerging leader and Associate
General Manager of Berkeley Rep School of Theatre, wrote
an excellent response, and I’d like to share part of it
with you,

“There isn’t a shortage of committed, eager, and smart emerging/mid-career arts management professionals
desiring to be the next generation of arts leaders.
The issue is the challenge of ‘getting a seat at the table.’
Over the past few decades, the non-profit arts have
developed an infrastructure which presents severe
challenges for talented candidates looking to advance
their careers.

An emerging/mid-career professional faces a myriad of obstacles in trying to climb their career ladder: limited
“stepping stone” salaried positions coupled with current
leaders postponing retirement and creating a severe
bottleneck; life/work balance challenges including
identifying ways of consistently making a living wage
(at a certain point, one wants to graduate from
“sleeping on a futon” or living in an apartment with
multiple roommates, let along having the resources to
start a family and buy a home); lack of health insurance;
limited opportunities for growth within an organization or
a specific city; limited access to or resources to support
deeper professional development and travel; and, a lack
of access to a cohesive, national networking structure.”

(more here http://sfbaeap.com/2009/10/02/a-response-to-the-biggest-problem-facing-the-arts/)

And I say, Go head Rachel….thanks for helping to clarify
the issue.

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4.)
Have you read Rosetta Thurman? I’m a little bit of a
late adoper, so I’m just getting into blogs.

Rosetta promotes next generation leadership for
social change. Here are a few of my favorite columns
from the last couple of weeks,

When No Means Yes: What Generation Y Leaders Can
Learn From Michelle Kwan
http://rosettathurman.com/blog/2009/08/when-no-means-yes-what-gen-y-leaders-can-learn-from-michelle-kwan/

How the Recession is Hurting Young Nonprofit Leaders
http://rosettathurman.com/blog/2009/09/how-the-recession-is-hurting-young-nonprofit-leaders/

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5.)
Bay Area News!
Big ups to Brava Theater in the Mission & Raelle
Myrick-Hodges!

Out today! from American Theatre, the magazine of
Theatre Communications Group.

New Leaders, New Visions, featuring artistic director
Raelle Myrick-Hodges and her quest to reinvigorate a neighborhood anchor.
http://www.tcg.org/publications/at/oct09/home.cfm?CFID=16503776&CFTOKEN=69717975

Also,
October is Funding for the Arts Month at the San Francisco Foundation Center. Lots of free and informative classes.
http://www.foundationcenter.org/sanfrancisco/

What events do you have in the works? Post it on the
SFBAEAP wall. We want to hear from you.

Happy Autumn.

A response to "The Biggest Problem Facing the Arts"

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A response to “The Biggest Problem Facing the Arts”

Friday, September 18, 2009 at 10:22am

I recently read Michael Kaiser’s post on “The Biggest Problem Facing the Arts” on the Huffington Post and felt the need to draft a quick response because of I’m tired of the assumption that the problem is that “we don’t exist.” (i.e., the lack of viable future arts leaders) Sheesh. Personally, I want to move on from this part of the conversation, and explore more interesting things: how to create new positions, on-going professional development opportunities, meaningful mentorship relationships, creating cross-disciplinary networks and sustainable cultural policy. But I didn’t want this to pass without commenting.

I encourage you to read the post and respond as well if you feel so inspired.

Here’s the link to Michael’s post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-kaiser/the-biggest-problem-facin_b_279108.html

And here’s my response:

Dear Michael:

While I appreciate you taking the opportunity to shine a light on this critical topic, I think the issue you’ve touched on is much deeper than the one you’ve presented and reflects a systemic structural problem within our nation’s non-profits.

There isn’t a shortage of committed, eager, and smart emerging/mid-career arts management professionals desiring to be the next generation of arts leaders. The issue is the challenge of “getting a seat at the table.” Over the past few decades, the non-profit arts have developed an infrastructure which presents severe challenges for talented candidates looking to advance their careers.

