conference sponsors october 22 - 25, 2013 :: san jose, california 2013 - 25, october 22 lava thomas paul hogan stephanie olmsted in-kind support
Anno Domini Gallery San Jose Museum of Art Djerassi San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles MACLA ALLIANCE OF ARTISTS COMMUNITIES Montalvo Arts Center San Jose Stage Palo Alto Art Center San Jose Taiko San Jose Institute of Silicon Valley Creates 2013 annual conference Contemporary Art ZERO1 conference schedule at a glance THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22 9 - 9:45 am Keynote :: Fallen Fruit...... San Jose Stage
10:30 am - 5 pm Djerassi Site Visit + Artists’ Feast...... Djerassi 10 - 10:45 am micro-sessions 1+1 = Infinity...... ZERO1 6 - 8 pm Opening Night Reception...... ZERO1 The Hatchery Project: Creating Partnerships to Support Performing Artists...... Quilt Museum WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23 To C3 or not C3? That is the Question...... MACLA Gallery
9 - 10:15 am Welcome Address...... San Jose Stage To Fail and Fail Big: The Importance of Failure for Creative Success...... MACLA Black Box Keynote :: Teri Rofkar...... San Jose Stage 11 am - 12:30 pm breakout sessions 10:30 am - 5 pm Board Track (see insert for schedule and agenda)...... ZERO1 The Art of Dancing: Life as an Artist and an Administrator.....Quilt Museum
10:30 am - 12 pm breakout sessions Balancing Act: Retreating + Engaging at Artist Residencies...... ZERO1 Cultivating Ecological Themes: What Can Residencies Do?....MACLA Gallery Beyond Time + Space: Connecting Artists to Resources.....MACLA Black Box
International Exchange: To Understand Each Other 12:30 - 2 pm Lunch...... Café Stritch is to Respect Each Other...... Quilt Museum Creative Conversation: Arts in Silicon Valley...... MACLA Black Box 2:15 - 5 pm Tours + Workshops + Adventures
12 - 1 pm Lunch...... Café Stritch FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25 1:30 - 3 pm breakout sessions A Seat at the Table: Artists + Food + Community...... MACLA Black Box 9 - 9:45 am micro-sessions Social Practice in Residence: Dispatches Stranded on that Fruitful Island: Cultivating from New Smyrna Beach...... ZERO1 Community Beyond Diversity...... MACLA Gallery In the Collection: Musicians in Residence at Residency Commissions: Inspiring New Work The National Music Centre...... MACLA Black Box with Time, Space, and Money...... Quilt Museum Connecting Communities: The Sheboygan Project...... MACLA Gallery 3:30 - 5 pm breakout sessions Creative Access: Integrating Artists with Disabilities...... Quilt Museum Trends in Philanthropy...... MACLA Black Box When a Leader Leaves: Succession Planning...... Quilt Museum 10 - 11:30 am breakout sessions Creative Conversation: Art from the Outposts...... Quilt Museum Fighting Entropy: Facilities Maintenance and Planning...... MACLA Gallery It Takes Two: Creative Partnerships for Residency Programs...... ZERO1 7 - 10 pm A Night at the Museum Party...... San Jose Museum of Art OPEN EXCHANGE (see program descriptions)...... MACLA
Keynote :: Guillermo Gómez-Peña...... San Jose Stage registration + refreshments 12 - 1 pm Visit the MACLA Lounge throughout the conference for registration materials, coffee/tea, 1 - 2 pm Lunch...... Café Stritch tour information, and more! 8:30 am - 5 pm Wednesday, October 23 2:15 - 4:30 pm Tours + Workshops + Adventures 8:30 am - 1 pm Thursday, October 24 8:30 am - 1 pm Friday, October 25 5:30 - 7:30 pm Closing Reception...... Anno Domini Gallery Dear Colleagues + Friends, Thank you for joining us for the Alliance of Artists Communities’ 23rd Annual Conference! We are excited to welcome you to San Jose, a growing nexus of dynamic arts organizations, rich cultural table of contents local planning group centers, and the world’s premier technology industry. This year’s conference includes 75 speakers from across the country – at least one-third of whom are 1 Schedule at a Glance City of San Jose practicing artists. Djerassi Resident Artists Program What the Alliance board and staff have come to love 4 Welcome from the Director MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y about Silicon Valley’s arts community over the last Cultura Latino Americana year are the same things that define the region as 5 Sessions + Events a hub of innovation – an entrepreneurial spirit that Montalvo Arts Center combines D.I.Y. with technology, an interdisciplinary 15 Keynote Biographies Palo Alto Art Center approach that brings the arts and other fields together, an identity that eschews provincialism in favor of globalism, and an openness that defies traditional hierarchies. San Jose Institute of 16 Speaker + Presenter List Contemporary Art Our planning committee members (listed at left) have all contributed enormously to this conference, and we are proud to showcase this vibrant community to arts-and-culture San Jose Jazz leaders from around the world. I offer special thanks to Rich Braugh,Anjee Helstrup-Alvarez, 18 Board + Staff San Jose Museum of Art Kelly Sicat, Nancy Glaze, Roy Hirabayashi, Judith Kleinberg, John McGuirk, and Cathy Kimball, who were early cheerleaders of our plans to bring the conference to San Jose. San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles For generous underwriting, thank you to 3Arts, the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, the John S. & James L. Knight Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Rasmuson San Jose Stage Foundation, and Silicon Valley Creates for their sponsorship; to our state arts council San Jose Taiko partners at Alabama Arts, Ohio Arts Council, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, and South Carolina Arts Commission, for providing scholarships to attendees; and to Alliance Silicon Valley Creates trustees Lava Thomas, Paul Hogan, Stephanie Olmsted, and Esther Grimm for their ZERO1 generous support. Please also join me in thanking the Alliance’s phenomenal staff – Lilli Weisz, this year’s COVER IMAGE conference coordinator; Flannery Patton, who curated all conference sessions; Alix Linda Gass, “Fields of Salt” Refshauge, who organized volunteers and sponsorship; and Stephanie Storch, who handled (2007) countless conference details. You are all an extraordinary team! And thanks as always to the Alliance’s Board of Trustees – led by Chair extraordinaire Wayne Lawson – who are equal parts wise, thoughtful, supportive, and funny. Most of all, thanks to you for joining us! We are proud to facilitate this vibrant gathering of artists, innovators, cultural leaders, public officials, funders, advocates, and others who 255 South Main Street believe in advancing today’s artists. Providence, RI 02903-2910 Tel: (401) 351-4320 Fax: (401) 351-4507 Email: [email protected] Caitlin Strokosch www.artistcommunities.org Executive Director
