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Collective Approaches – State of the Arts & Society – EMERGENCE 2015 – Morning Panel

May 28, 2015/0 Comments/in EMERGENCE 2015 /by esopprani

Forum – 12:00pm Panelists: Rhiannon MacFadyen, Founder/Director of A Simple Collective Ashara Saran Ekundayo, Impact Hub Oakland, LLC , Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer Omi Gallery, Director/Curator Julie Potter,Creative Ecosystems Senior Program Manager, YBCA Kristi Holohan is a member of Rock Paper Scissors, founder of Arts and Creative Expression (ACE Arts). How do we harness social, […]

Crossing Into Race and Privilege in the Arts – EMERGENCE 2015 – Afternoon Workshop

May 28, 2015/0 Comments/in EMERGENCE 2015 /by esopprani

Youth Arts Lounge Room – 2:50pm Lead by Angela Anderson Guerrero, Lauren Benetua, Jay Marie Hill, Dorothy Santos and Manish Vaidya A conversation about diversity, identity and the ways that history, culture, public policy and institutional practices interact to impact the way we address race and privilege in our sector. The session will invite us all to […]

Collective Approaches – State of the Arts & Society – EMERGENCE 2015 – Morning Panel

May 28, 2015/0 Comments/in EMERGENCE 2015 /by esopprani

Crossing Into Race and Privilege in the Arts – EMERGENCE 2015 – Afternoon Workshop

May 28, 2015/0 Comments/in EMERGENCE 2015 /by esopprani

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Collective Approaches – State of the Arts & Society – EMERGENCE 2015 – Morning Panel

May 28, 2015/0 Comments/in EMERGENCE 2015 /by esopprani

Collective Approaches – State of the Arts & Society

Forum – 12:00pm

Panelists:

Rhiannon MacFadyen, Founder/Director of A Simple Collective
Ashara Saran Ekundayo, Impact Hub Oakland, LLC , Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer Omi Gallery, Director/Curator
Julie Potter,Creative Ecosystems Senior Program Manager, YBCA
Kristi Holohan is a member of Rock Paper Scissors, founder of Arts and Creative Expression (ACE Arts).

How do we harness social, cultural and financial capital through collective impact and efforts? Artists working in collaboration achieve many practical and values based goals. Participants of this roundtable will share moments/tactics for their successes and challenges relevant to artists/arts organizations working in and outside of alternative forms to the Non-Profit and For-Profit dichotomy.

Panel Participants

Rhiannon Evans MacFadyen is a curator and project-based artist, as well as an independent consultant for artists, small institutions, and budding collectors. A San Francisco native, having over 15 years of in-depth experience in the arts–including 10+ years in the commercial gallery world and a number of years with Bay Area folkloric performance companies–Rhiannon has focused on projects that push boundaries of scale, scope, medium, venue, and content. In 2013 she founded A Simple Collective: an organization dedicated to fostering creative independence for professionals, and professional independence for creatives, and ASC Projects: an experimental project space in San Francisco’s Mission district. Deeply involved with several community-building, cultural, and arts marketing organizations, she spearheaded the creation and curation of Yerba Buena Night: the free outdoor arts festival in downtown San Francisco, now in its fourth year, and is on the Advisory Board for WEAD (Women’s Environmental Artist Directory) and Curatorial Committee for Root Division. She has curated exhibitions at Visual Aid Gallery, the New Media Lounge at Yerba Buena Night, ASC Projects, and SCOPE New York, and her shows and words have been included is The New Asterisk Magazine, SFArts.org, Art Practical, and KQED, among other publications.

Ashara Saran Ekundayo is a cultural strategist and convener who consultants with start-ups and organizations to assess and build capacity for increased community engagement in their ventures through the uses of social permaculture design, creative arts practice, exhibition, and project management. Her combined passions for media, food, art and tech also inspire her to produce events such as Pecha Kucha Night Oakland and “Grits & Greens” and she can be heard on KPOO Radio amplifying the voices of women creatives with her “Sweetwater Sessions” segment as part the weekly Ibeji Lounge show. Most recently Ashara serves as the Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Impact Hub Oakland and is also the Director for Omi Gallery located in Oakland, CA. She also participates in the Urban Futures Think Tank at YBCA, and holds Advisory Board Positions with KQED Arts, Urban Protoyping, and the City of Oakland Cultural Funding Program. She is a 2014 Emerging Arts Professional Fellow and Institute For the Future just pinged her as 2015 Fellow4Good inquiring on the Future of Collaboration and Spirituality. She happily Tweets from @Blublakwomyn

Julie Potter is a community engagement specialist, performance curator and writer based in San Francisco. As the YBCA:You Senior Program Manager at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Potter designs programs stimulating the frequency, diversity and community of art-going, including the Smart Night Out and Smart Night Outing performance programs. She also conducts creative case management developing individualized curricula as part of YBCA:You and manages inquiry-based networks as part of the Programs and Pedagogy team at YBCA. Potter was the 2013 Writer in Residence at the ODC Theater and completed studies in the 2013 class at Wesleyan University’s Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance. Potter has been a guest curator for ConVerge at YBCA, presenting Unproductive Time/A Party With Rules in 2014 and An Evening of Word/Playin 2013. She also curated Dance Discourse Project #13: Dancing in the Museum presented by Dancers’ Group, CounterPulse and the de Young Museum. Potter was a 2011-12 Emerging Arts Professionals Fellow organizing public programs in the Bay Area including Artist As Citizen, The Artist-Administrator Balancing Act and Collaborators in Situ.

