ALLIANCE OF 2017 annual conference ARTISTS COMMUNITIES

october 2 - 5, 2017 :: , 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 6 Sessions + Events topics. Feel free to mix and match the TUESDAY, october 3 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...... 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 (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 Center...... 2350 Arapahoe Street, Denver, CO

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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 the area’s vibrant arts and cultural scene. We hope you will take part in McNichols Building Room the tours, workshops and celebrations happening at arts centers across the city as part of Help us kick off the 2017 Conference in style! the conference. Additionally, we are thrilled to announce our inaugural class of Diversity + Connect with old friends and make new 10:30 am – 5:00 pm Leadership Fellows, a new program focused on creating equity in the residency field through ones during the festive opening reception Board Track direct support of arts administrators of color and administrators with disabilities. at this contemporary Denver hub for arts, Advance registration required. A complete culture and events in a stunning Greek We are grateful to: our Conference Planning Committee, led by Alliance board members; agenda will be provided to registrants. Revival building. It’s a fun way to start your our amazing partners including Bonfils-Stanton Foundation, Colorado Creative Industries, conference experience! A day of workshops and discussions designed Denver Arts + Venues, Hemera Foundation and WESTAF; our Colorado members; and our for board members and staff of arts-based Location: Denver Arts + Venues’ McNichols conference speakers, sponsors, artists and volunteers. Our sincere thanks to all of you—as organizations addressing strategies for Building, 144 West Colfax groups and individuals—for your dedication and hard work which not only make this event shaping a healthy, passionate board; possible but brings it to life.  Cash bar and hors d’oeuvres embracing governance responsibilities; and 0.4 miles from the Holiday Inn Express building fundraising expertise. Enjoy your time at the 2017 AAC Conference and take full advantage of the rich learning opportunities and all that the inspired city of Denver has to offer. Carolyn Love, PhD | Principal, Kebaya tuesday, october 3 Coaching ~ Consulting 9:00 – 10:15 am Location: McNichols Building  Lunch will be provided on-site welcome to Denver! 0.4 miles from History Colorado Center Margaret Hunt | Director, Colorado Creative Industries Lisa Hoffman 10:30 am – 12 pm Executive Director Lisa Hoffman | Executive Director, Alliance of Artists Communities Breakout Sessions keynote :: Okwui Okpokwasili (1) Open Call: Curating a Cohort 5 tuesday, october 3 :: 6 As temporary communities, each artist policy and public perception? And how can Sources of time, space and funding shift. MacDowell Colony cohort has a powerful effect on the energy interdisciplinary practices de-silo information, Media and digital connectedness alter the Jessica Todd | Residency Manager, and direction of the host program. This integrating science organizations and their creative workflow. New residency centers Rauschenberg Residency panel addresses the complex process for work within communities? and programs are being developed to building a community of artists that not only Location: MDC/Richmond Room Nina Elder | Artist (moderator) meet these needs. Join us for a long table aligns with the vision of the residency but conversation examining how new programs supports challenging work, advances artists Collin Haffey | Place-Based Ecologist are being developed to meet the changing (2) Approaches to Alumni Networks at various career stages, represents a wide needs of artists and anticipate the future of Frederick Swanson | Research Geologist, All artist residency programs have alumni: range of voices and reflects many approaches USDA Forest Service performance residencies. to making art. This panel will consider the a growing network of individuals who have Nora Alami | Associate Producer, Gibney adjudication process of an open call and the Sylvia Torti | Associate Director, Mapping the shared experience of the program, and Dance role that program staff play in relation to the Meaning often a tremendous sense of gratitude and a strong desire to stay connected. Activating external jury and selecting panelists who will Cedra Wood | Independent Artist Carla Peterson | Director, Maggie Allesee uphold the integrity of the program. What National Center for Choreography and engaging alumni communities can be Location: Martin Room a key element to building and sustaining a does it take to create healthy, supportive Craig T. Peterson | Artistic Director, Abrons cohorts of participants? successful residency program. The means Arts Center of engagement—the strategies, tactics, and Sharon Maidenberg | Executive Director, (3) Borderless: Moving Artists + Ideas in Our Time David Szlasa | Director, Petronio Residency models—are quite varied, but in surveying a Headlands Center for the Arts Initiative broad range of programs some best practices Cultural practitioners have argued for the do emerge. This session invites questions Nat May | Executive Director + Co-founder, Location: Ballantine Classroom Hewnoaks Artist Colony fundamental importance of the borderless and open dialogue around challenges and cultural engagement realized through opportunities of building a robust