2019–20 Fellows - Cohort X - Emerging Arts Professionals SFBA

Cohort X

EAP is pleased to introduce Cohort X!

The new horizon of creative leadership requires new competencies, skills, & sensitivities that are adaptive, engaging and relevant. The program aims to introduce an alternative model for professional development that balances traditional structure with increased creativity and experimentation. THE FELLOWSHIP expands the skill-sets of emerging and mid-level arts and culture workers through a nine-month personal and professional development curriculum. Through participation in this interactive learning cohort, 2019–20 Fellows will build relationships across sector, discipline, and role within the Bay Area’s arts and culture field.

EAP fellowship Cohort X is comprised of incredibly dedicated and passionate arts and cultural workers. Their work crosses multiple disciplines including visual arts, performing arts, music, technology, literary, and media, and represents different points along possible career paths in the Bay Area.

Vanessa Chang

Lecturer, Curator, and Writer

Trami Cron

Executive Director

Nimah Gobir

Teach YR Producer & Project Manager

Melissa San Miguel Quintana

Exhibits Assistant and Teaching Assistant

J Spagnolo

Poet and Strategic Director

Emma Rosenbaum

Marketing Director, Writer

Chanell Stone

Visual Artist, Curator, Ideator

Arturo Méndez Reyes

Cultural Producer

Alex Law

Freelance Choreographer

Adrianne Ramsey

Arts Educator, Arts Writer

New for this tenth cohort, EAP welcomes back a team of alumni as mentor fellows to help support omnidirectional mentorship and generational exchange.

Vin Seaman

Artist, Curator, Cultural Worker

Tyese Wortham (mentor)

Director of Community Engagement

Therese Davis (mentor)

Social Practice Artist, Administrator, Creative and Life Coach, Social Media, Event Planning and Marketing Specialist Contractor

Michelle Lynch Reynolds (mentor)

Executive Director

Bhumi Patel (mentor)

Artistic Director and Arts Educator

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Back Stage

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Cohort X Session Dates & Locations

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Second Saturdays: Saturdays, 10AM–4PM (except **)

** Oct 9, 2019 – Annual Network Mixer / State of Arts & Culture Presentations
Oct 12, 2019 – Grounding / Orientation / Peer Coaching
** Nov, 2019 – Meet in peer groups independently
Dec 14, 2019 – Affinity Session: Cultural Equity (Because Colonialism)
Jan 18, 2020 – Affinity Session: Creative City / Role of Networks
Feb 8, 2020 – Affinity Session: Regenerative Practices
March 14, 2020 – Affinity Session: Art & Capital
**April 11, 2020 – Meet in peer groups independently
May 9, 2020 – Close / Projects & Convening Planning / State of Arts & Culture Presentations
**Monday, June 8, 2020, 8AM–5PM – EMERGENCE

Important Links

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Curriculum

Cohort X Google Drive

Cohort X Facebook Group

Cohort X Session Outlines & Readings

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Arts & Capital | March 14, 2020

Session Outline

Arts & Capital | March 14, 2020

In this session we will explore the relationship between creative / cultural production and enterprise with an eye on traditional models being implemented in innovative ways and new social-impact business models that not only generate revenue but sustain projects and communities.

Location: Zoom Virtual Session

Required Readings & Assignments

Book: The Energy of Money (pgs. 83-104) by Maria Nemeth, Ph.D.
TED Talk: How artists can (finally) get paid in the digital age by Jack Conte
TED Talk: Talking to My Daughter About the Economy or, How Capitalism Works – and How It Fails by Yanis Varoufakis
Promoting Community Vitality & Sustainability The Community Capitals Framework, Lionel J. “Bo” Beaulieu, Purdue University
Capitalism, Buddha, and the Manufacture of Desire, The New Asterisk, March 2014
Research B Corp bcorporation.net
Review – Models of Impact, specifically Models of Impact Glossary (note: you can download the kit for free by selecting $0, or feel free to donate)
**Review program and info from past Emergence convenings – emergingsf.org/emergence/**

Other Resources & Research (optional)