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22 KEYNOTE ADDRESS :: TERI ROFKAR program that aligns with your mission and A SEAT AT THE TABLE: ARTISTS + FOOD + opens doors. This panel will explore how COMMUNITY 10:30 am - 5:00 pm With introduction by Jayson Smart, Program Officer, Rasmuson Foundation to identify countries and organizations DJERASSI SITE VISIT + ARTISTS’ FEAST From Marinetti’s Manifesto for Futurist Location: San Jose Stage to partner with, attract artists that are a Cooking (1930) to Michael Rakowitz’s Enemy Djerassi Resident Artists Program good match, and work through common Kitchen (2004), artists have long employed Lunch will be provided on-site. 10:30 am - 5:00 pm stumbling blocks. With Mario Garcia Durham, food in their work and creative process. This Djerassi is 35 miles from San Jose. Buses will President/CEO, Association of Performing Board Track (see insert for schedule and panel brings together artists, chefs, curators, leave from the Sainte Claire Hotel. NOTE: There Arts Presenters; Wayne Lawson (moderator), agenda) and residency directors to discuss the role is a $50 fee for this tour. Director Emeritus, Ohio Arts Council, and Location: ZERO1 of food in contemporary art-making. Taking Chair, Alliance of Artists Communities; place in the context of the greater Bay Area, Explore Djerassi Resident Artists Program – Dennis O’Leary, Artist, and former Executive from the sweeping ocean views to the nearly a region known for its pioneering innovations 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Director, Djerassi Resident Artists Program; in locally sourced and organic cuisine and 600 acres of mountains and redwood forests, and Lori Wood, Founder, Fes Medina. to a farm-to-table lunch with artists and staff, Breakout Sessions active participation in the International Slow Location: Quilt Museum prepared by celebrated chef Dan Tosh. Hike CULTIVATING ECOLOGICAL THEMES: Food and Urban Farming Movements, this the property’s scenic vistas, eat in the newly WHAT CAN RESIDENCIES DO? conversation will examine the role of food as renovated Artists’ Barn, and enjoy this one- Ecological themes are a growing trend CREATIVE CONVERSATION: ARTS IN a catalyst for building community; the merits of-a-kind experience. in creative practices today, and artist SILICON VALLEY and challenges of engaging chefs and culinary communities have emerged with specific There are few places that embody the “edge artists in a residency context; the relationship 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm focuses on melding art and ecology, effect” – the dynamic point of possibility between the culinary arts and social practice; and how residencies can support creative, OPENING RECEPTION conservation, agriculture, and environmental at the intersection of art and other fields collaborative, and thoughtful experiments ZERO1 activism. Place-based work is steeped in the (science, technology, etc.) – more than environment. In this open format discussion Silicon Valley. With thriving cultural centers with art and food. With Sita Bhaumik, Beer/wine and hors d’ouevres we will explore the ways in which residencies and historic neighborhoods, mixed with Artist and Research Fellow, Institute for Art Connect with old friends and make new ones can facilitate and attract artists interested in an exploding tech landscape and growing and Olfaction; Donna Conwell, Associate during our opening reception! Hosted at ecological issues, develop public programs arts scene, Silicon Valley-based artists are Curator, Lucas Artists Program at Montalvo the ZERO1 Garage, a dynamic open format around this area of work, and build capacity navigating a changing landscape. Hear from Arts Center; sharon maidenberg, Executive arts center in the heart of San Jose, the and support for these projects. Together we four local artists on building their creative Director, Headlands Center for the Arts; celebration features musical performances will learn from each other’s successes and practice in Silicon Valley and ways that Mónica Ramírez-Montagut, Associate by San Jose-based Brazilian folk singer Cado. failures as we explore ecological residencies local organizations – including ZERO1, the Director and Senior Curator, MACLA/ Free for all attendees! and programs that engage the public. With Cubberley Artists Studios, and MACLA – are Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana; and Kelly Sicat (moderator), 0.2 miles from the Sainte Claire Hotel Brian Karl, Program Director, Headlands addressing the needs of local artists and Center for the Arts; Molly Rideout, Co- forging new models of sustainability. With Director, Lucas Artists Residency Program at Director, Grin City Collective; and Jay Salinas, Linda Gass, Environmental Artist, Cubberley Montalvo Arts Center. Co-Founder, Wormfarm Institute. Residency; Barbara Goldstein (moderator), Location: MACLA Black Box WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23 Location: MACLA Gallery Consultant and former Public Art Director, City of San Jose Office of Cultural Affairs; Sam STRANDED ON THAT FRUITFUL ISLAND: All sessions within 0.3 miles of Sainte Claire Rodriguez, Artist; and Daniela Steinsapir, Hotel and San Jose Marriott INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE: TO CULTIVATING COMMUNITY BEYOND UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER IS TO Multimedia Artist and Artist Fellow, ZERO1. DIVERSITY RESPECT EACH OTHER Location: MACLA Black Box 9:00 am - 10:15 am Many have approached diversity through Art is the great engine of mutual the lens of striving towards cultural equity, WELCOME ADDRESS understanding that connects the world 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm but why is advancing difference within Wayne Lawson, Board Chair, Alliance of and empowers societies. Artist residencies LUNCH an artist community so important to the Artists Communities; Caitlin Strokosch, are uniquely positioned to be centers of Location: Café Stritch creative process? How can outreach or Executive Director, Alliance of Artists cross-cultural connection and collaboration, selection processes align to foster vibrant Communities but how does one develop a dynamic and collaborations and dynamic internal 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Location: San Jose Stage sustainable international cultural exchange communities? This discussion will focus on program? Leaders from across the field Breakout Sessions the conditions created within an environment share advice on creating an exchange that offer artists new challenges, provokes
