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Rustbelt to Artistbelt: Community Arts Convening Conference Report
By Savannah | April 30, 2012
This month Danielle Walter and I attended Rustbelt to Artistbelt: Convening at the Crossroads in St. Louis, MO. Organized by the Community Arts Training (CAT) Institute of the St. Louis Regional Arts Commission (RAC), the purpose of the conference was to join 280 practitioners of arts-based community development programs to generate a discussion on the artist’s role in facilitating social change, community development, and regeneration. Like the Community Arts Training (CAT) Institute, the convening is designed as a cross-sector forum for learning, sharing, and exchange. Participants ranging from artists to policy-makers to community development experts contributed to a collaborative and interactive forum.
The keynote speakers were Bill Cleveland and Arlene Goldbard, and the conference is supported by the Ford Foundation, Leveraging Investments in Creativity, the Kresge Foundation and the Regional Arts Commission. Other notable speakers included Liz Cranelyz, Matthew Fluharty (editor of Art of the Rural), Barbara Schaffer-Bacon, Will Sheffie, among many others that you’re sure to know about soon.
The following materials include our notes from the various sessions we attended. Inspiring moments, conversations, and connections abound from this conference, many of which could not be captured in the pen to paper format. For more information, photos, and notes from other sessions, visit the blog: http://rustbelttoartistbelt.com/blog/
Feel free to skip through the following notes that Danielle and I collected. The sessions/topics are as follows:
Community Arts Training Institute of the Regional Arts Commission: Kathryn Bentley, Sue Greenberg, Roseann Weiss, Nathan Graves, Shelly Goebl-Parker, Jane Ellen Ibur
Mapping the Landscape of Arts for Change: Barbara Schaffer-Bacon & Bill Cleveland
Re-thinking Rural Arts : Matthew Fluhardy, Polly Atwell, Brian Frink, Rachel Reynolds Luster, Richard Saxton
rogue HAA: The Architects Call to Arms: Melissa Dittmer, Dan Kinkead
Small Change in the epic scale neighborhood: Esther Robinson and Seth Beattie
Cherokee Street Party
Images from the conference can be found here: http://rustbelttoartistbelt.com/convening-photos/
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What We Carry at Laverne Krause Gallery until 4/27 at 2 PM
By Savannah | April 27, 2012
What We Carry is coming down today at 2 PM. Make sure you check it out before then. We’ll be posting the video of the story circle and photographs from the exhibition over the weekend, as well as statistics on where our viewers indicated they traveled to Eugene from. Thank you to all who’ve participated in this community building process. A special thanks to our sponsors, including the Arts Administration Department and the Oregon Folklife Network.
Project Description:
Inspired by class work, several object based exhibitions, friendship and a sense of community, Savannah Barrett, Britt Maruska, Jamie Walsh, and Sarah Whitling, all first year Arts Administration (AAD) students have come together to plan the exhibit What We Carry, slated to be on display April 23rd through the 27th at the Laverne Krause Gallery in Lawrence Hall.
This object-based exhibit is seeking to represent the priorities and community of twenty-three first year AAD students and the faculty of the AAD program. The exhibit seeks to display the symbolism of objects that a cohort of students and faculty carried with them as they relocated to Eugene, Oregon for the AAD program. We have secured sponsorships from the Arts and Administration Department at the University of Oregon and the Oregon Folklife Network.
For more information regarding the exhibition, visit:
Blog: http://whatwecarryexhibition.wordpress.com/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/whatwecarry/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/wecarry
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/whatwecarry/
Exhibition Statement:
Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me.
‘What We Carry’ tells the important stories of our community through the valued objects that twenty-three students and their faculty members carried with them to Eugene from fifteen states and four countries. The exhibit evolved from a desire to build community and personal engagement among members of a single cohort in the Arts and Administration graduate program at the University of Oregon.
Thirty physical objects communicate our individual histories, heritages, and identities through a multi-modal combination of storytelling platforms. As a collective body, they represent our differences and commonalities, and facilitate a safe place to explore our community’s interrelatedness.
The exhibition opens with a public story-circle performance, designed from a community cultural development model to simultaneously build connections within our cohort and strengthen the immersive experience of audience members. A film of the story-circle performance will be projected in the gallery for the remainder of the exhibition to superimpose human connections in the center of the objects on display.
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Did you know…..?
By lhager | April 26, 2012
That our eportfolio project is considered an exemplar in the field?
What this means for you.
You are participating in an internationally recognized peer-reviewed eportfolio project, which is part of a larger movement toward transforming learning for the 21st century workplace.
What you can do.
Use your eportfolio – a lot! Use it for posting your research, your internship and practica, send it out to colleagues and professionals, share with your friends. Keep it updated, so it accurately reflects the good work that you are doing, both in the classroom and beyond. Keep your resources in your sidebar, syndicate to your peers, faculty, and the commons. Post your reflective blogs, and activities and events that you are engaged with, and categorize them with “AAD Program” so that they show up on the hub. Let’s get our “hub pub” going and show the world what it means to be connected through a digital commons, and how to use our resources and tools to drive innovative practices that will transform the cultural sector.
Participate in an end of the year “showcase” to highlight all the great work you are doing in your classes, your practica and professional activities, your incredible showcase eportfolios and digital stories, and most of all, your learning eportfolios!
