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

Access Resource

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 

 

Find the notes on our Slack

Explore more webinars on our COVID Response Page

Join the converation on our Facebook group

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

Access Resource

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

 

Find the notes on our Slack

Explore more webinars on our COVID Response Page

Join the converation on our Facebook group

 

CYD Toolkit Series: Advocacy and Policy Recording

Access Resource

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)

Access Resource

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

 

Find the notes on our Slack

Explore more webinars on our COVID Response Page

Join the converation on our Facebook group

Large Schools Roundtable: Navigating Needs in a Time of Emergency Recording

Access Resource

Recording of the Large Schools Roundtable: Navigating Needs in a Time of Emergency on March 23, 2020. Conversation facilitated by Noah Bloom, Executive Director, Neighborhood Music School (New Haven, CT) & Julie Rulyak Steinberg, Executive Director, Community Music Center (San Francisco, CA)

Access an annotated version of the Large School Roundtable chat here.

 If you would like to engage in ongoing conversation and problem solving around community arts education within the pandemic, you are most welcome to join the following forums:

General groups:

Specific groups:

 

Creative Aging Covid-19 Forum Recording

Access Resource

This recording presents the National Guild's Creative Aging Network's community forum with Creative Aging practitioners on how they're responding to their community needs including: adjusting programs and learning environments, working with senior centers and other community partners, supporting teaching artists, and speaking to funders.

Speakers: 

Eepi Chaad, Director of Community Engagement, Art League Houston (Houston, TX)

Eliza Kiser, Executive Director, Pullen Arts Center (Raleigh, NC)

Vita Livak, Manager of Adult Programs, Fleisher Art Memorial (Philadelphia, PA)

Sylvia Sherman. Program Director, Community Music Center (San Francisco, CA)

Teresa Bonner, Executive Director, Aroha Philanthropies (Minneapolis, MN)

Moderator:

Ashley Hare, Director of Leadership Development, National Guild for Community Arts Education 

 

Additional resources: 

CMC Older Adult Choir Video Resource Area

Creative Aging Network Facebook Group

Lifetime Arts Website