Art without Market, Art without Education: Political Economy of Art by Anton Vidokle (one of Rhiannon’s favorites!)
The Business End of Art by Anuradha Vikram for Daily Serving, March 2015
VIDEO: Future Arts Forward: John Michael Schert
10 Things the Artist and the Entrepreneur Have in Common, Entrepreneur Magazine, Feb 2017
‘…But We Can’t Pay You’: Performance Art and Money’s Knotty Relationship, by Hannah Ghorashi for ArtNews, Oct 2015
2010 W.A.G.E. Survey Report
Book: The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber

Guest Speakers

JOE LANDINI | Co-Executive Director

Joe Landini received his BA in choreography from UC Irvine and his MA in choreography from the Laban Centre (London). His choreography has been presented at the ODC Theater, Z Space, the Cowell Theater and Dance Mission, as well as Santa Cruz, Marin, Sacramento, Monterey, Laguna Beach, Santa Fe (NM), Mexico City and London. He founded SAFEhouse for the Performing Arts in 2007 and received the GOLDIE award from the SF Bay Guardian in 2012.

GREGORY JACKSON, ESQ. | Legal and Funding Advisor

Founder @Repairednations. Founding member @PASEN. Gregory Jackson is an activist, poet, lawyer, and Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Sustainable Economies Law Center. Greg has successfully raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for Pan-African Development projects, organized international trips for Artists and Entrepreneurs, coordinated partnerships for affordable housing development and created education programs for black cooperative business owners.

RHIANNON EVANS MACFADYEN | EAP Director, Curator, Artist, & Facilitator, EAP Cohort V

I’m a San Francisco-born curator, consultant, and project-based artist with 15+ years of in-depth experience in the performing and visual arts. Inspired by “productive discomfort” and a multiplicity of identities, my curatorial focus is on projects that push boundaries of scale, scope, medium, venue, and dialogue, and my cross-discipline personal work engages symbols, identity, communication, and the unseen. My projects have appeared in KQED, Hyperallergic, SF Chronicle, at YBCA, USF, JCCSF, Open Engagement, and many others. I’m deeply committed to community-building through the arts and improvement of our creative lives. I sit on the Board of SOMArts Cultural Center and on advisory committees for Root Division, Pro Arts, and Sites Unseen. I am also the founder/director of A Simple Collective and the exhibition space Black & White Projects.

about.me/rhiannonmacfadyen

Regenerative Practices | Feb 8, 2020

Session Outline

Regenerative Practices | February 8, 2020

In this session we’ll explore how we can make arts administration more sustainable? What can we do as individuals to renew our energy and passion? What can we do as a network to support each other? And what can we do as leaders of programs and organizations to encourage a healthier arts and culture ecosystem?

Location: Center for New Music, 55 Taylor Street, San Francisco, CA 94102

Required Readings & Assignments

Audio recording of the Regenerative Practices dinner gathering January 23rd
Bios of the guest speakers who participated in the RP dinner
Three Ways to Beat Burnout (2008) by Christopher Gergen and Gregg Vanourek
Restorative or Transformative Justice? (2011) by Howard Zehr
Conflict Resolution Skills

Other Resources & Research (optional)

Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time by Tony Schwartz and Catherine McCarthy
“Work + Home + Community + Self” by Stewart D. Friedman
Giving Feedback Using Nonviolent Communication
White Supremacy Culture by Change work dismantling racism workbook
The Busy Trap by Tim Kreider
The Business of Showbiz: Self Care by Velina Brown

Books:

“The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Care” by Sonya Renee Taylor
“How to Not Always Be Working: A Toolkit for Creativity and Radical Self-Care” by Marlee Grace
“Your Art Will Save Your Life” by Beth Pickens
“Getting Back to Happy” by Marc and Angel Chernoff
“The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma” by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
“Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good” by adrienne maree brown
“Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds” by adrienne maree brown

Guest Speakers

DEL SEYMOUR | Community Leader

For the last 10 years, I have been a community leader in the Tenderloin advocating for the care and concerns of my wonderful but marginalized community. I am proud of my accomplishments and those I’ve helped as I witness their work reverberate throughout the community.

Currently, I serve as vice president of the Board of Directors and Development Chair for “Swords to Plowshares,” a non-profit organization providing employment, training, housing, and legal assistance to roughly 3,000 veterans yearly in San Francisco.

