Emergence 2022: Models for Change
June 6, 7, 8 online
Registration is $20 – $125 at
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Art Workers Week
June 3–11
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Emerging Arts Professionals San Francisco Bay Area and community partners present Emergence 2022: Models for Change. EMERGENCE provides a collaborative platform for Bay Area arts & culture workers to connect, share ideas, and elevate their work and voices. This year we explore the models, both old and new, that we want to move toward now for a more human-centered, sustainable, and equitable arts & culture field.
Join us! Emerging Arts Professionals San Francisco Bay Area and our community partners present Emergence 2022: Models for Change. Emergence, the annual convening of the EAP network, provides a collaborative platform for Bay Area arts & culture workers to connect, share ideas, and elevate their work and voices. This year we explore the models, both old and new, that we want to move toward now for a more human-centered, sustainable, and equitable arts & culture field.
Emergence 2022: Models for Change
June 6, 7, 8 online
+++ Registration is $20 – $125 at emergence-2022.eventbrite.com +++
+++ Equity Investment: Emergence 2022 will center the experiences and needs of BIPOC arts & culture workers. Therefore, we offer an equity discount of 40% for any attendees who identify as a BIPOC Arts & Culture worker. Use promo code BIPOC365. +++
+++ No one turned away for lack of funds: We got you!! Sliding-scale tickets are available by request via this short form: https://airtable.com/shrEU0eCTsR13hLu5 +++
Join Emergence 2022: Models for Change, presented by Emerging Arts Professionals San Francisco Bay Area in partnership with Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area and Diamond Wave Monday, June 6th through Wednesday, June 8th, online
Equity is only possible when it’s baked into the systems that drive us—when leadership is shared, power is distributed for mutual benefit, and communities being served have autonomy over their culture, labor, and resources. The last few years have made clear the urgent need for the Arts & Culture field to move away from corporate frameworks that perpetuate inequities, toward models that are reflective of, and relevant to, the people and cultures it serves.
What models, new and old, are driving change by centering equity? Who’s voices are being centered and respected when solutions are being built and resources distributed? And how are we providing for resilience and sustainable leadership for those doing the work? What antidotes to oppression can we integrate into our systems and structures?
Join us, your fellow arts and culture workers, June 6,7,8, for Emergence 2022: Models for Change, to explore models we can implement now to move the field toward authenticity, equity, and liberation.
Emergence—the annual convening of the EAP network—provides a collaborative platform for Bay Area arts & culture workers to connect, share ideas, and elevate their work and voices. For our twelfth year of convening, we share how artists and organizations have pushed for and adopted models of shared leadership, mutual aid, and BIPOC-led programs, and explore how we can create more authentic and lasting change by integrating these models into our own cultural work.
About Emergence
Emergence is the annual convening of the EAP network of arts & culture workers and provides a collaborative platform for the Bay Area workforce to connect, share ideas, and elevate their work and voices. EAP is committed to curating Emergence as a participatory experience that encourages deep connections and inquiries that are omnidirectional through generations, career levels, business models, and disciplines. Our goal is for you to leave with actionable next steps, as well as tangible tools and a strengthened network to support your work.
Emergence is at the heart of Art Workers Week, which honors the culture, labor, and value arts and culture workers contribute to our Bay Area ecosystem and the many networks, organizations, and collectives who hold space and provide us with resources and connection.
Highlights
- Opening by Kanyon Sayers-Roods (Ohlone & Chumash, artist, consultant)
- Keynote and award of recognition with Angela Mictlanxochitl Anderson
- Keynote performance by LOTUS BOY
- Sessions on wellness tactics for EDI work, collaborative leadership, BIPOC-led arts education, mutual aid and shared models in philanthropy
- Guest speakers including Katherin Canton, Kevin Seaman and Stephan McLeroy of Diamond Wave, funders and organizational partners from the Artist Adaptability Circles, EAP’s Cohort XI Fellows, and more!