alumni Rebecca Parker | Program Director, Ox-Bow residency platforms. Through the Connecting 12:00 – 1:15 pm program. School of Art and Artists’ Residency Through Culture Initiative the Brademas  Lunch Andrea Chung | Artist Sanjit Sethi | Director, Corcoran School of Center in New York, is bringing together Location: Colorado Room the Arts and Design | George Washington artists, administrators and funders to explore Deborah Fowlkes | Senior Director of Alumni University (moderator) innovative models in fostering international Relations, FOCUS (Fellowship of Catholic exchange - with an eye for trends in cultural 1:30 – 3:00 pm University Students) Teresa Silva | Director of Exhibitions & exchange and the challenges to those Breakout Sessions Sharon Maidenberg | Executive Director, Residencies, Chicago Artists Coalition (CAC) engaged in it. Their work considers how they Headlands Center for the Arts Location: MDC/Richmond Room are funded and institutional arrangements, (1) Embodied Awareness: What Our their diverse impacts, ideals and relationships Facilities Are Really Saying About Us Bethany Martin-Breen | Senior Program to each other. Join key partners in this project Associate, The Rockefeller Foundation (2) Beyond The Studio: Art/Science Whether urban or rural, large or small, for a lively two-way discussion on borderless Collaborations (Part A) purpose-built or adaptive re-use, residency Location: Colorado Room exchange in action. programs express our missions through Many artists seek experiences of unique places, Alberta Arthurs | Senior Fellow, John the physical spaces offered to artists-in- environments and communities as a formative (3) Beyond The Studio: Researching the Brademas Center of New York University residence. Join Madison Cario as the session aspect to their work. Artist residencies are Rural (Part B) opens with a short workshop on embodied now being hosted in science research stations, Cecily Cook | Senior Program Officer, Asian awareness and a primer on how to audit your Many artists seek experiences of unique in remote wilderness areas and aboard boats Cultural Council program’s space. With ADA compliance as places, environments and communities and trains. In some cases, the experience or Erin Johnston | Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford just one among many arrows in the quiver, we as a formative aspect to their work. Artist the research becomes the work itself. Beyond University will examine ways our spaces communicate residencies are now being hosted in science the Studio is a two-part series exploring these values and how they can become welcoming research stations, in remote wilderness areas models. Artists and scientists work and think Zeyba Rahman | Senior Program Officer, environments for all artists. Residency and aboard boats and trains. In some cases, in different ways, but the process of inquiry Building Bridges Program, Doris Duke center leaders review economically practical the experience or the research becomes has many common dimensions. With a Foundation for Islamic Art design ideas as well as communications the work itself. Beyond the Studio is a two- growing number of residencies embedded Location: Colorado Room practices with artists before, during and after part series exploring these models. Rural in science institutions, we consider: How residency. environments hold ongoing lure for artists can artistic practice more deeply inform the as opportunities for immersive, place-based field of scientific inquiry? How can artists (4) Program Agility and the Changing Madison Cario | Director, Office of the Arts at Landscape of Performance experiences. Looking at the recent boom in not just be in proximity to science but help Georgia Institute of Technology rural-focused arts programming, join us to create outcomes that have a broad impact Pathways to secure resources in the field David Macy | Resident Director, The explore new models of rural residencies. How on larger systems including research funding, of performance are constantly in flux. 7 tuesday, october 3 :: 8 can outsiders be brought into new places and they use for collecting and managing national, regional and local funders on trends see one the most exciting museums in the glean information and inspiration without information across programs and over many in support for the arts - and where residencies country - recently called “a knockout” by the being exploitative? And in this time when art years. We will discuss what information fit in. Los Angeles Times. Explore the Clyfford Still is increasingly dematerialized how can arts is collected and how it is applied and collection, catch a performance and unwind Ella Baff | Senior Program Officer for Arts organizations and funders support artists and maintained. Leaders of new residencies, as on the expansive front lawn! and Cultural Heritage, Andrew W. Mellon their need for direct experience? well as veteran leaders revisiting processes, Foundation Location: Clyfford Still Museum Peter Bradley | Executive Director, Island are encouraged to join! James Baker | Executive Director, Pilchuck  Cash bar and desserts Institute Melissa Levin | Vice President of Artists, Glass School (moderator) 0.7 miles from the Holiday Inn Express Erin Elder | Independent Curator Estates and Foundations, Art Agency, Partners Michael Orlove | Director of Presenting & Nina Elder | Artist (moderator) Multidisciplinary Works, Artist Communities Holly Kranker | Residency Program Manager, and International Activities | Multidisciplinary wednesday, october 