An emerging/mid-career professional faces a myriad of obstacles in trying to climb their career ladder: limited “stepping stone” salaried positions coupled with current leaders postponing retirement and creating a severe bottleneck; life/work balance challenges including identifying ways of consistently making a living wage (at a certain point, one wants to graduate from “sleeping on a futon” or living in an apartment with multiple roommates, let along having the resources to start a family and buy a home); lack of health insurance; limited opportunities for growth within an organization or a specific city; limited access to or resources to support deeper professional development and travel; and, a lack of access to a cohesive, national networking structure.

I have regularly spoken to current leaders who have expressed that their organizations have grown increasingly complicated over time and that, upon reflection, they might not have hired their “younger, less experienced selves” for their positions. This mindset is also echoed by board members on search committees who are less likely to take a risk on an “untried” leader, particularly in these economic times. While I recognize the fear, how can an emerging/mid-career candidate confront and overcome this mindset?

It is even more critical now that so many organizations are facing financial hardships. The choices that the current leaders make could have long-lasting impact on future leadership. Frankly, if organizations strictly follow the advice in your book and focus resources primarily on marketing and art, and therefore seriously limit professional development, travel and salary budget lines, I fear that many potential leaders will either leave the field or grow stagnant in their current positions.

Luckily, this is a conversation that many organizations and foundations have begun to address over the past year or so. Programs are emerging within the different arts disciplines offering professional development, mentorship opportunities, and travel stipends for conference attendance. That’s a great first step.The issues are much deeper than what can be solved by a one-year professional development opportunity or mentorship program, as valuable as that individual experience may be. We need to invest much deeper in a national, multi-disciplinary effort. On-going learning and relationship-building is a necessity as one grows in their career. And we need to address job availability and growth so our most talented candidates don’t leave the field.

I don’t think anyone really chooses a career in arts administration to become wealthy or famous. They do it because they want to dedicate their lives to something that they find meaningful with interesting challenges and want to use their skills to create an environment which allows great art to be created and shared with a community. However, if we don’t remove some of the roadblocks to career growth, our most talented future leaders will leave the field, creating a void which will impact and be felt by all.

Rachel L. Fink

Rachel Fink is Associate General Manager of Berkeley Rep School of Theatre.

News You Can Use 9.14.09

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Hi!

Only a few months ago, our FaceBook group was made up of just a few
steering committee members. We have now climbed to 273 members.

Thanks for joining in. We hope to meet many of you at the de Young
this Friday for A Fall Mixer, but tickets are selling fast. Get yours today.
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79431

Remember, FaceBook page members get a $3 discount. Enter code
MEMBER at checkout.

This will be a great opportunity to talk about your upcoming projects,
make new connections, listen to jazz, explore the museum and hear
what SFBAEAP has planned next.

Manifest yourself at the de Young this Friday, September 18th.
We’re going to have a fun time.

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In other news,

Want to be part of a national arts dialog and work with your stunning peers?
Americans for the Arts Councils Seek New Members-
Emerging Leaders, Arts Education, and Public Art.

Candidates must be professional members of Americans for the Arts and
you may nominate yourself or a colleague. The deadline for nominations
is October 2, 2009. To find out more about eligibility, guidelines, and
nominating yourself or a colleague, visit the website.
http://www.americansforthearts.org/networks/councils/001.asp

Please forward to your peers across the US.

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I was lucky enough to attend Tide’s Momentum last week. It really made me think
about arts & culture work in context and the benefit of cross sector alliances.

In one of my favorite sessions John Kao talked about The Geography of Innovation.
There was a lot of very useful information on how creativity impacts innovation and how we
can propel ourselves to discover new ways of thinking and working. He also played a mean
jazz piano. But it hasn’t been posted. In the meantime, you can visit his website at
www.innovationation.org

But a lot of compelling conversations have been posted. Here are just a few. Check ‘em out.
Most are under 20 minutes long.

-Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins of Green For All in Oakland gives an energizing talk on how to align
environmental thinking and the need to rebuild our economy. She also gives us an update on
Van Jones recent resignation.
http://fora.tv/2009/09/08/CARBON_Phaedra_Ellis-Lamkins_on_Green_For_All

-Wow, Jessy Tolkan is Executive Director for the Energy Action Coalition, a group of 50 leading
youth organizations throughout the U.S. and Canada that organize on college campuses, high
schools, and in local communities. She has a lot to say about the power of youth to determine
the future of this country by turning it up a level.
http://fora.tv/2009/09/08/CARBON_Jessy_Tolkan_on_the_Youth_Climate_Movement

-Jacquette M. Timmons gave a thoughtful talk that inspired us to look at the current financial crisis
as an underlying identify crisis and she gives us tools to address it.
http://fora.tv/2009/09/08/CAPITAL_Jacquette_M_Timmons_on_the_Economic_Collapse

-Sony Kapoor speaks on Changing a System of Our Creation. A former derivatives trader who switched
sides, Sony Kapoor employs vivid metaphors to argue that finance needs to be reigned in to bring us
back to prosperity, in this, modern society’s 90th such financial crisis.
http://fora.tv/2009/09/08/CAPITAL_Sony_Kapoor_on_Changing_a_System_of_Our_Creation

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I was saddened to see Yosi Sergant step down from his position as Communications Director of the
National Endowment for the Arts. He is a generous spirit and hard worker who brought
grassroots artists and thinkers to the White House. Here is some background information:
http://www.laweekly.com/2008-09-11/columns/yosi-sergant-and-the-art-of-change-the-publicist-behind-
shepard-fairey-39-s-obama-hope-posters/

And right after Van Jones, this is quite a blow.

Local writers Arlene Goldbard and Jeff Chang, who most recently served on a White House cultural
policy panel organized by Yosi, share their thoughts on this recent turn of events.

Annals of Scapegoating, Part Two: Yosi Sergant
http://arlenegoldbard.com/

The New Shape Of The Culture War :: Glenn Beck, Yosi Sergant, Van Jones, and Hip-Hop
http://cantstopwontstop.com/blog/the-new-shape-of-the-culture-war-glenn-beck-yosi-
sergant-van-jones-and-hip-hop/

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Here are a few sites of interest, suggested by you, our members. Thanks so much.

Keep them coming.

The Collective Arts Think Tank shares an interesting take on the
systemic problems facing the field of contemporary live performance.

Check out their observations and recommendations.
http://collectiveartsthinktank.blogspot.com/2009/08/first-letter-to-field-whats-working.html

Don’t wait for perfection. Launch & learn.
http://patterns.ideo.com/issue/business_in_beta/

The Building Movement Project has put together some great reports on
how to open dialog between older and younger generations and how we
can work together to define the future of nonprofit leadership.
www.buildingmovement.org

How to Be a Smart Protégé
Eight tips for setting up a network of mentors
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052970203937504574252141852898888-lMyQjAxMDA5MDIwMTEyNDEyWj.html

Comments? Anything to add on these topics or others?

There is even more on the discussion board. Check it out and keep the conversation growing
by adding your own links.

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Lastly, SFBAEAP is looking for a part-time Communications Manager.
This is a volunteer position. Want to help build community and share
news amongst your emerging arts colleagues. Do you have an interest in
new media strategies and a fondness for forward thinking? Do you have
10-15 hours a month to donate? Drop me a line if you’re interested at

nextgenerationsf@gmail.com

See you soon!

A Fall Mixer presented by San Francisco Bay Area Emerging Arts Professionals & Friday Nights at the de Young

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2009 I 6:00 PM – 8:30PM
$15 includes access to SFBAEAP reception in the Piazzoni Murals Room, complimentary drinks, appetizers and museum admission*.

This is a special invitation to emerging arts professionals, innovators, educators, artists and allies. Celebrate the start of Fall, mix with visionary peers and colleagues and participate in the museum’s Friday night activities.

Limited capacity. Don’t miss out. Buy your tickets now http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79431.

What untapped wisdom do you have to share? What do you want to learn? Bring yourself, your people, (and your business cards), to the de Young on September 18th! We want to chat with you.

SFBAEAP generates a collective approach to rising challenges and sets the stage for meaningful and sustainable arts and culture work. We inspire energy and create a space for learning, experimentation and collaboration. We take risks and reinvent relationships, models and mindsets.

Socializing begins at 6:00 PM. Join us at 7:30 PM in the Piazzoni Mural Room to find out what’s next for SFBAEAP and how you can be a part. It’s going to be a fun time.