Schedule
- Six sessions over three days, plus topical happy hours
- Most events start at 11am , 1:30pm, and 4pm
- Complete schedule is forthcoming
LOCATION
Keeping our community in mind, we pivot our traditionally in-person event toward a different kind of space, experimenting with ways we can connect in virtual and/or socially-distanced formats.
Several talks, events, publications, and workshops will be hosted mostly via Zoom. See full schedule and registration for specific details.
With deep respect, EAP acknowledges that even in virtual space, our people, our work, and our network servers are on native lands and thank the indigenous people of the Bay Area who have stewarded this land throughout the generations.
SCHEDULE
All times are Pacific Daylight Time
Mon, Jun 6
11:00AM–12:30PM : Opening Keynote by Kanyon Sayers-Roods & Award of Recognition with Angela Mictlanxochitl Anderson
1:30–3:30PM : A Call for Equity & Wellness with Fellowship Cohort XI
4:00–5:00PM : Q/T/BIPOC Arts Workers Support Happy Hour and Think Tank
Tue, Jun 7
11:00AM–12:30PM : Separate or Equal: Distributed Power and Co-Leadership Models
1:30–3:30PM : Museums as Sites of Culturally Responsive Arts Education
4–5:00PM : Micro-Org Happy Hour
Wed, Jun 8
11:00AM–12:30PM : Distributed Leadership in Action: Centralizing Trust through Artists’ Adaptability Circles
1:30–3:00PM : Keynote Performance by LOTUS BOY
* 4–6:00PM : Art Workers Week Event (external) with Cohort XI Fellows Reyna Brown: Building Anti-Racist Teaching Practices: a Workshop for Theater Educators [Free registration here]
6–8:00PM : Outdoor Closing Happy Hour at The Parkside
PLUS… Networking spaces on our dedicated Discord Server, collective resource library, and more!
SPEAKERS
- Kanyon Sayers-Roods
- Angela Mictlanxochitl Anderson
- Ernesto Sopprani
- Stephan McLeroy
- Eleanor Ajala
- Sharmi Basu
- Reyna Brown
- Michelle Lin
- irene faye duller
- Van Nguyen-Stone
- Lorena Landeros Garcia
- Katherin Canton
- Rhiannon Evans MacFadyen
- Katie Rainey
- Sedey Gebreyes
- Margaret Yee
- Rachel Anne Palicios
- Kevin Seaman
- Chris Evans
- Alma Leppla
- Tricia Rainwater
- LOTUS BOY
- Sketchnotes by Todd Berman
Keynotes
Angela Mictlanxochitl Anderson
EAP Award of Recognition
The annual EAP Award of Recognition honors an arts & culture leader who has centered equity, multiplicity, and peer mentorship to deepen the practices and methodologies of EAP and its network members.
In recognition of the many years Angela has worked with EAP to ground our fellowship program in intention and encouraged our work toward honoring multiplicity and incorporating indigenous practices into arts & culture work, EAP honors the scholar, cultural leader, and EAP Alum and invites guest speakers to share their experience with her work.
Angela Mictlanxochitl Anderson, PHD, MPP is the Executive Director of Lideramos, a National Latino leadership development organization. She is a contemporary healer holding and guiding strategic change built in self-worth to regenerate radical compassion for a new world of equity, sustainability, and wonder. With over 25 years of experience in community engagement and leading organizations, she strives to be a leader in these times of survival. She is a specialist in the effective communication of pluralities of knowledge across cultural and organizational borders.
LOTUS BOY
Keynote Performance
LOTUS BOY (Ze/Zir, He/Him, They/Them) is a shapeshifting, transgender and nonbinary, unapologetically disabled, Chinese-American drag king and multidisciplinary artist based in occupied Tamyen Ohlone Land (San Jose, CA). Zir work explores gender fluidity, accessibility, healing from trauma, and rage, through the mediums of poetry, lipsync, ancestral movement (qigong and tai chi), monologue, and original music. With every performance, he aims to help tyou learn—or unlearn—something, and to make you laugh.
