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2016 Annual Conference thank you to our conference sponsors! october 4 - 7, 2016 :: portland, oregon october 4 - 7, 2016 #aac16conf ALLIANCEALLIANCE OF OF ARTISTSARTISTS COMMUNITIES COMMUNITIES Tweet it, gram it, post it, tag it! Share your pictures and posts with our official conference hashtag. 20162016 annualannual conferenceconference table of contents conference tracks conference schedule at a glance 2 Schedule at a Glance Look for the following symbols in the TUESDAY, octoBER 4 conference schedule-at-a-glance for focus tracks. Feel free to mix and match the 10 am - 3:30 pm Preconference Hike .............................................. Sandy River Delta Park 4 Venue Locations sessions you attend! 6 - 8 pm Opening Night Reception .....................................Portland Art Museum 5 Sessions + Events Arts + Ecology WEDNESDAY, octoBER 5 Engaging ecological themes, 16 Speakers + Presenters 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 – Ken Kesey 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
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