SFBAEAP is thrilled to collaborate with the de Young on this event. As part of Friday Nights at the de Young catch Jazz at Intersection presents The Crushing Spiral Ensemble, create forehead masks inspired by the Cupik people and enhance your spirit with natural henna tattoos.

*Tickets include admission to de Young permanent collection and temporary exhibitions including Art & Power in the Central African Savannah and Toward Abstraction: Photographs & Photograms featuring the work of leading photographers of the 20th Century.

For more information on Friday Nights at the de Young visit:
http://www.famsf.org/deyoung/calendar/day.asp?categoryid=32

For more information on SFBAEAP visit:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=42171556599&ref=ts

Evolve & Vocalize: A Spotlight on Next Generation Arts Leadership

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On April 11, SFBAEAP hosted its first public event, titled “Evolve & Vocalize: A Spotlight on Next Generation Arts Leadership.” Our first series of blog posts on this site show some of the results from the day, work resulting from the remarkable collaboration of approximately 80 participants, representing a cross-section of artists, arts organizations, funders, educators, administrators, and advocates, from the San Francisco Bay Area community.

There is a wealth of information, which has been divided as follows:

Basic info

Question 1: Broad Trends and Implications

Question 2: What can we do now?

Stickies Snapshot (brief summaries of emerging discussion topics)

Overview

In addition, we’ve created pages reflecting what were identified as the most critical topics, with lists that smaller groups generated of what our community could do to address our concerns, or make progress on that particular issue. Follow the links in the right sidebar or at the top of this blog to read those results.

We hope you’ll share your feedback, and get involved! As the “Evolve & Vocalize” participants concluded, “We can act now to make a positive and powerful impact.”

Evolve & Vocalize: What can we do now?

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– Change in trickled down funding

– Offering micro-grants

– Identifying a different business model

– Find a way to get more money for the independent artist

– Assign someone under 30 on the board

– Advocacy, Becoming knowledgeable about legislation that affects the arts

– Funders round table

– Education for both artists and founders

– Continue to nourish opportunities for potential collaborations and networking

– Arts + political involvement

– Identifying and funding artists healthcare as well as sustainable survival

– Giving money for program development and process not just product

– Identifying/Creating Space, like Red Ink Studios in Hunters Point

– Collect best practices + finance information to share with emerging artists / organizations

– Develop internships for arts advocacy to support knowledge and action of/on legislation

– Support the work of SF BAEAP

– Build cross disciplinary programs to support shared goals

– Identify symbiotic relationships between institutions

– Mentorship programs for administrators of artists run spaces and community arts organizations

– Plugging into existing communities i.e. critique groups, artist run spaces, etc

– Networking – hearing other people stories

– Resist the desire to be all things to all people

– Make friends who have insight (explore need for partnerships)

– Clarifying our mission

– Forums, networks building bridges

– Foster connections

– Create a website for people to interact

– Offer professional development opportunities

– Offer a space for people to barter services (on website)

– Create book clubs

– Exchange of art and non art sectors

– Partnerships – match making

– Create Professional mentorship programs

– Create an advisory board – with specific roles

– Emphasize work/life balance

– Offer organizational support towards personal art practice, professional development and social benefits

– Opportunity to interact as artists not just “arts professionals”

– Professional mentorship opportunities

– Build philosophy of continued learning/development built into job description or mission

– Creativity model: TED.COM

– A collective voice to share our outcomes as artist to broad communities.

– Share outcome with other cross-disciplinary artists as well

– Meaningful collaborations across diverse platforms for showcasing one another, a more social (more arts, less production work) sustainable and fun.

– Meeting model: Meet-up.com (people sharing what they are working on, while having fun.

– Stride towards a tangible connection between arts thinking and street level / community level contexts.