Several years ago, I was appointed by the Board of Supervisors to serve on the Local Homeless
Coordinating Board, where I am now serving as co-chair. The board oversees the allocation of Department of Homelessness and HUD funds, coordinating continuum services for the homeless..

For four years, I served on the Board of the Gubbio Project at St. Boniface Church, a project that coordinates over 300 people a day to sleep on church pews. I ascended to Vice President of the Board and continue to volunteer daily.

Ten years ago, I started Tenderloin Walking Tours to promote the Community. Since inception, I have guided approximately 20,000 visitors on a cultural journey of the Tenderloin. I’ve escorted celebrities, Mayors, Police Chiefs, DA’s, officials, and CEO’s throughout the Tenderloin, bringing increased community support.

I am a board member on the Department of Public Works’ “Better Market Project” that is set to transform Market Street into a vital economic hub. I work closely with representatives from top companies including Twitter, Dolby, Zendesk, Microsoft, Uber, Square, Google and Salesforce, helping institute inclusive hiring policies.

I am a board member on the Tenderloin Health Improvement Partnership through Dignity Health/St Francis Foundation tasked to provide improved healthcare for Tenderloin residents.

I work closely with the Glide Foundation board, directors, and ministry to create programs for the community. I serve on several committees and have been an active member there for many years.

Over 3 years ago, I created Code Tenderloin to educate and train disadvantaged people from San Francisco to work in high paying jobs within the tech industry. Thus far, Code Tenderloin has educated and placed several hundred marginalized individuals into jobs and housing, with several graduates earning over $100,000 a year.

I presented three TED talks advocating for economic parity through job placement for those in marginalized communities. Most recently, I was tasked by Mayor Ed Lee to represent him at the White House and spoke to Michelle Obama for two hours about homelessness in San Francisco.

While my voice is now heard on a national platform, I spend hours each day directly serving the community. I walk the streets, checking on my neighbors, steering people into shelters, job training, and drug treatment programs. I lived in the Tenderloin for 33 years. They affectionately call me “The Mayor Of The Tenderloin.” I love and will never leave my community.

https://www.codetenderloin.org/

Creative City | Jan 18, 2020

Session Outline

Creative City | December 18, 2020

The intention of this session is to explore the utopian idea of the creative city, where artists and arts organizations are viewed as critical components of a healthy ecosystem. We’ll ask what role the arts and culture sector can play in “civic creativity” or “cultural strategy” that creates “social wealth” and helps shape public sentiment, city planning and policy.

Location: Pacific Felt Factory and Black & White Projects, 2830 20th Street, San Francisco CA 94110

Required Readings & Assignments

Fostering the Creative City Carol Coletta
Creative Cities: The Role of Culture Allen J. Scott
TEDxPadova – Creative City: Past present and future Charles Landry (video 16:37 min)
San Francisco to create American Indian Cultural District SF Chronicle
Knight Cities: A conversation with Theaster Gates (audio 30 min)

Other Resources & Research (optional)

The Creative City by Charles Landry p.11-31
The Creative City: Irresistible Temptation of Utopia Edwin Bendyk
Where American Politics Can Still Work: From the Bottom Up Thomas Friedman
Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor in Europe European Commission
The Creative City: People, Place and Identity in Glasgow and Portland
These are the world’s most creative cities World Economic Forum
Dallas: A Creative City Dallas Art Month
Future Arts Forward interview with Nikiko Masumoto (video 7 min)
Check out UNESCO’s Creative City Network
2019 World Summit on Arts & Culture Discussion Paper
The Ghost Ship Fire and the Paradox of a “Creative City”
Building Smart Communities through Network Weaving by Valdis Krens and June Holley
Mapping Small Arts and Culture Organizations of Color in Oakland Report & map by Akonadi Foundation and Kenneth Rainin Foundation
Imprint City: Art, Artists To Redefine Traditional Spaces In SF’s Bayview Interview with Tyra Fennell (video)
Anti-Eviction Mapping Project Oakland Displacement
Oakland Chinatown History Project
SF Cultural Heritage page | Americans for the Arts Cultural Districts Map | CA Cultural Districts
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds Adrienne Maree Brown

