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2 Schedule at a Glance Look for the following symbols in the TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13 conference schedule-at-a-glance for focus 10 am - 3:30 pm Preconference Tour...... Norman Bird Sanctuary 4 Venue Locations tracks. Feel free to mix and match the sessions you attend! 6 - 8 pm Opening Night Reception...... AS220 (115 Empire) 5 Sessions + Events Arts + Ecology WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14 16 Speakers + Presenters Engaging ecological themes, adapting sustainable practices, 9 - 10:00 am Welcome to Providence! :: RISD President Rosanne Somerson and and making room for collaboration Rhode Island Artist Medley, Part I...... Biltmore Hotel | Grand Ballroom 19 Alliance Honor Roll between artists and scientists. 10:15 am - 4:30 pm Board Track (advanced registration required)...... Chamber of Commerce 22 From the Director Equity = 10:15 - 11:45 am breakout sessions Strategies for fostering access in the arts and forwarding new 1) Melding Public and Private: Residencies in models of inclusivity. National Parks + Other Public Spaces ...... Salon 2 2) Nontraditional Partnerships in Action...... Ballroom Leadership 3) Let’s Take the Long View: Deep Investments Exploring our role as leaders – at in Creative Practice...... Salon 6 every career stage – and how we 4) Alternative Models for Artist Residencies in China.... Renaissance Salon build professional capacity for our

organizations and ourselves. 11:45 am - 1 pm Lunch...... Ballroom Performing Arts 1:15 - 2:45 pm breakout sessions Supporting performing artists and 1) Creation, Research, Engagement: performance-based work from Social Practice in Residence...... Ballroom inception through presentation. 2) Rad Alt Spaces of New England’s Rocky Coasts...... Salon 2 Social Practice 3) Better Together: Collaborating for Creative Access...... Salon 6 = Models and methodology for 4) The 4th Dimension: Beyond Time and Space...... Renaissance Salon supporting social practice artists conference artwork Shepard Fairey’s Providence Mural (2010) and projects. 3 - 4 pm micro-sessions Photographed by Miguel Rosario / AS220 1) Bring It Home: Pivoting Back to Local Contexts...... Salon 6 We Mean Business! 2) Powering Art: Renewable Energy + Arts Facilities...... Ballroom The business of running arts 3) International Mobility + Exchange for Artists...... Renaissance Salon organizations – it’s the stuff we often don’t want to think about, 4) We Mean Business, Part I | Cover Your Ass(ets): but simply can’t avoid! Untangling Insurance...... Salon 2 144 Westminster Street Providence, RI 02903 USA 5) Advancing Support for Live Arts...... State Suite B Tel: (401) 351-4320 6 - 8 pm Fax: (401) 351-4507 Keynote :: Theaster Gates | Gail Silver Lecture...... RISD Auditorium Email: [email protected] 8 - 10 pm www.artistcommunities.org Celebrate Providence! Party...... Peerless Loft Atrium conference schedule at a glance (continued)

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16

9 - 9:45 am Innovation Plenary :: Thread – Collaboration + 9 - 9:45 am Keynote Address :: NEA Chairman Jane Chu Community in Senegal...... Ballroom and Rhode Island Artist Medley, Part II...... Ballroom

10 - 10:45 am micro-sessions 10 - 11 am micro-sessions 1) Zoning 101...... State Suite B 1) Block Party in a Box: Toolkits for the Arts ...... Salon 2 2) Pioneering a World Exchange: 2) Pittsburgh Spotlight: A Providence-Centric Biennial...... Salon 2 City of Asylum + Office of Public Arts...... Ballroom 3) Parents in Residence: Models of Inclusion...... Salon 6 = 3) Free Agents: Roundtable on Arts and Entrepreneurship...... Salon 6 4) Telling Our Story: The Craft Schools Initiative...... Renaissance Salon 4) Making Space to Nurture Writers of Color...... Renaissance Salon = 5) Disruptive Change: Performance Mash-Up...... Ballroom 11:15 am - breakout sessions 11 am - 12:30 pm breakout sessions 12:45 pm 1) Funding Spotlight: Creative Placemaking and 1) The Matter of Money: Compensation, Community Transformation...... Ballroom Equity + Valuing Artists...... Salon 6 = 2) Residency/Presenter/Artist: Supporting Performance 2) Revealing Process + Place: Structuring through Collaboration...... Salon 6 Ecological Residencies ...... Salon 2 3) Open Doors: Engaging Underserved Artists...... Salon 2 = 3) Artist-run: Balancing Artist + Administrator...... State Suite B 4) We Mean Business, Part III | Somewhere Over the 4) We Mean Business Part II | Strange Bedfellows? Numbers: Evaluating Mission Impact...... Renaissance Salon Getting from Finance to Fundraising...... Renaissance Salon 12:45 - 2 pm Lunch + Closing Remarks...... Ballroom 5) Critical Feedback for Creative Work: Fieldwork...... AS220 (95 Empire) 2:15 - 4:30 pm Tours + Workshops + Adventures 12:30 - 2:30 pm Lunch Keynote :: Looking Back, Moving Forward: Advancing Cultural Equity | Senator Pell Lecture...... Ballroom = 5:30 - 7:30 pm Closing Night Awards Party...... Aurora

3 - 5:30 pm Tours + Workshops + Adventures evening Enjoy a night off! network meet-ups 1) Live Arts Supporters + Creators venues 2) Upstate New York Arts All meetings take place at the Biltmore Hotel (11 Dorrance Street) unless otherwise noted. Thursday night meet-up locations will be posted at the registration table. 3) Arts + Ecology Happy Hour AS220...... 95 Empire Street and 115 Empire Street Aurora...... 276 Westminster Street Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce...... 30 Exchange Terrace (1st floor) Norman Bird Sanctuary...... 583 3rd Beach Road (Middletown, RI) Peerless Atrium...... 150 Union Street RISD Auditorium...... 7 Canal Walk, Providence River Greenway

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13 RHODE ISLAND ARTIST MEDLEY, PART I creative practice in the public eye. Panelists organizations and as a field to move beyond will address targeting artists who are a good traditional models of support and develop 10:00 am – 4:30 pm With so many phenomenal local artists, we couldn’t pick just one! Our Rhode Island Artist fit, setting and communicating expectations, longer, deeper, and more integrated PRECONFERENCE TOUR :: Medley features just a few of the state’s understanding the ‘public’ and ‘private’ in the programs for artists to create new work? NORMAN BIRD SANCTUARY established and emerging creative voices. residency experience and in public spaces A conversation on how we make room for Advanced registration required. Presented in partnership with Rhode Island themselves, and exploring what kinds of artists to stretch out, take creative risks, and State Council on the Arts. art-making are most successful in public encounter surprising results. Discover the Norman Bird Sanctuary – one residencies. of Rhode Island’s most celebrated natural Emcee: Randall Rosenbaum | Executive Ben Cameron | Program Director for the Arts, preserves and an emerging artist residency! Director, Rhode Island State Council on the Daniel van Benthuysen | Artist Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Set in coastal Middletown, the Sanctuary sits Arts (RISCA) Sherry Dobbin | Creative Director + Director Curt Columbus | Artistic Director, Trinity on 325 breathtaking acres of open