5 6 new ideas and ways of thinking, and Director, Sustainable Arts Foundation; John Director, Pilchuck Glass School; David Macy, McCartney to Elizabeth Cady Stanton/Susan ultimately speak to the positive energy McGuirk (moderator), Director - Performing Resident Director, The MacDowell Colony; B. Anthony to South Park’s Matt Stone/Trey created by having the right mix of people in Arts Program, William & Flora Hewlett and Sarah Workneh, Co-Director, Skowhegan Parker. In this session, he’ll share the essential fellowship together. With Ann Brady, Director Foundation; Michael Orlove, Director School of Painting & Sculpture. themes he has unearthed about what these of the Rauschenberg Residency, Robert of Artists Communities, Presenting & Location: MACLA Gallery pairs have in common and their relevance to Rauschenberg Foundation; Linda Earle, Multidisciplinary Works, National Endowment artist communities. With Joshua Wolf Shenk, Executive Director, New York Arts Program; for the Arts; and Regina Smith, Program essayist and author of Lincoln’s Melancholy. 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm and Regin Igloria, Director of Residencies and Officer - Arts and Culture, The Kresge Location: ZERO1 Fellowships, The Ragdale Foundation. Foundation. A NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM PARTY Location: MACLA Gallery San Jose Museum of Art Location: MACLA Black Box THE HATCHERY PROJECT: CREATING Cocktails (cash bar) and hors d’ouevres PARTNERSHIPS TO SUPPORT RESIDENCY COMMISSIONS: INSPIRING WHEN A LEADER LEAVES: SUCCESSION Celebrate with the Alliance during a night PERFORMING ARTISTS NEW WORK WITH TIME, SPACE + MONEY PLANNING of music, art, and friends at the San Jose In 2011 the Alliance of Artists Communities Has your residency considered Museum of Art! Catch up with colleagues, released a report entitled Mind the Gap: Artist commissioning new work? Commissioning Succession can take place in many ways – meet arts and community leaders from San from planned transitions of leadership to Residencies in Dance that revealed a critical not only dictates some of the structure of Jose, enjoy nocturnal tours of the museum’s lack of creative support for live performance your residency, but may curate the content unexpected and sudden changes. Based on galleries, and catch a surprise performance on the case study of San Jose Taiko, this panel artists in the United States. In response of it as well. Artists may be commissioned the balcony. Don’t miss this special Alliance to this report four organizations – Maggie to create work specific to a community, or discussion will focus on how organizations event – free for attendees! can work through outgoing senior leadership Allesee National Center for Choreography they may be commissioned to develop more 0.2 miles from the Sainte Claire Hotel (Tallahassee, FL), Vermont Performance Lab open-ended work, but commissioning at the and other disruptive staff changes and ways to anticipate and plan for change. It will (Guilford, VT), The Chocolate Factory (Long very least guarantees the artist some financial Island City, NY), and RED Arts Philadelphia return for his/her work. Commissioning also look at what is next for those who are leaving, especially founders who helped THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24 (Philadelphia, PA) – launched a pilot called residencies can also be used to develop The Hatchery Project, an innovative and new audiences and to educate audiences create an organization. With PJ Hirabayashi, All sessions within 0.3 miles of Sainte Claire Artistic Director Emeritus, San Jose Taiko; Roy Hotel and San Jose Marriott evolving collaborative residency partnership on the new directions artists are exploring - with a focus on audience/artist engagement through open rehearsals, talks, or workshops Hirabayashi, Founder, San Jose Taiko; Franco Imperial, Artistic Director, San Jose Taiko; and throughout the various stages of the creative for local artists inspired by the work. This 9:00 am - 9:45 am process. In this session Craig Peterson, one session explores the various opportunities Wisa Uemura, Executive Director, San Jose KEYNOTE :: FALLEN FRUIT of the founding partners, will discuss the commissioning offers to residencies, Taiko. Artists David Burns and Austin Young, with evolution of the project from its origin and including the commissioning of performance- Location: Quilt Museum will share about its progress to date. What based work. With Anjee Helstrup-Alvarez, introduction by Caitlin Strokosch, Executive Director, Alliance of Artists Communities are some challenges to extending creative Executive Director, MACLA/Movimiento FIGHTING ENTROPY: FACILITIES support to dance and theater artists? Can de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana; Keith MAINTENANCE AND PLANNING Location: San Jose Stage organizations work with artists to find Hennessy, Dancer/Choreographer and strategic points of engagement that can Director, CIRCO ZERO; and Bruce Rodgers For residency programs with a mission of 10:00 am - 10:45 am simultaneously serve audiences AND creative (moderator), Executive Director, Hermitage providing time and space, the facilities are literally half of the story. When we look at Micro-Sessions processes? How can organizations that Artists Retreat. support performing artists work together our facilities, there are plenty of complicated 1+1 = INFINITY Location: Quilt Museum decisions to be made. How do we create a more effectively through collaboration? For ages, the most common explanation facilities plan? Are we allocating the right With Craig Thomas Peterson, consultant and for creativity has been the story of the 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm amount of resources to maintenance staffing producer. lone genius. Yet others have emphasized and projects? What regulations do we need to