Guest Speakers

GREGG CASTRO | t’rowt’raahl Salinan / rumsien & ramaytush Ohlone, Writer, Activist

Gregg Castro [t’rowt’raahl Salinan/rumsien-ramaytush Ohlone], has been involved in the preservation of his cultural heritage for nearly three decades, for both his late Mother’s rumsien Ohlone heritage, and on his late Father’s side, on the discontinued Salinan Nation Tribal Council (serving two terms as Tribal Chair) and currently the non-profit organization, Salinan T’rowt’raahl. Gregg is a member of the Society for California Archaeology (SCA). He serves on SCA’s Native American Programs Committee (NAPC) as Chairperson. Gregg is an Facilitator for the annual California Indian Conference, a 30+ year gathering about California Indigenous heritage. He recently accepted the role of assisting his Ramaytush relatives in the San Francisco Peninsula as the “Principal Cultural Consultant to the Ramaytush Tribal Chair’ in their homeland. Gregg is a writer and activist within the California indigenous community, on issues regarding cultural preservation, protection, education and traditional practices.

BARRY THREW | Community Organizer, Curator, Designer, Strategist

Barry cultivates forward-looking, impactful, boundary-blurring projects integrating culture and technology. He drifts fluidly between roles, collaborating as an executive, curator,

technologist, designer, community organizer, cultural producer, and strategist. His previous leadership positions have generated innovative & influential platforms, products, teams, and businesses spanning art, music, internet, built environment, and experiential & immersive media. He is convinced that integral approaches combining art, technology, and the humanities are necessary for economic, social, and ecological regeneration.

He is the Executive Director for Gray Area. Their mission is to apply art and technology to create social and civic impact through education, incubation and public events. His work has been presented internationally at festivals including ORF Musikprotokol, Graz, Austria; Club Transmediale, Berlin just to name a few.

barrythrew.com / @barrythrew

DORKA KEEHN | Art Advisor, Curator

Dorka is an award-winning artist and the Principal of Keehn On Art, a public art advisory. In 2014, Dorka completed her second collaboration with artist Brian Goggin on a permanent site-specific artwork, Caruso’s Dream, commissioned by Avalon Bay for their new residential highrise, AVA 55 Ninth Street, San Francisco. Their previous

collaboration, The Language of the Birds, the first solar-powered public sculpture, was voted one of the best public artworks in the U.S. by Americans for the Arts. Dorka also led the fundraising effort for The Bay Lights, an $8 million dollar 25,000 LED light installation by artist Leo Villareal for the Bay Bridge, which was unveiled in 2013. She is a founding board member of ArtCare.

Dorka is the Co-Founder and Co-chair of Emerge America, a Founding Board Member of Ignite, on the Board of Motion Theater Institute, and on the Advisory Boards of the Crucible and the Black Rock Arts Foundation. Dorka is also a commissioner for the San

Francisco Arts Commission.

@dorka1

Cultural Equity | Dec 14, 2019

Session Outline

Cultural Equity | December 14, 2019

Cultural equity [as defined by Americans for the Arts] embodies the values, policies, and practices that ensure that all people—including but not limited to those who have been historically underrepresented based on race/ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, socioeconomic status, geography, citizenship status, or religion—are represented in the development of arts policy; the support of artists; the nurturing of accessible, thriving venues for expression; and the fair distribution of programmatic, financial, and informational resources.” With this in mind, we will explore how arts workers advance the conversation on cultural equity across the sector and beyond and how we can tackle institutional and systemic oppression within and through arts and culture?

Location: Center for New Music, 55 Taylor St, SF, CA 94102

Required Readings & Assignments

Complete Implicit Bias Test, select the Disability Task, bring your results
Read Making Sense of Cultural Equity
Read SNAPSHOT: Cultural Equity Statements & poke around sample statements
Read The Sound of Listening: Candice Hopkins’s Curating Lets Indigenous Artists Do the Talking
Visit usdac.us/nativeland, watch video, then download and read the guide to indigenous land acknowledgements. Create one with your team to open your session. Begin creating your own.