4 Richard Saxton | Creative Director, M12 Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Arts, National Endowment for the Arts Studio 9:00 – 10:30 am Megha Ralapati | Residency + Special Projects Bahia Ramos | Director/Arts, John S. and Location: Martin Room Manager, Hyde Park Art Center Keynote Plenary :: Supporting the James L. Knight Foundation 21st Century Artist Location: MDC/Richmond Room Gary Steuer | President + CEO, Bonfils- (4) Digital Storytelling + Social Media A conversation with Deana Haggag (United Stanton Foundation States Artists), Tatiana Hernandez and Paul How do we make the impact of our programs (2) Artists as Agents for Community Location: Colorado Room Rucker (Artist). Moderated by Hrag Vartanian come alive through visual and text posts? Building How do we create compelling online stories (Hyperallergic) Art organizations and city governments that promote our artists-in-residence, while (4) Strength in Numbers: Regional Groups Location: Colorado Room remaining respectful of the artistic process are increasingly looking for artists to lead The Alliance of Artists Communities and the lines between public and private? art-based community development and encourages peer-to-peer collaboration, 10:45 am - 12:15 pm Join communications professionals for a civic engagement efforts. Artists are being information sharing, and a strong network of two-part series on digital storytelling. Learn mobilized and recognized for advancing breakout Sessions individuals and organizations of all kinds. Are key strategies and tools for building online community goals with creative interventions you interested in building connectivity with (1) Creating Communities for Activist Artists engagement and visibility. Then delve deeper and thus increasing access, illuminating other programs in your area? Attend break- and discuss specific messaging campaigns. civil rights inequities, or responding to Artists regularly push against the status community-specific challenges. Join two outs with networks in your region. Regional quo, are constantly reinventing their crafts Devon Murphy | Digital Content Lead, Banff Denver leaders for a workshop on launching networks include: Argentina, Cascadia Artists and require us all to evolve our thinking. Centre for Arts and Creativity initiatives that put artists at the center of in Residence Network (CAiRN) and Upstate For so many artists that status quo has Location: Ballantine Classroom community building, development and social New York Regional Network. They will gather been programs designed to support able- justice initiatives. Facilitators will offer tools to give an overview of the work they are bodied, studio-based artists with formal and tips for building collaborations between doing to support artists communities and training/higher education. As we know, 3:30 – 5:00 pm artists, city agencies that effect positive social artists. these conventions are deeply tied to issues Breakout Sessions change in their community. Mark Golden | President / CEO, Golden Artist of class, race, gender and body-types. What (1) Information Highways and Side Streets: Louise Martorano | Executive Director, Colors may be less obvious is how these conventions come to bear on the development of socially Tracking and Using Our Data RedLine Flannery Patton | Director of Member engaged artists and art practices. What is Services + Communications, Alliance of From the moment an artist applies to a Tariana Navas-Nieves | Director of Cultural required to support artistic practices that Artists Communities (moderator) residency program to the transition into Affairs, Denver Arts & Venues intersect with activism, direct engagement of being an alumnus, residency leaders Location: Martin Room María Paz Segura | General Producer, RAP - broad publics, cultural organizing and other and their teams are managing immense Residencias de Arte Panal unconventional modes of creativity. How is amounts of information and data. From it different from supporting studio-based (3) Moving the Needle: Funders in Elizabeth Quinn | Creative Director, Caldera taking applications to convening a selection artmaking and where are there overlaps? Partnership committee to obtaining intake details to Location: Ballantine Classroom For existing residencies, what does it take scheduling, contracts, evaluations, and As funders seek ways to advance creative to transform current models to nurture this alumni surveys –all information collection practice they are looking to residencies as 6:30 – 8:30 pm community of artists? For new residencies, requires thoughtful (and often complicated) core partners. This discussion will highlight what is required to build a meaningful celebrate Denver! Party systems to keep data clean, accessible, and creative partnerships between funders, program that has durability? useful. In this session, residency leaders residencies and the artists they serve. Join Celebrate during a fun, not-to-miss night of Lisa Hoffman | Executive Director, Alliance of reveal the specific strategies and systems a dynamic conversation with the heads of music, food and reveling in the arts. Come 9 tuesday, october 3 - wednesday, october 4 :: 10 Artists Communities Jeffreen Hayes, PhD | Executive Director, partnerships with community youth. In the posts, this session will begin to unravel: How summer of 2017 PlatteForum worked with does the residency context - where work is Paul Rucker | Artist Threewalls (moderator) the Black Cube Nomadic Museum’s Executive being simultaneously created and exhibited - Cristy Johnston Limón | Executive Director, Ben Strader | Co-Director, Blue Mountain Director and Chief Curator, to mentor the shape or shift curatorial practice? Are curators Destiny Arts Center Center next generation of young arts professionals. being championed as residency leaders in the Risë Wilson | Director of Philanthropy, Robert Veronique Le Melle | Executive Director, Presenters will highlight the experience of field? How are programs engaging curators as Rauschenberg Foundation (moderator) Artpace fostering leadership opportunities for youth, full-time staff members, guest curators and Location: Martin Room the ethics of curating an exhibition, coaching curators-in-residence roles? Location: Colorado Room in associated professional practices and Rob Bailis | Associate Director, Cal learning hard gallery skills. Learn about the Performances (2) We Mean Business: Great Idea, But How (4) Leadership by Design: The Field + current atmosphere of curating contemporary Are You Going To Pay For It? WESTAF and potentially controversial artworks, as well Nicole J. Caruth | Artistic Director, McColl as the importance of coaching youth in an Center for Art + Innovation How do you find new sources of support Join The Field and Western States Arts often-overlooked alternative career paths in for your projects when none of the normal Federation (WESTAF) for an interactive Sanjit Sethi | Director, Corcoran School of the arts. channels are available to you? How do you session on integrating equity into staffing, the Arts and Design | George Washington build strong relationships that sustain your leadership programs and funding initiaives. Amanda Flores | Youth Programming University Using Field and WESTAF leadership program and maintain enthusiasm for your Coordinator, PlatteForum Location: Martin Room fellowship programs as case studies, they work? Hear from residency leaders about will share pitfalls, successes and unforeseen Cortney Lane Stell | Executive Director + Chief how they create long-term strategies toward (4) Yes! You Can (and Should) Advocate: The outcomes in these programs designed to Curator, Black Cube gaining (and keeping) fundraising support Nuts and Bolts of Nonprofit Advocacy in an diversify leadership pipelines in the arts and Rebecca Vaughan | Artistic and Programming from corporate, individual and foundation Unpredictable Political Climate sources. Rather than presenting one-size-fits- foster transparency and reciprocity within Director, PlatteForum an organization. This session addresses Now is the time to advocate for the National all approaches, this session will suggest ways Location: Colorado Room Endowment for the Arts, for your state to address these challenges that may guide concrete ways to disrupt ingrained biases and a “business as usual” mentality in the arts arts agency and for your local arts agency. you to solutions appropriate to your context (2) We Mean Business: Technology In sector. Nonprofit organizations can advocate and and your community. Residence still retain their nonprofit status. Learn about Chrissy Deal | Program Manager, Western Amanda Kik | Co-Director, Crosshatch Center the legal limitations of nonprofit-initiated States Arts Federation (WESTAF) Running an artist residency in 2017 involves a for Art & Ecology advocacy. Advocates outside the arts and broad array of software tools and platforms. Wilfredo Hernandez | Program Manager, The culture field will share their successes and Dale Mott | Director of External Relations, On a daily basis, administrators tackle Field describe the most effective and cost- and Halcyon application submission and review, donor and time-efficient advocacy strategies. WESTAF Madalena Salazar | IMTour, TourWest grant management, alumni management, Vito Zingarelli | Program Director, will share the targeted advocacy methods Program and Grants Manager, Western States scheduling, cloud storage, data analysis, and Hedgebrook they utilized in this most recent push to save Arts Federation (WESTAF) more. In this session, we’ll start with a brief Location: MDC/Richmond Room the National Endowment for the Arts funding overview on field-wide technology use. Then Location: Ballantine Classroom and share the thoughts and considerations we’ll move into an open discussion about the they made on the selection of key participants (3) In Practice: Equity + Inclusion digital obstacles that residencies face and that worked on this advocacy effort. We will 12:15 – 1:30 pm brainstorm solutions. You are invited to share Residency leaders from three cities - Chicago, not only discuss direct advocacy tactics but your own successes and failures, challenges San Antonio and Oakland - open a discussion  Lunch also how organizations can tap into existing and opportunities. on racial equity and inclusion in action. How Location: Colorado Room advocacy campaigns to help local officials and do we support artists on a local level when arts advocates tell your story. global artistic support is part of the mission? Tony Grant | Co-Director, Sustainable Arts Cristina Aguilar | Executive Director, Colorado What is the role of the built environment Foundation (facilitator) 1:45 - 2:45 pm Organization for Latina Opportunity and and its impact on creating safe and inclusive Location: Ballantine Classroom Reproductive Rights (COLOR) cultural spaces? How can we engage (and micro-Sessions honor) the art of the invitation to overlooked (1) Youth-Curated: Platteforum + Black Kalyn Heffernan | MC/Producer, Wheelchair (3) Curator At Large communities? Participants will be encouraged Cube Nomadic Museum Sports Camp sharing their challenges and strategies Join a vibrant and lively conversation on PlatteForum hosts artistic residencies for Leah Horn | Director of Marketing and so everyone walks away with different the role of the curator within a residency professional artists from around the world Communications, Western States Arts methodologies for practicing these crucial program. Bringing together residency leaders to create meaningful and skill-building Federation (WESTAF) values. approaching curation from vastly different

