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Our New Home for Animating Democracy: A 10-Minute Tour
Joanna Chin As the lead for developing Animating Democracy’s new website, I can tell you that it’s filled to the brim with incredible resources from our Arts and Social Change Mapping Initiative and...
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Partnering for Civic Engagement: The Tucson Pima Arts Council & Finding Voice
Sara Bateman In my first post for the Emerging Leaders Blog Salon, I discussed the need for producing collaborations and partnerships in order to elevate ourselves from arts leaders to community...
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Site-Specific Dance and Social Change
Rachel Engh The first time I saw site-specific dance was in a park in New York City’s Chinatown. While dancers climbed on tables and scaled fences, older local men who looked to spend much of the day...
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Hope is Vital…But Is It Scalable?
Michael Rohd In 1991, I founded a theater-based civic dialogue program in Washington, DC called Hope Is Vital. It brought a group of local teens and a group of HIV+ men who were receiving services at a...
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Shared Outcomes and Collective Impact for Scaling Up
Victor Kuo What are funders interested in scale and results talking about these days? A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of presenting at the Grantmakers in Arts 2012 Conference in Miami. This year’s...
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Creating, Collaborating, Connecting with Art, Activism, and the Internet
Xavier Cortada At the end of the last millennium, when the internet was young, I installed two webcams in my studio and invited people watching me out in cyberspace to share their ideas in a chat room....
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And the Oscar Goes to…Arts Education
First Lady Michelle Obama presented the nominees for Best Picture and announced “Argo” as the winning film via satellite. The big winner at Sunday night’s Academy Awards was arts education. In two key...
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