Other Resources & Research (optional)

Explaining white privilege to a broke white person by Gina Crosley-Corcoran
Cracking the Codes (video) by World Trust (see preview here)
Titus Kaphar’s TedTalk
An Equity Profile of the 9-County SF Bay Area, PolicyLink and the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity at the University of Southern California (funded by The San Francisco Foundation)
Othering and Belonging, john a. powell, Director, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society
The Palette Podcast: Cultural Equity with Dr. Marta Moreno Vega and Jessica McJunkins
Whose culture has capital? A critical race theory discussion of community cultural wealth by Tara J. Yosso *(pg. 60-70, 75-81)
Making Room for the Unnamable: Notes on the 2017 MAP Fund Grants Review Panel by Maria Cherry Galette Rangel
A History: The Construction of Race and Racism Dismantling Racism Project by Western States Center, from Grantmakers in the Arts resources
Not Just Money: Equity Issues in Cultural Philanthropy by Holly Sidford, Grantmakers in the Arts
U.S. Department of Arts and Culture Policy on Belonging Toolkit
The San Francisco Foundation New Research Addresses Defining Challenge Of Our Time: Equity
Future Arts Forward: Jeff Chang video

Guest Speakers

KANYON COYOTEWOMAN SAYERS-ROODS

Activist, artist, educator – an Indigenous Generalized Specialist

Kanyon Sayers-Roods is Costanoan Ohlone-Mutsun and Chumash; she also goes by her given Native name, “Coyote Woman”. She is proud of her heritage and her native name (though it comes with its own back story), and is very active in the Native Community. She is an Artist, Poet, Published Author, Activist, Student and Teacher. The daughter of Ann-Marie Sayers, she was raised in Indian Canyon, trust land of her family, which currently is one of the few spaces in Central California available for the Indigenous community for ceremony. Kanyon’s art has been featured at the De Young Museum, The Somarts Gallery, Gathering Tribes, Snag Magazine, and numerous Powwows and Indigenous Gatherings. She is a recent graduate of the Art Institute of California, Sunnyvale, obtaining her Associate and Bachelor of Science degrees in Web Design and Interactive Media. She is motivated to learn, teach, start conversations around decolonization and reinidgenization, permaculture and to continue doing what she loves, Art. www.kanyonkonsulting.com

CINDY SHIH

Visual Artist and Painter; Teaching and Exhibiting Artist

Cindy Shih is a teaching and exhibiting artist, living and working in San Francisco. Drawing heavily from her early training in Chinese calligraphy, she borrows from traditional techniques in brush painting, landscapes combined with non-traditional materials such as plaster and building materials to touch upon issues of gender, race, and power.

In the past five years, she has been invited to speak at Northeastern University, City College of San Francisco, Berkeley, UCLA, and exhibits her work in galleries across the Bay Area, Denver, and in Los Angeles. Cindy Shih is a recipient of the Individual Artist Grant from the San Francisco Art Commission and the inaugural Cultural Shift teaching fellow at Creativity Explored for the upcoming year. www.cindyshihart.com @cindyshihart

KIM ANNO

Painter and Filmmaker; CCA Professor, Painting and Drawing Program

Kim Anno, is a painter and filmmaker who has paintings exhibited in and collected by museums nationally and internationally. Venues include: Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, Yamamba Gallery Tokyo, Thatcher Gallery, USF, University of Suffolk, England, Museum of Modern Art in Rio De Janeiro; the 14th Annual New Media Festival, in Seoul, Goethe Institute in Johannesburg; Durban Municipal Gallery, South Africa, San Francisco Asian Art Museum; Berkeley Art Museum, Site Santa Fe Biennale: “One Night Stand”, New Mexico; the Varnosi Museum in Hungary; DC Dusseldorf International Expo, Germany. Anno received the Gerbode Foundation Award for purchase by SFMOMA and Honolulu Museum of Art and the Zellerbach Fellowship, Puffin Foundation award, Eureka Foundation’s Fleishhaker Fellowship. In 2017 she was awarded a Berkeley Film foundation fellowship. Recently, she was interviewed by the BBC, Suffolk, and profiled in Areaparis magazine in Paris, recently her work was mentioned in the New York times for a live show at the World Bank, Washington DC. www.kimanno.com

