thank you to our conference sponsors! october 4 - 7, 2016 :: portland, october 4 - 7, 2016

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2 Schedule at a Glance Look for the following symbols in the tuesday, october 4 conference schedule-at-a-glance for focus 10 am - 3:30 pm Preconference Hike...... Sandy River Delta Park 4 Venue Locations tracks. Feel free to mix and match the sessions you attend! 6 - 8 pm Opening Night Reception...... Portland Art Museum 5 Sessions + Events Arts + Ecology wednesday, october 5 16 Speakers + Presenters Engaging ecological themes, adapting sustainable practices, 9 - 10:15 am Welcome to Portland! Opening Poem :: Elizabeth Woody + Keynote :: and making room for collaboration Lidia Yuknavitch...... Benson Hotel | Mayfair Ballroom 19 Alliance Honor Roll between artists and scientists. 10:30 am - 4:30 pm Board Track (advanced registration required)...... Literary Arts 22 From the Director Equity = 10:30 am - 12 pm breakout sessions Strategies for fostering access in the arts and forwarding new 1) Self-Declared: Practice and Politics of DIY Artist Residencies models of inclusivity. in Portland, OR ...... Windsor Leadership 2) International Mobility + Exchange for Artists...... Ballroom 3) Liveness Is Critical: Supporting Cross-Disciplinary Work...... Brighton Exploring our role as leaders – at every career stage – and how we 4) Great Idea But How Are You Going To Pay For It?....Cambridge-Oxford build professional capacity for our organizations and ourselves. 12m - 1 pm Lunch...... Ballroom

Performing Arts 1:30 - 3 pm breakout sessions Supporting performing artists and 1) Cross Pollinations: Art/Science Collaborations + Impact of Place performance-based work from (Part A) ...... Windsor inception through presentation. 2) Arts + Equity in the Neighborhood: The Role and Responsibility of Arts Organizations in Gentrifying Cities ...... Cambridge-Oxford Social Practice 3) Residencies in Response: A National View on Support Models and methodology for for Live Arts ...... Ballroom supporting social practice artists conference artwork 4) The Righting Arm ...... Brighton Portland Skyline (2015) by Walker Cahall and projects.

Artist Residencies in the 3:30 - 5 pm breakout sessions Public Realm 1) Leading From the Heart: Demonstrating how artists Advancing Artist-Centered Experience...... Brighton can shape the ways the public 2) 18th Street Arts Center: Radical Caretaking ...... Cambridge-Oxford engages with the natural and built 144 Westminster Street 3) Scientists in the Studio/Artists in the Lab (Part B)...... Windsor Providence, RI 02903 USA environment. Organized in partnership with the National Park Service, Times Square Alliance, Tel: (401) 351-4320 4) Bringing It All Back Home...... Ballroom Email: [email protected] and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs; and funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. www.artistcommunities.org 6:30 - 8:30 pm Celebrate Portland! Party...... Disjecta Contemporary Art Center conference schedule at a glance (continued) thursday, october 6 friday, october 7

9 - 9:45 am Keynote :: Barak adé Soleil 9 - 9:45 am Keynote:: Buffy Sainte-Marie Introduction :: Esther Grisham Grimm...... Ballroom = Introduction :: Lulani Arquette ...... Ballroom

10 - 11 am micro-sessions 10 - 11 am micro-sessions 1) Artist-Centered Storytelling ...... Windsor 1) The Process of Collaboration: Inside the 2:2:2 Exchange...... Ballroom 2) Disability + Access ...... Cambridge-Oxford = 2) Making it Public: Residencies in Public Parks...... Cambridge-Oxford 3) Building Community through Native American and 3) Mental Health in Context...... Windsor First Nations Residencies...... Ballroom 4) Live/Work: Administrator in Residence...... Parliament 3-4 4) Advancing Support for Live Arts | Roundtable Discussion...... Brighton 5) Going Green While Staying in the Black...... Parliament 3-4 11:15 am - breakout sessions 12:45 pm 1) Reimagining Indigeneity: Contemporary Native Artists...... Ballroom 11 :15 am - breakout sessions 12:45 pm 2) At the Outer Limits of Artmaking ...... Cambridge-Oxford 1) Negotiating the Terrain: Residencies in the Public Realm...... Ballroom 3) Untapped Resources: Partnering with Universities..... Parliament 3-4 2) Funding Spotlight: Trends in Support for the Arts....Cambridge-Oxford 4) Archiving Your Personal and Organizational Legacy: 3) Who Are We Serving and How?...... Brighton = A Workshop...... Windsor 4) Making the Case with Effective Arts Advocacy ...... Windsor 5) I Hate Your Work ...... Parliament 3-4 12:45 - 2 pm Lunch + Closing Remarks...... Ballroom

2:15 - 4:30 pm Tours + Workshops + Adventures 12:45 - 2 pm Lunch ...... Ballroom 5:30 - 7:30 pm Closing Night Party...... Pacific Northwest College of Art

1 - 2 pm optional lunch workshop Fears & Follies: An Experimental and Safe Space ...... Cambridge-Oxford optional lunch meet-up CAiRN Network...... Windsor

2:15 - 5 pm Tours + Workshops + Adventures venues Evening Enjoy a night off! All meetings take place at the Benson Hotel (309 SW Broadway) unless otherwise noted. Disjecta Contemporary Art Center...... 8371 N Interstate Ave Literary Arts...... 925 SW Washington Pacific Northwest College of Art...... 511 NW Broadway Portland Art Museum...... 1119 SW Park Ave Sandy River Delta Park...... Crown Point Highway, (Troutdale, OR)