– Provide a dedicated space (arts center with housing)

– Offer a portal for how for-profits/non profits can work with one another

– Our community – Artistic + design thinking

– Increase the bottom up input model (communities, artist, bottom level workers)

– Offer entrepreneurial programs

– Offer creative workshops, services for corporations

– Help individual artists navigate while positioning themselves in a capitalist workforce (diversify their offerings)

– Online/off line networking opportunities

– Bridging gaps between generations

– Advocating for a new model – the Obama Model

– How to run a self sustainable organization with low funds

– Mentorship program to share skills between emerging and established art professionals

– Set a bulleting board for members interaction

– Facilitate a barter system

– Time to get together to identify specific topics “Support Groups” Meet-up.com

– Artistic administrative counseling on communication (organizational coach)

– Helping to identify a career trajectory and leveraging skills

– Educating current leaders about resources within community – how can it benefit the organization?

– Meet more

– Identify issues

– Organize workshops

– Get to know our community challenges /solutions

– Share resources

– Find allies

– Find common goals

– Work on different strategies

– How do we articulate our strengths? Capitalize on creativity.

– Prevent burnout / artist isolation

– Fund research and advocate on impact of the arts – How can we bring this perspective into our organizations?

– Increase collaborations and partnerships

– Get more funds for office operations and administrative costs

– Help create giving circles

– When resources are scarce, how do organizations/artists make time, think about new approaches/models

– Transfer of knowledge inter-organization – communication is key

– Affect career centers at universities

– Recognizing your own value as an artist

– Offer an avenue for community to vent (network affiliation)

– Or vent by redefining roles – owning craft, making your own community

– Value yourself / confidence / worth (skills)

– Understand options (+/-) for sustainability

– Make real world solutions available and transferable

– Offer training in writing a business plan

– Knowing your worth instead of seeking external validation for $

– What IS the next step?

– Teach Teamwork vs. corporate models

– Block / protect soul sucking

– Teach how one can balance methods for making a living

o How to maintain fiscal sustainability

– A culture of service – education/theater/health, science, food/nutrition

– Tap into the diversity

– Definition of community – Regional vs. local

– Arts advocacy and economic development

– Recognize that competition for funding discouraging alliances

– Translate policy language

– Fund arts administration degrees

– Stop recreating the wheel!

– Experimentation – art as research

– Teach people to become their own advocates

– Help people develop the language they need

– Develop a culture of natural mentorship

– Building learning communities

– Cross pollinate ideas/programs/people

– Create a mentorship blueprint

– Offer career path counseling

– Can BEAEAP be the repository or information source or cleaning house for case studies of art career paths

– What already exists – opportunities, life styles, communities, +/- attributes framework

– Act as a resource radar and transparency

– Information sharing about opportunities for professional development

– Emphasizing importance skills value or artists in professional sector

– Keep asking questions, infuse new ideas

– Key: grass roots, volunteer and DYI environments

– Distilling the many opportunities within the bay area

Evolve & Vocalize: Overview

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Overview

We can act now to make a positive, powerful impact

1. Provide opportunities to connect

  • a. share resources
  • b. technology
  • c. life

2. Entrepreneurial training

  • a. business plan marketing, branding
  • b. grant writing

3. Don’t want to be redundant

  • a. use technology

4. Mentorship

  • a. help those that are lost
  • b. career map

5. Partnership

  • a. Co-produce
  • b. Know what we’re up to

6. Leverage out current knowledge

  • a. Market our process
  • b. Position ourselves as consultants

7. Making the case

  • a. Broader societies view of us

8. Founders do roundtables

  • a. listen to our ideas

9. Founders create residencies for artists
10. Founders giving money to artists

  • a. addressing process and not just product

11. Virtual arts organizations
12. Influence what’s already out there

  • a. Jumping on a train that’s already going

13. more attention to sharing resources

  • a. Forums
  • b. Share ideas
  • c. Regional sharing
  • d. Different people getting involved

14. Paradox= work is not valued vs. people staying forever
15. Smart people in this room
16. Ok to be more profit and business oriented
17. Non-profits can look to small businesses
18. Use of volunteers
19. Political involvement

  • a. Recruiting for boards
  • b. Everyone should be an arts advocate
  • c. Share responsibility
  • d. local advocacy
  • e. Groom yourself for these roles
  • f. What’s happening in Washington

20. Value system

  • a. Language is shifting
  • b. Help us figure out what to do!