RODNEY EWING

Visual Artist

Rodney Ewing, San Francisco, CA. Visual Artist. Ewing’s drawings, installations, and mixed media works focus on his need to intersect body and place, memory and fact to re-examine human histories, cultural conditions, and events. With his work he is pursuing a narrative that requires us to be present and intimate. His work has been exhibited at Euphrat Museum of Art, Cupertino, CA; The Drawing Center, New York, NY; and in San Francisco, CA at Root Division, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, Nancy Toomey Fine Art, Alter Space Gallery, and Ictus Projects. He was an Artist-in-Residence at Recology in San Francisco, the De Young Museum of Fine Arts in San Francisco, and the Djerassi Artist residency located in Woodside, California. Ewing received his BFA in Printmaking from Louisiana State University and his MFA in Printmaking West Virginia University. www.rodneyewing.com

KEVIN SEAMAN

Artist and Cultural Worker

Kevin Seaman (he/him, they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural worker with 15 years experience working with Bay Area and national arts communities. Kevin received the 2017 Americans for the Arts Emerging Leader Award, was an inaugural Association for Performing Arts Professionals’ Leadership Fellow, and received the 2019 Theatre Bay Area Legacy Award for their work helping increase arts funding in San Francisco on the Nov 2018 Yes on Proposition E campaign. Kevin’s creative work exploring queer identity and drag culture at the intersection of gender and sexuality has been presented at The Stud, CounterPulse, YBCA, Frameline, the Tank NYC, the Austin International Drag Festival, SATTELITE ART SHOW Miami, the National Queer Arts Festival, Stockholm’s Stolt Scenkonst, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Yale School of the Arts. Additionally, Kevin has led sessions focused on queer arts and community for APAP|NYC, Grantmakers in the Arts, Americans for the Arts, and National Performance Network’s annual conference. www.seamanart.com @femmasculine

Online Session | Nov 16, 2019

Session Overview

Online Session | November 16, 2019

In response to the cohort’s expressed desire to continue to connect and get to know each other, and to support teams in understanding the frameworks for their projects, we have added a virtual half-day session for new fellows. In this session we will collectively build an agenda for what tools and activities are most needed at this time.

Location: Zoom Video Conference

Session Outcomes

Broaden your capacity for leadership and collaboration through peer coaching
Develop a stronger cross-sector professional network
Prepare and organize your team and content in preparation for the fellowship session

Full Affinity Teams (new fellows and mentors) will focus on one Affinity Topic to:

(1) host a small gathering of your team with select guests and EAP staff to explore and exchange

(2) co-develop a fellowship session with EAP staff and facilitate part of the session

(3) create either a small publication or present an Emergence Pre-Conference.

New fellows will also contribute to the planning and production of Emergence in June

Co-Drafted Agenda

Check in and updates: Where are you calling from, what’s some news, and what are your goals today?
Session 1 Debrief
Peer Coaching & Asset Mapping
Group Projects
Close

Assignments

Visit usdac.us/nativeland and review the website contents practice. Read through the guide to indigenous land acknowledgements.
Continue working on asset maps, and bring your 1 person to connect to and 1 person to share
Follow up on action step(s) with your peer coaching partner from the video call

Team Meetings | Nov 2019

Session Overview

Team Meetings | November 2019 (on your own time)

Collaboration skills are important in our interconnected field and world. An effective leader can assess their role in the group dynamic, manage personalities (egos, traumas, etc), deadlines and communication styles, assert their expertise/values AND will need to compromise and mediate between teammates. Consider this space a lab/studio to play with group dynamics in a supportive environment—one to push forward your ideas or questions for the arts and culture ecosystem in the Bay Area.

Location: To be determined by the team. EAP can offer to set up Zoom meetings, if virtual meeting is preferred.

Session Outcomes

Broaden your capacity for leadership and collaboration
Develop a regional understanding of the arts and culture field
Develop a stronger cross-sector professional network
Prepare and organize your team and content in preparation for the fellowship session

This month, you will meet at your own time/location to get to know your teammates and plan for your gathering and session. This is a great time to share your communication preferences, your goals for contributing, and your learning edges. You will also spend time sharing resources, discussing session readings and selecting guest speakers for the fellowship session.