Sessions
SCHEDULE AT-A-GLANCE
All times are Pacific Daylight Time
Mon, Jun 6
11:00AM–12:30PM : Opening Keynote by Kanyon Sayers-Roods & Award of Recognition with Angela Mictlanxochitl Anderson
1:30–3:30PM : A Call for Equity & Wellness with Fellowship Cohort XI
4:00–5:00PM : Q/T/BIPOC Arts Workers Support Happy Hour and Think Tank
Tue, Jun 7
11:00AM–12:30PM : Separate or Equal: Distributed Power and Co-Leadership Models
1:30–3:30PM : Museums as Sites of Culturally Responsive Arts Education
4–5:00PM : Micro-Org Happy Hour
Wed, Jun 8
11:00AM–12:30PM : Distributed Leadership in Action: Centralizing Trust through Artists’ Adaptability Circles
1:30–3:00PM : Keynote Performance by LOTUS BOY
* 4–6:00PM : Art Workers Week Event (external) with Cohort XI Fellows Reyna Brown: Building Anti-Racist Teaching Practices: a Workshop for Theater Educators [Free registration here]
6–8:00PM : Outdoor Closing Happy Hour at The Parkside
FULL SESSION INFORMATION
Monday, June 6th
SESSION 1
Opening Keynote by Kanyon Sayers-Roods & Award of Recognition with Angela Mictlanxochitl Anderson
Monday, June 6, 11AM-12:30PM PDT (90-min session)
Opening & Grounding by Kanyon “Coyote Woman” Sayers-Roods
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.
Award of Recognition: Angela Mictlanxochitl Anderson
The annual EAP Award of Recognition honors an arts & culture leader who has centered equity, multiplicity, and peer mentorship to deepen the practices and methodologies of EAP and it’s network members
In recognition of the many years Angela has worked with EAP to ground our fellowship program in intention and encouraged our work toward honoring multiplicity and incorporating indigenous practices into arts & culture work, EAP honors the scholar and cultural leader and invites guest speakers to share their experience with her work.
With guest speakers Katherin Canton, Ernesto Sopprani, and Rhiannon Evans MacFadyen
SESSION 2
A Call for Wellness in EDI Work with Fellowship Cohort XI
Monday, June 6, 1:30-3:00PM PDT (90-min session)
Join EAP’s current cohort of Fellows as they share their experience exploring what wellness looks like when doing EDI work in any capacity in the arts and culture field.
This year, the Fellowship program focused on Cultural Equity and invited emerging and experienced arts workers to apply to join a cohort of individuals who find themselves doing regular equity/EDI work in any capacity. Jumping off from our Emergence 2021 session: Wellness Tactics for EDI Work, an intimate cohort will gathered for eight months to discuss their experiences, share tactics for coping and resilience, and map out tools and skills we might need to develop to keep going. In this session, they will share their learnings, collaborations, and a concrete call for equity and wellness for arts & culture organizations.
Cohort XI Fellows
- Eleanor Ajala
- irene faye duller
- Michelle Lin
- Reyna Brown
- Sharmi Basu
- Stephan McLeroy
Online Mixer
Q/T/BIPOC Arts Workers Support Happy Hour and Think Tank
Monday, June 6, 4–5PM PDT (60-min)
Wind down from the day, and join a casual conversation around mutual support for Q/T/BIPOC Arts & Culture workers.
Happy Hours do not require Emergence Registration, so bring your friends, invite your colleagues, we’ll see you there!
