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Culturally Specific Organizations
Join a roundtable discussion about the role of culturally specific organizations as leaders in their communities and how to tap into supporting networks both locally and nationally.
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Contemporary Native Art: Museums and the Public Realm
The National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI)—located in Washington, DC, and New York City—has the responsibility of caring for one of the world’s most historically significant and largest collections of indigenous art and artifacts of the hemisphere. Yet, in order to serve both their native constituencies and the broader audience for native art and culture, the museum must be engaged with contemporary native art practice and discourse at the highest possible levels. Alan Michelson using an array of media and materials, incorporates his own Native background into his work through a spirit of inquiry and multiple perspectives. His work reveals a deep understanding of geography and cultural history and memory.
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Through the Lens of Culture
The new civic life in American communities is diverse and global—whether through shared geography among diverse people or broad digital access to arts and culture from around the globe. Artists and organizations deeply rooted in culture are among the most vocal and active leaders helping to guide this new civic and economic vitality. Come hear these thought-provoking speakers who will highlight the national trends, troubles, and tipping points that are leading us toward a new and vibrant outlook on artistic and cultural diversity
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- Mario Caro, Board Member, Longhouse Education and Cultural Center
- Maria de Leon, Executive Director, National Association of Latino Arts and Culture
- Tania McGee, Executive Director, The Sphinx Organization
- Rick Shiomi, Artistic Director, Mu Performing Arts
- Mayumi Tsutakawa, Board Member, TAAC
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Grantwriting 101
Preparation is vital to the successful grantwriting process because a well-written proposal is a key factor in the grantmaker's decision-making process. In this one-hour workshop, participants will be instructed on the basics of planning and research; organizing, writing, and packaging a proposal; determining a reasonable request amount; and follow-up with the funder in a timely fashion.
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Hip Hop in Your Drinking Water
Find out how to use hip-hop in arts programming. This workshop is a discussion with the arts community about the ubiquitous international presence of the elements of hip-hop, from dance to DJ-ing, from rap and spoken word to graffiti art and video. The conversation will present information needed to help arts administrators think about how to reflect this powerful, but sometimes overlooked, presence in their program activities in order to help them stay connected to cultural participants ages 12–40.
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Creative Society and Neighborhood Revitalization: A Culturally-Driven Community Investment Framework
Nowak will illustrate the roles that the creative sector can play in the recovery of distressed neighborhoods. He will pull from his recent monograph, Creative Society and Neighborhood Revitalization: A Culturally-Driven Community Investment Framework, to outline an approach for investing in the creative sector. He will give examples of investment strategies that can stimulate the recovery of distressed neighborhoods. Representatives from cultural organizations financed by the Reinvestment Fund will discuss their experiences.
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Un/Settled/Pre/Occupied
Un/Settled/Pre/Occupied is an arts-based civic engagement project that creates spaces for Arab Americans and American Jews to examine how conflicts, both between their communities and within them, affect their identities, cultural lives, and political engagement in American life. Beginning as a community performance project in Israel, the project morphed into the professional theater piece Six Actors in Search of a Plot. This play, in turn, catalyzed a community performance project in Philadelphia. During this case-based session, attendees will view excerpts from the piece and hear how the community partnership developed in Philadelphia between an Arab-American cultural agency and Jewish-American civic dialogue group. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about oral history methodology and to discuss how to facilitate Arab-American/Jewish-American dialogues in their own communities.
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Family, Small, and Community Foundation Support for Collaborative and Culturally Specific Programming
How are small, community and family foundations shaping the arts ecology today? With a particular focus on how foundations can spur positive social change, this session will engage foundation representatives in an interactive conversation about culturally specific grant making program that have had demonstrated success, as well as collaborative efforts that can raise the profile of small and grassroots organizations, with a focus on those that have worked collectively to increase resources and build credibility in the community as a whole.
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Arts, Culture, and Resettlement: Engaging New Immigrant Communities
Arts and culture can play a powerful role in fostering civic participation and leadership among refugee and immigrant communities. Paying attention to culture and creativity can help to nurture newcomers’ self-confidence, productivity, and participation in community life. Learn how to identify and work with newcomer artists and tradition-bearers in order to enhance the cultural integration process. Learn how to build programs that enable cultural expression and exchange to connect newcomers to the community at large. The Institute for Cultural Partnerships will share case studies of collaborative, community-based projects and practical ideas for developing programs and services in your community.