Full Affinity Teams (new fellows and mentors) will focus on one Affinity Topic to:

(1) host a small gathering of your team with select guests and EAP staff to explore and exchange

(2) co-develop a fellowship session with EAP staff and facilitate part of the session

(3) create either a small publication or present an Emergence Pre-Conference.

New fellows will also contribute to the planning and production of Emergence, EAP’s annual network convening

The November meet-up will be in preparation for the first two outcomes above

Prep for this session

Schedule location/time
Gather your thoughts around communication styles, check-in schedule, guest speakers, etc.
Begin reading the required reading for your session

Assignments

To be completed before next session

Complete the Team Planning Form
Select guests and readings for sessions
Schedule your Affinity Gathering

Worksheets

Download PDF worksheets here
Digital spreadsheet versions are available in the shared Google Drive

Opening Session | Oct 12, 2019

Session Outline

Welcome, Grounding, Peer Coaching | October 12, 2019

We will open the Fellowship by getting to know each other and setting intentions through altar building; we’ll explore team communication, program expectations, program practices, and begin acquainting with peer coaching.

Location: Center for New Music, 55 Taylor St, SF, CA 94102.

Session Outcomes

Develop a stronger cross-sector professional network
Learn and explore program expectations and practices
Engage with peer coaching; Receive hands-on practice with mindful listening and coaching
Understand affinity topics (i.e., cultural equity, creative city, regenerative practice, and arts & capital) as it relates to the scope of the fellowship and Identify project teams

Required Readings & Activities

Load and bookmark the Cohort Home Page: emergingsf.org/2019-20-fellows
Review the Curriculum and Group Agreements
Bring an object to share
Complete Pre-Program Survey (online)

Assignments

to be completed before next session

Join the Fellowship Round X Cohort Facebook Group
Check your Program Outline (via the Cohort Home Page) for updated assignment and Speaker Bios
Meet in your Peer Coaching pairs, try out peer coaching to get to know each other
Meet with your Affinity Team and EAP staff

Guest Speakers

ANGELA “MICHLANXOCHITL” ANDERSON
Ph.D candidate, M.P.P
EAP Cohort V

Angela ‘Mictlanxochitl’ Anderson is a curator, scholar practitioner, and psychopomp with over 15 years experience in nonprofit and arts management at the local and national level, she brings discipline, integrity, and holistic methods to project collaboration. She initiated the “Indigenous Knowledge Gathering”, which was activated in Ohlone territory in 2015 and in Tohono O’odham land in March 2016. She pushes issues of cultural and racial equity in the arts. Her panel participation in “White Privilege in Socially Engaged Art” at Open Engagement 2016 and the panel she led, “Reclaiming the Commons of Contemporary Art” at the Oakland Book Festival 2017 were controversial and innovative discourses. As a part of the creative team of MATATU, she leads curatorial oversight and community engagement for over twenty performances, films, and dialogues for thousands in the Bay Area each year. In addition, she is initiated in the lineage of Danza de la Luna, a Mexica ceremonial practice.

SHELLEY KUANG
EAP Alum-in-Residence/Program Coordinator; Artist, Educator, & Organizer
EAP Cohort IX

Shelley Kuang is a multigenre artist, educator, and organizer. Child of southern Chinese working class immigrants, Shelley often meditates on tensions between the Chinese and Black communities in the Bayview, and her positionality as an individual who has accumulated generational wealth on Yelamu land. Drawing inspiration from the everyday, Shelley brings quotidian movement, words, and sounds into her work and process. Shelley is interested in exploring radical healing through the medium of deep connection. Shelley is on a personal journey of shifting relationships with time and being.

RHIANNON EVANS MACFADYEN
EAP Director; Curator, Artist, & Facilitator
EAP Cohort V

Cohort X

EAP is pleased to introduce Cohort X!

New for this tenth cohort, EAP welcomes back a team of alumni as mentor fellows to help support omnidirectional mentorship and generational exchange.

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Cohort X Session Dates & Locations

Important Links

Cohort X Session Outlines & Readings

Session Outline

Arts & Capital | March 14, 2020

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