11 wednesday, october 4 :: 12 Location: MDC/Richmond Room (3) Anti-Oppression: From the Ground Up 12:00 – 1:00 pm 10:15 – 11:45 am This presentation will cover the concepts micro-Sessions and ideas to launch conversations around 3:00 – 5:30 pm breakout Sessions (1) Hinge Arts: Making Space for Complex oppression. We will cover how to begin to tours + workshops + adventures Narratives in a Small Town (1) Ecology, Arts, Justice: Healing People recognize and address the different -isms Space is limited; free to attendees, but and the Environment (racism, sexism, classism, ableism, etc) that Hinge Arts at the Kirkbride is a community development and artist residency program registration required. Where are the intersections and overlaps are inevitably a part of our lives, and how of Springboard for the Arts in Fergus Falls, of ecological work and social justice work? we can start to address them. This targeted  Lighthouse Writers Workshop + Minnesota, activating cultural programming More importantly, what does this work look morning session will be led by YK Hong, a related to the historic Fergus Falls State Wonderbound like on the ground, in the context of different nationally renowned facilitator and leader in Hospital, or the “Kirkbride Building.” Now places? Where do artists, and where do anti-oppression work.  Local Artists, Public Housing + two years old, Hinge Arts has been integral in arts organizations fit? Bring your stories of YK Hong | Anti-Oppression Trainer, Organizer, Education - A National Model facilitating community storytelling about the working in community around food justice, Artist intersections of mental health, community, Golden Triangle Public Art Walking Tour environmental justice, land use, ecology Location: Colorado Room economic development and historic and agriculture. Join a facilitated group preservation. Learn how Springboard’s  Cleo Parker Robinson Dance conversation! core values - including equity, reciprocal (4) Sustained Engagement: Connecting Gather in the History Colorado Center atrium at Daniel Banks, PhD | Co-Director, DNAWORKS relationships and artists as assets - make Performing Artists, Institutions and the School Group Entrance promptly at space for artists to interact with community 2:45 pm for departure. Claudia Ford | Executive Director, Tisané at Communities Maple Homestead Farm driven outcomes as they evolve, and as Working with performing artists provides Fergus Falls deals with transition on many Brad Kik | Co-Director, Crosshatch Center for a special opportunity to engage members levels. Hear directly from local residents and FREe night! Art & Ecology of the public, whether they are learners, participating artists on the impact of this listeners, creators, or critics. And increasingly exchange - in particular how the residency Enjoy an evening on your own! Visit Shanai Matteson | Artist and Collaborative the concept of engagement has become an has lifted up narratives once absent in local the registration desk to check out our Director, Water Bar & Public Studio area of inquiry for funders as they evaluate civic processes, brought artists back to their suggestions. There will be an Informal meet-up Location: MDC/Richmond Room impact of their investments in creativity in hometown, and formed new partnerships and at The Art Hotel between 6 - 8 pm. Meet up with community. At the same time, the work of projects. new friends and make dinner plans! performing artists is inherently ephemeral (2) Fears & Follies: An Experimental and Michele Anderson | Rural Program Director, - here, experienced, and gone - and hard Safe Space Springboard for the Arts to measure long term. Hear from three Join us for small group, peer-to-peer multi-faceted presentation organizations of Haley Honeman | Theatre Artist thursday, october 5 feedback session that allows safe space wildly different sizes, as they ask: How can to share issues, challenges and problems Nik Nerburn | Filmmaker/Photographer 9:00 – 10:00 am artists in more time based and ephemeral that can turn into opportunities for growth forms help to build a growing and inclusive Naomi Schliesman | Artist Development artist keynote :: gregg deal and development in unexpected ways community that lasts? Panelists will help the Director, Springboard for the Arts when unencumbered by hierarchy. Share Gregg Deal is a provocative contemporary group inquire, interrogate, and invigorate Location: Colorado Room artist-activist who deals with Indigenous challenges related to internal matters such their approaches to supporting creative identity and pop culture, touching on issues as staff-to-artists and artist-to-artist issues connections, fulfilling artist needs, building of race relations, historical consideration which can be difficult to share during the lasting community-based assets, and (2) Wanderlust + Retaining Staff open conference sessions. Participants will and stereotype. With this work—including designing programs towards long-term Our