Evolve & Vocalize: What can we do now?

– 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