farmlands, Christopher Johnson | Spoken Word Artist of Times Square Arts, Times Square Alliance Repertory Company gently rolling hills, and rugged cliffs. Tour with Everett Company + Rachel Rosenkrantz Aaron Forrest | Principal, Ultramoderne; Jean McLaughlin | Executive Director, Penland American painter Mabel Norman’s 18th- Assistant Professor, RISD Architecture School of Crafts century farmhouse, take a guided walk with Mary Beth Meehan | Photographer + Educator an expert birder, and enjoy a hearty lunch Location: Biltmore Hotel – Grand Ballroom Susan Friel | Cultural Coordinator, City of Jeff Prystowsky | Musician + Founding with fellow attendees. Chicago – Department of Cultural Affairs + Member, Columbus Cooperative Special Events Location: Norman Bird Sanctuary, Middletown RI 10:15 am – 4:30 pm Location: Salon 6  Lunch will be provided on-site Charles Tracy | National Park Service BOARD TRACK (4) Alternative Models for Artist Residencies  Buses provided to/from the Biltmore Hotel Location: Salon 2 Advanced registration required. A complete in China agenda will be provided to registrants. (2) Nontraditional Partnerships in Action An energetic network of artist-run spaces 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm A day of workshops and discussions designed Join panelists for a discussion on cultivating and artist residencies has formed in China’s OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION :: AS220 for board members and staff of arts-based creative partnerships. From collaborations rural and urban centers, despite almost Connect with old friends and make new ones organizations addressing strategies for with biological preserves and parkways, to no public funding for the arts. Residencies during the festive opening reception hosted shaping a healthy, passionate board; joint programs with elementary schools, must constantly come up with creative at AS220. Come see how this bustling center embracing governance responsibilities; and presenting organizations, and housing strategies for funding artists, finding space, is energizing local arts in Providence and help building fundraising expertise. cooperatives – three case studies look at the and collaborating with local communities, universities, tech startups, organic farms, us kick off the 2015 Conference in style. Plus, Susan S. Meier | Principal, Meier and surprising benefits of looking beyond the hotels, and even trans-Pacific container be sure to check out Discodecahedonism – a Associates usual suspects when forming partnerships. ships. Join residency directors, funders, and psychedelic audiovisual performance by Location: Chamber of Commerce Presenters offer tips for identifying partners, ACRE’s TONY BALKO and A.E. PATERRA setting benchmarks, and balancing the needs organizers with a birds-eye view for a tour  Lunch will be provided on-site (Zombi, Majeure) at 7:30 pm. of artists, partners, and one’s own program of the quickly changing landscape and new 0.1 miles from the Biltmore Hotel perspectives on sustainability. Location: AS220, 115 Empire Street over time. Jay Brown | Founder + Director, Lijiang Studio  Cash bar and hors d’oeuvres Lisa Hoffman | Associate Director, McColl 10:15 – 11:45 am 0.3 miles from the Biltmore Hotel Center for Art + Innovation Xinxin Guo | Founder, Beijing Studio Center + BREAKOUT SESSIONS Bruce Rodgers | Executive Director, China Arts Link (1) Melding Public and Private: Residencies in Hermitage Artist Retreat Emma Karasz | Director, Red Gate Residency National Parks + Other Public Spaces David Szlasa | Co-Director + Artist, Range Kira Simon-Kennedy | Co-Founder + Director, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14 Residencies that operate in public spaces Studio China Residencies (moderator) 9:00 am – 10:15 am must balance a commitment to the public Location: Ballroom Location: Renaissance Salon WELCOME TO PROVIDENCE! with a loyalty to individual artists – and navigate an ever-changing dynamic between (3) Let’s Take the Long View: Deep Rosanne Somerson | President, Rhode Island 11:45 am – 1:00 pm the two. This session brings together Investments in Creative Practice School of Design established and emerging public residencies  LUNCH What does it mean to invest deeply in artists? – from the heart of Times Square to the Location: Ballroom interior of the National Parks – to explore How can we challenge ourselves as individual 5 6 1:15 – 2:45 pm (3) Better Together: Collaborating for Creative Melissa Levin | Director of Cultural Programs, consumption, the conversation will turn to BREAKOUT SESSIONS Access Lower Manhattan Cultural Council case studies of on-site solar installations. The panel will also discuss the essentials Integrating artists with disabilities means Will Penrose | Director, Rema Hort Mann (1) Creation, Research, Engagement: Social of developing a clear strategy for energy looking beyond facilities toward broader Foundation Practice in Residence sustainability in order to garner funding definitions of accessibility and participation. Location: Renaissance Salon support. Come away with innovative ideas How can we best support artists whose This session brings stories and lessons learned for taking steps to make your facilities more work is activated through community from the 2015 Creative Access Residencies sustainable and efficient. engagement? Cultural leaders from a variety Program – a new initiative connecting visual 3:00 – 4:00 pm of urban settings will discuss the institutional artists and writers who have spinal cord MICRO-SESSIONS David Macy | Resident Director, The and artistic implications, best practices, injuries with residency opportunities. In MacDowell Colony and complex challenges encountered when (1) Bring It Home: Pivoting Back to Local 2015 the consortium program provided 12 Kiel Moe | Associate Professor of Architecture facilitating relationships between artists, Contexts talented artists month-long residencies at and Energy, Harvard University interdisciplinary practice, social issues, and Ragdale Foundation, Santa Fe Art Institute, or The arts and culture sector has unique power Jack Ruderman | Director, Community Solar local communities. Vermont Studio Center. Panelists will discuss to engage challenging issues and foster a Initiatives, ReVision Energy Linda Earle | Executive Director, New York the benefits and considerations of hosting deeper understanding of a place. But how Arts Program (moderator) artists with a range of disabilities, and share can organizations harness this power – boldly Location: Ballroom practical resources toward greater equity responding to their contexts, empowering Randi Hopkins | Associate Director of Visual through this collaborative model. artists and cultural producers to take a seat (3) International Mobility + Exchange for Arts, Boston Center for the Arts Kathy Black | Program Director, Vermont at the table, and addressing pressing issues Artists Shey Rivera Ríos | Artistic Director, AS220 Studio Center of a neighborhood, region, and beyond? From Cleveland, to Alaska, to Santa Fe, Disrupting an artist’s creative practice John D. Spiak | Director + Chief Curator, Nina Elder | Residency Program Manager, and back to Providence, arts leaders and often leads