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PDF of Powerpoint from online webinar "Preparing Your Community Arts Organization from Economic Uncertainty"
The global pandemic has created an unprecedented economic downturn that has affected every sector, including the arts. As community arts organizations continue to face financial challenges, it is crucial to prepare for economic uncertainty and develop strategies to support their organizations. This webinar provides community arts organizations with the tools and resources needed to prepare for a potential recession.
Presenter C. Lorenzo Evans III, Founder & Chief Consultant, CLE Business Services
Panelists Karen LaShelle, Executive Director, Austin Together
Harold Steward, Executive Director, Theatre Offensive
Erica Bondarev Rapach, individu.art Founder, .ART Ambassador, & Professor, American University
Sanai Sanaullah, Financial Analyst & Researcher, Goldman Sachs & CLE Business Services
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The global pandemic has created an unprecedented economic downturn that has affected every sector, including the arts. As community arts organizations continue to face financial challenges, it is crucial to prepare for economic uncertainty and develop strategies to support their organizations. This webinar provides community arts organizations with the tools and resources needed to prepare for a potential recession.
You can find a PDF of the Powerpoint used within this online webinar here.
Presenter C. Lorenzo Evans III, Founder & Chief Consultant, CLE Business Services
Panelists
Karen LaShelle, Executive Director, Austin Together
Harold Steward, Executive Director, Theatre Offensive
Erica Bondarev Rapach, individu.art Founder, .ART Ambassador, & Professor, American University
Sanai Sanaullah, Financial Analyst & Researcher, Goldman Sachs & CLE Business Services
ASL Interpretation provided by Pro Bono ASL.
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On March 11, 2021, President Biden signed into law the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), releasing funding throughout all levels of government to tackle a wide range of needs arising from the pandemic. A large portion of ARPA funding is directed specifically to schools across the country to respond to students’ academic, social, and emotional needs, and to specifically address the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on underrepresented student subgroups.
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In the fall of 2021, the Guild hosted a 3-week virtual gathering entitled Groundwork: Healing within Community Arts Education (“Groundwork”) that centered healing in the context of community arts education, as a pathway towards personal, interpersonal, and systemic change, informed by the idea that we must get right with ourselves before we can work with each other to reimagine and create a more just future.
As a part of the opening land acknowledgement practice in each Groundwork session, participants were asked to contribute to the chat with the resources they access to learn about their local indigenous communities. Here's a cumulative list of all the gathered resources that Groundwork participants provided throughout the 3-week program.
For more information about Groundwork sessions, please visit the program details, here.
This program was made possible through generous support from Aroha Philanthropies, The Music Man Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
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The following is a condensed, text-only, transcription of an hour-long recorded interview with Nomy Lamm and Lettie Robles- Tovar of Sins Invalid, a disability justice-based performance project in the San Francisco Bay Area that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and LGBTQ/gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized. They were interviewed by Masharika Prejean Maddison, founder and principal collaborator of Lightwell. The full interview was recorded as part of the National Guild’s 2020-2021 Anti-Racism as Organizational Compass series.
If you are using a screen reader to access this article, please note that punctuation has been added to indicate areas where text has been extracted for this condensed version.
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This article introduces a new tool that emerged from Inclusive Arts Vermont’s participation in the National Guild’s 2020-2021 Rootwork Learning Cohort. The Cohort supported community arts educators in studying, developing, and documenting practices that are grounded in, and supportive of, the many varied lived experiences of our communities and responsive to the movements of our time. The tool provides concrete ways for community arts educators to make their practice more accessible for disabled people in ways that align with antidotes to white supremacy culture.
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This article introduces a new tool that emerged from Inclusive Arts Vermont’s participation in the National Guild’s 2020-2021 Rootwork Learning Cohort. The Cohort supported community arts educators in studying, developing, and documenting practices that are grounded in, and supportive of, the many varied lived experiences of our communities and responsive to the movements of our time. The tool provides concrete ways for community arts educators to make their practice more accessible for disabled people in ways that align with antidotes to white supremacy culture.
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This article shares excerpts from a youth panel discussion on Adultism, led by youth members of the National Youth Network and Creative Youth Development National Partnership.
Community arts educators cannot authentically amplify youth voice and leadership without intentionally working to dismantle adultism in their programs, organizations, and collective action efforts. Adultism is the systematic mistreatment and disrespect of young people which in turn disregards their power and rights as full human-beings.
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Since the beginning of the pandemic, teaching artists have gathered in support of each other in closed calls, where they felt safe. In this environment, they shared: grief and painful experiences, worries and concerns, and dreams of returning to their artmaking in a just and equitable nation and world. What follows is a representational collage expressing an uncensored perspective in a letter to you. This letter is an invitation to widen your perspective about the teaching artist experience. We follow-up with a step-by-step checklist derived from the perspective of teaching artists as a guide to realize our shared goal to create a vibrant arts ecosystem that is equitable for all.
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In this final session, Compass facilitators, Masharika Prejean Maddison and Toya Lillard as well as Guild staff member, Lissette Martinez, ground the conversation in the themes from the series to have a deeper conversation on what accountability looks like from the personal, for the field, and for the National Guild for Community Arts Education.
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