Tuesday, June 7th
SESSION 3
Separate or Equal: Distributed Power and Co-Leadership Models
Tuesday, June 7, 11AM–12:30PM PDT (90-min session)
For organizations looking to decentralize power and decision-making, shared leadership structures like Co-Directorship offer an equitable staffing model that allows for division of labor, stability and institutional memory in times of transition, opportunities for reciprocal learning, and most importantly, is a model with a deep history in BIPOC-centered organizing. Organizations with co-leadership benefit from complementary skill-sets, networks, and backgrounds, and are able to provide more points of contact, faster response, and to function like a much larger organization. But what exactly is a Co-Director model? How does it differ from the historically divided structures of corporate models like C-Level structures and program directors? How do you navigate the creation of the partnership and equity in labor and decision-making? Join us to hear real-world stories of Co-Directors with learnings and tips for this emergent leadership model in the arts & culture field.
Speakers
- Performing Arts Workshop Acting Co-Executive Directors Van Nguyen-Stone and Lorena Landeros Garcia
- Katherin Canton
- EAP Director Rhiannon Evans MacFadyen
- Katie Rainey, Teaching Artist Guild
SESSION 4
Museums as Sites of Culturally Responsive Arts Education
Tuesday, June 7, 1:30-3:00PM PDT (90-min session)
As museums throughout the Bay Area continue to work to be more participatory and responsive to their patrons, how have their education departments engaged in critical conversations? We’ll hear from administrators and teaching artists about how museum education has worked to be culturally responsive to communities both inside and outside of the museum walls.
Moderated by Katherin Canton
Speakers
- Sedey Gebreyes, Senior Education Program Manager, at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)
- Margaret Yee, Manager of School and Teacher Programs at the Asian Art Museum
- Rachel Anne Palacios, teaching artist
- Reyna Brown, teaching artist
Online Mixer
Doing it All—a Happy Hour and Think Tank for Micro-org Leaders
Monday, June 6, 4–5PM PDT (60-min)
Wind down from the day, and join a casual conversation and commiseration around mutual support for those jack-of-all-trades holding small arts & culture organizations
Wednesday, June 8th
SESSION 5
Distributed Leadership in Action: Centralizing Trust through Artists’ Adaptability Circles
Wednesday, June 8, 11AM–12:30PM PDT (90-min session)
Join the administrative leadership of the Artists’ Adaptability CirclesArtist Adaptability Circles to learn more about this new seed funding and leadership development program rooted in mutual aid and artist autonomy. We’ll hear from artists who participated in the beta round of the program, participating organizations and a little bit about the future of the program.
SESSION 5
Keynote Performance: LOTUS BOY
Wednesday, June 8, 1:30PM–3:00PM PDT (90-min session)
LOTUS BOY (Ze/Zir, He/Him, They/Them) is a shapeshifting, transgender and nonbinary, unapologetically disabled, Chinese-American drag king and multidisciplinary artist based in occupied Tamyen Ohlone Land (San Jose, CA). Zir work explores gender fluidity, accessibility, healing from trauma, and rage, through the mediums of poetry, lipsync, ancestral movement (qigong and tai chi), monologue, and original music. With every performance, he aims to help tyou learn—or unlearn—something, and to make you laugh.
Outdoor Happy Hour
Closing Happy Hour
Wednesday, June 8, 6–7:30PM PDT (60-min)
Join your Bay Area colleagues to toast the close of Emergence 2022 at Thee Parkside, 1600 17th Street, San Francisco. All ages welcome. No-host bar, coffee, and food available, plus indoor and outdoor seating!
Resources & Reading
Networking Platform
Visit our Discord server
Here you will find links, tools, articles, and resources related to Emergence 2021—including info from and about our sessions. Continue the conversation in our session channels. Meet new people in the Community Hangouts voice and video channel. Decompress together in the video Lounge.
New to Discord? So were we! Here’s a good intro video: https://youtu.be/TJ13BA3-NR4
And here’s an equally good, though much dryer, info video: https://youtu.be/OIqyPJQAgT4
Emergence 2022 Community Library & Archive
Visit our shared library and Emergence archive at bit.ly/EM2022Library
Here you will find links, tools, articles, and resources related to Emergence 2022—including info from and about our sessions, speakers, and content. This is a Community Library, and we’d love to include your notes, images, and links in the library. To contribute, please email action@emergingsf.org with “EM2022 Library” in the subject.