Location: Quilt Museum Breakout Sessions the power of networks, cultures, and be aware of? Who do we ask when challenged communities, as a critique of the lone-genius TRENDS IN PHILANTHROPY by unique facilities problems? When do we myth. A third possibility exists between these TO C3 OR NOT C3? THAT IS THE In a lively discussion, panelists will discuss fundraise for a facilities upgrade and when do two: the power of pairs as one of the most QUESTION... trends in grantmaking at the public we use operating funds? This session will be essential forces for creativity. Joshua Wolf and private level, pathways for funding led by organizational leaders with experience Most arts organizations fit into a standard Shenk has spent the last 5 years studying the artist residency programs, and ways to in facility maintenance and planning for artist 501c3 nonprofit model. But should they? nature of relational exchange, drawing on successfully approach funders. Audience residencies and arts education / workshops. The nature of charitable giving is evolving, science and psychology, and the stories of questions welcome! With Tony Grant, With Jim Baker (moderator), Executive along with the climate of nonprofit revenue creative pairs ranging from John Lennon/Paul in general. Different models of ownership,
7 8 governance, and management structure 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Djerassi Resident Artist Program; and Susan this program for over 24 years. Learn how are possible and potentially more efficient. Breakout Sessions Page Tillett (moderator), Executive Director, this special residency leads to long-term With collectively over 25 years’ experience Mesa Refuge. collaborations, sharing ideas and resources working with hundreds of arts groups, Andy THE ART OF DANCING: LIFE AS AN impacts the artists’ daily practice. Then visit ARTIST AND AN ADMINISTRATOR Location: ZERO1 Fife and Monika Proffitt will discuss the the Palo Alto Art Center where the director standard nonprofit model, new and different “The art of living is more like wrestling than BEYOND TIME + SPACE: CONNECTING will walk you through the current exhibition options, and examples of the good, bad, and dancing.” - Marcus Aurelius ARTISTS TO RESOURCES and showcase ways in which the Center ugly that they’ve encountered. With Andy Has your artistic life become more like collaborates with the Cubberley Artists Fife, Independent consultant and writer; and Are you trying to find new ways to support Community. a wrestling match than a dance? Is your the artists you serve? Do you want to connect Monika Proffitt, Executive Director, Starry brain duking it out with the challenges Tour bus will leave from MACLA and return Night Retreat. artists to a wider network of support for all of an organization more than your own aspects of their practice? Artists are in need of to the Sainte Claire Hotel Location: MACLA Gallery personal artistic ideas? This conversation for assistance with fundraising, marketing, legal administrators who are also working artists issues, and more, but no single organization EAST SAN JOSE PUBLIC ART TOUR will explore strategies for keeping your TO FAIL AND FAIL BIG: THE IMPORTANCE can respond to all artists’ needs. Panelists San Jose has one of the nation’s most highly OF FAILURE FOR CREATIVE SUCCESS art-making alive, including changing your will discuss resources they directly offer as mindset, learning how to carve out time, regarded public art programs. Take a tour ”We need to embrace failure and understand well as how they recommend artists to other with the city’s Public Art Manager, Jennifer and developing fruitful partnerships and service-providers to support the evolving how important flawed, unsuccessful work collaborations. With Clayton Campbell, artist Easton, and discover San Jose’s bright, bold, can be to the development of an artist and to needs of artists, including crowdfunding, and surprising streetscape. Hear about new and consultant; Suzanne Hackett-Morgan, fiscal sponsorship, insurance, connecting to the development of the field as a whole. We artist and Executive Director, Goldwell Open collaborative works, see how art integrates are just simply too afraid to fail and fail big. new audiences, legal resources, finding space, into communities, buildings, transportation, Air Museum & Artist Residency; David Szlasa, and professional development workshops. Twenty-five years from now that will bite us video artist, producer, educator; and Pamela and environmental systems in this historic in the ass, big time.” - Brian Rogers, Artistic With M.J. Bogatin, Co-President of the Board, San Jose area. Learn how San Jose Public Art Winfrey (moderator), Senior Artist & Curator, California Lawyers for the Arts; Dianne Director, The Chocolate Factory Exploratorium. and Creative Entrepreneur Programs, as well Debicella (moderator), Senior Program as local partners are working to help local Are you afraid to fail? Failure is vital to Location: Quilt Museum Director - Fiscal Sponsorship, Fractured Atlas; innovation but most of us are failing to offer artists see public spaces as a lab for creative Cora Mirikitani, President /CEO, Center for expression. real opportunities for failure. The Field offers BALANCING ACT: RETREATING + Cultural Innovation; and Sarah Jo Neubauer, a lively presentation and discussion of the ENGAGING AT ARTIST RESIDENCIES Training Coordinator, The Foundation Center. Tour stops include the Mexican Heritage importance of failure to artistic innovation Location: MACLA Black Box Plaza, a magnificent facility built on the site and practical tips for how we can all – as The push-and-pull between maintaining a of the first grocery store boycott for farm retreat setting for artists and engaging with residency providers, funders, and presenters 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm workers’ rights organized by César Chavez – increase artists’ success by increasing the local community is a critical issue for in the 1960s. Meet local artists from the the opportunities for failure. Based on our the field of artist residencies. Moderated LUNCH School of Arts and Culture – a “multi-cultural 2013 ground-breaking study “to fail and fail by Susan Page Tillett, the new Executive Location: Café Stritch and inter-cultural venue” for community big: a study of mid-career artists, success Director of the Mesa Refuge (and former events – and discover