3 4 conference sessions + events

tuesday, october 4 Bestselling author of the novels The Small non-traditional settings (neighborhood Location: Ballroom Backs of Children and Dora: A Headcase, and associations, senior centers, barber shops, 10:00 am – 3:30 pm the memoir The Chronology of Water, as well farms, industrial islands, domestic and (3) Liveness Is Critical: Supporting Cross- Preconference tour :: as three books of short fiction, and a critical office spaces), while considering successes, Disciplinary Work Signal Fire Hike book on war and narrative, Allegories of stumbling blocks and the potential for DIY Explore the shifting needs of artists and Violence. Her acclaimed TED Talk The Beauty residencies to function as acts of feminist Advanced registration required. supporters as the boundaries between of Being a Misfit has an accompanying Misfit’s resistance, ethical inclusion and institutional performance, visual art and other disciplines Signal Fire residency leaders will guide a Manifesto scheduled to be published next critique. Join a discussion on possibilities and become more fluid. How can organizations three-mile walk through the Sandy River year. She is the recipient of the Oregon Book challenges of informal residency structures and funders work together to adapt to Delta Park’s, 1,400 acres of open fields and Award – Fiction Award as well as and unorthodox partnerships. innovative trends in the contemporary field, wetlands edged by two major rivers. Discover two Reader’s Choice Awards, a PNBA award, Roya Amirsoleymani | Community while also maintaining support for more one of the sites of Maya Lin’s Confluence and was a finalist for the 2012 Pen Center Engagement Manager, Portland Institute for traditionally-defined programming? Through Project before continuing to a scenic beach Creative Nonfiction award. She is a very good Contemporary Art an open dialogue we will consider how we can along the river. Enjoy a picnic lunch followed swimmer. She writes, teaches and lives in better contextualize cross-disciplinary work by an open discussion about the land and Portland, Oregon with the filmmaker Andy Katy Asher | Artist outside traditional formats and ensure its people of the Columbia River. Mingo and their renaissance man son Miles. Emily Fitzgerald | Interdisciplinary Artist, long-term support. Location: Sandy River Delta Park, Troutdale, OR Location: Benson Hotel – Mayfair Ballroom Photographer + Storyteller Alec De León | Program Specialist, National  Picnic lunch will be provided Ariana Jacob | Artist Performance Network  Buses provided to/from the Benson Hotel 10:30 am – 4:30 pm Erica Thomas | Artist, Producer + Manager Ellina Kevorkian | Artistic Director - Residency Board Track Taryn Tomasello | Writer, Curator, Organizer Programs, Bemis Center for Contemporary 6:00 – 8:00 pm Advanced registration required. A complete + Artist Arts Opening Night Reception :: agenda will be provided to registrants. Location: Windsor Bryan Suereth | Executive Director, Disjecta Portland Art Museum A day of workshops and discussions designed Contemporary Art Center Help us kick off the 2016 Conference in style! for board members and staff of arts-based (2) International Mobility + Exchange for Location: Brighton Connect with old friends and make new ones organizations addressing strategies for Artists during the festive opening reception at one of shaping a healthy, passionate board; Disrupting an artist’s creative practice (4) Great Idea, But How Are You Going To Pay the oldest museums in the country. It’s a fun embracing governance responsibilities; and often leads to the exploration of new ideas. For It? way to start your conference experience! building fundraising expertise. This creative disruption can be particularly What happens when all the “low-hanging Location: Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Marc Smiley | Principal, Solid Ground amplified when artists cross cultural and fruit” is picked? How do you find new sources Ave Consulting global boundaries. This session delves of support for your projects when none of  Open bar (beer/wine) and hors d’oeuvres Location: Literary Arts into exciting new models of international the normal channels are available to you? 0.5 miles from the Benson Hotel  Lunch will be provided on-site exchange and artist mobility - from PICA’s Featuring representatives of a rural-based Creative Exchange Lab to the latest State 0.1 miles from the Benson Hotel artist community, an urban, social practice Department initiatives. Hear from national artist community and a retreat-style wednesday, october 5 funders and residency leaders on best community, they will discuss some of the 9:00 – 10:15 am 10:30 am – 12 pm practices in fostering meaningful exchange, creative ways they approach the challenge ways of navigating common challenges and of funding their programs. Rather than welcome to PORTLAND! Breakout Sessions pathways to funding. presenting one-size-fits-all approaches, this (1) Self-Declared: Practice and Politics of DIY Tricia Snell | Executive Director, Caldera David Fraher | President + CEO, Arts Midwest session will suggest ways to address these Artist Residencies in Portland, OR challenges that may guide you to solutions Lisa Hoffman | Executive Director, Alliance of Angela Mattox | Artistic Director, Portland appropriate to your context and your Artists Communities Self-declared residencies suit a socially- Institute for Contemporary Art engaged practice by creating opportunities community. Elizabeth Woody | Oregon Poet Laureate for artists to work in non-arts contexts. Michael Orlove | Director, Artist Communities Brad Kik | Co-Director, Crosshatch Center for Discover an array of self-declared residencies + Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works; keynote address :: LIDIA YUKNAVITCH Art + Ecology by Portland artists that combine site- International Activities Coordinator, National LIDIA YUKNAVITCH is the National specific practice and public partnership in Endowment for the Arts Bruce Rodgers | Executive Director, Hermitage Artist Retreat 5 6 Location: Cambridge-Oxford discussion, attendees will participate in a attempt a Righting Moment within our own artist through a combination of academic, Kaleidoscope Conversation to explore larger organizations, allowing our mission and professional and personal support systems. questions of the art organization’s role in 12:00 – 1:00 pm programming to tip at the absolute maximum This presentation and interactive workshop serving the needs of their local communities. angle? How can we better understand our will focus on this role of the artist residency  Lunch The conversation starts with a question at a center of gravity so we can better embrace program as a space of radical caretaking, Location: Ballroom central table, inviting others to join the table, inevitable currents of change and evolving functioning as a home for diasporic artists responding only in the form of questions. contexts. This facilitated conversation uses adrift in the global currents of the 21st 1:30 – 3:00 pm Yaelle Amir | Curator, Newspace Center for the Righting Arm as a metaphor to explore century. how creative organizations can operate in Photography Betty Marín | Research + Project Coordinator, Breakout Sessions the future, examining how these new models Shir Ly Grisanti | Founding Director, 18th Street Arts Center (1) Cross Pollinations: Art/Science and diagnostic tools are not just useful, but c3:initiative necessary. Anuradha Vikram | Artistic Director, 18th Collaborations + Impact of Place (Part A) Gia Hamilton | Director, Joan Mitchell Center Street Arts Center Artists and scientists work and think in Sanjit Sethi | Director, Corcoran School of the (moderator) Location: Cambridge-Oxford different ways, but the process of inquiry Arts + Design | George Washington University has many common dimensions. Join Sharita Towne | Artist Location: Brighton (3) Scientists in the Studio / Artists in the Lab artists, scientists, residency leaders and Location:Cambridge-Oxford research centers for an interactive two-part (Part B) 3:30 – 5:00 pm conversation on art/science collaborations in (3) Residencies in Response: A National View Scientists and artists work and think in Breakout Sessions residence. We will explore the expectations, on Support for Live Arts different ways, but the process of inquiry needs and criteria