Session Sketchnotes by Todd Berman
Speaker Bios
Angela Mictlanxochitl Anderson, PHD, MPP
Angela Mictlanxochitl Anderson, PHD, MPP is the Executive Director of LIDERAMOS, a National Latino leadership development organization. She is a contemporary healer holding and guiding strategic change built in self-worth to regenerate radical compassion for a new world of equity, sustainability, and wonder. With over 25 years of experience in community engagement and leading organizations, she strives to be a leader in these times of survival. As a policy advocate and researcher, she served as the Director of Operations for the Institute for Diversity in Health Management, and co-founded the National Forum for Healthcare Executives, the Asian HealthCare Leaders Association. She also served as the Program Director of the Center for Metropolitan Chicago Initiatives of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Recognizing the possibilities at the intersections of education, spirituality, and personal development, she completed her doctorate in transpersonal psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. In response to the global pandemic, she is a research associate with Latino Policy Forum and a volunteer with The National Coalition of Latinos Against COVID-19. She is a specialist in the effective communication of pluralities of knowledge across cultural and organizational borders. She serves as a council member of Danza de la Huitzilmeztli and Danza de Luna Xinachtli Meztli, both transterritorial Mexica ceremonial practices.
- linkedin.com/in/mictlanxochitl/
Ernesto Sopprani
Ernesto is an art director / senior-level multidisciplinary designer/illustrator, working in cultural production and digital publishing with over 15 years of experience. As a lifelong interest, Ernesto investigates emerging practices and naturally occurring networks whose purpose is to imagine, test, and further develop sustainable systems of collaboration and mutual aid.
Ernesto has participated in a myriad of projects bringing together both private and public expertise, in order to analyze and reimagine sustainable cultural engagement methods. From foresight strategic planning to policy drafting to cultural planning and production, he believes we are all implicated in the creation of the next cultural renaissance.
Ernesto was involved in the initial creation, shaping, and direction of Emerging Arts Professionals, a network of art and culture workers in the Bay Area. He is also a Stewart advisor for the SF arts advocacy network “Arts for a Better Bay Area” or ABBA. He is an advisory board member for the Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers in SF, he also worked to amplify the SF’s FRESH Festival, a festival of contemporary dance and performance.. Ernesto is currently working as a print designer for the Bay Area Reporter, America’s longest continuously-published and highest circulation LGBTQ newspaper. Ernesto currently is an advisor for NOW Art LA, an award-winning 360° public art agency based in Los Angeles. Now Art LA consults, curates, and designs contemporary public artworks, experiential activations, and iconic landmarks that reframe urban landscapes and inspire cultural, social, and economic vitality.
Indi McCasey
Executive Director, Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area
INDI MCCASEY (they/them) believes in the power of collaborative, creative practice to transform systems of education.
Indi is a consultant, creative learning designer, non-profit program administrator, teaching artist, and event producer. Born and raised in the South Bay Area, they have spent the past 15 years working at the intersection of arts, education, and community health with non-profit organizations and schools in Boston, Santa Fe, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Every year they engage educators and artists across the country and internationally to critically examine the practice and purpose of education through institutions including the Alameda County Office of Education, the National Guild for Community Arts Education, and Harvard’s Project Zero. Indi holds an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and currently serves as the Executive Director of the Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area. You can learn more about Indi’s work at indimccasey.com.
Kanyon Sayers-Roods
Ohlone & Chumash, artist, consultant
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.
