Webinar Recording: How do we reset expectations during COVID-19?

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Shifting business to Practice Sharing: Leading with Love in the time of COVID-19. This session, co-facilitated by young artists, teaching artists and arts administrators from Chicago and the Bay Area, explored practices that community arts education organizations are utilizing to center care and love in their responses to the profound impacts of COVID-19. This interactive session held space for connection between participants and explore the power of reflection and strategy shifting to deepen impact and purpose, specifically as we consider how we are resisting the urge to return to “business as usual.

Guest Speakers from Street Level Media , Young Cultural Stewards of the Chicago Parks District, RYSE Center, and Marwen.

 

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Webinar Recording: How might we reach audiences on the other side of the digital divide?

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When programming for our communities in healthy times, we don’t often consider the digital divide. However when sheltering in place, this divide comes into sharp focus. In this Community Think Tank, we discussed creative programming for folks who do not have easy access to the internet. Access this Think Tank Google Doc for a sampling of collaborative answers to how we might reach audiences on the other side of the digital divide.

Speakers:

  • William Estrada, Arts Educator, Multidisciplinary Artist, and Consultant | Chicago, IL

  • Laura Kujo, Arts Education & Evaluation Consultant | New York, NY

  • Tanya Maggi, Dean of Community Engagement and Professional Studies, New England Conservatory of Music | Boston, MA

  • Margie Reese, Chief Executive Officer, Wichita Falls Alliance for Arts and Culture | Wichita Falls, TX 

 

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Webinar Recording: How do we transition arts programming online effectively and equitably?

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In this Peer to Peer Roundtable, the group discussed best practices for transitioning arts programming to online formats with community arts education providers across the country. Find what is working well, how others are overcoming barriers to participation, and discover what is newly possible.

(Break out group share out starts at 42:34.)

Speakers:

  • Nancy Ng, Executive Director Creativity & Policy, Luna Dance Institute | Berkeley, CA
  • Karin Orenstein, Director of Education, Settlement Music School | Philadelphia, PA
  • Tia Price, Director of Programs, Wide Angle Youth Media | Baltimore, MD
  • Debra Pasquerette, Manager of Community Engagement, The Wallis | Beverly Hills, CA

 

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CYD Toolkit Series: Advocacy and Policy Recording

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In this fourth webinar in the CYD Toolkit Series , Ed Spitzberg shares key trends from his landscape paper, “Advocacy and Policy” published by Americans for the Arts and the CYD National Partnership. Ed was joined by field practitioners: Jahiem (Geo) Jones, RYOT Fellow, Isaiah Grant, RYSE Fellow, and Tara Malik, Media, Arts, & Culture Director at RYSE; and Erik Peterson, Sr. Vice President of Policy at Afterschool Alliance. The discussion was moderated by Sofia Fojas.

This virtual learning series is brought to you by the Creative Youth Development National Partnership. One of the National Partners, Americans for the Arts, recently spearheaded the development of 7 written briefs authored by field experts as part of the first phase of a creative youth development toolkit for the field. All webinars are hosted by the National Guild for Community Arts Education and made possible by generous support from the Clare Rose Foundation.

Webinar Recording: How do we center people in making policy and financial decisions? (Part 1)

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In this peer to peer roundtalbe, participants heard from speakers and each other about how others are making decisions through radical transparency and collective communal conversations with staff. 

Break out group share outs begin here: 31:40

Speakers include: 

Erica Atkins, Deputy Director, Opening Act, New York, NY

Pachy Banks-Cabral, Advancement Officer, Main Line Art Center, Philadephia, PA

 

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