for defining success in (1) Leading From the Heart: Advancing has many common dimensions. Join connecting artists and scientists through Join us for a conversation exploring how artists, scientists, residency leaders and Artist-Centered Experience the residency model. Hear about residencies organizations across the country are research centers for an interactive two-part within and in partnership with science- responding to different needs for performing Leaders of artists communities are architects conversation on art/science collaborations focused institutions including biological artists. Four points of view sharing examples for experience, cultivating sensitive time in residence. In Part B, we look at different field stations, universities and conservation of newly created and changing opportunities within creative space. But how do we models for fostering cross-disciplinary organizations. How can engagement with a for residencies, opening up to a wider measure the success of the experiences we exchange - from thematic residencies to physical place fuel creative inquiry? conversation with attendees on what is create? What can we offer that costs little, but open calls, and from a passive approach to needed now and what resources are currently provides much needed resources for artists to Faerthen Felix | Assistant Manager, Sagehen choreographed, intentional collaboration. available. thrive? And how can we benefit our residents Creek Field Station Join a lively dialogue about the unique Will Bowling | National Programs Specialist, beyond the residency itself? Join a dynamic challenges which confront managers and Deborah Ford | Executive Director, PLAYA National Performance Network conversation on advancing inclusivity, participants within these programs - from strengthening artist support, and enriching selection and orientation to documentation William Fox | Director of Center for Art + Angela Mattox | Artistic Director, Portland communities. and evaluation. Environment, Nevada Museum of Art Institute for Contemporary Art David Grozinsky | Admissions Coordinator, Margot H. Knight | Executive Director, Charles Goodrich | Director of Spring Creek Sara Nash | Manager, National Dance Project, Vermont Studio Center Djerassi Resident Artists Program Project, Oregon State University New England Foundation for the Arts Maria Robinson | Marketing + Communications Ama Rogan | Managing Director, A Studio in Location: Windsor Carrie Sandahl | Director, Bodies of Work - Manager, Vermont Studio Center the Woods University of Illinois at Chicago (2) Arts + Equity in the Neighborhood: The Location: Brighton Pireeni Sundaralingam | Poet + Location: Ballroom Role and Responsibility of Arts Organizations Neuroscientist, Associate Professor, in Gentrifying Cities (2) 18th Street Arts Center: Radical Institute of Integral Studies (4) The Righting Arm Caretaking In response to concerns raised by rapid Location: Windsor As communities dedicated to creativity changes in Portland, OR, Newspace Center Since 2015, 18th Street Arts Center look thoughtfully and provocatively at for Photography and c3:initiative released a has partnered with LACMA to host 15 (4) Bringing It All Back Home their own structures, it is imperative that call to local artists for projects investigating international artists in residence from six we seek models that are asymmetrical and How are artists transformed by an gentrification and displacement in Portland. Latin American countries as participants in nontraditional, and come from well outside opportunity to work in distant landscapes? This session will consider the approach of the the Getty’s PST: LA/LA initiative. 18th Street the arts. In shipbuilding, the Righting This panel will explore geographically- residency and pose questions about the civic Arts Center’s participation in the project is Arm represents the amount of movement focused funding consortiums, with case responsibility of art organizations working anchored in their research-based residency a ship can have and still “right” itself studies from: The Ford Family Foundation in the public realm. Following the panel program, which nourishes the whole before it capsizes. What happens when we (Oregon), Pew Fellowships in the Arts 7 8 (Philadelphia), the Rasmuson Foundation Barak adé Soleil is a maker of dance, with different segments of the disability and funders are invited to share ideas for (Alaska) and the residency programs of theater and performance art. An award- community. Using artist interviews, Beth will the collective advancement of research and Djerassi (California) and Ucross (Wyoming). winning creative practitioner, he has been shine a light on the barriers that prevent their development support for performing artists. Discover the organizational and artistic invested in engaging diverse communities full participation and highlight clear steps any Craig T. Peterson | Director of Programs + impacts of these programs, how these throughout the US, Panama, Europe and arts organization can take toward welcoming Presentation, Gibney Dance (facilitator) partnerships originated and how they can West Africa. His latest work what the body and engaging people with disabilities. knows: is an expansive project focused on the Location: Brighton be nurtured. The panel will also advance Beth Prevor | Co-Founder + Executive complex intersection and legacy of disability discussions around ways these partnerships Director, Hands On might be replicated to reach other parts of and race. (5) Going Green While Staying in the Black Location: Cambridge-Oxford the world. Introduction: Esther Grisham Grimm | Taking a green approach to facilities does Kandis Brewer Nunn | Senior Advisor, The Executive Director, 3Arts not have to break the bank - and can even (3) Building Community through Native mean deep savings over time. As we seek Ford Family Foundation Location: Ballroom American and First Nations Residencies to improve and maintain our facilities, what Sharon Dynak | President, Ucross Foundation Native American and First Nation artists partnerships, tools and funding resources Melissa Franklin | Director, Pew Fellowships at 10:00 – 11:00 am bring unique perspectives to artist residency can we employ? Hear how arts leaders the The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage micro-Sessions programs. Explore the importance of are assessing the sustainability of existing faciltities and incorporating green building Judy Freeland | Residency Coordinator, outreach and engagement with Indigenous (1) Artist-Centered Storytelling practices moving forward - from solar panels, Djerassi Resident Artists Program artists, with a particular focus on community How do we create compelling online stories engagement and leadership development to reclaimed materials and green technology. Jayson Smart | Program Officer, The that promote our artists-in-residence and as part of a successful residency experience. Whether you are updating a historic building Rasmuson Foundation our organizations while also remaining Museums and art organizations can or building from the ground up, come away Location: Ballroom respectful of the artistic process? What are challenge conventional forms of art, and with new approaches for greening facilities at best practices as an artist community, where develop understanding and support of social any level. are the lines between public and private engagement and collaboration with artists David Macy | Resident Director, The and community. The panel will address 6:30 – 8:30 pm and what does this look like across different MacDowell Colony creative forms? Explore the different ways triumphs and ongoing challenges that remain Brandon Hinman | Director, AIR Serenbe celebrate Portland! Party that arts organizations share the creative in this complex art practice. Celebrate during a fun, not-to-miss night work of their resident artists online and on Jamie Blosser | Executive Director, Santa Fe Location: Parliament 3-4 of music, food and reveling at Disjecta. social media, discuss some of the challenges Art Institute; Founder, Sustainable Native Founded in 2000, Disjecta has transformed and opportunities, and work together as a Communities Collaborative 11:15 am – 12:45 pm a former bowling alley into a hub for group to develop best practices for digital Nina Elder | Residency Program Manager, breakout Sessions contemporary art and is now