to the exploration of new ideas. Grand Central Art Center at California State Santa Fe Art Institute This creative disruption can be particularly University, Fullerton funders reflect on a moment when they Jeffrey Meeuwsen | Executive Director, The pivoted to the local by taking deeper accentuated when artists cross cultural and Location: Ballroom Ragdale Foundation looks at their neighborhoods, engaging global boundaries. This session delves into the sometimes tricky logistics of supporting Ryan Walsh | Development + Writing Program community dynamics, and tackling social (2) Rad Alt Spaces of New England’s Rocky international artists – e.g., visas, taxes, health Director, Vermont Studio Center and environmental challenges. Join an open Coasts conversation on ways we engage our places, insurance – and shares exciting new models Location: Salon 6 and what it means for our own missions, and funding opportunities for fostering How do alternative arts organizations build international mobility and cultural exchange. spaces that support genre-defying work programming, and future sustainability. (4) The 4th Dimension: Beyond Time and and foster a culture of experimentation and SueEllen Kroll | Director of Grants + Strategic Marie Fol | Programme Manager, camaraderie? How do we stay nimble and Space Partnerships, Rhode Island Council for the DutchCulture | TransArtists responsive while growing resources and What does it mean to be artist-driven? As Humanities Mary Sherman | Director, TransCultural programs? From a feminist arts collective cultural organizers, we have a critical role Liz Maugans | Co-Founder + Executive Exchange in an abandoned library, to Portland, in providing direct support to artists. What Director, Zygote Fine Art Press Location: Renaissance Salon Maine’s beloved arts hub, to a dance are the various resources, expertise, and incubator on Martha Vineyard – meet four specialties that we can offer artists to support Jeremy Pataky | Independent Consultant, (4) We Mean Business, Part I | Cover Your of New England’s most adventurous and their careers, practices, and communities? Overstory Consulting (moderator) Ass(ets): Untangling Insurance contemporary arts spaces during this regional Using the Long Table format developed by Sanjit Sethi | Former Executive Director, showcase. artist Lois Weaver, this session welcomes Santa Fe Art Institute Liability, coverage, and claims may not have attendees to join the discussion by freely been front and center in your mind when Aaron Jungels | Co-Founder + Co-Artistic/ Location: Salon 6 Executive Director, Everett: Company, Stage rotating in or out of the conversation among you decided to pursue a career in the arts— and School the artists and arts organizations at the table. and insurance may still seem to be a big Through this performative, dinner party style (2) Powering Art: Renewable Energy + Arts pill to swallow, but this session will change Nat May | Executive Director, SPACE Gallery dialogue and open-ended non-hierarchical Facilities your thinking. Dare we say it…insurance David R. White | Artistic + Executive Director, format, discuss what it means to be artist- Taking a “start where you are” approach, can be thrilling? (Especially if you consider The Yard Inc. (moderator) driven and explore the ways in which we this session explores practical techniques for hurricanes, earthquakes, and alligators!) can expand our scope as well as focus our increasing building efficiency and sourcing Esther Grisham Grimm | Executive Director, Pippi Zornoza | Co-Founder, Dirt Palace approach to address and anticipate the renewable energy. After investigating cost- 3Arts (co-moderator) Location: Salon 2 creative needs of artists. effective means of reducing total energy Gia Hamilton | Director, Joan Mitchell Center

7 8 Steven Pincus | National Practice Leader, Fine Location: RISD Auditorium 10:00 – 10:45 am (3) Parents in Residence: Models of Inclusion Arts and Private Client Groups, DeWitt Stern 0.3 miles from the Biltmore Hotel MICRO-SESSIONS Parents face unique challenges when trying Tamara Ross | Director – Programming Urban Pond Procession will lead attendees to pursue artistic careers. The time and space (1) Zoning 101 Operations, The Banff Centre from the Biltmore lobby promptly at 5:30pm to residencies offer can seem unreachable for walk to the RISD Auditorium. Reimagining historic properties, merging Sharon Ullman | Chief Operating Officer, those artists who are also raising families. living spaces with industrial production, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation (co- Hear about the many ways residencies are and blurring the lines between public and opening their doors to parents and making moderator) 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm private space can mean great things for the residency experience possible. This Location: Salon 2 CELEBRATE PROVIDENCE! PARTY artists, but can prove a nightmare when session will share lessons learned from three Together with the City of Providence’s dealing with local zoning boards. Hear years of grantmaking specifically designed (5) Advancing Support for Live Arts: Department of Art, Culture + Tourism, enjoy from leaders about zoning challenges and to encourage residencies to become more Roundtable Discussion a fun, not-to-miss night of music, food, and opportunities, with representatives from family-friendly. We’ll explore both the both cultural organizations and local planning challenges and successes and describe some Live arts (dance, theater, and music) have a reveling in the arts of Providence. Wind departments. Gain tips for navigating models that residencies are using right now to unique ability to develop collaborations and down after a day of sessions and the evening zoning laws and hearings, advocating for ensure that artists with children are welcome engage audiences as a group through live keynote and enjoy a great time in this arts-friendly zoning reform, and accessing participants. performance. Recognizing that ensemble- extraordinary downtown location! Music by resources to help you along the way. based performing arts are under-supported Latin American singer/songwriter Czésare Tony Grant | Executive Director, Sustainable in the residency field, Craig Peterson, Alliance Santana. Brad Kik | Co-Director, Institute for Arts Foundation Sustainable Living, Art & Natural Design Board Member, will briefly share the Alliance’s Location: Peerless Loft Atrium Location: Salon 6 (ISLAND) increased effort to foster a more vibrant  Open bar (beer/wine) and hors d’oeuvres network of support for live arts residencies 0.3 miles from the RISD Auditorium; Robert E. Azar | Deputy Director, City of (4) Telling Our Story: The Craft Schools followed by a roundtable moderated by 0.2 miles from the Biltmore Hotel Providence’s Department of Planning and Initiative Independent Consultant, Jennifer Calienes. Development Artists, organizers and funders are invited to The Craft Schools Initiative is a joint project of share ideas for the collective advancement Location: State Suite B historic residential craft schools, which have of research and development support for THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15 