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Finding Your Girl Scout Cookie
Attend this workshop and discover how to generate license and contract fees with your work. Jump Street, a local arts organization based in Harrisburg, PA, will describe lessons learned on its way to finding a program that has value to a much wider market, a program that could help sustain the venture side of its mission through licensing fees and publicly funded work contracts for artists.
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Preserving Diverse Cultures Innovator
Claudine Kinard Brown is Director of the Arts and Culture Program at the Nathan Cummings Foundation. She began her professional career as an art and drama teacher in the New York City public schools system. In 1976, she joined the staff of the Brooklyn Museum where she served for 13 years in several capacities. Brown left the Brooklyn Museum in 1990 to direct the Smithsonian Institution's initiative to create a National African American Museum. In this capacity her responsibilities included conducting a needs assessment, developing a vision statement and program plan, and opening a Center for African American History & Culture pending passage of authorizing legislation to create a museum. In 1991, she added to her responsibilities by concurrently assuming the position of Deputy Assistant Secretary for Museums, during which time she developed policy affecting 13 national arts and humanities museums, reviewed their long-range plans, and assisted with prioritizing institution-wide budget requests that were presented to Congress.
A.B. Spellman is an author, poet, critic, and lecturer. He has published numerous books and articles on the arts, including Art Tatum: A Critical Biography (a chapbook), The Beautiful Days (poetry), and Four Lives in the Bebop Business, now available as Four Jazz Lives (University of Michigan Press). Between 1975 and 2005, Spellman worked at the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), first as the Director of the Expansion Arts Program and for the last decade of his term at the NEA as Deputy Chairman. In recognition of Spellman’s commitment and service to jazz, in 2005 the National Endowment for the Arts named one of its prestigious Jazz Masters awards the A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters Award for Jazz Advocacy. Also in 2005, the Jazz Journalists Association voted to honor Spellman with its A Team award. In March 2006, he received the Benny Golson Award from Howard University for his service to jazz.
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- Claudine Kinard Brown, Director of the Arts and Culture Program, Nathan Cummings Foundation
- A.B. Spellman, Author, Poet, Critic, Lecturer
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Grafting: Using Non-Arts Delivery Systems
How can an arts organization successfully fold programs into non-arts delivery systems like housing and urban development, job and career counseling, healthcare, and community development? Join this conversation with several Philadelphia-based organizations that have successfully partnered with non-arts agencies and organizations to target and serve different constituencies.
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Health Insurance
Most small arts organizations employ their staff as contracted service, part-time, or as lower paid full-time employees, making health insurance premium sharing or co-pays difficult to manage. Artists are often self-employed, working part-time for multiple employers, working seasonal gigs, and short on consistent income. This workshop will present several options that have allowed organizations to provide benefits to their staff without subjecting the organization or the individuals to undue risk.
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How Racism Affects the Arts in Contemporary Society
Does contemporary society still value and support the artistic and cultural expressions of Eurocentric art forms to the exclusion of others? In this workshop we’ll ask the questions: How does racism manifest itself in the arts today? Is the issue driven by fair access to resources? Are policies relative to culture and race balanced?
Have culturally specific organizations and Euro-based organizations moved closer or farther apart? How can a major arts center successfully incorporate grassroots community organizations into its programming without overwhelming them? Are communities better served by creating and presenting their own community programs? We’ll also present examples of how communities have addressed these questions.
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Crossing the Line: Challenging Stereotypes and Making Connections through the Arts
During this session we’ll explore stereotypes through several forms of media, from stand-up comedy clips to youth-produced videos. We’ll also discuss how some artists and filmmakers are creatively talking back to these stereotypes. The presentation will be followed by a workshop in which we’ll explore the boundaries and intersections between self and other and encourage participants to think, feel, and move outside their comfort zones.
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Culturally Responsive Education: Implications for Education Reform
This session will focus on recently completed research on Culturally Responsive Education (CRE). We generally define this model of education as that which seeks to engage the child in a dialogue with their own ethnic identity as a means of increasing self-efficacy. The Heinz Endowments Arts and Culture program has commissioned this research as a means of informing increased investments in the Pittsburgh Public Schools, a majority African-American school district and one in the midst of an aggressive reform agenda. This interactive session will present findings of a recent literature review, as well as the results of a nationwide survey of programs and practices in this area of work.
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