homebase for communications and online engagement. Santa Fe Art Institute the Portland Biennial and an international Megan Canning | Manager of Media + Special (1) Negotiating the Terrain: Residencies in Curator-in-Residence program. Gather with Projects, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Andrea Hanley | Membership + Program the Public Realm fellow conference attendees and the local Manager, IAIA Museum of Contemporary arts community during this special night Vanessa Kauffman | Communications + Native Arts There are growing numbers of artist Outreach Manager, Headlands Center for the residencies operating in public spaces: in Portland’s Kenton neighborhood! Take Steven Yazzie | Multidisciplinary Artist a break from the party to crawl inside the Arts cultural centers, national parks, libraries, government, city halls – even Times Square. Bronco Gallery! This truck-turned-emerging- Location: Windsor Location: Ballroom artist-exhibition-space will be on view These programs open new questions and complicate the relationship among artists, throughout the night on the Disjecta patio. (2) Disability + Access (4) Advancing Support for Live Arts // Roundtable Discussion communities and the host organization. Who Location: Disjecta Contemporary Art Center Disability is the only category of diversity are all of the communities and collaborators?  Cash bar and hors d’oeuvres that anyone can join, at any time. And yet, Live arts (dance, theater and music) have How do we facilitate understanding and a unique ability to inspire collaborations  Buses provided to/from the Benson Hotel we shy away from talking about it for fear of engagement with the artist, and what saying the wrong thing. But it’s okay to say and engage audiences as a group through does success look like? What are these disability and it’s okay to ask questions! Join performance. This meet-up is an excellent organizations seeking through access to and a dynamic conversation with Beth Prevor opportunity to network with colleagues dialogue with the artist, and what are they thursday, october 6 on misconceptions, assumptions and fears working in dance, music and theater achieving? How much of the artist’s process disciplines to discuss the singular challenges 9:00 – 9:45 am we have about disability. Consider disability is truly on view and how much is being from a community/multi-cultural perspective of supporting larger residency groups with performed? Keynote Address: Barak adé Soleil and explore how to create relationships specific facility needs. Artists, organizers 9 10 Sherry Dobbin | Director, Times Square Arts Mario Garcia Durham | President + CEO, Daniel Jáquez | Freelance Stage Director, increase opportunities for collaboration and Susan Friel | Cultural Coordinator, City of Association of Performing Arts Presenters Theatre-maker and Translator support between programs. Elizabeth Quinn will give an overview of CAiRN’s history, Chicago - Department of Cultural Affairs + (moderator) Eleanor Savage | Senior Program Officer, current planning and structure and facilitate Special Events Bethany Martin-Breen | Senior Program Jerome Foundation conversations for growth of this network. Associate, The Rockefeller Foundation Kristen Ramirez | Seattle Department of James Scruggs | Artist + Facilitator, The Field Sign up at registration. Transportation Art & Enhancements Project Mi’Jan Celie Tho-Biaz, EdD | Community Location: Parliament 3-4 Elizabeth Quinn | Creative Director, Caldera Manager, Office of Arts & Culture and Scholar, Interdisciplinary Center for (facilitator) Department of Transportation Innovative Theory + Empirics at Columbia 12:45 – 2:00 pm Location: Ballroom University Location: Windsor Location: Brighton  Lunch (2) Funding Spotlight: Trends in Support for Location: Ballroom the Arts (4) Making the Case with Effective Arts 2:15 – 5:00 pm Join a dynamic conversation with the heads Advocacy 1:00 – 2:00 pm tours + workshops + adventures of national, regional and local funders on How can you play an active role in local arts trends in support for the arts. As funders seek advocacy efforts, increasing the visibility Optional Lunch Workshop Space is limited; free to attendees, but ways to bolster the financial health and long- of not only your own organization but the Fears & Follies: An Experimental and Safe registration required. term sustainability of their grantees, new greater cultural ecology of your community? Space Bullseye Glass Company priorities, partnerships and models are being How do we help public officials and arts  Join us for a private lunch discussion and deployed. advocates speak on our behalf and how can peer-to-peer feedback session that allows  New Expressive Works (N.E.W.) we collectively demonstrate the impact of Claudia Bach | Principal and Founder, safe space to share issues, challenges and our work? Join three seasoned leaders for a Regional Arts & Culture Council Public AdvisArts problems that can turn into opportunities nuts-and-bolts discussion on effective arts Art Tour for growth and development in unexpected Ben Cameron | President + CEO, The Jerome advocacy at the local, state and federal level. ways when unemcumbered by hierarchy. Hoyt Arboretum Artist Hike with Signal . Foundation + Camargo Foundation Participants will leave the workshop having Share challenges related to internal matters created their own advocacy strategy and case Fire Martha Richards | Executive Director, James F. such as staff-to-artists and artist-to-artist for working with elected officials. and Marion L. Miller Foundation issues which can be difficult to share during Cameraless Filmmaking at Northwest Film Center Jayson Smart | Program Officer, Rasmuson Jeff Hawthorne | Director of Community the open conference sessions. Participants Foundation (moderator) Engagement, Regional Arts & Culture Council will be asked to think of a particular pattern Gather in the Benson lobby promptly at 2 pm or pressing issues. Each participant will get Location: Cambridge-Oxford John Schratwieser | Executive Director, for departure. Maryland Citizens for the Arts (moderator) five minutes to share and then cross talk and peer feedback will happen for five minutes. (3) Who Are We Serving and How? Cameron Whitten | Executive Director, Know This is an opportunity to understand issues in FREe night! The art of program outreach and artist Your City the field and how we may support each other Enjoy an evening on your own! Visit the selection raises complex questions related Location: Windsor through our challenges, failures and fears registration desk to check out our suggestions to equity and diversity. We will explore as administrators. Limited space - sign up at for dining and fun events near the hotel. what it means to develop a broad applicant (5) I Hate Your Work registration. pipeline through alternative models of What are the unconscious and conscious Gia Hamilton | Director, Joan Mitchell Center outreach, selection and jurying - and ask: biases we all bring to judging artists’ work? (facilitator) do we understand and work in ways that friday, october 7 If “artistic merit” is a standard criterion on differentiate diversity, inclusion and equity? Location: Cambridge-Oxford 9:00 – 9:45 am many applications, who decided what has What specific models and strategies do merit and what doesn’t? Join a lively debate keynote address :: Buffy Sainte- administrators use to cultivate equity in their featuring several guest experts on the topic Optional Lunch MEET-UP Marie programs, particularly for artists rooted and with an open floor for questions, strategies CAiRN Network engaged in marginalized communities? Buffy Sainte-Marie’s bold music has cut across and push back. Any residency in the Pacific Northwest genres - from juggernaut pop-hit “Up Where Susanna Battin | Artist + Program Director, Heather Daltoso | Grants Officer, Regional is welcome to attend this informal lunch We Belong” to anti-Vietnam War anthem North Mountain Residency Arts + Culture Council meet-up of CAiRN! Started five year’s “Universal Soldier.” Her most recent album Karl Burkheimer | MFA in Craft, Chair/ ago, CAiRN is a network of residencies in Power in the Blood was released in 2015 to Shawn René Graham | Artist Services Professor, Oregon College of Art + Craft the Northwest United States created to critical acclaim, described by NPR as “full Manager, The Field (facilitator)