organizations work tirelessly to ensure be asked to think of a particular pattern or paintings, mural work, performance art, engagement. that the highest quality, most dedicated, pressing issues. Each participant will get five filmmaking and spoken word — Gregg deserving, and diverse audiences benefit from minutes to share and then cross talk and peer Rob Bailis | Associate Director, Cal critically examines issues within Indian the resources and programs that we design. feedback will happen for five minutes. This Performance country such as decolonization, the Native The creative talent we attract to our staff is an opportunity to understand issues in the mascot issue, appropriation and the Jesse Elliott | Director, The Music District generates the energy and foundation for this field and how we may support each other representation of Indigenous people, likeness work. But what is the line between inspiration through our challenges, failures and fears as Adam Fong | Director, Center for New Music and voices in the context of Western culture. and total exhaustion? How do we keep our administrators. Location: Ballantine Classroom Introduction: Gary Steuer | President + CEO, staff happy and engaged in their work and Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Gia Hamilton | Director, Joan Mitchell Center create concrete policies to support staff (facilitator) growth, time-off, and creative opportunties? Location: Colorado Room Location: Martin Room We will begin by using the Steel Yard as a 13 wednesday, october 4 - thursday, october 5 :: 14 case study with tangible examples of creative speakers + presenters leadership, artist staff-member engagement 1:00 – 2:15 pm and strategies to develop and inspire staff and board engagement. Bringing together lunch + closing remarks Cristina Aguilar | Executive Director, Colorado Adam Fong | Executive Director, Center for New Organization for Latina Opportunity and Music (San Francisco, CA) human resources professionals and arts Location: Colorado Room Reproductive Rights (COLOR) (Denver, CO) administrators this session will result in a list Claudia Ford | Executive Director, Tisané at Maple of best practices we can take back to our own Nora Alami | Associate Producer, Gibney Dance (New Homestead Farm (Providence, RI) 2:30 – 4:30 pm York, NY) organizations. Deborah Fowlkes | Senior Director of Alumni tours + workshops + adventures Michele Anderson | Rural Program Director, Relations, FOCUS (Fellowship of Catholic University Jennifer Carnevale | Board Member, The Steel Springboard for the Arts (Fergus Falls, MN) Students) (Golden, CO) Yard Space is limited; free to attendees, but Mark Golden | President / CEO, Golden Artist Colors registration required. Alberta Arthurs | Senior Fellow, John Brademas Elizabeth Chodos | Executive + Creative Center of New York University (New York, NY) (New Berlin, NY) Director, Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’  Rocky Mountain Land Library Ella Baff | Senior Program Officer for Arts and Tony Grant | Co-Director, Sustainable Arts Residency  RedLine, PlatteForum + The Temple Cultural Heritage, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Foundation (San Francisco, CA) (New York, NY) Howie Sneider | Executive Director, The Steel Esther Grisham Grimm | Executive Director, 3Arts Yard MCA Denver | Saber Acomodar Rob Bailis | Associate Director, Cal Performances (Chicago, IL) (Berkeley, CA) Location: Martin Room  Santa Fe Art District Mural Tour Collin Haffey | Place-Based Ecologist (Santa Fe, NM) Daniel Banks, PhD | Co-Director, DNAWORKS (Fort Gather in the History Colorado Center atrium at Deana Haggag | President & CEO, United States Worth, TX) (3) Evaluating Arts for Change: A New the School Group Entrance promptly at Artists James Baker | Executive Director, Pilchuck Glass Framework 2:45 pm for departure. Gia Hamilton | Director, Joan Mitchell Center (New School (Seattle, WA) Orleans, LA) Aesthetic Perspectives: Attributes of Peter Bradley | Executive Director, Island Institute Jeffreen Hayes, PhD | Executive Director, Threewalls Excellence in Arts for Change is a new 4:45 – 7:00 pm (Sitka, AK) framework created toenhance understanding (Chicago, IL) closing night party Madison Cario | Director, Office of the Arts at Georgia and evaluation of creative work at the Kalyn Heffernan | MC/Producer, Wheelchair Sports Institute of Technology (Atlanta , GA) intersection of arts and civic engagement, Close out the conference with a special Camp (Denver, CO) party at RedLine. Peek into resident artist Jennifer Carnevale | Board Member, The Steel Yard community development, and justice — and Tatiana Hernandez (Denver, CO) often challenges the conventional terms for studios and explore this dynamic platform for (Providence, RI) Wilfredo Hernandez | Program Manager, The Field defining and assessing art work. Animating creativity and entrepreneurship. Join us for Nicole J. Caruth | Artistic Director, McColl Center for (New York, NY) Democracy, a program of Americans for chill music, delicious food and a super group Art + Innovation (Charlotte, NC) photo, along with special recognitions! Lisa Hoffman | Executive Director, Alliance of Artists the Arts, has worked with artists and their Elizabeth Chodos | Executive + Creative Director, Ox- Communities (Providence, RI) allies to develop a framework of 11 aesthetic Location: RedLine Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency (Saugatuck, Haley Honeman | Theatre Artist (Mesa, AZ) attributes specifically designed to enhance  Open bar and hors d’oeuvres