been meeting together for the past three performing artists. (2) Pioneering a World Exchange: A years. With a two-fold charge, the group has 9:00 am – 9:45 am Providence-Centric Biennial Jennifer Calienes | National Arts Consultant developed joint marketing efforts to reach INNOVATION PLENARY :: Venice, Sao Paulo, Sydney and… Providence! new creative audiences and has conjured Craig T. Peterson | Director of Programs + THREAD – COLLABORATION + When a team of artists, writers, curators, increased cooperation and communication Presentation, Gibney Dance COMMUNITY IN SENEGAL and directors come together to create The among the programs. Panelists will be sharing unique insights from their efforts Location: State Suite B In the remote village of Sinthian in Providence Biennial, they seek to design including how their organizational values southeastern Senegal sits the Thread world-class art experiences expanding the have informed their work. Organizations residency – one of the world’s newest centers unique context of this small arts-driven 6:00 – 8:00 pm interested in working collaboratively are of creative production and interdisciplinary city. This session explores how we – as art encouraged to come learn about strategies KEYNOTE :: THEASTER GATES | GAIL exchange. Melding the vision of artists Josef leaders – can band together to amplify local and progress to-date. SILVER MEMORIAL LECTURE and Anni Albers, the futuristic designs of and regional arts initiatives to launch into a One of the most celebrated artists of our architect Toshiko Mori, Sinthian building and truly international dialogue. Join organizers Ennis Carter | Founding Director, Social time, Theaster Gates instigates the creation craft traditions, and complex environmental for tales from the first year of collaborative Impact Studios planning, then help to inaugurate the of cultural communities by acting as a and sustainability needs of the region, Thread Stuart Kestenbaum | Strategist, Biennial’s next phase. catalyst for social engagement that leads has emerged as an exciting vision for what Craftschools.us to political and spatial change. The founder an international residency can be. Join Nick Judith Tolnick Champa | Founding Director, Kristin Müller | Executive Director, Peters of the nonprofit Rebuild Foundation, he is Murphy, director of the residency, and Jordan Providence Biennial for Contemporary Art currently a Professor in the Department of MacTavish, lead architect, as they explore Valley School of Craft Vanphouthon Souvannasane | Director, Yellow Visual Art and Director of Arts and Public Life what it means to be both radically global and Location: Renaissance Salon at the University of Chicago. The Gail Silver deeply local. This special plenary conversation Peril Gallery Memorial Lecture is presented in partnership shares the amazing story of the Thread Lori Urso | Executive Director, Slater Mill (5) Disruptive Change: Performance Mash-Up with the RISD Museum. program launch and upcoming collaborations Location: Salon 2 between Senegalese and international artists- Join choreographers Shura Baryshnikov and in-residence. Sydney Skybetter for a dynamic exchange on new directions in performance. How will new Location: Ballroom 9 10 technologies reinvent artistic practice and the work at the intersections of art and the support a compelling proposal. This is an program and challenges us to develop a more way we engage live arts? How do we consider environment – from structuring a productive opportunity to get your burning questions equitable arts ecosystem. disruptive change in the advancement of and supportive context, identifying resources, answered! welcome: creative work? Shura and Sydney present the and building opportunities for cross-discipline Nicholas Constantakis | President, Jorge Elorza | Mayor, City of Providence ideas that keep them moving and will inform collaboration. Constantakis Consulting Group their upcoming collaboration. Christina Catanese | Director of Cathy Edwards | Executive Director, New panelists: Shura Baryshnikov | Choreographer, Dancer + Environmental Art, Schuylkill Center for England Foundation for the Arts Educator Environmental Education Jeffreen Hayes, Ph.D. | Principal + Artistic Esther Grisham Grimm | Executive Director, Producer, bridge/arts Sydney Skybetter | Choreographer, Writer + Stacy Levy | Artist 3Arts (co-moderator) Technologist Clyde Valentín | Director, Ignite Arts Dallas Deenah Loeb | Executive Director, City Parks Sharon Ullman | Chief Operating Officer, Location: Ballroom Association/Art in the Open Patrice Walker Powell | Retired, Cultural Robert Rauschenberg Foundation (co- Worker + Public Servant (moderator) Jennifer McGregor | Director of Arts + Senior moderator) 11:00 am – 12:30 pm Curator, Wave Hill Raymond Two Hawks Watson | Executive Location: Renaissance Salon Member, Eastern Medicine Singers BREAKOUT SESSIONS Jan Mun | Media Artist (5) Critical Feedback for Creative Work: performers: (1) The Matter of Money: Compensation, Location: Salon 2 Fieldwork Equity + Valuing Artists Sussy Santana | poet and performer (3) Artist-run: Balancing Artist + Administrator This discussion will explore the ethics of artist How can artists get helpful feedback on their Eastern Medicine Singers artistic work? How do we facilitate rigorous support: how our practices around charging Leaders of artist-run organizations must The 2015 Senator Pell Lecture is presented fees to or paying artists impacts who we constantly juggle roles – shifting between exchange that honors the creative process and builds community? Join The Field and by the City of Providence Department of Art, serve, how organizations and artists can administrator, organizer, academic, and Culture + Tourism, in partnership with Rhode better navigate the value of non-monetary artist. What are the ethics, aesthetics, and AS220 for Fieldwork, The Field’s nationally recognized peer-to-peer critical feedback Island Council for the Humanities, the Rhode support, and how organizations can ensure challenges involved in juggling multiple roles Island Foundation, and Rhode Island State artists are given adequate resources to and identities? Join these leaders for a frank method. Fieldwork is utilized by The Field in NYC as well as by The Field’s 13 national and Council on the Arts. This project is part of the succeed. discussion on how working artists make time Pell Humanities Initiative in Rhode Island to and space for their own creative careers and international sites. Watch as AS220 artists Elizabeth Chodos | Executive + Creative celebrate the 50th anniversary of the National interests while simultaneously supporting the share short works-in-process and take part Director, Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Endowment for the Humanities. needs of other artists. in this objective and supportive feedback Residency method. Location: Ballroom Mike Andrews | Academic Director, Ox- Alec De León | Program Specialist, National Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency; James Scruggs | Fieldwork Facilitator, The Performance Network – Visual Artist Network Associate Professor, Department of Fiber and Field 3:00 – 5:30 pm Carolina García Jayaram | CEO, United