The Multicultural Arts Director of Ragdale), join in conversation with and failure,” The Field will share success 2:15 pm - 5:00 pm Leadership Institute, an innovative program stories born from the seeds of artists’ risks colleagues working to balance the needs of working to create networks of support and and failures. “to fail and fail big” features residents, expectations of the surrounding Tours + Workshops + Adventures professional development opportunities for nuanced portraits of “successful” artists like community, and an organization’s own Space is limited for tours; see registration desk arts leaders of color in San Jose and beyond. vision, capacity, and stakeholders. Providing Miguel Gutierrez and Young Jean Lee and to change or add tour selections. Tour bus will leave from MACLA and return advice from presenters like Georgiana Pickett an artist’s perspective, Lauren DiCioccio will share her experience with a variety of to the Sainte Claire Hotel and Sam Miller. With Jennifer Wright Cook, CUBBERLEY ARTISTS’ STUDIOS + PALO Executive Director, The Field. residencies - from those offering solitary retreat to those steeped in community ALTO ART CENTER SAN JOSE TAIKO WORKSHOP + Location: MACLA Black Box engagement. This session is designed to be Visit a unique long-term studio residency in JAPANTOWN TOUR a true conversation, so please come with Palo Alto and the recently renovated Palo Be a guest of San Jose Taiko’s 40th your own experiences, frustrations, and Alto Art Center. Created by artists in need Anniversary year! Your tour begins with an suggestions on this vital question for the field of affordable studio space in expensive exclusive hands-on workshop at San Jose of artists communities. With Jamie Badoud, Silicon Valley, the Cubberley Artists Studio Taiko’s studio to experience the high energy Executive Director, Hambidge Center for Residency now offers 23 local artists a studio art form of the Japanese drum. for a minimum five-year term. First explore Creative Arts & Sciences; Lauren DiCioccio, Be transported to San Jose Japantown for artist; Kristofer Mills, Program Manager, Cubberley, meet the artists in their studios and hear from them about maintaining a walking tour of this historical, cultural 9 10 community – one of only three Japantowns FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25 and has set a foundation for cross-cultural Margo Warnecke Merck, Board Member, remaining in the US. Tour stops include the collaborations. Join this discussion on serving Chalk Hill Artist Residency; and Lisa Folsom- Japantown Mural Project – a previously All sessions within 0.3 miles of Sainte Claire musicians and artists from around the world Ernst, Fund Development Director, Becoming undeveloped maintenance yard transformed Hotel and San Jose Marriott through a new model of residency program. Independent. by the commissioned work of over 50 artists – With Candace Elder, Senior Programs Location: Quilt Museum and a visit to the Ken Matsumoto gallery. 9:00 am - 9:45 am Manager, National Music Centre. Led by PJ and Roy Hirabayashi, founders of Micro-Sessions Location: MACLA Black Box 10:00 am - 11:30 am San Jose Taiko and recipients of the National SOCIAL PRACTICE IN RESIDENCE: Breakout Sessions Heritage Fellowship for Traditional and Folk DISPATCHES FROM NEW SMYRNA BEACH CONNECTING COMMUNITIES: THE Arts, a lifetime honor from the National SHEBOYGAN PROJECT CREATIVE CONVERSATION: ART FROM How can residency programs best serve Endowment for the Arts. THE OUTPOSTS social practice artists? Hear from Ren Explore the relationship of artists-in- Tour bus will leave from MACLA and return Morrison, director of the Atlantic Center residence to a city and how all partners Craig Watson, Director of the California to the Sainte Claire Hotel for the Arts’ new Community Artists in can collaborate together to have lasting Arts Council, and two California artists host Residence program, on designing and impact, enhance constituencies’ lives and a creative conversation on making art in SoFA ARTS TOUR initiating an art-as-social practice/community understanding of the arts, and further remote towns and rural communities. At Spend your afternoon touring three of San engaged art residency. Current Community artists’ careers and work. Learn how a time when more of the population lives Jose’s leading arts organizations in the South Artist in Residence, Lexa Walsh, shares her the John Michael Kohler Arts Center has in cities than ever before, artists share of First Arts (SoFA) district of San Jose. Join experiences participating in artist residencies collaborated with the Wooster Collective their decisions to build a creative practice the artists and staff of MACLA/Movimiento around the world as a social practice artist. and City of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, to bring away from urban centers – and hubs like de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana, San Jose With Ren Morrison, Community Education world renowned street artists to the city to Los Angeles and San Francisco – and what Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) and San and Outreach Manager, Atlantic Center for develop community-based public works. This it means to be an artist working from the Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles (SJMQT) the Arts; and Lexa Walsh, Community Artist in snapshot of the Arts Center’s community outposts. With Craig Watson, Director, and hear about their collaborative effort to Residence, Atlantic Center for the Arts. residency will include a brief history of California Arts Council; Anne Beck, artist, the program and lessons learned - from Co-Founder, Lost Coast Culture Machine; and create a vibrant arts district and activate Location: ZERO1 newly renovated ArtPlace funded GORE approaching other organizations to serve as Sheila O’Hara, artist. park through public programs and artist community partners, to identifying needs Location: Quilt Museum IN THE COLLECTION: MUSICIANS IN engagement. within a city, to finding creative collaborative RESIDENCE AT THE NATIONAL MUSIC solutions. With Andrea Avery, Community IT TAKES TWO: CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS The tour will showcase the artist spaces CENTRE Arts Coordinator, John Michael Kohler Arts FOR RESIDENCY PROGRAMS and public facilities of each site, and a brief The National Music Centre in Calgary, Center. tour of