11 12 of spit and vinegar and fun.” The Canadian- and permanence, while increasingly, artists Director, Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ them to unusual places and explore what it born Cree singer-songwriter, activist and are exploring temporary-based modes of Residency means to support artistic experimentation on visual artist has been a fervent advocate for practice that frequently involve community a grand scale. Location: Parliament 3-4 indigenous people, animal rights and the engagement, and often explore, critique and Paolo Salvagione | Artist environment for decades. challenge the assumed ‘publicness’ of public 11:15 am – 12:45 pm Vanessa Sigurdson | Artist in Residence (AIR) Introduction: Lulani Arquette | President + park space. Explore two case studies where Program Manager, Autodesk - Pier 9 CEO, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation the development and incubation of new artist breakout Sessions work in a public park setting has generated Stacy Switzer | Curator + Executive Director, Location: Ballroom (1) Reimagining Indigeneity: Contemporary influential questions. Fathomers Native Artists Donna Conwell | Curator, Lucas Artists Noah Weinstein | Senior Creative Programs 10:00 – 11:00 am Program, Montalvo Arts Center One of the most misunderstood aspects Manager, Autodesk - Pier 9 about Native peoples in our country is the micro-Sessions Elizabeth Quinn | Creative Director, Caldera myth of one monolithic Native community of Location: Cambridge-Oxford (1) The Process of Collaboration: Inside the Location: Cambridge-Oxford people across the nation with similar beliefs 2:2:2 Exchange and cultures. Indigenous populations are (3) Untapped Resources: Partnering with (3) Mental Health in Context In 2015, Project Row Houses (Houston, TX) composed of the existing descendants of the Universities and the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago, IL) An artist residency environment can be peoples who inhabited the present territory Are residency centers overlooking initiated the 2:2:2 Exchange - a collaboration conducive to mental health and well-being - of a country at the time when persons of opportunities to support creativity between the centers and two resident artists. and also pose unique challenges. This group a different culture or ethnic origin arrived, through collaborations with colleges and The exchange enabled two artists deeply discussion aims to address how the out-of- overcame them and reduced them to a universities? What are the potential benefits rooted in each city to bring their socially- context environment of an artist residency non-dominant or colonial condition. What and challenges of forging partnerships? engaged, site-specific practices to new can bring about a spectrum of mental health constitutes Native or Indigenous within the Could partnerships be structured to yield communities and extend their practice in challenges, as well as opportunities for self US, Hawaii and Alaska can be complicated mutual benefit? A multidisciplinary cohort of surprising directions. Join Megha and Ryan care. We’ll discuss how to hold space for this and there are numerous viewpoints within residency organizations and higher education to hear about the conception, planning aspect of a residency as an artist prepares for Indian country and among Native peoples. institutions will examine these questions, and development of the exchange and their residency and how to help both artists Three diverse panelists - including Native explore partnership models and inform next their collaborative thought process – as and residency staff recognize the realities of performing and visual artists and a curator steps. We will also present a case study on curators and administrators working within what potential a residency environment has working in contemporary idioms - discuss Catwalk Arts Residency and Tisch School community-based institutions. How do equity to nurture and also challenge mental health. indigeneity today. of the Arts (NYU) along with a developing and sustainability take shape in terms of Yvonne Stephens | Hill House Artist Residency Lulani Arquette | President + CEO, Native Arts partnership between NYLA and Queens professional and institutional partnership? Coordinator, Crosshatch Center for Art + and Cultures Foundation (moderator) College. Why is this type of exchange important and Ecology (facilitator) Deana Dartt, PhD | Curator of Native Rob Bailis | Associate Director, Cal what does success look like? Location:Windsor American Art, Portland Art Museum Performances Ryan Dennis | Public Art Director, Project Row Brenda Mallory | Artist Jaamil Olawale Kosoko | Co-Director, Houses anonymous bodies (4) Live/Work: Administrator in Residence Rulan Tangen | Founding Artistic Director + Megha Ralapati | Residency + Special Projects Within many artists communities, the Choreographer, Dancing Earth Carla Peterson | Director, Maggie Allesee Manager, Hyde Park Art Center National Center for Choreography administrators live and work onsite Location: Ballroom Location: Ballroom alongside the artists in residence. This live/ (moderator) work arrangement particular to artists (2) At the Outer Limits of Artmaking Edisa Weeks | Choreographer, DELIRIOUS (2) Making it Public: Residencies in Public communities creates a specific set of Dances + Assistant Professor, Queens College Parks challenges that are unique to the field. How Some creative projects require complex does one maintain a work-life balance when support structures beyond the essential Dana Whitco | Director, Tisch Initiative for Many artists residencies are now located one’s home is inside one’s job? What are the elements of time, space and funding. Enter Creative Research within public park settings – some are appropriate boundaries of friendship and programs like Fathomers (formerly Grand collaborative partnerships with National Location: Parliament 3-4 camaraderie between administrators and Arts) and Autodesk’s Pier 9 AiR Program - and County Park Services while others are the population of artists in residence? What which are uniquely poised to meet impossible more informal artist-led projects temporarily (4) Archiving Your Personal and Organizational are strategies of time management in a 24/7 ideas with access to new technology, utilizing existing public park areas. Legacy: A Workshop context where issues and needs can arise at specialized equipment and intensive Traditionally art in public parks has been any time of day? production support. Hear from artists and How do artists and institutions take associated with concepts like monumentality residency leaders about the projects that took responsibility for archiving their (often Elizabeth Chodos | Executive + Creative 13 14 ephemeral) practices in diverse formats speakers + presenters so they can create a strong legacy to be understood and appreciated by contemporary and future audiences? In this workshop we Barak adé Soleil | Choreographer, Director + Sherry Dobbin | Director, Times Square Arts (New Performer, Founder, D UNDERBELLY (Chicago, IL) York, NY) will look at current practices, get into mixed groups of artists and administrators, and Yaelle Amir | Curator, Newspace Center for Sharon Dynak | President, Ucross Foundation together develop and share best practices Photography (Portland, OR) (Clearmont, WY) for archiving our work. The results of our Roya Amirsoleymani | Community Engagement Nina Elder | Residency Program Manager, Santa Fe workshop will be immediately printed into a Manager, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art Art Institute (Santa Fe, NM) (Portland, OR) publication available at the conference. Faerthen Felix | Assistant Manager, Sagehen Creek Lexa Walsh | Artist + Archivist; Culinary Artist Lulani Arquette | President + CEO, Native Arts and Field Station (Truckee, CA) Cultures Foundation (Vancouver, WA) in Residence, Atlantic Center for the Arts Emily Fitzgerald | Interdisciplinary Artist, Katy Asher | Artist (Portland, OR) Photographer + Storyteller (Portland, OR) Location: Windsor welcome to portland! Claudia Bach | Principal + Founder, AdvisArts Deborah Ford | Executive Director, PLAYA (Summer (Seattle, WA) Lake, OR) 12:45 – 2:00 pm In Portland, it’s easy to find Rob Bailis | Associate Director, Cal Performances William Fox | Director of Center for Art + lunch + closing remarks limitless recreation, fabulous (Berkley, CA) Environment, Nevada Museum of Art (Reno, NV) Location: Ballroom food and drink and flourishing Susanna Battin | Artist + Program Director, North David Fraher | President + CEO, Arts Midwest (Minneapolis, MN) culture. See for yourself, and Mountain Residency (Hedgesville, WV) 2:15 – 4:30 pm Jamie Blosser | Executive Director, Santa Fe Melissa Franklin | Director, Pew Fellowships, The Pew stay late to enjoy all that Art Institute, + Founder, Sustainable Native Center for Arts & Heritage (Philadelphia, PA) tours + workshops + adventures Communities Collaborative (Santa Fe, NM) Judy Freeland | Residency Coordinator, Djerassi Space is limited; free to attendees, but Portland has to offer. With Will Bowling | National Programs Specialist, National Resident Artists Program (Woodside, CA) Performance Network (New Orleans, LA) registration required. Gather in the Benson no sales tax, Portland is a Susan Friel | Cultural Coordinator, City of Chicago lobby promptly at 2 pm for departure. Kandis Brewer Nunn | Senior Advisor, The Ford - Department of Cultural Affairs + Special Events haven for shoppers. You’ll Family Foundation (Roseburg, OR) (Chicago, IL)  Hand2Mouth + Milagro Theatre find retailers large and small, Ansje Burdick | Managing Director, Maggie Allesee Mario Garcia Durham | President + CEO, Association Literary Arts Writing Workshop international and indie within National Center for Choreography (Tallahassee, FL) of Performing Arts Presenters (Washington, DC) Pearl District Alternative Arts Spaces Karl Burkheimer | MFA in Craft, Chair/Professor, Charles Goodrich | Director of Spring Creek Project, easy reach of downtown Oregon College of Art + Craft (Portland, OR) Oregon State University (Corvallis, OR)  Portland Community Media + PICA hotels. The nearby Pearl Ben Cameron | President + CEO, The Jerome Shawn René Graham | Artist Services Manager, The  Oregon College of Art and Craft District is home to galleries, Foundation + Camargo Foundation (St. Paul, MN) Field (New York, NY) Megan Canning | Manager of Media + Special Shir Ly Grisanti | Founding Director, c3:initiative boutiques, chic restaurants Projects, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation (New (Portland, OR) York, NY) and the legendary Powell’s Esther Grisham Grimm | Executive Director, 3Arts 5:30 – 7:30 pm Elizabeth Chodos | Executive + Creative Director, Ox- (Chicago, IL) Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency (Saugatuck, closing night party City of Books. An award- David Grozinsky | Admissions Coordinator, Vermont MI) Close out the conference with a special party winning airport, efficient light Studio Center (Johnson, VT) Donna Conwell | Curator, Lucas Artists Program, at PNCA’s new home in Portland’s North Park Gia Hamilton | Director, Joan Mitchell Center (New Montalvo Arts Center (Saratoga, CA) Blocks - a dynamic platform for creativity rail system and pedestrian- Orleans, LA) Healther Daltoso | Grants Officer, Regional Arts + and entrepreneurship. Join us for chill music, Andrea Hanley | Membership + Program Manager, friendly city blocks in the Culture Council (Portland, OR) delicious food, and a super group photo, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (Santa along with special recognitions! central city make getting Deana Dartt, PhD | Curator of Native American Art, Fe, NM) Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR) Location: Pacific Northwest College of Art around town a real pleasure. Jeff Hawthorne | Director of Community  Cash bar and hors d’oeuvres Alec De León | Program Specialist, National Engagement, Regional Arts & Culture Council conference artwork Performance Network (New Orleans, LA) (Portland, OR) 0.4 miles from the Benson Hotel Portland Skyline (2015) by Walker Cahall Ryan Dennis | Public Art Director, Project Row Brandon Hinman | Director, AIR Serenbe Houses (Houston, TX) (Chattahoochee Hills, GA)