States Material Studies, SAIC Jennifer Wright Cook | Executive Director, The TOURS + WORKSHOPS + ADVENTURES Artists Field Jacques Louis Vidal | Resident Director, The Space is limited; free to attendees, but Laurel Ptak | Director, Triangle Arts Lighthouse Works, Inc. AS220 artists TBA registration required. Association Lauren Was | Co-Director, Art Garda; Critic, Location: AS220 (95 Empire) Lise Soskolne | Core Organizer, W.A.G.E. Wassaic Project  Artists Doin’ It for Themselves Location: Salon 6 Location: State Suite B 12:30 – 2:30 pm  Southside Cultural Center LUNCH KEYNOTE :: SENATOR PELL Providence Public Library (2) Revealing Process + Place: Structuring (4) We Mean Business Part II | Strange LECTURE IN ARTS + HUMANITIES Ecological Residencies Bedfellows? Getting from Finance to Cable Car Cinema Looking Back, Moving Forward: Fundraising While artists have been inspired by the Advancing Cultural Equity AS220 landscape for hundreds of years, the What do fundraising and finance have in Participants should gather in the Biltmore nascent field of ecological art proposes common, other than an “F?” In this session, Honoring the late Senator Claiborne Pell – lobby promptly at 3:00pm for departure. that the artist more fully engages with the an experienced funder and a finance expert who was instrumental in the development environment in ways that can have long- will share their ideas, observations, and of the National Endowment for the Arts and term, performative impacts. As hosts to suggestions on how to design and present National Endowment for the Humanities – 6:30 – 8:00 pm artists, how do we facilitate meaningful a cogent budget and use the numbers to this year’s Pell Lecture celebrates the 30th anniversary of Rhode Island’s Expansion Arts Enjoy an evening on your own! Check out

11 12 our suggestions for dining and fun events a technique for prototyping, evaluating, Free agents with a taste for subversion, 11:15 am – 12:45 pm near the hotel. Or meet up with one of these and then widely sharing a specific program artists are the classic entrepreneurs – BREAKOUT SESSIONS groups! idea. From Springboard for the Arts Creative more so now than ever, in the midst of (1) Funding Spotlight: Creative Placemaking NETWORK MEET-UPS Exchanges (Artists Health Fair, Block Party technological change and institutional shifts. in a Box, Pop Up Museum) to ISLAND’s Long This roundtable will delve into this messy and Community Transformation Upstate New York Arts Memory Project, this session explores how overlap to identify maps for organizational Join us for a dynamic conversation among toolkits are engaging artists and communities Local 121 Bar + Restaurant – 121 Washington sustainability. How do we support artists funders representing national, regional, in new and exciting ways and extending the Street; 0.2 miles from Biltmore Hotel as entrepreneurs? Can we combine artistic and local support for the transformation impact of artist-centered organizations. critique and entrepreneurial disruption? of communities around arts and culture. Live Arts Supporters + Creators Come away with toolkits to try – as well as Or borrow startup tactics, including early Creative placemaking involves artists, arts The Dorrance – 60 Dorrance Street; 0.1 mile the information you need to create your own! and frequent release, public iteration, organizations, and community development from Biltmore Hotel Brad Kik | Co-Director, Institute for benchmarks for success and scaling practitioners deliberately integrating arts Arts + Ecology Sustainable Living, Art & Natural Design/ strategies? Facilitator Roddy Schrock and culture into community revitalization will draw on his experience as director of Faust – 122 Fountain Street; 0.2 miles from ISLAND work. This holistic approach puts arts at Eyebeam – which is mobilizing its alumni Biltmore Hotel the table with land-use, transportation, Naomi Schliesman | Artist Development community, diversifying its programming, Coordinator, Springboard for the Arts economic development, education, housing, and dispersing its production sites – to lead infrastructure, environmental, public Carl Atiya Swanson | Director of Movement this open roundtable discussion. safety, and other planning sectors. Hear FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16 Building, Springboard for the Arts Roddy Schrock | Director, Eyebeam from grantmakers about how the rise of creative placemaking has impacted funding 9:00 – 9:45 am Holly Wren Spaulding | Director, Poetry Forge Location: Salon 6 + STORYhouse Partners decision-making, how this hybrid work brings KEYNOTE ADDRESS :: NEA CHAIRMAN new notions of impact, and what factors JANE CHU Location: Salon 2 (4) Making Space to Nurture Writers of Color contribute to successful creative placemaking The eleventh chairman of the National SonEdna and the new Rhode Island Writer’s efforts across cities, towns, and rural Endowment for the Arts, and an (2) Pittsburgh Spotlight: City of Asylum + Colony share a mission of supporting artists communities. Office of Public Arts accomplished artist and musician, Chairman of color, but their approaches reflect distinct Maria Rosario Jackson | Senior Advisor/Arts & Chu will offer attendees a bold new vision for An artist residency in a community setting contexts. Reflecting on both the overlaps and Culture Program, The Kresge Foundation collaborating and connecting in the arts. This sounds great on a grant application, but how divergence in their work in places as different special program will be followed by a Q+A can they also be truly great experiences for as a rural town in the Mississippi Delta Jason Schupbach | Director of Design with the Chairman. the artists and the communities involved? and the mill city of Warren, Rhode Island, Programs, Visual Arts Division Team Leader, National Endowment for the Arts Location: Ballroom Join Pittsburgh’s Office of Public Art (OPA) Karen Allen Baxter and John Stephenson and City of Asylum to explore two projects will address the start up, challenges, and Jayson Smart | Program Officer, Rasmuson RHODE ISLAND ARTIST MEDLEY PART II that grappled with this question – and rewards, of their programs to benefit writers Foundation of color. Author Naomi Jackson will offer Emcee: Randall Rosenbaum | Executive encountered surprising results. Learn how her perspective as a leader of workshops for Caitlin Strokosch | Executive Director, Alliance Director, Rhode Island State Council on the OPA developed their Artist in the Public writers of color, a beneficiary of residency of Artists Communities (moderator) Arts (RISCA) Realm Residency Program (and newly minted guide) and hear about City of Asylum’s programs, and former funder. Participants Location: Ballroom Ifa Bayeza | Playwright + Director newest collaboration between French theater can expect to gain a holistic perspective on Jed Hancock-Brainerd + Rebecca Noon | Co- director Pascal Rambert and people living the need for both specific programs focused (2) Residency/Presenter/Artist: Supporting Directors, Strange Attractor Theatre with disabilities. A discussion on building on writers of color and integrating support Performance through Collaboration momentum, navigating community, and