21. Relocation of resources

  • a. Schools doing research

22. Adapting

  • a. Artists and orgs being resourceful
  • b. Staying positive

Evolve & Vocalize: Stickies snapshot

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– Technology: inexpensive/efficient
– communication/resources/audience participation, knowing where to invest your time.
– Teaching older generation how to use new tech requires investment
– Technology allows for direct access. Allows random individuals access to people with similar ideas / activities “you like ducks? Me too!”
– Is snail mail still cool?
– Is tweeter elitist?
– Clarifying the role of the artist
– More innovative ideas by orgs and artist to get founding
– Economic realities (collaboration, creative thinking, sharing)
– Board members becoming younger in order to stay relevant with youth
– Developing more sophisticated grass roots tactics
– Creative / innovating technology
– Experiential learning
– Sustaining job personal and creative integrity and balance
– Career counseling
– Looking outside traditional 501c3 model, non profit/for profit collaborations; entrepreneurship
– Alternative spaces, redefining how people participate, experience art.
– Technology (social networking, collaboration, self production, inexpensive)
– Update the trend / notion of the starving artists or impoverish non profit on the bring of collapse
– Demand for professional development
– Accessible professional development
– Collaboration
– New media. Leadership empower, organizations sector
– The emerging arts sector has been evolving along with new media, towards higher level of interaction and democracy
– Economy forcing more collaboration between arts orgs (sharing resources)
– Technology playing a larger role in marketing/out reach
– Should we away from starting with models and towards context and contact driven ways of working in our organization
– Education and participation leads to appreciation of art
– Flexibility – not NPO, psychically and geographically
– More accessibility to: different view points, online galleries, marketing to new audiences
– Instant gratification in an ADD culture

– Middle sized and middle management squeeze
– Shifting from movements and organizations as primarily autocracies and some democracies to being democratic adhocracies. Not leading down as primary, but also leading across and leading up. Steppping up and stepping back as needed.
– Information and opportunity overload
– Evolving media, creating space for poli/mesh art (theater, animation, film, dance, DJ’s, sculptors, etc under one umbrella.
– Collaborations: how do we choose our partners, what are the impacts of these collaborations.
– Identity: communicating who we are / what we do. Addressing gap between how we identify ourselves and how others identify us.
– Need for more sophisticated used of technology/tools by all generations.
– More collaboration, less one leader oriented.
– Virtual arts organizations (back office)
– Turnover doesn’t equal sustainability
– Lack of accessibility: to new media in certain US communities and to cultural institutions that lack a lot of money.
– Fragmentation of: audience, founders, and creative/artists through over saturation of diverse media forms.
– Innovation (renewed value of)
– Adapting, changing, evolving expanding.
– Burnout of arts administrator (short tenures)
– Need for mediation between generations of arts professionals
– Shared leadership: everyone in the organization has leadership roles
– More festivals, more disciplines come together
– New tech/media outlets to build outlets (ex. Facebook, Twitter)
– Coming onto a crossroads: point at which an artist has to stay or go from the field. Where do you go? If you can stay, what do you need in order to stay?
– Grad school (safe environment to transition)
– Arts advocacy
– Seeking + identifying right match for collaborators and partners
– Company-based art to project-based
– Fostering a leader – full group sharing leadership
– Forums, networks, bridge building
– Use of technology to collaborate and market
– Hope
– Career trajectory for emerging and established professionals

– What are the new implications of new media? On emerging/start up organizations, on established organizations and the interaction of both
– Burn out/work and life balance: the dichotomy of life vs. work (how to blend them), lack of career path, sense of martyrdom is not sustainable
– Explore new models: non-profits should look to small businesses for ways to address some of their issues. Non-profit/for-profit hybrids. Incorporate/recruit/develop skilled volunteers
– Crossroads – broad trend among many present today. Feeling that it may be time to change, but stay within the field
– Crosspollination: as artists/teaching artists/administrators/board members etc. to talk and share experiences
– Disconnect between established artists and arts administrators, established organizations and younger entrepreneurial efforts
– Artists working as art administrators: over taxed and neglecting their craft/artwork
– One must move to new organizations to grow
– Risk aversion for older more established art organizations
– Encourage risk taking but not at the expense of tried and true