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SFBAEAP presents

New Growth: A spring 2010 series on Arts Leadership and new ways of working.

UP NEXT : APRIL 20th, 2010

THE POWER OF NETWORKS

April 20th, 2010, 6:30pm-8:30pm

The San Francisco Foundation

225  Bush Street

Very limited Capacity. Please R.S.V.P. early.

Want to learn how to make the most our of your social networks?

Want to work in concert with your peers?

Want to align your organization’s goals with the greater arts community?

Then come join us for an interactive evening of collaboration with Monitor Institute

Special Guests include:

~Anasa Troutman, Senior Fellow at the Movement Strategy Center

~Tamara Alvarado, Multicultural Arts Leadership Initiative

~Roger Kim, Asian Pacific Environmental Network

Evening facilitated by Noah Flower of Monitor Institute
We’ll explore creative ways to tap in and build out our professional relationships, so that we can build a stronger arts and culture field.

Next in New Growth SFBAEAP’s 2010 Series

Save The Date

Monday, May 10th Act II : TBA
Reception

Tuesday, June 8th Coaching & Creative Capacity

Act II : A Reception & Breakout Session
on Omni-Directional Mentorship w/Edward P. Clapp
(Editor/Project Director 20UNDER40)
Part of Theatre Bay Area’s 2010 Annual Conference
Lights Up : Sparking Conversations on Excellence
Monday, May 10th, 2010, 5:00pm – 8:00pm
@ The Green Room, War Memorial Bldg.,
401 Van Ness Avenue, 94102

Coaching & Creative Capacity: Professional
Development for Next Generation Arts Leaders
A collaboration with
C2Arts : Coaches & Consultants for the Arts
and the Center for Cultural Innovation
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010, 6:30pm – 9:30pm
@ Audre Lorde Room, The Women’s Building
3543 18th Street, 94110

Stay tuned for more details.

In this Issue

~ Career Trajectories : Not All Straight Arrows – Listen to Maia Rosal, Marc Vogl and Evelyn Orantes
~ The Emerging Leader Salon on ARTSblog hosted by 20under40 and the Emerging Leader Networks of Americans for the Arts
~ GrantMakers in the Arts 2009 – Brooklyn: New Leaders & New Models
~ Great Links from You!
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Hi!

Career Trajectories : Not All Straight Arrows – Listen to Maia Rosal, Marc Vogl and Evelyn Orantes
How is your fall going so far? Well I hope. Thanks so much to everyone who made it out to Creative Conversation 2009: Career Trajectories : Not All Straight Arrows at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. If you missed it, Check out our FaceBook page for a link to recordings and photos.

The Emerging Leader Networks of Americans for the Arts are hosting over forty Creative Conversations all over the country during October, National Arts & Humanities month. It’s an interesting glimpse into what’s on the mind of our peers nationwide. Building Leadership Capacity in TX, Leveraging Networks in Long Beach, Arts & Social Entrepreneurship in NY.

The Emerging Leader Salon on ARTSblog hosted by 20under40 and the Emerging Leader Networks of Americans for the Arts
Last week, the Emerging Leaders Network of Americans for the Arts and the 20UNDER40 anthology hosted an Emerging Leaders Salon on ARTSblog. Diverse arts professionals discussed the impending generational shift in arts leadership and the value of emerging leaders to the field. Read the posts and continue the conversation through your ideas, comments, and personal stories.

One of my favorites – Never Mind “What Do We Do Next?” What Do We Do FIRST? And Who’s Going to Fund It? – By Eric Clapp, editor and project director of 20UNDER40 and a doctoral student at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.

GrantMakers in the Arts 2009 – Brooklyn: New Leaders & New Models
Speaking of who’s gonna fund it, I was lucky enough to attend the Grantmakers in the Arts (GIA) conference in Brooklyn last week. This years theme –  Recession : Navigating the Art of Change.  For the first time GIA invited a blogger to cover the conference in its entirety, emerging leader Ian Moss.  Yeah! An account of the proceedings, with a great finale – Brunch with Rocco –  the closing speech by recently appointed chairman of the National Endowments for the Arts, Rocco Landesman is available here: His message ART WORKS.

This was my first time at a GIA conference and I was honored to participate in a panel titled, Changing the Game: New Models, New Leaders, New Ideas for the Arts with Heather Cohn, managing director, Flux Theatre Ensemble; Nicole Derse, national training director, Organizing for America and Adam Huttler, executive director, Fractured Atlas.
Big ups to all the California and Pittsburgh, PA (my hometown) people who took the time to say hello. It was lovely to see you in Brooklyn.
7 Great Links from You!
And Thanks for sharing!

1.) Can foundations co-op social movements?  In Creating a Monster: Capitalism in the Community Arts Classroom, a young arts administrator asks “How can we overcome the dominant power structure of corporate-controlled foundations?”
2.) A posting on the topic of “How’s this whole nonprofit thing working out for you?” from the Harvard Business Review.
3.) Have you heard? The Freelancers Union is modernizing the labor movement.
4.) Insightful stories from six senior executives who have spent their entire careers in the nonprofit sector about how they moved into leadership roles. Great tips!
5.) Tim Brown, the chief executive of the design firm IDEO, says leaders may not have all the answers, but need to ask the right kinds of questions.
6.) Great TED talk from Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love on nurturing creativity, brushing up against genius and staying sane.
7.) Wow! A comprehensive 5-point plan to strengthen New York’s art sector. There are some great ideas here.

Thanks for reading!
Do you have great links to share? Post them on the FaceBook page. Let’s build up this pool of knowledge.

Happy National Arts & Humanities Month!