the for writers of color into traditional residency Location: Ballroom Residency sites and presenters can more power of public works. programs. robustly support performance artists’ Silvia Duarte | Program Manager, City of Karen Allen Baxter | Managing Director, work – from conception to performance 10:00 – 11:00 am Asylum Department of Africana Studies – Rites – through earlier and more intentional MICRO-SESSIONS and Reason Theatre, Brown University; and Renee Piechocki | Founding Director, engagement. Starting with examples from Founding Chair, SonEdna recent collaborative efforts, American Dance (1) Block Party in A Box: Toolkits for the Arts Pittsburgh’s Office of Public Art Naomi Jackson | Writer Institute, MANCC (Maggie Allesee National A model for sharing resources and programs Location: Ballroom Center for Choreography), Brooklyn Academy John Stephenson | Managing Director + Co- on a broad scale, toolkits allows for of Music, and artist David Neumann open Founder, The Rhode Island Writers Colony widespread collaboration without a top- (3) Free Agents: Roundtable on Arts and a discussion about different models for down, “colonial” approach. The toolkit is Entrepreneurship Location: Renaissance Salon partnering and working in tandem while 13 14 maintaining institutional, curatorial, and world between anecdotes and numbers? This speakers + presenters artistic sovereignty. Designed to appeal to session will present case studies that will help artists looking for more continuous support you develop ways to express the value of your for new work, residency sites concerned mission. Mike Andrews | Academic Director, Ox-Bow School Sherry Dobbin | Creative Director + Director of Times of Art and Artists’ Residency; Associate Professor, Square Arts, Times Square Alliance (New York, NY) with the support available to artists, and Department of Fiber and Material Studies, SAIC Mary-Kim Arnold | Director of Evaluation + Silvia Duarte | Program Manager, City of Asylum presenters interested in fully incubated and Learning, Rhode Island Foundation (Saugatuck, MI) well-resourced new work, the session will (Pittsburgh, PA) Mary-Kim Arnold | Director of Evaluation and solicit audience participation in discovering Esther Grisham Grimm | Executive Director, Linda Earle | Executive Director, New York Arts Learning, Rhode Island Foundation (Providence, RI) new and more complete support structures. 3Arts (co-moderator) Program (New York, NY) Robert E. Azar | Deputy Director, City of Providence’s Sharon Ullman | Chief Operating Officer, Eastern Medicine Singers | Algonquin drum group Amy Cassello | Associate Producer – Next Department of Planning and Development (Providence, RI) Wave Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music Robert Rauschenberg Foundation (co- (Providence, RI) (BAM) moderator) Cathy Edwards | Executive Director, New England Tony Balko + A.E. Paterra | Artists (Kingston, RI + Foundation for the Arts (Boston, MA) David Neumann | Artistic Director, Advanced Risë Wilson | Director of Philanthropy, Robert Pittsburgh, PA) Nina Elder | Residency Program Manager, Santa Fe Beginner Group Rauschenberg Foundation Shura Baryshnikov | Choreographer, Dancer + Art Institute (Santa Fe, NM) Carla Peterson | Director, Maggie Allesee Location: Renaissance Salon Educator (Providence, RI) Jorge O. Elorza | Mayor, City of Providence National Center for Choreography Karen Allen Baxter | Managing Director, Department (Providence, RI) 12:45 – 2:00 pm of Africana Studies - Rites and Reason Theatre, Adrienne Willis | Executive Director, American Brown University (Providence, RI) Marie Fol | Programme Manager, DutchCulture | Dance Institute (moderator) LUNCH + CLOSING REMARKS TransArtists (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Ifa Bayeza | Playwright + Director (Providence, RI) Location: Salon 6 Location: Ballroom Aaron Forrest | Principal, Ultramoderne; Assistant Daniel van Benthuysen | Artist (Huntington, NY) Professor, RISD Architecture (Providence, RI) Kathy Black | Program Director, Vermont Studio (3) Open Doors: Engaging Underserved Artists Susan Friel | Cultural Coordinator, City of Chicago 2:15 – 4:30 pm Center (Johnson, VT) Join this critical conversation on equity in the - Department of Cultural Affairs + Special Events TOURS + WORKSHOPS + ADVENTURES Jay Brown | Founder + Director, Lijiang Studio (Chicago, IL) arts. How do artist-centered organizations (Providence, RI) take an honest look at who they are and – just Space is limited; free to attendees, but Mario Garcia Durham | President + CEO, Association as importantly – who they are not reaching? registration required. Gather in the Biltmore Jennifer Calienes | National Arts Consultant of Performing Arts Presenters (Washington, DC) (Marblehead, MA) How do we more effectively take action lobby promptly at 2:15pm for departure. Carolina García Jayaram | CEO, United States Artists toward inclusivity? Participants will share Ben Cameron | Program Director for the Arts, Doris (Chicago, IL) Duke Charitable Foundation (New York, NY) reflections from two years of work with Yaddo  Architectural Walking Tour Theaster Gates | Artist + Founder, Rebuild aiming to address these gaps, and will share The Steel Yard Ennis Carter | Founding Director, Social Impact Foundation (Chicago, IL) strategies for identifying and addressing Studios (Philadelphia, PA) Tony Grant | Executive Director, Sustainable Arts Trinity Repertory Company barriers to participation and ways of fostering Amy Cassello | Associate Producer - Next Wave Foundation (San Francisco, CA) access across a range of program models. An Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) Roger Williams National Memorial Esther Grisham Grimm | Executive Director, 3Arts open discussion between panelists and the (Brooklyn, NY) (Chicago, IL) audience follows. Christina Catanese | Director of Environmental 5:30 – 7:30 pm Xinxin Guo | Founder, Beijing Studio Center + China Art, Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education Mario Garcia Durham | President + CEO, Arts Link (Poughkeepsie, NY) Association of Performing Arts Presenters CLOSING NIGHT AWARDS PARTY (Philadelphia, PA) Gia Hamilton | Director, Joan Mitchell Center (New (moderator) Elizabeth Chodos | Executive + Creative Director, Ox- Kick off our 25th anniversary celebration Orleans, LA) at this new mixed-use creative venue in Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency (Saugatuck, Kemi Ilesanmi | Executive Director, Jed Hancock-Brainerd + Rebecca Noon | Co- the heart of downtown Providence! Don’t MI) Laundromat Project Directors, Strange Attractor Theatre (Newport, RI) miss the pop-up performance of Connect | Jane Chu | Chairman, National Endowment for the Elaina Richardson | President, Yaddo Disconnect – a project by Arvid Tomayko and Arts (Washington, DC) Jeffreen Hayes, Ph.D. | Principal + Artistic Producer, bridge/arts (Chicago, IL) Location: Salon 2 Hannah Thompson. Curt Columbus | Artistic Director, Trinity Repertory Company (Providence, RI) Lisa Hoffman | Associate Director, McColl Center for Location: Aurora (4) We Mean Business, Part III | Somewhere Art + Innovation (Charlotte, NC)  Cash bar and hors d’oeuvres Nicholas Constantakis | President, Constantakis Over the Numbers: Evaluating Mission Impact Consulting Group (Brewster, NY) Randi Hopkins | Associate Director of Visual Arts, 0.2 miles from the Biltmore Hotel Boston Center for the Arts (Boston, MA) How can we assess an experience or a Alec De León | Program Specialist, National creative process? How do we evaluate success Performance Network - Visual Artist Network (New Kemi Ilesanmi | Executive Director, Laundromat Project (New York, NY) when we don’t dictate outcome? Is there a Orleans, LA)