“I am Ohlone & Chumash – California Native Woman. I am a creative artist ever inspired by nature and the natural world, Catalyst of decolonizing conversations. Contemp/Traditional Artist, Native Representative, Consultant, Advocate of Truth in History, Multimedia Artist, “Coyote”, T.E.K educator, and much more – Let’s Talk”
Katherin Canton
Katherin Canton (they/them/theirs) is based in occupied Nisenan, Maidu, and Miwuk land (Sacramento, CA), and was raised on Yelamu (occupied Ramaytush Ohlone land/San Francisco) and Huichin (occupied Lisjan Ohlone land/Oakland). Katherin is a detribalized GuateMayan, weaver, healer, cultural organizer, caregiver, and facilitator of magic. They are the Co
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Katie Rainey
Co-Executive Director, Teaching Artists Guild (TAG)
Katie (M.K.) Rainey (she/her) is a writer, teaching artist, and editor from Little Rock, Arkansas. She was formerly the Director of the Teaching Artist Project (TAP) at Community-Word Project and has been a teaching artist for over 10 years. She has taught poetry, fiction, theatre, photography, English as a second language and filmmaking in various parts of the world. For the last six years, Katie has been teaching at The Young Women’s Leadership School of Queens, working with their 9th grade students on creative writing and using their art-making for activism. As a facilitator for TAP, Katie leads workshops for adults on social-emotional learning, curriculum building, career development, creative writing, and more. Formerly, Katie served as a Co-Chair of the NYC Arts in Education Roundtable Teaching Artist Affairs Committee and was a part of the 2018 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Emerging Leaders Boot Camp. Katie is the winner of the 2017 Bechtel Prize at Teachers & Writers Magazine, the 2017 Lazuli Literary Group Writing Contest and the 2018 Montana Award for Fiction from Whitefish Review. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Lit Hub, Writer’s Digest, The Collagist, 3AM Magazine, and more. You can see more about her work here: mk-rainey.com
Lorena Landeros Garcia
Lorena Landeros Garcia, Acting Co-Executive Director, Performing Arts Workshop
Lorena Landeros Garcia is a Mexican-American fiction writer, educator, anti-racist policy strategist, experienced non profit executive leader, and the daughter of immigrants raised by a single mother in East San Jose. She began her work with Performing Arts Workshop as a program manager in 2012, after teaching Middle School English and leading advocacy initiatives to support students with individualized education plans in the South Bronx. She earned a B.A. in English and Philosophy from San Francisco State University, an Ed.M from Hunter College, and is a Teach for America alumnus. Lorena has over ten years of experience in strategic planning, budgeting, curriculum development, planning and leading anti racist learning and growth programs for teaching artists, and is a founding member of Performing Arts Workshop’s Anti-Racism Committee. She is committed to racial justice and community centered approaches to arts education that affirm students’ creative capacity and voice.
LOTUS BOY
LOTUS BOY (He/Ze/They) is a transgender and nonbinary, unapologetically disabled, Chinese-American drag king, interdisciplinary artist, educator, and disability advocate. His work explores ableism, anti-Asian racism, gender fluidity, sustainability, and healing through the mediums of poetry, lipsync, ancestral movement (qigong and tai chi), and original music. Often incorporating humor as a vessel of universal connection, ze aims to help zir audiences learn—or unlearn—something about themselves and the world around them. King LOTUS BOY’s work has been featured at The Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, The Chinese Historical Society of America, CounterPulse, Brava Theatre, Potrero Stage, the Austin International Drag Festival, Oaklash, UC Berkeley, UCLA, San Jose State University, Santa Ana College, and Destiny Arts Center. In June of this year, their short film, for the Chinese Ladies, will be premiering at the 18th Annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival at the Presidio Theatre in San Francisco on June 12 (FREE tickets at qwocmap.org). Since 2021, he has partnered with Queens of the Castro to facilitate workshops on drag, gender, and identity at high schools across San Francisco and Oakland. LOTUS BOY is on the Board of Directors for Oaklash, the Bay Area’s Drag Festival, as the Workshops & Panels and Accessibility co-lead. Connect with them on Instagram and Tiktok @kinglotusboy.
