ARTIST COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Build sustainable relationships to organize, finance
and execute community-engaged art projects
This workshop is designed for artists who work outside the traditional art community to create work that engages topics of social and political relevance. Designed for those who already have a community-engaged practice or are planning for a project, this workshop will help artists clarify their objectives and gain the management skills they need to produce successful community engaged projects. Participants will get an in-depth look at the strategies and practices involved in making and supporting community-engaged art, including ways to engage a wide range of stakeholders in the process, production, funding and distribution of the work. Using case studies from a range of disciplines, participants will learn about grassroots fundraising, community partnerships, audience building and how to preserve the autonomy and integrity of one’s work. Artists leave the workshop with a handbook designed to help them outline clear project goals and establish a roadmap for building beneficial community relationships and support.
Key Skills Participants Learn:
· How to form lasting and strong community bonds with a variety of groups and organizations
· Strategies for encouraging different groups to work toward a common goal
· How to manage a community-based project while working with multiple partners and staying on budget
· Methods of fundraising using the community itself as a resource
· Best practices for navigating relationships with civic offices and permit agencies
Participants Leave the Workshop With:
· The Real Community Engagement Handbook, which includes tips on clarifying project goals and establishing a roadmap for community based work
· A community of informed and educated peer artists (including participants and workshop leaders) who can act as resources for future endeavors
When? Sunday, April 30, 9am – 5:30p
Where? ASC Board Room
Who? Creative Individuals from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg region who have a community-engaged professional artistic practice and/or who are planning an upcoming community-engagement project.
How much? All costs are being underwritten by ASC. There will be no cost to participants who are selected for the program.
How? Admission to the program will be competitive and requires submission of the following application.
APPLICATION FORM
Please complete the following (be sure to complete all fields!) and email to no later than Friday, March 10 at 5pm. No late submissions will be accepted.
ASC, in partnership with Creative Capital, will select participants based on their commitment to a community-engaged practice and in consideration of a cohort that reflects the community (diversity of art forms, career stages, age, gender, and race.)
Applicants will be notified by email on Wednesday, March 22 whether or not they have been accepted into the program.
Name: / Telephone:Email Address:
Website/URL:
Physical Address:
City: / State: / Zip: / Gender:
Race/Ethnicity: / Age: / 18-34 ☐ / 35-54 ☐ / 55+ ☐
Artistic
Discipline: / Years in Practice: / 2-5 ☐ / 5-10 ☐ / 10+ ☐
1. Describe your work.
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2. Briefly describe your approach to community-engaged work, including details on any upcoming projects that you are planning.
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3. Why is this training appropriate for you at this time?
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4. How do you think this opportunity will help further your career?
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By typing my full name below, I certify that all information in this application is true. If selected, I will attend the Creative Capital Artist Community Engagement Workshop on Sunday, April 30, 2017, from 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
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about the WORKSHOP leaderS and creative capital
Workshop LeaderS:
Aaron Landsman
Aaron Landsman makes live performances involving people, space, time and language. Based in New York City, his projects range from monologues and stage plays to participatory and conceptual works presented in places where people perform their lives: offices, homes, meeting rooms and buses. Recent works include:Empathy School, a performance created with filmmaker and composer Brent Green, commissioned by EMPAC and presented on a night bus ride through a country road; Appointment, a suite of works for a single viewer and a single performer in offices;City Council Meeting,a participatory, community-engaged work presented in five US cities, funded by NEFA’s National Theater Pilot, NPN, MAP and Jerome; andRunning Away From The One With The Knife, a new play about suicide and religious faith commissioned by NYSCA and presented at The Chocolate Factory. His earlier work was commissioned and produced by The Foundry Theater and PS 122 in New York, and DiverseWorks and Project Row Houses in Houston. Aaron is currently finishing a two-year Princeton Arts Fellowship, a three-year residency at ASU Gammage in Tempe, and is a playwright-in-residence at Abrons Arts Center. Upcoming work includesPerfect City,a collaboration with Lower East Side young adultscommissioned by Crossing The Line, and the multimedia workSQUARES, with photographer Paul Shambroom. He performed from 2004-2015 with Elevator Repair Service and has appeared in the work of many artists, including Richard Maxwell, Tory Vazquez, Andrea Kleine and Julia Jarcho. www.thinaar.com
Dread Scott
Dread Scott makes revolutionary art to propel history forward. He first received national attention in 1989 when his art became the center of controversy over its use of the American flag while he was a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. President G.H.W. Bush called his art “disgraceful” and the entire US Senate denounced and outlawed this work. His work has been included in recent exhibitions at MoMA PS1, the Walker art Center and the Brooklyn Museum as well as on view in America is Hard to See, the Whitney Museum's inaugural exhibition in their new building. In 2012, BAM, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, presented his performance Dread Scott: Decision as part of their 30th Anniversary Next Wave Festival. His work is in the collection of the Whitney Museum and the Akron Art Museum. He is a recipient of a grants from the Creative Capital Foundation, the MAP Fund and the Pollock Krasner Foundation. He works in a range of media including performance, photography, screen-printing and video. His works can be hard-edged and poignant. Dread plays with fire—metaphorically and sometimes literally—as when he burned $171 on Wall Street and encouraged those with money to burn to add theirs to the pyre.www.dreadscott.net
About Creative Capital
Creative Capital is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to providing integrated financial and advisory support to artists pursuing adventurous projects in five disciplines: Emerging Fields, Film/Video, Literature, Performing Arts and Visual Arts. Working in long-term partnership with artists, our pioneering approach to support combines funding, counsel and career development services to enable a project’s success and foster sustainable practices for our grantees. Since 1999, we have committed nearly $40 million in financial and advisory support to 511 projects representing 642 artists, and our Professional Development Program has reached over 12,000 artists through workshop and webinars in more than 600 communities across the country and around the world. Creative Capital's core program receives major support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Toby Devan Lewis, Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, The Theo Westenberger Estate, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Booth Ferris Foundation, William K. Bowes, Jr. Foundation, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, Muriel Pollia Foundation, Catharine & Jeffrey Soros, Paige West, Cordish Family Foundation, Sylvia Golden, Rappaport Family Foundation, Stephen Reily & Emily Bingham, and John L. Thomson, in addition to support from more than 150 other institutional and individual donors.
About PDP
Creative Capital created the Professional Development Program (PDP) to share with the broader arts community the tools and methods developed to help its grantees manage the business side of their art with greater efficiency and results. Through workshops led by Creative Capital grantees and other arts professionals, PDP teaches artists about self-management, strategic planning, fundraising, verbal communication, promotion and maximizing online capabilities to help them expand their skills and build more sustainable practices. The Professional Development Program is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Bloomberg Philanthropies, National Endowment for the Arts, Hearst Foundations, The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Joan Mitchell Foundation,New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.