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Maria Rosario Jackson | Senior Advisor, Arts + Culture Jeffrey Meeuwsen | Executive Director, The Ragdale The Banff Centre (Banff, Alberta, Canada) Arvid Tomayko + Hannah Thompson | Artists Program, The Kresge Foundation (Los Angeles, CA) Foundation (Lake Forest, IL) (Providence, RI) Jack Ruderman | Director, Community Solar Naomi Jackson | Writer (Brooklyn, NY) Susan Meier | Principal, Meier and Associates Initiatives, ReVision Energy (Concord, NH) Charles Tracy | National Park Service (Boston, MA) (Washington, DC) Christopher Johnson | Spoken Word Artist Sussy Santana | Poet (Providence, RI) Sharon Ullman | Chief Operating Officer, Robert (Providence, RI) Kiel Moe | Associate Professor of Architecture and Rauschenberg Foundation (New York, NY) Kate Schapira | Poet + Professor, Brown University Energy, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) Aaron Jungels | Co-Founder + Co-Artistic/Executive (Providence, RI) Lori Urso | Executive Director, Slater Mill (Pawtucket, Director, Everett: Company, Stage and School Kristin Müller | Executive Director, Peters Valley RI) Naomi Schliesman | Artist Development Coordinator, (Providence, RI) School of Craft (Layton, NJ) Springboard for the Arts (Fergus Falls, MN) Clyde Valentín | Director, Ignite Arts Dallas (Dallas, Jason Kalajainen | Executive Director, Luminarts Jan Mun | Media Artist (New York, NY) TX) Roddy Schrock | Director, Eyebeam (Brooklyn, NY) Cultural Foundation at the Union League Club of Nick Murphy | Director, Thread Residency Jacques Louis Vidal | Resident Director, The Chicago (Chicago, IL) Jason Schupbach | Director of Design Programs, (Tambacounda, Senegal) Lighthouse Works, Inc. (Fishers Island, NY) Visual Arts Division Team Leader, National Emma Karasz | Director, Red Gate Residency David Neumann | Artistic Director, Advanced Endowment for the Arts (Washington, DC) Patrice Walker Powell | Retired, Cultural Worker + (Beijing) Beginner Group (Thornwood, NY) Public Servant (Alexandria, VA) James Scruggs | Fieldwork Facilitator, The Field (New Stuart Kestenbaum | Strategist, Craftschools.us Rebecca Noon | Actor + Director (Newport, RI) York, NY) Ryan Walsh | Development + Writing Program (Deer Isle, ME) Director, Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT) Jeremy Pataky | Independent Consultant, Overstory Sanjit Sethi | Former Executive Director, Santa Fe Art Brad Kik | Co-Director, Institute for Sustainable Consulting (Anchorage, AK) Institute (Santa Fe, NM) Lauren Was | Co-Director, Art Garda; Critic, Wassaic Living, Art & Natural Design/ISLAND (Bellaire, MI) Project (Wassaic, NY) Will Penrose | Director, Rema Hort Mann Foundation Mary Sherman | Director, TransCultural Exchange SueEllen Kroll | Director of Grants + Strategic (New York, NY) (Boston, MA) Raymond Two Hawks Watson | Executive Member, Partnerships, Rhode Island Council for the Eastern Medicine Singers (Providence, RI) Humanities (Providence, RI) Carla Peterson | Director, Maggie Allesee National Kira Simon-Kennedy | Co-Founder + Director, China Center for Choreography (Tallahassee, FL) Residencies (New York, NY) David R. White | Artistic Director + Producer, The Melissa Levin | Director of Cultural Programs, Lower Yard (Chilmark, MA) Manhattan Cultural Council (New York, NY) Craig T. Peterson | Director of Programs + Sydney Skybetter | Choreographer, Writer + Presentation, Gibney Dance (New York, NY) Technologist (Providence, RI) Adrienne Willis | Executive Director, American Dance Stacy Levy | Artist (Spring Mills, PA) Institute (Rockville, MD) Renee Piechocki | Founding Director, Pittsburgh’s Jayson Smart | Program Officer, Rasmuson Deenah Loeb | Executive Director, City Parks Office of Public Art (Pittsburgh, PA) Foundation (Anchorage, AK) Risë Wilson | Director of Philanthropy, Robert Association/Art in the Open (Philadelphia, PA) Rauschenberg Foundation (New York, NY) Steven Pincus | National Practice Leader, Fine Rosanne Somerson | President, Rhode Island School Jordan MacTavish | Architect, Toshiko Mori Architect Arts and Private Client Groups, DeWitt Stern of Design (Providence, RI) Cliff Wood + Sidy Maiga | Musicians (Providence, RI) (New York, NY) (Mamaroneck, NY) Lise Soskolne | Core Organizer, W.A.G.E. (New York, Holly Wren Spaulding | Director, Poetry Forge + David Macy | Resident Director, The MacDowell Jeff Prystowsky | Musician + Founding Member, NY) STORYhouse Partners (Williamsburg, MA) Colony (Peterborough, NH) Columbus Cooperative (Providence, RI) Vanphouthon Souvannasane | Director, Yellow Peril Jennifer Wright Cook | Executive Director, The Field Sidy Maiga + Cliff Wood | Musicians (Providence, RI) Laurel Ptak | Executive + Creative Director, Triangle Gallery (Providence, RI) (New York, NY) Liz Maugans | Co-Founder + Executive Director, Arts Association (New York, NY) John D. Spiak | Director + Chief Curator, Grand Pippi Zornoza | Co-Founder, Dirt Palace (Providence, Zygote Fine Art Press (Cleveland, OH) Elaina Richardson | President, Yaddo (Saratoga Central Art Center at California State University, RI) Nat May | Executive Director, SPACE Gallery Springs, NY) Fullerton (Santa Ana, CA) (Portland, ME) Shey Rivera Ríos | Artistic Director, AS220 John Stephenson | Managing Director + Co-Founder, Lynne McCormack | Director, City of Providence (Providence, RI) The Rhode Island Writers Colony (Warren, RI) “WHAT CHEER NETOP?” Department of Art, Culture + Tourism (Providence, Bruce Rodgers | Executive Director, Hermitage Artist Caitlin Strokosch | Executive Director, Alliance of RI) Essentially “What’s up, friend?” this Retreat (Englewood, FL) Artists Communities (Providence, RI) Jennifer McGregor | Director of Arts + Senior Curator, is how the Narragansetts greeted Sokeo Ros | Artistic Director/Choreographer, Case Carl Atiya Swanson | Director of Movement Building, Wave Hill ( Bronx, NY) Closed! / Everett: Company, Stage and School Springboard for the Arts (St. Paul, MN) Roger Williams upon his arrival M. Louise McKay | Director of External Relations, (Providence, RI) David Szlasa | Co-Director + Artist, Range Studio in Providence in 1635. Williams’ Hedgebrook (Langley, WA) Randall Rosenbaum | Executive Director, Rhode (Palo Alto, CA) wish was for Rhode Island to be Jean McLaughlin | Executive Director, Penland Island State Council on the Arts (Providence, RI) Judith Tolnick Champa | Founding Director, “a shelter for persons distressed School of Crafts (Penland, NC) Rachel Rosenkrantz | Musician + Luthier, Atelier Providence Biennial for Contemporary Art for conscience,” a value still held Mary Beth Meehan | Photographer + Educator Rosenkrantz (Providence, RI) (Providence, RI) (Providence, RI) strongly here nearly 400 years later. Tamara Ross | Director - Programming Operations,