MI) understanding and evaluation of Arts for Andrea Chung | Artist (San Diego, CA) YK Hong | Anti-Oppression Trainer, Organizer, Artist Change. It offers guidance for discussing  Buses provided from tours/hotel to/from Leah Horn | Director of Marketing and artists’ approaches to work, the qualities of Holiday Inn Express Cecily Cook | Senior Program Officer, Asian Cultural Council (New York, NY) Communications, Western States Arts Federation the work as experienced by audiences and (WESTAF) (Denver, CO) participants, and the connections of art to Chrissy Deal | Program Manager, Western States Arts context. Learn about the framework, how Federation (WESTAF) (Denver, CO) Margaret Hunt | Director, Colorado Creative Industries (Denver, CO) artists and arts organizations are using it Gregg Deal | Artist-Activist (Colorado Springs, CO) Erin Johnston | Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford and test it out with your own program in this Michael Diniscia | Deputy Director, John Brademas University (Stanford, CA) interactive breakout. Hear how Warm Cookies Center of New York University (New York, NY) of the Revolution, Denver’s own civic health Cristy Johnston Limón | Executive Director, Destiny Erin Elder | Founding Director, Gibbous Creative Arts Center (San Francisco, CA) club, considers the aesthetics of its creative (Santa Fe, NM) civic engagement work. Amanda Kik | Co-Director, Crosshatch Center for Art Nina Elder | Independent Artist (Santa Fe, NM) Pam Korza | Co-director, Animating & Ecology (Bellaire, MI) Jesse Elliott | Director, The Music District (Fort Democracy, Americans for the Arts Brad Kik | Co-Director, Crosshatch Center for Art & Collins, CO) Ecology (Bellaire, MI) Evan Weissman | Executive Director, Warm Amanda Flores | Youth Programming Coordinator, Pam Korza | Co-Director, Animating Democracy, Cookies of the Revolution PlatteForum (Denver, CO) Americans for the Arts (Amherst, MA) Location: MDC/Richmond Room conference artwork Gravity by Thomas ‘detour’ Evans 15 16 speakers + presenters (continued)

Holly Kranker | Residency Program Manager, Bemis Bridges Program, Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Evan Weissman | Executive Director, Warm Cookies Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha, NE) Art (New York, NY) of the Revolution (Denver, CO) Veronique Le Melle | Executive Director, Artpace Megha Ralapati | Residency + Special Projects Risë Wilson | Director of Philanthropy, Robert (San Antonio, TX) Manager, Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago, IL) Rauschenberg Foundation (New York, NY) Melissa Levin | Vice President of Artists, Estates and Bahia Ramos | Director/Arts, John S. and James L. Cedra Wood | Independent Artist (Albuquerque, NM) Foundations, Art Agency, Partners (New York, NY) Knight Foundation (Miami, FL) Vito Zingarelli | Program Director, Hedgebrook Carolyn Love, PhD | Principal, Kebaya Coaching & Paul Rucker | Artist (Freeland, WA) Consulting (Denver, CO) Madalena Salazar | IMTour, TourWest Program and David Macy | Resident Director, The MacDowell Grants Manager, Western States Arts Federation Colony (Peterborough, NH) (WESTAF) (Denver, CO) Sharon Maidenberg | Executive Director, Headlands Richard Saxton | Creative Director, M12 Studio Center for the Arts (Sausalito, CA) (Byers, CO) Bethany Martin-Breen | Senior Program Associate, Naomi Schliesman | Artist Development Director, The Rockefeller Foundation (New York, NY) Springboard for the Arts (Fergus Falls, MN) Louise Martorano | Executive Director, RedLine María Paz Segura | General Producer, RAP - (Denver, CO) Residencias de Arte Panal (Buenos Aires, Argentina) Shanai Matteson | Artist and Collaborative Director, Sanjit Sethi | Director, Corcoran School of the Water Bar & Public Studio (St. Paul , MN) Arts and Design | George Washington University (Washington, DC) Nat May | Executive Director + Co-founder, Hewnoaks Artist Colony (Portland, ME) Teresa Silva | Director of Exhibitions & Residencies, Chicago Artists Coalition (CAC) (Chicago, IL) Dale Mott | Director of External Relations, Halcyon (Washington, DC) Howie Sneider | Executive Director, The Steel Yard (Providence, RI) Devon Murphy | Digital Content Lead, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (Banff, AB) Dean Sobel | Director, Clyfford Still Museum (Denver, CO) Tariana Navas-Nieves | Director of Cultural Affairs, Denver Arts & Venues (Denver, CO) Cortney Lane Stell | Executive Director + Chief Curator, Black Cube (Denver, CO) Nik Nerburn | Filmmaker/Photographer (Minneapolis, MN) Gary Steuer | President + CEO, Bonfils-Stanton Foundation (Denver, CO) Okwui Okpokwasili | Artist (Brooklyn, NY) Ben Strader | Co-Director, Blue Mountain Center Michael Orlove | Director of Presenting & (Blue Mt. Lake, NY) Multidisciplinary Works, Artist Communities and International Activities | Multidisciplinary Arts, Frederick Swanson | Research Geologist, USDA National Endowment for the Arts (Washington, DC) Forest Service (Corvallis, OR) Rebecca Parker | Program Director, Ox-Bow School David Szlasa | Director, Petronio Residency Initiative of Art and Artists’ Residency (Saugatuck, MI) (Cairo, NY) Flannery Patton | Director of Member Services + Jessica Todd | Residency Manager, Rauschenberg october 15 - 18, 2018 :: philadelphia, pa Communications, Alliance of Artists Communities Residency (Captiva, FL) (Providence, RI) Sylvia Torti | Associate Director, Mapping Meaning Carla Peterson | Director, Maggie Allesee National (Salt Lake City, UT) Center for Choreography (Tallahassee, FL) Sharon Ullman | Acting Executive Director, Robert Craig T. Peterson | Artistic Director, Abrons Arts Rauschenberg Foundation (New York, NY) ALLIANCE OF Center (New York, NY) Hrag Vartanian | Editor-in-chief + Co-founder, ARTISTS COMMUNITIES Elizabeth Quinn | Creative Director, Caldera Hyperallergic (Brooklyn, NY) 2018 annual conferenc (Portland, OR) Rebecca Vaughan | Artistic and Programming e Zeyba Rahman | Senior Program Officer, Building Director, PlatteForum (Denver, CO)