Margaret Yee
Manager of School and Teacher Programs, Asian Art Museum
Margaret Yee taught high school English for over 20 years before becoming a museum educator in 2018. She enjoys working with docents, storytellers, and teachers to design fun, engaging tours and art activities for K-12 school groups. She is excited to create more curriculum on contemporary Asian American art in the coming years.
Rachel-Anne Palacios
Teaching Artist
Rachel-Anne Palacios has made a name for herself in the Bay Area art world. A self-taught, multicultural artist, her pieces reflect the respect she has for culture, religion, traditional values, elders, and the cycle of life and death. Palacios grew up amongst Oakland’s cultural diversity in the San Antonio neighborhood. She is now sharing her cultural arts education programming with Schools in Oakland and a number of city and county libraries throughout the Bay Area.
Rhiannon Evans MacFadyen
Curator, Artist, Consultant
Director, Emerging Arts Professionals San Francisco Bay Area
Rhiannon Evans MacFadyen is a curator, consultant, facilitator, and project-based artist, born and based in San Francisco. With 20 years experience in the performing and visual arts, Rhiannon is deeply influenced by their own, and their communities’, intersectional identities and by their pursuit of “productive discomfort.” “Through open exchange and collaboration, I tug at the threads that connect our human experiences.” Their curatorial focus is on projects that push boundaries of scale, scope, medium, venue, and dialogue; and her cross-discipline personal work engages symbols, identity, communication, and the unseen. Full bio and more info at pushingart.wordpress.com
Sedey Gebreyes
Senior Education Program Manager, MoAD
(T)sedey Gebreyes, born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and beekeeping enthusiast. Her creative work and teaching style are greatly influenced by the wonderful visual artists, theater performers, and storytellers of her childhood community. After moving to the United States, she studied Studio Arts at University of Missouri, Kansas City, and Fine Arts and Spanish at University of Veracruz, Mexico.
Following her passion, she moved to San Francisco, California in 2007 where she has held a variety of positions including Adjunct Educator at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Teaching Artist at the DeYoung Museum, Co-founder and Teaching Artist at MiCultura Art Project, After School Program Manager at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, and San Francisco Unified School District.
Van Nguyen-Stone
Acting Co-Executive Director, Performing Arts Workshop
Van Nguyen-Stone is passionate about documenting and celebrating stories where people and spirit combine in sacred communication. Van earned two film degrees, a Bachelor of Arts from University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Master of Fine Arts degree from San Francisco State University, and uses the tools she honed in her programs and practice to support communities in telling their stories. She has produced a range of multimedia projects that celebrate spiritual practices, ethnic dances and traditions, and spotlight Bay Area elders, youth, and community leaders. Van has over fifteen years of experience in arts programming and project management. She started out as a teaching artist and transitioned to developing programs that center youth voice and anti-racist practices. Van brings experience building sustainable partnerships with community partners, technology and media arts integration, and strategic planning. As a child of Vietnamese refugee parents, a mother, and an artist, she is passionate about building spaces where art is a tool for activism, liberation, and healing.
Todd Berman
Todd Berman is a San Francisco artist and educator who paints scribbly, surrealistic landscapes of San Francisco. His art reflects the colorful eccentricity bound within moments and individuals; depicting scenes of people coming together to improve their surroundings. Todd uses his drawings to document political meetings and community events and uses his painting practice for more in-depth inquiry into the textures and patterns that connect us all. You can currently see his art on the walls of the EAP office, on a heart sculpture in Union Square, and on TheArtDontStop.com.
Todd Berman will be drawing live sketchnotes of sessions #1 , 5, & 6
So many great speakers
More to come! Check back for more info about our many fantastic speakers and facilitators this year!
Community Partners
Funding Partners
The Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area (AEABA) CONNECTS and CATALYZES arts education communities for a more just and creative San Francisco Bay Area.
The Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area (AEABA) CONNECTS and CATALYZES arts education communities for a more just and creative San Francisco Bay Area.
Supported by the San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equity Initiatives Grant