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INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS BOARD OF TRUSTEES HONORARY BOARD BOARD MEMBERS-ELECT Thank you to the following individuals who have contributed to the Alliance in 2014-2015: Wayne Lawson Chair Ted Berger (2016) Ohio Arts Council (Director New York Foundation for the Arts Rob Bailis Arielle Angel Mario Garcia Durham Amy McLaughlin Emeritus); and The Ohio State (Executive Director Emeritus) Cal Performances University James Baker Cynthia Gehrig Nancy Nordhoff J. Richard Braugh Elizabeth Chodos Jason Kalajainen Vice-Chair UBS Financial Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Peter Barnes Mark Golden Dan Oberg Luminarts Cultural Foundation Mary Carswell Residency Ann Brady Debra Gorman-Badar Stephanie Olmsted Cynthia Gehrig Treasurer The MacDowell Colony (Executive Tony Grant Jan Brooks David Griggs Thomas Putnam The Jerome Foundation and Director Emeritus) Sustainable Arts Foundation Camargo Foundation Keith Brown Esther Grimm Sara Ransford Mel Chin Franklin Sirmans Artist Susan Brynteson Gia Hamilton Alix Refshauge Mario Garcia Durham Pérez Art Museum Association of Performing Arts Jhumpa Lahiri Lucianne & Joe Carmichael Julie Henahan Michele & Joe Richey Sharon Ullman Presenters Author Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Mary Carswell Janice Hess Cordelia Robinson Linda Earle Liz Lerman Isa Catto Jane Hodges Bruce Rodgers New York Arts Program Choreographer CONFERENCE HOSTS + Ralph Crispino Jr. Paul Hogan Tamara Ross David Fraher Roger Mandle PLANNING COMMITTEE Arts Midwest Qatar Museums Authority Ruth Davis Jason Kalajainen The Todd and Betiana Simon 186 Carpenter Foundation Melissa Franklin Clay Rockefeller Sara Jane DeHoff Brad & Amanda Kik AS220 Pew Fellowships in the Arts Artist and real estate/community Jayson Smart Susan Diekman Douglas & Marjorie Kik developer Cable Car Cinema Mark Golden Lava Thomas Sharon Dynak Margot Knight Golden Artist Colors Lowery Stokes Sims Cornish Associates Ashley Tucker Museum of Arts + Design Linda Earle Martin Kohout Esther Grisham Grimm Department of Art, Culture + Paul Tyler Doug Erion Wayne Lawson 3Arts Mary T. Wolfe in memorian Tourism, City of Providence Philanthropist Georgia Welles Dirt Palace Sandra Eskin Sybil Lefferts Gia Hamilton Elizabeth White Suzanne Fetscher Arturo Lindsay The Joan Mitchell Center Providence Art Club Mark Wourms, PhD STAFF David Fraher David Macy Lisa Hoffman The Providence Athenaeum McColl Center for Art + Deb Dormody The Providence Foundation Melissa Franklin Carolyn Maddux Innovation Director of Operations + Programs Providence Preservation Brad Kik Flannery Patton Society Institute for Sustainable Director of Member Services + FOUNDING MEMBERS Living, Art & Natural Design Communications Providence Public Library Once upon a time, 18 members founded the Alliance with seed money from The MacArthur David Macy Stephanie Storch Rhode Island Foundation The MacDowell Colony Office + Business Manager Foundation in 1991. Today we have more than 400 members, in 50 U.S. states and 17 countries! Rhode Island Latino Arts As we embark on our 25th anniversary, we are so grateful to the original gang of 18 who Craig T. Peterson Caitlin Strokosch Rhode Island School of Design banded together in order to build a strong collective voice for the artist residency sector: Gibney Dance Executive Director Rhode Island State Council on Bruce Rodgers the Arts Alternative Worksite (now the Headlands Center for the Arts Palenville Interarts Colony Hermitage Artist Retreat Bemis Center for Contemporary Institute of Contemporary Art Ragdale Foundation RISD Museum Arts) Tamara Ross (now PS1) Sculpture Space The Banff Centre Roger Williams National Atlantic Center for the Arts Jacob’s Pillow Memorial Virginia Center for the Creative Jayson Smart Capp Street Project The MacDowell Colony Arts The Rasmuson Foundation Southside Cultural Center Centrum Mattress Factory Yaddo The Steel Yard Djerassi Resident Artists Program The Millay Colony Yellow Springs Institute Trinity Repertory Company Fine Arts Work Center VSA Rhode Island

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2016 emerging program institute Hey, we’re turning 25!! What better way to kick off our year-long celebration than welcoming more than 300 of our favorite people to april 4 - 6, 2016 | new orleans our hometown of Providence? Thank you for joining us! This bootcamp combines best practices from the Providence has been a haven for misfits, rabble-rousers, arts-and-cultural sector with specific, hands-on nonconformists, and innovators for nearly 400 years, information about artists’ residencies. If you are and we at the Alliance are (as we say in Providence) wicked excited to share this place with you. interested in launching a new residency program, you won’t want to miss this! The next few days will include lots of thank-you’s, showcases of ideas and art-making, and an abundance hosted by: of evidence about why Providence is one of the most dynamic cities in the U.S., so I won’t highlight all of that here. Instead, I’d like to say a bit about turning 25... The Alliance started as a scrappy gang of 18 organizations who, with seed money from The MacArthur Foundation, gathered for the first time in 1991 atAtlantic Center for the JOAN MITCHELL more info at: Arts to discuss the state of support for individual artists to create new work. Out of a time www.artistcommunities.org of cultural, political, and philanthropic crisis, these 18 understood the power of a collective CENTER voice to forge a better path. Glasses were raised, manifestos were written, and plans were hatched! But I don’t think any of those first attendees could have forseen what theAlliance has become today -- an international association with more than 400 members in all 50 U.S. states and more than 17 countries, a strong partner to foundations and policy-makers, a vital advocate for the residency sector and individual artists, and a re-grantor that has distributed more than $2 million to artists and residency programs in the last decade. In the coming months we’ll share with you our plans for the future, reflecting our ongoing commitment to social responsibility and inclusivity, and how this commitment will be reflected in four of our specific areas of impact: Arts + Ecology, Accessibility, Leadership Development, and Performing Arts. In the meantime, I can’t say enough about our most extraordinary staff – our Director of Operations + Programs, Deb Dormody, who has coordinated this conference; Flannery Patton, who curated all conference sessions; and Stephanie Storch, who handled countless conference details. You are phenomenal! And thanks as always to the Alliance’s Board of Trustees – led by Chair extraordinaire Jason Kalajainen – the most supportive, wise, delightful, and inspiring partners I could ask for. Most of all, thanks to you for joining us! We are so proud to welcome you to Providence!

HOPE Caitlin Strokosch As the official motto of the U.S.’s Executive Director smallest state, it is – fittingly – a grand idea in a small word.

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