special exhibits. At MACLA catch De Alberta, Canada, houses a growing collection Location: MACLA Gallery Join residency leaders for a discussion on Esperanza y De Locura/Of Hope and Madness, of unique and iconic musical instruments cultivating nontraditional partnerships. a compelling exhibition that includes kites and sound equipment – from Elton John’s In 2012, McColl Center for Visual Art and butterflies made of paper money by CREATIVE ACCESS: INTEGRATING launched a major project with the Charlotte- songwriting piano, to harpsichords dating ARTISTS WITH DISABILITIES Erika Harrsch and hear about MACLA’s from 1679, early synthesizers, the Rolling Mecklenburg Housing Partnership to create Learn about one inspiring and effective commissioning program that connects Stones’ legendary mobile recording studio, an art-and-ecology campus and bring 8 model for integrating artists with disabilities performance artists with space and new and many more unique and rare artifacts. environmental artists from around the world into a creative community. Chalk Hill Artist audiences. In the ICA take a cell phone tour As a catalyst for discovery, innovation, to Charlotte, North Carolina, each year. Residency will share the story of their of their auction collection. And at SJMQT and renewal through music, the National The project resulted in a $400,000 grant Studio Program, where artists from local be inspired by new work of artist Linda Music Centre is also home to a new Artist from ArtPlace America and vastly expanded nonprofits develop a reciprocal creative Toeniskoetter and a giant Tortilla Quilt by in Residence program – devoted to giving McColl’s residency program. ZERO1, an relationship with artist-in-residence, focusing artist Yolanda Guerra. artists time and space to create new work and arts and technology think tank based in San on sharing rather than teaching to create an connecting them with the Centre’s renowned Jose, connects their Artist Fellows to leading Walking tour will leave from MACLA atmosphere of peer-to-peer exchange that collection of living instruments, recording tech companies, cultural institutions, and leads to impromptu collaborations and new equipment, and technical expertise. NMC’s academic research centers to address current work. Hear from Chalk Hill and one of their AiR program has attracted diverse artists innovation challenges. An open format partners, Becoming Independent, about how from across Canada and around the world, discussion on looking beyond the usual the Studio Program establishes personal including Brian Eno, Kid Koala, Money Mark, suspects when developing organizational connections, fosters creative interplay, and Kinnie Starr, Timber Timbre, and Gotye, partnerships, and balancing the needs of welcomes possibilities. With Alice Warnecke, artists, partner organizations, and one’s own Program Director, Chalk Hill Artist Residency; programs. With Suzanne Fetscher, President/
11 12 CEO, McColl Center for Visual Art; and Joel to gain increased funding and how to better experience the ancient art of Tlingit weaving, Slayton, Executive Director, ZERO1. reach artists in developing nations. a form of traditional native weaving that Location: ZERO1 Location: MACLA Black Box + Gallery predates the pyramids of Egypt by over 6,000 years. Tlingit baskets and robes are a reflection of the rugged coastline of glaciers OPEN EXCHANGE: ROUNDTABLE 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm DISCUSSIONS and towering mountain peaks that skirt Propose your own roundtable or sign up for KEYNOTE :: GUILLERMO GÓMEZ-PEÑA Southeast Alaska. Using all your senses, a discussion! (Sign-up sheet at registration With introduction by Craig Watson, Executive explore the very tops of the mountains and table.) With three packed days we can’t Director, California Arts Council the deepest forest floors during an afternoon open artist studio and demonstration. always fit all the conversations we want Location: San Jose Stage within the regular conference schedule. 0.2 miles from Café Stritch OPEN EXCHANGE is a time to connect with 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm other attendees around shared areas of ZERO1 GARAGE + ARTIST FELLOWSHIP interest through proposed-topic roundtable LUNCH ZERO1 is an art and technology think tank discussions. Topics can be submitted at any Location: Café Stritch in downtown San Jose that works with some time during or leading up to the conference of the world’s most creative minds from the and will be announced Friday morning. Pre- 2:15 pm - 4:30 pm fields of art, science, design, architecture, and approved topics listed below. Tours + Workshops + Adventures technology to produce the internationally (1) The Artist in 2040: Progressive Community renowned ZERO1 Biennial, Artist Fellowship Engagement Space is limited for tours; please see program, and hundreds of exhibitions and registration desk to change or add tour events throughout the year. Building off the Alliance of Artists selections. Communities’ 2012 Urban Residency Come explore ZERO1’s industrial, 10,000 Preconference in Kansas City, this roundtable square-foot studio, exhibition and office focuses on what defines and will define MONTALVO ARTS CENTER space known as the ZERO1 Garage. View progressive community engagement for Explore the Sally and Don Lucas Artists the fall exhibition Patent Pending, a group artist communities. What do we see as the Residency Program at the Montalvo Arts show that uses patents as a starting point role of the individual artist in the future? Center! Located in the foothills of the Santa to investigate the relationship between What is the opportunity for the artist to claim Cruz Mountains, Montalvo encompasses artists, ownership, and invention. Learn and be recognized as a valuable contributor 175 stunning acres of forest, orchards, and about ZERO1’s unique Artist Fellowship to the dialogue about and the solutions for manicured gardens, a Mediterranean-inspired program that connects artists with leading social, political, environmental, and ethical villa built in 1912, and one of the oldest artist tech companies, cultural institutions, and issues? Are there art forms and disciplines residency programs in the US. You will visit academic research centers to address current that lend themselves more readily to acting artists from a variety of disciplines in their innovation challenges. in this space of engagement