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Ariana Jacob | Artist (Portland, OR) Maria Robinson | Marketing + Communications Sharita Towne | Artist (Portland, OR) Manager, Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT) Daniel Jáquez | Freelance Stage Director, Theatre- Anuradha Vikram | Artistic Director, 18th Street Arts maker and Translator (San Diego, CA) Bruce Rodgers | Executive Director, Hermitage Artist Center (Santa Monica, CA) Retreat (Englewood, FL) Vanessa Kauffman | Communications + Outreach Lexa Walsh | Artist + Archivist (Oakland, CA) + Manager, Headlands Center for the Arts (Sausalito, Ama Rogan | Managing Director, A Studio in the Culinary Artist in Residence, Atlantic Center for the CA) Woods (New Orleans, LA) Arts (New Smyrna Beach, FL) Ellina Kevorkian | Artistic Director - Residency Buffy Sainte-Marie | Singer-Songwriter, Activist, Edisa Weeks | Choreographer, DELIRIOUS Dances + Programs, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Educator + Visual Artist (Kauai, HI) Assistant Professor, Queens College (Brooklyn, NY) (Omaha, NE) Carrie Sandahl | Director, Bodies of Work - University Noah Weinstein | Senior Creative Programs Manager, Brad Kik | Co-Director, Crosshatch Center for Art + of Illinois at Chicago (Chicago, IL) Autodesk - Pier 9 (, CA) Ecology (Bellaire, MI) Paolo Salvagione | Artist (San Francisco, CA) Dana Whitco | Director, Tisch Initiative for Creative Margot H. Knight | Executive Director, Djerassi Research (New York, NY) Eleanor Savage | Senior Program Officer, Jerome Resident Artists Program (Woodside, CA) Foundation (St. Paul, MN) Cameron Whitten | Executive Director, Know Your David Macy | Resident Director, The MacDowell City (Portland, OR) John Schratwieser | Executive Director, Maryland Colony (Peterborough, NH) Citizens for the Arts (Baltimore, MD) Elizabeth Woody | Oregon Poet Laureate (Portland, Brenda Mallory | Artist (Portland, OR) OR) James Scruggs | Artist + Facilitator, The Field (New Betty Marín | Research + Project Coordinator, 18th York, NY) Steven Yazzie | Multidisciplinary Artist (Phoenix, AZ) Street Arts Center (Santa Monica, CA) Vanessa Sigurdson | Artist in Residence (AIR) Lidia Yuknavitch | Writer (Portland, OR) Bethany Martin-Breen | Senior Program Associate, Program Manager, Autodesk - Pier 9 (San Francisco, The Rockefeller Foundation (New York, NY) CA) Angela Mattox | Artistic Director, Portland Institute Jayson Smart | Program Officer, The Rasmuson for Contemporary Art (Portland, OR) Foundation (Anchorage, AK) Sara Nash | Manager, National Dance Project, New Marc Smiley | Principal, Solid Ground Consulting England Foundation for the Arts (Boston, MA) (Portland, OR) Jaamil Olawale Kosoko | Co-Director, anonymous Tricia Snell | Executive Director, Caldera (Portland, bodies (Brooklyn, NY) OR) 2017 emerging program institute Michael Orlove | Director, Artist Communities + Yvonne Stephens | Hill House Artist Residency Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works; International Coordinator, Crosshatch Center for Art + Ecology Activities Coordinator, National Endowment for the (Bellaire, MI) april, 2017 | washington, dc Arts (Washington, DC) Bryan Suereth | Executive Director, Disjecta Carla Peterson | Director, Maggie Allesee National Contemporary Art Center (Portland, OR) This bootcamp combines best practices from the Center for Choreography (Tallahassee, FL) Pireeni Sundaralingam | Poet + Neuroscientist, arts-and-cultural sector with specific, hands-on Craig T. Peterson | Artistic Director, Abrons Arts Associate Professor, California Institute of Integral information about artists’ residencies. If you are Center (New York, NY) Studies (San Francisco, CA) interested in launching a new residency program, Beth Prevor | Co-Founder + Executive Director, Stacy Switzer | Curator + Executive Director, Hands On (New York, NY) Fathomers (Los Angeles, CA) you won’t want to miss this! Elizabeth Quinn | Creative Director, Caldera Rulan Tangen | Founding Artistic Director + hosted by s&r foundation (Portland, OR) Choreographer, Dancing Earth (San Francisco, CA) Megha Ralapati | Residency + Special Projects Mi’Jan Celie Tho-Biaz, EdD | Community Scholar, Manager, Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago, IL) Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory + Empirics at Columbia University (Santa Fe, NM) Kristen Ramirez | Seattle Department of Transportation Art & Enhancements Project Erica Thomas | Artist, Producer + Manager (Portland, more info at: Manager, Office of Arts & Culture and Department of OR) www.artistcommunities.org Transportation (Seattle, WA) Taryn Tomasello | Writer, Curator, Organizer + Artist Martha Richards | Executive Director, James F. and (Portland, OR) Marion L. Miller Foundation (Portland, OR)