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Friday Forum on Arts in Healthcare with Jill Sonke
By Roya | April 11, 2012
On April 12-13, the Arts and Administration (AAD) Program and the Center for Community Arts and Cultural Policy (CCACP) are proud to welcome Jill Sonke, Director of the Center for the Arts in Medicine at the University of Florida, for a special consultancy supported in part by an ArtsHealth grant from the Society for the Arts in Healthcare. Ms. Sonke will discuss the development of a new Arts in Healthcare Management area of concentration within the AAD program through a number of presentations, meetings, and special events.
On Friday, April 13th from 9:00-11:30 AM at the Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend (Springfield, OR), Ms. Sonke will present an exclusive Friday Forum for AAD students, faculty, and staff titled Arts in Healthcare: A Growing Professional Field.
About Jill Sonke
Jill Sonke is Director of the Center for the Arts in Medicine at the University of Florida, is on the faculty of the School of Theatre and Dance, and is Assistant Director and Artist in Residence with Shands Arts in Medicine (AIM). She is active in research, curriculum and program development at UF, serves as president on the Board of Directors of the Society for the Arts in Healthcare, and is a frequent presenter, consultant, and guest artist at universities, conferences, hospitals, and festivals throughout the United States and abroad.
Jill studied dance at Interlochen Arts Academy, the Florida State University, in London, Paris and Athens with teachers of the Horton and Duncan techniques including Bella Lewitsky, Lynda Davis, Milton Meyers, Joy Kellman, Lori Belilove, Julia Levine and Hortense Koluris. She has been a principle dancer and soloist with Lori Belilove & Company in New York and a guest performer and choreographer with Dance Alive! and Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theatre. She is a soloist and regisseur of the historic works of Isadora Duncan as well as a recognized teacher of the Duncan and Horton techniques.
Jill is the recipient of a New Forms Florida Fellowship Award, an Individual Artist Fellowship Award from the State of Florida, a 2001 Excellence in Teaching Award from the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD), a UF Internationalizing the Curriculum Award, a Most Oustanding Service Learning Faculty Award, and over forty five grant awards for her programs and research at the University of Florida and Shands Teaching Hospital and Clinics.
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Media Mashers: Raiders of the Archive
By Roya | April 11, 2012
The Arts and Administration Program is home to the annual Cinema Pacific Film Festival, which this year takes place April 18-22, 2012. Media Mashers: Raiders of the Archive is a mini-symposium within the larger festival that runs Thursday, April 19 and Friday, April 20, and features three pioneering media activists, artists, and culture jammers: Mark Hosler of negativland, DeeDee Halleck of Paper Tiger TV, and Rick Prelinger of Prelinger internet archives. All Media Mashers events are FREE and open to the public! For more information, visit http://cinemapacific.uoregon.edu/2012/highlights/media-mashers/
The Arts and Administration Program is home to the annual Cinema Pacific Film Festival, which this year takes place April 18-22, 2012. Media Mashers: Raiders of the Archive is a mini-symposium within the larger festival that runs Thursday, April 19 and Friday, April 20, and features three pioneering media activists, artists, and culture jammers: Mark Hosler of negativland, DeeDee Halleck of Paper Tiger TV, and Rick Prelinger of Prelinger internet archives. All Media Mashers events are FREE and open to the public! For more information, visit http://cinemapacific.uoregon.edu/2012/highlights/media-mashers/
Co-sponsored with the UO School of Journalism and Communication and UO Libraries with support from the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.
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Imaginary John Cage
By jlederma | April 11, 2012
Exciting program regrading John Cage that Arts Administration students may be interested in.
From the About page:
“This is the beginning of a … compositional process? spiritual exercise? frivolous pursuit? We’re not sure, other than we are motivated to explore the work of John Cage by creating our own work in his shadow.
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Join the Discussion!
By Meghan Adamovic | April 4, 2012
Welcome Back to Spring Term, Everyone!
As you may have heard, we with the ePortfolio Student Advisory Group want to get people chatting through the AAD Community Hub, so we’re starting with a question that I bet everyone has some great thoughts on:
Start this quarter by thinking about one way you have turned theory into practice so far this school year.
Join the discussion, by posting your thoughts on this and syndicating it to AAD Commons.
Also let us know of any other questions or prompts you are interested in discussing in this format.
Thanks!
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By marissal | February 6, 2012
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Media Mgt. Praxis
By whitling | February 1, 2012
During discussion over “Pre-Visit Emails”, I thought of Marina Abramovic:
ATTN: Upon entering the gallery, be prepared to squeeze your way through two naked bodies.
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Pacific Standard Time
By Katrina Laura Ketchum | November 10, 2011
Southern California, December 9-12, 2011
As an ‘arts hub’ of epic and international proportions, I am interested in the social movement of the LA arts scene. I am specifically interested in the question, “How does art connect with social movement and collective-progressive thinking in LA and beyond?” Though PST we will see how art has changed the way we individually and collectively see the world. I have narrowed down my PST itinerary based upon exhibits featuring community art and social movement. I have a strong passion for contemporary arts (in all forms) and photography. It is important for me to travel to LA to see first hand how art has shaped the community and beyond.
Questions:
1. What is the relationship between the PST participating institutions and the artists that are curated in the exhibits?
2. What are the relationships between the participating institutions and the PST arts collaboration?
3. What is the history behind the PST arts collaboration?
4. In what ways did LA burst onto the international arts scene and what was the catalyst for this change?
5. In what ways did contemporary art, photographs and film play a part in the revolution of the LA art scene?
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