than others? studios. Culinary Fellow Andrea Blum will Finally, what does this mean for the kinds of talk about her latest projects and invite you 0.1 miles from Café Stritch support and opportunities that artists will to sample delicious artisan pizza straight need in the future and how can residencies from the oven. Kelly Sicat, Director of the 5:30 - 7:30 pm meet these needs? With Clayton Campbell, Lucas Artist Residency and Donna Conwell, CLOSING RECEPTION artist and consultant; Archana Horsting, Montalvo’s Associate Curator, will lead Anno Domini Gallery Director, Kala Art Institute; and Lisa Hoffman, participants on tours of art works on the Director of Environmental Art & Community grounds as well as the current exhibition in Beer/wine and hors d’ouevres Engagement, McColl Center for Visual Art. the Project Space Gallery. Wrap up the conference and begin your evening with a closing party at Anno Domini (2) Residency Abroad Tour bus will leave from MACLA and return to the Sainte Claire Hotel Gallery. This former downtown cinema now A discussion hosted by the Residency Abroad serves as a 4,100 sq. ft. arts mecca celebrating Affinity Group – a network of US-based Light food will be served during the tour street art and counterculture. Free for organizations running residencies abroad. attendees! This first conversation will explore the TLINGIT WEAVING WITH TERI ROFKAR 0.1 miles from the Sainte Claire Hotel challenges and opportunities of this model, Join Alaska Native artist Teri Rofkar at the including how programs might collaborate San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles to
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FALLEN FRUIT “List of 100 Visionaries.” Gómez-Peña is Andrea Avery | Community Arts Coordinator, Andy Fife | Independent consultant, coach, What began as creating maps of public fruit a regular contributor for newspapers and John Michael Kohler Arts Center (Sheboygan, teacher, writer (Puget Sound Region, WA) trees in Los Angeles has grown into a series magazines in the US, Mexico, and Europe and WI) a contributing editor to The Drama Review Lisa Folsom-Ernst | Fund Development of photographic portraits, experimental Jamie Badoud | Executive Director, The Director, Becoming Independent (Santa Rosa, documentary videos, public art installations, (NYU-MIT). His work pushes boundaries and mixes genres, exploring cross-cultural Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences CA) and curatorial projects across the globe. (Rabun Gap, GA) Using fruit as a lens to see the world, Fallen issues, immigration, the politics of language, Linda Gass | Environmental artist, Cubberley Fruit explores themes of urban space, “extreme culture,” and new technologies Jim Baker | Executive Director, Pilchuck Glass Residency (Palo Alto, CA) neighborhood and place, and new forms in the era of globalization and has been School (Stanwood, WA) of citizenship. The collective’s works have presented at over 700 venues across the Michal Gavish | Multi-media artist, Cubberley brought the attention of local communities globe, including the Tate Modern and Whitney Anne Beck | Artist and Co-Founder, Lost Coast Residency (Palo Alto, CA) Culture Machine (Fort Bragg, CA) and the global art community alike. Biennial. Barbara Goldstein | Consultant and former David Burns is a new media artist working in In 2012, Gómez-Peña received the Free Sita Bhaumik | Artist and Research Fellow, Public Art Director, City of San Jose Office of Southern California, whose work has shown at Culture Award from AS220, which included Institute for Art and Olfaction (Los Angeles, Cultural Affairs (San Jose, CA) the commission of a mural collaboration CA) The Getty Center, The Tate Modern/Tank.tv, Tony Grant | Director, Sustainable Arts The Armenian Museum of Experimental Art, between Gómez-Peña and Providence artist Joan Wyand entitled “The New Barbarians: To M.J. Bogatin | Co-President of the Board, Foundation (San Francisco, CA) Seoul Museum of Art, The Athens Biennale, California Lawyers for the Arts (Oakland, CA) The Ghetto Biennale, Ars Electronica, Los The Lords Of Censorship.” Suzanne Hackett-Morgan | Artist and Angeles County Museum of Art, Yerba Buena Ann Brady | Director - Rauschenberg Executive Director, Goldwell Open Air Museum Residency, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation & Artist Residency (Ryolite, NV) Center for the Arts, and elsewhere. TERI ROFKAR (Captiva, FL) Austin Young is a portrait photographer Teri Rofkar is an internationally renowned Anjee Helstrup-Alvarez | Executive Director, and video artist based in Los Angeles since fiber artist from the Sitka Tribe of Alaska. For Clayton Campbell | Artist and consultant (Los MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino 1985. He has created an encyclopedic over 25 years Teri has been weaving exquisite Angeles, CA) Americana (San Jose, CA) documentation of sub- and trans-culture in baskets and textiles from cedar, spruce Donna Conwell | Associate Curator, Montalvo Keith Hennessy | Dancer/Choreographer and New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, tree roots, ferns, and mountain goat wool Arts Center (Saratoga, CA) Director, Circo Zero (San Francisco, CA) and his work has expanded to include which she collects in the woods and along performative collaborations with the public. the shoreline of her Northwest coast home. Jennifer Wright Cook | Executive Director, The PJ Hirabayashi | Artistic Director Emeritus, San He is co-founder of the art collectives Fallen “I was introduced to Tlingit weaving by my Field (New York, NY) Jose Taiko (San Jose, CA) Fruit and Tranimal. Young’s work has been Grandmother, when I was a child. She lived featured in Vogue, Rolling Stone, Flaunt, and in Pelican, AK, where I spent many summers Dianne Debicella | Senior Program Manager - Roy Hirabayashi | Founder, San Jose Taiko Interview Magazine, and shown at LACMA, fishing and playing in Lisianski Inlet. The fun Fiscal Sponsorship, Fractured Atlas (New York, (San Jose, CA) Matadero Madrid, Ars Electronica, WOW NY) of traditional gathering as a child continues Lisa Hoffman | Director of Environmental Art Storefront Gallery, Berkeley Art Museum, the to fuel my investigations of climate, geology, Lauren DiCioccio | Artist (San Francisco, CA + and Community Engagement, McColl Center Hammer Museum, and Stephen Cohen. and chemistry today as an adult. I harvest