TheHill.com Covers Arts Advocacy Day 2008

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Add comment April 3rd, 2008 at 10:58am admin

Taking Stock: Connecting the Dots

Americans for the Arts and NonFiction Media presents “Taking Stock: Connecting the Dots”, a video chronicling the Puget Sound Region’s Emerging Arts Leaders’ dynamic series of Creative Conversations.

Ride along as young arts administrators grapple with the shifting landscape of arts funding, advocacy and space use models.

Thrill to the strains of peer networking, collaborative problem solving, and mutual edification!

This film shows what is possible when today’s leaders come together to invent the way forward–rather than waiting to have it shown to them.

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Add comment December 19th, 2007 at 01:00pm Rebecca Borden

ArtCast: Episode 4

In this month’s ArtCast, Bob Lynch, President and CEO of Americans for the Arts, discusses the organization’s work toward the 2008 presidential primaries and election. Find out how Americans for the Arts is focusing its efforts to impact the dialogue of the presidential primaries, including the creation of a new arts position issue brief for all the presidential candidates.

 

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December 17th, 2007 at 05:25pm admin

Stuck in the Elevator with You at NAMP

Well, a dozen of us gave new meaning to term “ArtVenture” at an Americans for the Arts conference. A group of emerging leaders headed out for our dine-around only to get struck in Miami’s MetroMover elevator for 25-minutes. Of course, we began by denying our situation. Let’s press more buttons! Something will kick this box into gear! The only thing that rose was the temperature and, in some instances, panic levels. But, magic also appeared. We made the most of the situation. Here are the top ten reasons to get stuck in an elevator with emerging arts leaders.

1. It’s a great icebreaker before your dine-around.
2. Being surrounded by creative people in tight spaces can be a whole lot of fun.
3. Talk about a bonding moment!
4. Emerging leaders can turn crisis moments into laugher moments in a snap.
5. You can ask your boss for a raise and post it online (ahem, Marialaura Leslie).
6. Stepping through elevator doors pried open emergency personnel gives a whole new meaning of emerging to an emerging leader.
7. You know there’s going to be an ice cold mojito at the other end.
8. You discover things you never knew about your peers, like how one prides herself on being agile enough to climb through the elevator access panel in the ceiling and another one prides herself on being the rock at the base of the human pyramid.
9. You can practice your elevator speech.
10. Don’t believe us? Watch our video.

 

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4 comments November 6th, 2007 at 05:10pm Rebecca Borden

If we build it… will they come? ponderings from Social Networking to Build Audiences session

Web 2.0 sounds great, but…could this be a whole new culture to many? To encourage the online conversations to have some meaningful context, and buy in from techno-phobes / hostiles (a.k.a. arts professionals who fear the world outside their discipline) they must be fully equipped to participate in not only WHAT is being said, but HOW the conversation is happening. We will need to train potential digital technology users with a lot of side-by-side show me sessions.

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1 comment November 5th, 2007 at 09:29am Silagh White