17 18 alliance honor roll individual contributors board of trustees Sharon Ullman | Robert Artworks Loveland Rauschenberg Foundation (New Thank you to the following individuals who have donated to the Alliance in 2016-2017: Esther Grisham Grimm, Chair Bonfils-Stanton Foundation | 3Arts (Chicago, IL) York, NY) Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Mario Garcia Durham, Mark & Barbara Golden Margot Knight Tamara Ross Clyfford Still Museum Vice-Chair | APAP, the honorary board Tony Grant Nancy Lunsford Ree Schonlau Kaneko Association of Performing Arts Colorado Creative Industries Ted Berger Professionals (Washington, Jamie Gregory David Macy Elizabeth Seaton New York Foundation for the Arts Denver Arts + Venues DC) (Executive Director Emeritus) Walter Griggs Roger Mandle Edward Shagory Golden Triangle Creative Mark Golden, Treasurer | J. Richard Braugh District David Griggs Steven Mastroyin Chaucer Silverson Golden Artist Colors (New UBS Financial Berlin, NY) Hemera Foundation Esther Grisham Grimm Nancy S. Nordhoff The Todd & Betiana Simon Mary Carswell Foundation Linda Earle, Secretary | New Lighthouse Writers Workshop David Grozinsky Dennis & Catie O’Leary The MacDowell Colony (Executive York Arts Program (New York, Rasmuson Foundation Director Emeritus) MCA Denver Deidre Grubb Stephanie Olmsted NY) Jennifer Smith Mel Chin Museo De Las Americas Gia Hamilton Susan Tillett ______Catheve & Gary Strokosch Artist The Music District Brandon Hinman Adam Price Jhumpa Lahiri Seymour Ullman Rob Bailis | Cal Performances Osage Cafe Dan Hurlin Thomas Putnam Author Mel Watkin (Berkeley, CA) PlatteForum W. Lee Jones The Arches Foundation Liz Lerman Georgia Welles Elizabeth Chodos | Ox-Bow RedLine Contemporary Art Jason Kalajainen Alix Refshauge Choreographer School of Art and Artists’ Center Brad & Amanda Kik Joe & Michele Richey Residency (Saugatuck, MI) Roger Mandle Qatar Museums Authority Rocky Mountain Land Library Douglas & Marjorie Kik Bruce Rodgers Melissa Franklin | The Pew Center for Arts + Heritage Clay Rockefeller Santa Fe Art District (Philadelphia, PA) Artist and real estate/community WESTAF developer Tony Grant | Sustainable Arts Wonderbound Foundation (San Francisco, Lowery Stokes Sims CA) Museum of Arts + Design Youth on Record Gia Hamilton | Joan Mitchell Mary T. Wolfe in memoriam Center (New Orleans, LA) Philanthropist Diversity + Leadership Brad Kik | Crosshatch Center Fellows for Art & Ecology (Bellaire, MI) staff Nora Alami | Gibney Dance (New 2018 emerging program institute Melissa Levin | Vice President York, NY) Deb Dormody of Artists, Estates and Deputy Director Arielle Julia Brown | Social Foundations, Art Agency, practice artist + creative producer Partners (New York, NY) Lisa Hoffman (Providence, RI) Executive Director Craig T. Peterson | Abrons Nicole J. Caruth | McColl Center Arts Center / Henry Street Flannery Patton for Art + Innovation (Charlotte, Settlement (New York, NY) Director of Member Services + NC) Communications Tamara Ross | The Banff Amanda Flores | PlatteForum ( Centre (Banff, AB Canada) Denver, CO) Sanjit Sethi | The Corcoran conference hosts + Mayumi Hamanaka | Kala Art october 13 - 15, 2018 | philadelphia, pa School of the Arts and Design - planning committee Institute (Berkeley, CA) George Washington University This bootcamp combines best practices from the arts-and-cultural sector with (Washington, DC) Anderson Ranch Arts Center Teresa Silva | Chicago Artists specific, hands-on information about artists’ residencies. If you are interested in Coalition (CAC) (Chicago, IL) Franklin Sirmans | Pérez Art The ART, a hotel launching a new residency program, you won’t want to miss this! more info at: Museum (Miami, FL) Art from Ashes www.artistcommunities.org Jayson Smart | The Rasmuson Arts Street Foundation (Anchorage, AK)

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7 Children’s Museum of Denver 22 Black American West Museum On behalf of the State of Colorado, it is my distinct pleasure to welcome you to Denver for 8 Colorado Sports Hall of Fame 23 Crossroads Theater th the 27 Annual Conference of the Alliance of Artists Communities. 9 Tivoli Student Union 24 Stiles African-American Heritage Center 10 Denver Athletic Club 25 Blair-Caldwell Library Colorado is recognized as a leader in building sustainable communities and economies by 11 Denver Firefighters Museum 26 B's Ballpark Museum cultivating creative talent, leveraging local resources, and fostering a sense of place through 12 U.S. Mint 27 Museo de las Américas the arts and innovation. And it is our creative sector and our artists that enrich communities 13 28 Governor’s Mansion and create memorable places. In fact, Colorado ranks first in the nation for the percentage 14 Denver Art Museum (DAM) 29 Grant-Humphreys Mansion 15 DAM Frederic C. Hamilton Building of adults who perform and create artwork. Creativity and innovation are truly cherished Holiday Inn Express Denver Downtown values here. We hope you will find time to enjoy Denver’s four certified arts districts in the

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