1.) A Fall Mixer at the de Young – Photos, Thanks! & Stay Tuned

2.) Upcoming Event! Creative Conversation 2009:
Career Trajectories – Not A Straight Arrow
10/13/09
JUST ADDED! Ellen Oh, Executive Director, Kearny Street Workshop

3.) Local Emerging Leader responds to The Biggest Problem Facing the Arts

4.) Rosetta Thurman: Next generation leadership for social change

5.) Bay Area News!

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1.)
A Fall Mixer at the de Young – Photos, Thanks! & Stay Tuned

It was great to see so many of you at the Fall Mixer at
the de Young. Thank you for coming out. Photos from
the event are NOW posted on the FaceBook page.
Check out your lovely and handsome selves.
http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=42171556599&view=all

Thanks again to our partner for this event, the de Young Museum, and to Wait Cellars for their generous in-kind
donation. Visit Wait’s website tosupport an emerging local winery:http://www.waitcellars.com/

Stay tuned for a message from Renee Baldocchi, the
de Young’s Director of Public Programs, for future
opportunities for collaboration.

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2.)
Upcoming Event!

Creative Conversation 2009: Career Trajectories –
Not A Straight Arrow
Tuesday, October 13th, 7:00p-9:00p at Oakland
Asian Cultural Center

Join SFBAEAP for a panel and roundtable discussion with-

Evelyn Orantes, Cultural Arts Developer,
Education Department, Oakland Museum of California

Maia Rosal, Managing Director, Joe Goode Performance Group

Marc Vogl, Program Officer, Performing Arts Program,
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

JUST ADDED!
Ellen Oh, Executive Director, Kearny Street Workshop, the Bay area’s oldest Asian Pacific American multidisciplinary arts organization.

Read their bios and reserve your spot herehttp://cc09.eventbrite.com/

$6 online or $8 at the door (to cover basic event expenses)

Who are you? What do you do? Where have you been? Where
are you going? Whether you are emerging, mid-career or established this is a discussion for YOU.

Jump on BART, get off at the Oakland 12 Street Station,
walk 5 minutes and meet us there.

Creative Conversations are a national discussion initiative
began 5 years ago by the Emerging Leader Council of
Americans for the Arts.

Creative Conversations are local gatherings of emerging
leaders in communities across the country and are part of a grassroots movement to elevate the profile of arts in America during National Arts & Humanities Month every October.

Visit http://maps.artsusa.org/creativeconversations/ for information on what’s going on around the country.

We still need a few volunteers. Let me know if you’re
available. You can earn free admission to this and future
SFBAEAP events.

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3.)
The Biggest Problem Facing the Arts: Thoughts from
Michael Kaiser & local emerging leader Rachel Fink.

Michael Kaiser, President of the John F. Kennedy Performing
Arts Center in Washington D.C., and author of The Art of the Turnaround, wrote recently,

“The main challenge the arts world must address is the lack
of a large, trained corps of managers who know how to find resources, attract audiences and other constituents and
provide support to our artists.”

More at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-kaiser/the-biggest-problem-facin_b_279108.html

Rachel Fink, Bay Area emerging leader and Associate
General Manager of Berkeley Rep School of Theatre, wrote
an excellent response, and I’d like to share part of it
with you,

“There isn’t a shortage of committed, eager, and smart emerging/mid-career arts management professionals
desiring to be the next generation of arts leaders.
The issue is the challenge of ‘getting a seat at the table.’
Over the past few decades, the non-profit arts have
developed an infrastructure which presents severe
challenges for talented candidates looking to advance
their careers.

An emerging/mid-career professional faces a myriad of obstacles in trying to climb their career ladder: limited
“stepping stone” salaried positions coupled with current
leaders postponing retirement and creating a severe
bottleneck; life/work balance challenges including
identifying ways of consistently making a living wage
(at a certain point, one wants to graduate from
“sleeping on a futon” or living in an apartment with
multiple roommates, let along having the resources to
start a family and buy a home); lack of health insurance;
limited opportunities for growth within an organization or
a specific city; limited access to or resources to support
deeper professional development and travel; and, a lack
of access to a cohesive, national networking structure.”

(more here http://sfbaeap.com/2009/10/02/a-response-to-the-biggest-problem-facing-the-arts/)

And I say, Go head Rachel….thanks for helping to clarify
the issue.

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4.)
Have you read Rosetta Thurman? I’m a little bit of a
late adoper, so I’m just getting into blogs.

Rosetta promotes next generation leadership for
social change. Here are a few of my favorite columns
from the last couple of weeks,

When No Means Yes: What Generation Y Leaders Can
Learn From Michelle Kwan
http://rosettathurman.com/blog/2009/08/when-no-means-yes-what-gen-y-leaders-can-learn-from-michelle-kwan/

How the Recession is Hurting Young Nonprofit Leaders
http://rosettathurman.com/blog/2009/09/how-the-recession-is-hurting-young-nonprofit-leaders/

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5.)
Bay Area News!
Big ups to Brava Theater in the Mission & Raelle
Myrick-Hodges!

Out today! from American Theatre, the magazine of
Theatre Communications Group.

New Leaders, New Visions, featuring artistic director
Raelle Myrick-Hodges and her quest to reinvigorate a neighborhood anchor.
http://www.tcg.org/publications/at/oct09/home.cfm?CFID=16503776&CFTOKEN=69717975

Also,
October is Funding for the Arts Month at the San Francisco Foundation Center. Lots of free and informative classes.
http://www.foundationcenter.org/sanfrancisco/

What events do you have in the works? Post it on the
SFBAEAP wall. We want to hear from you.

Happy Autumn.