Announcing the Emerging Arts Professionals/SFBA
2010-2011 Fellowship!

This Fellowship program seeks to answer the question: What’s next? and looks to
the future by bringing together insightful and energetic leadership and emerging
models in a convergence of participatory practice and action learning.

The new frontier of creative leadership requires new competencies, skills and
sensitivities that are adaptive, engaging and relevant. It is in this spirit that the
Emerging Arts Professionals/San Francisco Bay Area (EAP/SFBA) are pleased to
announce our 2010-2011 Fellowship Program.

Over the course of nine months, this program is designed to enrich and expand
the professional skill-sets of emerging and mid-level leaders working in the
Bay Area’s arts and culture field.

Details of the program can be found HERE.

Applications open on Wednesday, August 25th and will be accepted until
Wednesday, September 15th at 5:00pm.

Two optional information sessions will be held at Intersection 5M,
925 Mission Street @ 5th Street, 94103 on:

●  Tuesday, September 7th from: 6:30pm to 8:00pm.

●  Monday, September 13th from: 12:30pm to 1:30pm.

Thank you to everyone who came out to our last event Coaching &
Creative Capacity! C2Arts wanted to pass along this  Coaches Tool Box

Also as promised, we are posting the Executive Summary of the
Emerging Arts Professionals Strategic Plan for 2009-2013.
Please look it over if you are interested in where we are headed.

But note that we are always refining our thinking and hope that
you will join the process. We can be reached at
nextgenerationsf@gmail.com. or join our FaceBook page
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=42171556599&ref=ts

AND Stay tuned for information on joining our focus groups and
fellowship program later this summer.

SFBAEAP presents

New Growth: A spring 2010 series on Arts Leadership and new ways of working.

UP NEXT : APRIL 20th, 2010

THE POWER OF NETWORKS

April 20th, 2010, 6:30pm-8:30pm

The San Francisco Foundation

225  Bush Street

Very limited Capacity. Please R.S.V.P. early.

Want to learn how to make the most our of your social networks?

Want to work in concert with your peers?

Want to align your organization’s goals with the greater arts community?

Then come join us for an interactive evening of collaboration with Monitor Institute

Special Guests include:

~Anasa Troutman, Senior Fellow at the Movement Strategy Center

~Tamara Alvarado, Multicultural Arts Leadership Initiative

~Roger Kim, Asian Pacific Environmental Network

Evening facilitated by Noah Flower of Monitor Institute
We’ll explore creative ways to tap in and build out our professional relationships, so that we can build a stronger arts and culture field.

Next in New Growth SFBAEAP’s 2010 Series

Save The Date

Monday, May 10th Act II : TBA
Reception

Tuesday, June 8th Coaching & Creative Capacity

Act II : A Reception & Breakout Session
on Omni-Directional Mentorship w/Edward P. Clapp
(Editor/Project Director 20UNDER40)
Part of Theatre Bay Area’s 2010 Annual Conference
Lights Up : Sparking Conversations on Excellence
Monday, May 10th, 2010, 5:00pm – 8:00pm
@ The Green Room, War Memorial Bldg.,
401 Van Ness Avenue, 94102

Coaching & Creative Capacity: Professional
Development for Next Generation Arts Leaders
A collaboration with
C2Arts : Coaches & Consultants for the Arts
and the Center for Cultural Innovation
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010, 6:30pm – 9:30pm
@ Audre Lorde Room, The Women’s Building
3543 18th Street, 94110

Stay tuned for more details.

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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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.