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board of trustees honorary board conference hosts + Jason Kalajainen, Chair Ted Berger planning committee Luminarts Cultural Foundation New York Foundation for the Arts Blue Sky Gallery individual contributors of the Union League Club of (Executive Director Emeritus) Chicago Bullseye Glass Co. Thank you to the following individuals who have contributed to the Alliance in 2015-2016: J. Richard Braugh UBS Financial Caldera Rob Bailis Cynthia Gehrig Nancy Nordhoff Esther Grimm, Vice-Chair 3Arts Mary Carswell Disjecta Contemporary Art James Baker Mark and Barbara Golden Stephanie Olmsted The MacDowell Colony (Executive Center Peter Barnes Debra Gorman-Badar Thomas Palmer + Dominique Mark Golden, Treasurer Director Emeritus) Ford Family Foundation Alfandre Golden Artist Colors Ann Brady Tony Grant Mel Chin Hand2Mouth Sara Ransford Artist Rich Braugh David Griggs Linda Earle, Secretary Literary Arts New York Arts Program Jhumpa Lahiri Alix Refshauge Milagro Theatre Keith Brownz Esther Grisham Grimm Author Joseph & Michele Richey Rob Bailis Native Arts & Cultures Susan Brynteson David Grozinsky Liz Lerman Cordelia Robinson Cal Performances Foundation John + Nancy Cassidy Gia Hamilton Choreographer Bruce Rodgers Elizabeth Chodos New Expressive Works (N.E.W.) Joseph A. Chazan, M.D. Lisa Hoffman Ox-Bow School of Art and Roger Mandle Tamara Ross Qatar Museums Authority Northwest Film Center Ralph Crispino Jr. Jason Kalajainen Artists’ Residency Chaucer Silverson Mario Garcia Durham Clay Rockefeller Oregon College of Art & Craft Sara Jane DeHoff Brad & Amanda Kik Artist and real estate/community Jayson Smart Association of Performing Arts Oregon Arts Commission Sue + John Diekman Douglas & Marjorie Kik Presenters developer Mr. + Mrs. Paul Smith Pacific Northwest College of Art Linda Earle Margot H. Knight David Fraher Lowery Stokes Sims Jason Stephens Museum of Arts + Design p:ear gallery Doug Erion Wayne Lawson Arts Midwest PLAYA Lava Thomas Melissa Franklin Mary T. Wolfe in memoriam Sandra Eskin Nancy Lunsford Philanthropist Paul Tyler The Pew Center for Arts & Portland Art Museum Elmar B. and Suzanne S. Fetscher David Macy Heritage Portland Community Media Georgia Welles staff David Fraher Roger Mandle Tony Grant Elizabeth White Portland Institute for Diane B. Frankel Steven Mastroyin Sustainable Arts Foundation Deb Dormody Director of Operations + Programs Contemporary Art (PICA) Dimmie + Greg Zeigler Gia Hamilton Melissa Franklin Amy McLaughlin Rainmaker Artist Residency Joan Mitchell Center Lisa Hoffman Executive Director Regional Arts & Culture Council Brad Kik (RACC) Crosshatch Sarah Madsen Administrative + Special Projects Signal Fire Strokosch fellowship contributors David Macy Coordinator The MacDowell Colony The fellowship provided three emerging ALAANA (African, Latino, Asian, Arab, Native Flannery Patton Craig Peterson Strokosch fellows American) leaders support to attend the annual conference. Thank you to the following Director of Member Services + Abrons Arts Center Amanda Chestnut individuals who contributed: Communications Bruce Rodgers Genesee Center for the Arts & Stephanie Storch Education, Rochester, NY Jamie Badoud David Grozinsky Edward Shagory The Hermitage Artist Retreat Office + Business Manager Joseph Hall Janet Brown Brandon Hinman Jennifer Smith Tamara Ross The Banff Centre BAAD! (Bronx Academy of Arts Sara Jane DeHoff Lisa Hoffman Catheve & Gary Strokosch board MEMBERS-ELECT and Dance), Bronx, NY Franklin Sirmans (2017) Melissa Franklin Nancy Lunsford Susan Tillett Pérez Art Museum Guido Villalba Portel Melissa Levin Mark Golden Roger Mandle Elsewhere, Greensboro, NC Jayson Smart Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Esther Grisham Grimm Adam Price The Rasmuson Foundation Sanjit Sethi Sharon Ullman Corcoran School of the Arts and Robert Rauschenberg Design | George Washington Foundation University