and Brooklyn, NY) for Visual Art (Charlotte, NC) weave in Tlingit methods passed down for Mario Garcia Durham | President/CEO, Archana Horsting | Director, Kala Art Institute GUILLERMO GÓMEZ-PEÑA thousands of years, following the steps of my Ancestors.” Association of Performing Arts Presenters (Berkeley, CA) Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a performance (Washington, DC) artist, writer, activist, radical pedagogue, Rofkar has served as an Artist in Residence Regin Igloria | Director of Residencies and director of San Francisco-based performance at the Alaska Native Heritage Center in Linda Earle | Executive Director, New York Arts Fellowships, The Ragdale Foundation (Lake troupe La Pocha Nostra, and one of the Anchorage and at the Southeast Alaska Indian Program (New York, NY) Forest, IL) “most provocative and dynamic artists on the Cultural Center in Sitka. She has received a Jennifer Easton | Project Manager - Public Art Franco Imperial | Artistic Director, San Jose contemporary art scene.” number of celebrated awards including the Buffet Award for Indigenous Leadership, Program, City of San Jose (San Jose, CA) Taiko (San Jose, CA) Gómez-Peña was the first Chicano artist to be a Creative Capital project award, the NEA awarded the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, Candace Elder | Senior Programs Manager, Brian Karl | Program Director, Headlands National Heritage Fellowship Award, the National Music Centre (Calgary, AB) Center for the Arts (Sausalito, CA) is the recipient of a Bessie and an American United States Artist Fellowship, and the Book Award, and on the UTNE Reader’s Rasmuson Distinguished Artist Award. Suzanne Fetscher | President/CEO, McColl Margot H. Knight | Executive Director, Center for Visual Art (Charlotte, NC) Djerassi Resident Artist Program (Woodside, 15 CA) 16 Wayne Lawson | Director Emeritus, Ohio Arts Jay Salinas | Co-Founder, Wormfarm Institute alliance of artists communities Council; Chair, Alliance of Artists Communities (Reedsburg, WI) (Columbus, OH) Joshua Wolf Shenk | Writer (Los Angeles, CA) BOARD OF TRUSTEES Linda Marston-Reid Roger Mandle David Macy | Resident Director, The Dutchess County Arts Council Qatar Museums Authority Kelly Sicat | Director, Lucas Artists Residency Wayne Lawson Chair MacDowell Colony (Peterborough, NH) Ohio Arts Council (Director Hunter O’Hanian Clay Rockefeller Program at Montalvo Arts Center (Saratoga, Emeritus) Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Artist and real estate/community sharon maidenberg | Executive Director, CA) Lesbian Art developer Jason Kalajainen Vice-Chair Headlands Center for the Arts (Sausalito, CA) Union League of Chicago Bruce Rodgers Lowery Stokes Sims Joel Slayton | Executive Director, ZERO1 (San Hermitage Artists Retreat Museum of Arts + Design Connie Martinez | CEO, Silicon Valley Creates Jose, CA) Stephanie Olmsted Secretary Lava Thomas Mary T. Wolfe (San Jose, CA) Paul Hogan Treasurer Jayson Smart | Program Officer, Rasmuson Artist John McGuirk | Program Director - Performing Foundation (Anchorage, AK) Ruth Davis STAFF Arts Program, The William and Flora Hewlett Ruth Davis Associates HONORARY BOARD Regina Smith | Senior Program Officer - Arts & Caitlin Strokosch Foundation Linda Earle Ted Berger Executive Director Culture, The Kresge Foundation (Troy, MI) New York Arts Program New York Foundation for the Arts (Executive Director Emeritus) Flannery Patton Kristofer Mills | Program Manager, Djerassi David Fraher Resident Artist Program (Woodside, CA) Daniela Steinsapir | Multimedia artist and Member Services + Communications Arts Midwest J. Richard Braugh Manager Artist Fellow, ZERO1 (San Jose, CA) UBS Financial Cora Mirikitani | President/CEO, Center for Mario Garcia Durham Alix Refshauge Caitlin Strokosch | Executive Director, Alliance Association of Performing Arts Mary Carswell Research + Special Project Associate Cultural Innovation (Los Angeles, CA) Presenters The MacDowell Colony (Executive of Artists Communities (Providence, RI) Stephanie Storch Director Emeritus) Ren Morrison | Community Education + Cynthia Gehrig Office + Business Manager David Livingston Styers | Senior Governance The Jerome Foundation Mel Chin Outreach Manager, Atlantic Center for the Arts Lilli Weisz Artist (New Smyrna Beach, FL) Consultant, Board Source (San Rafael, CA) Esther Grisham Grimm Conference Coordinator 3Arts Jhumpa Lahiri Sarah Jo Neubauer | Training Coordinator, David Szlasa | Video artist, producer, educator Author (Oakland, CA) David Macy Foundation Center (San Francisco, CA) The MacDowell Colony Liz Lerman Choreographer Sheila O’Hara | Artist (Lower Lake, CA) Susan Page Tillett | Executive Director, The Mesa Refuge (Point Reyes Station, CA) Dennis O’Leary | Artist; former Executive Director, Djerassi Resident Artists Program Wisa Uemura | Executive Director, San Jose (Monterey, CA) Taiko (San Jose, CA) NEW YORK FOUNDATION Michael Orlove | Artist Communities, Lexa Walsh | Artist (Oakland, CA) Presenting + Multidisciplinary Works Director; Alice Warnecke | Program Director, Chalk Hill FOR THE ARTS International Activities Coordinator; National Artist Residency (Healdsburg, CA) Endowment for the Arts (Washington, DC) Margo Warnecke Merck | Advisor and Craig T. Peterson | Consultant and producer Board Member, Chalk Hill Artist Residency (Philadelphia, PA) (Healdsburg, CA) A National Resource for Artists & Arts Professionals Monika Proffitt | Executive Director, Starry Craig Watson | Director, California Arts Council Night Retreat (Truth or Consequences, NM) (Sacramento, CA) Jobs in the arts, opportunities and services for artists, Mónica Ramírez-Montagut | Associate Nancy White | Artist, Cubberley Residency awards, grants, residencies, fellowships, open calls, Director and Senior Curator, MACLA/ (Palo Alto, CA) Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino emergency assistance, and more. Americana (San Jose, CA) Pamela Winfrey | Senior Artist and Curator, Exploratorium (San Francisco, CA) Molly Rideout | Co-Director, Grin City Collective (Grinnell, IA) Lori Wood | Founder, Fes Medina (Salinas, CA + Fes, Morocco) Bruce Rodgers | Executive Director, Hermitage Artists Retreat (Englewood, FL) Sarah Workneh | Co-Director, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture (Skowhegan, NYFA.ORG/SOURCE Sam Rodriguez | Artist (San Jose, CA) ME) NYFA New York Foundation for the Arts 17 NYFA.ORG/CLASSIFIEDS 18