2014-15 Fellowship

Fellowship IV – Framework Components & Structure

This Fellowship will be focused on personal development through reading, reflecting and dialogue. Fellows will have the opportunity to gain important peer coaching skills and engage in one-on-one coaching while developing a personal vision statement. While individual development is paramount, we also believe in the importance of our network. Fellows will also explore their network assets and develop strategies to successfully operate within the larger ecosystem. The second half of the Fellowship will explore our works’ context with through the following lens: the Creative City, Cultural Equity, Arts & Enterprise, and Regenerative Practices. We’ll develop common language and explore multiple perspectives on these topics, with the goal of working in teams around these to end the Fellowship with a team final project/product/event.

2014-15 Areas of Interest

The Creative City

We will begin by exploring 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 sector can play in “civic creativity” or “cultural strategy” that creates “social wealth” and helps shape public sentiment, city planning and policy. We will also discuss the robust migration of the technology community from Silicon Valley to San Francisco and Oakland and the effect it’s had on the non-profit and commercial arts sector. Could we have predicted the challenges? How can we move forward? Can a revived social logic, balancing independence and interdependence cultivate resilience for artists, arts and culture workers and arts organizations?

Arts & Enterprise

This month we will look at the virtues and drawback of pairing arts and enterprise. What is an entrepreneurial mindset? Is an entrepreneurial approach detrimental to the arts community? Can enterprise support the freedom to create or does it slowly corrode our character and slim content? We will discuss how arts organizations are using traditional models such as subscriptions in innovative ways as well as new social motivated business models such as Laurence Lessig’s hybrid entities and Henry Chesbrough’s open business models.

Cultural Equity

Almost 43% of California residents speak a language other than English at home, a proportion far higher than any other state. Additionally, no single racial or ethnic group forms a majority of California’s population, making the state a minority-majority state. How can arts mangers advance the conversation on cultural equity? Is it about engaging new and diverse participants, providing more support for community arts, tacking institutional or systemic marginalization or rethinking creative placemaking strategies?

Regenerative Practices

How can we make the arts 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? What can we do as leaders of programs and organizations to encourage a healthier arts ecosystem?

EAP Values

EMPOWERMENT
EAP seeks to support and strengthen individuals and groups in order to help them pursue their own goals and aspirations.
INNOVATION
EAP believes in the process of innovation, and will encourage experimentation and creativity in order to support the development and transformation of the eld.
RELEVANCY
EAP strives to be responsive and relevant to its members and the changing environment and avoid redundancy

COLLABORATION
EAP strives to build its network and programs through partnership and open dialogue. EAP will maintain inclusive and democratic working methods.
DIVERSITY
EAP believes in the value of divergent and unique perspectives. EAP will promote the involvement and integration of individuals and organizations representing the full spectrum of cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, abilities, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
PROACTIVITY
EAP strives to be proactive and action-oriented seeking out opportunities and needs as well as working effiently.

Fellowship IV – Framework Components & Structure

2014-15 Areas of Interest

The Creative City

Arts & Enterprise

Cultural Equity

Regenerative Practices

EAP Values

EMPOWERMENT

INNOVATION

RELEVANCY

COLLABORATION

DIVERSITY

PROACTIVITY

EAP SF/BA Mission

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