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On behalf of the Alliance of Artists Communities Board of Directors, volunteers and staff, thank you for joining our 26th Annual Conference!

A rare opportunity to connect with colleagues across the residency field, the Alliance’s Annual Conference is always an extraordinary moment. Over the next three days you will reap practical information, innovative approaches to practice, thought-provoking dialogue around contemporary issues and inspirational stories from our colleagues and artists.

We are energized to be in Portland. It has been an honor and privilege to work with diverse partner institutions including Caldera, Disjecta, Literary Arts, Oregon College of Art and Craft, PICA, Portland Art Museum, Pacific Northwest College of Art and Regional Arts & Culture Council. We hope that you will find time to explore Portland and visit these vibrant institutions while you are here!

The annual conference is the result of years of planning and the tireless efforts of many people. We are grateful to our partners, planning committee, all of our speakers, sponsors and volunteers; and to the National Endowment for the Arts, 3Arts, Oregon Arts Commission, Submittable, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, Markel and the about portland Rauschenberg Foundation for their generous support and underwriting. And to the ORIENTATION incomparable AAC team: Deb Dormody, who has orchestrated the conference, Flannery The city is divided by the Willamette Patton, who curated conference sessions, Stephanie Storch, who manages countless details River and Burnside Street into – and our incredible Board of Directors led by outgoing chair – Jason Kalajainen. We extend quadrants: southwest, northwest, southeast and northeast. A fifth a sincere thank you to each of you, for it is the collective dedication, passion and energy of region, North Portland, is bounded this group that makes this a valuable and beneficial experience for all attendees. roughly by the Willamette and Columbia rivers and Williams Avenue.

POPULATION Portland is home to more than If this is your first conference or your 26th, I hope that you will find the next few days in 619,000 residents; 2.2 million people Portland rich with information and opportunity. I look forward to connecting with you live in the Portland metropolitan area. during our time here. Welcome to Portland! WEATHER The region enjoys a temperate climate, with an average temperature of 76F (24 C) in July and 39F (4 C) in January.

Lisa Hoffman Executive Director

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