Denver, Colorado 2017 Annual Conference
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october 2 - 5, 2017 :: denver, colorado :: denver, october 2 - 5, 2017 ALLIANCE OF ARTISTS COMMUNITIES 2017 annual conference table of contents conference theme conference schedule at a glance Creating and Sustaining a Culture of 2 Schedule at a Glance Generosity MONDAY, octoBER 2 9/30 - 10/2 Preconference: Residency Site Visit ............Anderson Ranch Arts Center 4 Venue Locations conference topics 11:30 am - 4:30 pm Preconference: Loveland Arts Tour ..................................... Loveland, CO 6 - 8 pm Opening Night Reception ........................................ McNichols Building 5 From the Director Look for the following symbols in the conference schedule-at-a-glance for focus TUESDAY, octoBER 3 6 Sessions + Events topics. Feel free to mix and match the sessions you attend! 9 - 10:15 am Welcome to Denver! Keynote :: Okwui Okpokwasili ...... Colorado Room 16 Speakers + Presenters Equity 10:30 am - 5:00 pm Board Track (advanced registration required) ............. McNichols Building 19 Alliance Honor Roll = Strategies for fostering access in the arts and forwarding new 10:30 am - 12 pm breakout sessions models of inclusivity. 21 From the Governor 1) Open Call: Curating a Cohort .......................... MDC/Richmond Room Arts + Ecology 2) Beyond The Studio: Art/Science Collaborations (Pt. A) .. Martin Room 22 Local Map Engaging ecological themes, 3) Borderless: Moving Artists + Ideas in Our Time .......... Colorado Room adapting sustainable practices, 4) Program Agility and the Changing Landscape and making room for collaboration of Performance ............................................... Ballantine Classroom between artists and scientists. 12:00 - 1:15 pm Lunch ................................................................................ Colorado Room Leadership Exploring our role as leaders – at 1:30 - 3 pm breakout sessions every career stage – and how we 1) Embodied Awareness: What Our Facilities Are build professional capacity for our Really Saying About Us ................................. MDC/Richmond Room organizations and ourselves. = 2) Approaches to Alumni Networks .............................. Colorado Room Performing Arts 3) Beyond The Studio: Researching the Rural (Part B) ...... Martin Room Supporting performing artists and 4) Digital Storytelling + Social Media .................... Ballantine Classroom performance-based work from inception through presentation. conference artwork 3:30 - 5 pm breakout sessions gravity by thomas ‘detour’ evans. Social Practice 1) Information Highways and Side Streets: Tracking + Using Our Data ............................. MDC/Richmond Room Models and methodology for supporting social practice artists 2) Artists as Agents for Community Building ................ Martin Room and projects. 3) Moving the Needle: Funders in Partnership .............. Colorado Room 4) Strength in Numbers: Regional Groups ............. Ballantine Classroom 144 Westminster Street, Suite 301 Artist Residencies in the Providence, RI 02903 USA Public Realm 6:30 - 8:30 pm Celebrate Denver! Party .........................................Clyfford Still Museum Tel: (401) 351-4320 Demonstrating how artists Email: [email protected] can shape the ways the public www.artistcommunities.org engages with the natural and built environment. 2 conference schedule at a glance (continued) wednesday, octoBER 4 THURSDAY, octoBER 5 9 - 10:30 am Keynote Plenary :: Supporting the 21st Century Artist .. Colorado Room 9 - 10 am Keynote :: Gregg Deal .................................................. Colorado Room A conversation with Deana Haggag (United States Artists), Tatiana Hernandez (Hemera Foundation) and Paul Rucker (Artist). Moderated by 10:15 - breakout sessions Hrag Vartanian (Hyperallergic). 11:45 am 1) Ecology, Arts, Justice: Healing People and the Environment ............ MDC/Richmond Room 10:45 am - breakout sessions 12:15 pm 1) Creating Communities for Activist Artists .................. Colorado Room 2) Fears & Follies: An Experimental and Safe Space .......... Martin Room 2) We Mean Business: Great Idea, 3) Anti-Oppression: From the Ground Up ..................... Colorado Room = But How Are You Going To Pay For It .............. MDC/Richmond Room 4) Sustained Engagement: Connecting Performing Artists, 3) In Practice: Equity + Inclusion ..................................... Martin Room = Institutions + Communities .............................. Ballantine Classroom 4) Leadership by Design: The Field + WESTAF ........Ballantine Classroom 12 - 1 pm micro-sessions 1) Hinge Arts: Making Space for Complex Narratives 12:15 - 1:30 pm Lunch ................................................................................ Colorado Room in a Small Town ...................................................... Colorado Room 2) Wanderlust + Retaining Staff ...................................... Martin Room 1:45 - 2:45 pm micro-sessions 1) Youth-Curated: 3) Evaluating Arts for Change: A New Framework MDC/Richmond Room Platteforum + Black Cube Nomadic Museum ............. Colorado Room 2) We Mean Business: Technology in Residence .... Ballantine Classroom 1 - 2:15 pm Lunch + Closing Remarks ...............................................Colorado Room 3) Curator At Large ........................................................ Martin Room 2:30 - 4:30 pm tours + workshops + adventures 4) Yes! You Can (and Should) Advocate: 1) Rocky Mountain Land Library The Nuts + Bolts of Nonprofit Advocacy .......... MDC/Richmond Room 2) RedLine, PlatteForum + The Temple 3 - 5:30 pm tours + workshops + adventures 3) MCA Denver | Saber Acomodar 1) Lighthouse Writers Workshop + Wonderbound 4) Santa Fe Art District Mural Tour 2) Local Artists, Public Housing + Education - A National Model 3) Golden Triangle Public Art Walking Tour 4:45 - 7 pm Closing Night Party ..................................................................RedLine 4) Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Evening Enjoy a night off! Informal meet-up at The Art Hotel between 6 - 8 pm venues All meetings take place at the History Colorado Center (1200 N Broadway) unless otherwise noted. The following rooms are in the History Colorado Center: Colorado Room, Ballantine Classroom, Martin Room, MDC/Richmond Room The Holiday Inn Express Denver Downtown .................... 1715 Tremont Place Denver, CO McNichols Building ............................................................... 144 West Colfax, Denver, CO Clyfford Still Museum .................................................... 1250 Bannock Street, Denver, CO The ART, a hotel .....................................................................1201 Broadway, Denver, CO RedLine Contemporary Art Center .............................. 2350 Arapahoe Street, Denver, CO 3 4 from the director conference sessions + events MONDAY, octoBER 2 OKWUI OKPOKWASILI is a multidisciplinary Dear Alliance Colleagues, artist. Raised in the Bronx by Nigerian 11:30 am - 4:30 pm Welcome to Denver! On behalf of AAC’s Board of immigrant parents, she graduated from Trustees, staff and Colorado host committee, thank PRECONFERENCE tour :: Yale University in 1996. Her residencies LovelaND ARTS TOUR include: MANCC Choreographic Fellowship, you for being part of the 2017 Alliance of Artists Advance registration required. Baryshnikov Arts Center Artist-in-Residence, Communities’ Annual Conference! New York Live Arts Studio Series, New York This year’s theme, Creating and Sustaining a Culture Explore the foothills of Colorado during a Foundation for the Arts’ Fellowship, Lower of Generosity, is echoed and explored through a vast special preconference afternoon in Loveland. Manhattan Cultural Council’s President’s Since 1972, bronze foundries like Art Castings array of workshops, sessions, events and receptions. It Award and the Rauschenberg Residency. of Colorado and Bronze Services of Loveland stands as both a challenge to and a celebration of our She and visual designer and director Peter have been attracting artists from around the Born won a Bessie Award for Outstanding field and shared work. We believe this year’s program is world. With the recent addition of Artspace, Production in 2010 for Pent-Up: A Revenge among the richest AAC has ever offered. CreatorSpace and Artworks Loveland, Dance. They won a second Bessie Award for The annual conference is more than just networking. adding over 50 working artists to Loveland’s Outstanding Production for Bronx Gothic. downtown sector, this community is being Starting with exciting preconference trips – including Their third full-length collaboration, Poor transformed by the arts in unexpected ways. a visit to the renowned Anderson Ranch Arts Center, People’s TV Room, was staged at New York Live Arts in April 2017. As a stage actress, each day is packed with relevant and energizing Location: Loveland, CO Okpokwasili appeared in Kristin Martin’s content. Highlights include sessions on anti- Box lunch will be provided Sounding (HERE Arts Center) and Young Jean oppression, fund development, curatorial practice and Buses provided to/from the Holiday Inn Lee’s Lear (Soho Rep). As a film actress, she advocacy. We are thrilled to launch the opening day appeared in Abyss, The Interpreter, and I Am with a dynamic keynote address from acclaimed performance artist, Okwui Okpokwasili. 6:00 – 8:00 pm Legend. She lives in Brooklyn, NY. Our Denver and regional partners have opened their doors to provide an opportunity for OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION :: Location: History Colorado Center – Colorado you to experience