Kristi Holohan was raised in a craft family from Finnish-American decent and works in diverse mediums in the Bay Area. Her personal work in visual and textile Art is heavily influenced by her relationships and constant street presence in Oakland community, policy and advocacy work, political comics and satire, through membership at Rock Paper Scissors Collective-as gallery curator and community/youth director, as an educator in Arts from an oppression/liberation framework with Restorative Practices, and her current mentor fine artist and muralist Dan Fontes. Most always surrounded by Oakland community, natural urban homesteading and youth interns, Her work in visual Arts, curation, organizing, and education has been locally and nationally recognized for its base and intent in intensive community incorporation. [kristi.holohan@gmail.com]

Crossing Into Race and Privilege in the Arts – EMERGENCE 2015 – Afternoon Workshop

May 28, 2015/0 Comments/in EMERGENCE 2015 /by esopprani

Crossing Into Race and Privilege in the Arts

Youth Arts Lounge Room – 2:50pm

Lead by Angela Anderson Guerrero, Lauren Benetua, Jay Marie Hill, Dorothy Santos and Manish Vaidya

A conversation about diversity, identity and the ways that history, culture, public policy and institutional practices interact to impact the way we address race and privilege in our sector. The session will invite us all to talk very explicitly about what #BlackLivesMatter looks like in practice via a multi-generational and multi-racial diaspora in the Bay Area. The goal of the session is to walk out with tightly bound commitments and new allegiances that lives far beyond the room and space.

Read the Community Hackpad from this session!

Session Lead by

Angela ‘Mictlanxochitl’ Anderson, Ph.D. student, M.A. is currently a scholar practitioner and artist whose doctoral studies are exploring the intersections of epistemology, indigenous knowledge and spirituality. Both her art and her studies are an extension of her spiritual work within traditions of Mesoamerican, Native American, and Andean lineages. At CIIS, she lead a $10,000 Social Innovation Grant from California Campus Compact that enabled CIIS students to initiate the“Mindfulness & Community Resilience” project at a charter school in the Tenderloin Community. In the Bay area community, Angela works alongside local artists around creative endeavors aiming to create and honor sacred space and indigenous traditions. She received an M.A. in public policy and a certificate in health administration and policy from the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Public Policy in 2004, and completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Notre Dame in 2000. Angela is currently the Student Alliance Coordinator at California Institute of Integral Studies

Lauren Benetua, American Arts Incubator Program Assistant, ZERO1 Garage and Network Coordinator, San Jose Peace and Justice Center – Lauren is an arts advocate and aspiring curator in love with art for social change, especially from indigenous perspectives and diasporic voices. She is dedicated to improve social and cultural bridging through unexpected and unconventional ways, especially participatory community arts projects. Her research interests focus on ways indigenous textiles, cloth, and clothing are forms of transmitting knowledge, history, and cultural identity, and can be used as tools to uplift the (often marginalized) women and communities from which they originate. On the weekends, you can find her nose deep in coloring books and researching archives of Indigenous and Third World Resistance movements.

Jay-Marie Hill, Administrative Mgr at Robert Moses’ Kin Dance Company – Jay-Marie is a Black, Boricua y White Masculine, Queer Woman, born and raised in the Bay Area. She is a graduate of Stanford University (B.A) in Theater and Performance Studies and the University of Southern California (M.A., Teaching). In all of her work – as a teacher, mentor, arts administrator, and artist – she seeks to support artists and organizations that further her desire to help Youth and People of Color feel empowered to take on the task of healing and transforming their communities and our world. Having worked with several different arts organizations in the Bay Area, Jay-Marie always leaves a mark of professionalism, deep relationships, and fun in her wake. Her participation in the invite-only Brown Boi Project in 2010 – a national leadership development program for Masculine of Center People of Color – helped re-ground her focus in a desire to elevate Art and Blackness as a tactic to achieve liberation for people of all backgrounds. She found that in her current position at Robert Moses’ Kin and resonates deeply with RMK’s mission: to create phenomenal art that – rather than look beyond the differences that make us human – both recognizes and celebrates them.

Dorothy Santos, Arts Editor for Hyphen Magazine and The New Asterisk Magazine – Dorothy is a writer and editor whose research areas include computational aesthetics, programming, coding, open source culture and their effects on contemporary art. Born and raised in San Francisco, California, she holds Bachelor’s degrees in Philosophy and Psychology from the University of San Francisco, and received her Master’s degree in Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts. She currently serves as an editor for the New Asterisk magazine, Hyphen, and The Civic Beat. Her work appears in Hyperallergic, Art21, Art Practical, Creative Applications Network, Daily Serving, Planting Rice, and Stretcher. She has lectured and spoken at the de Young Museum, San Francisco Art Institute, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and ZERO1: The Art and Technology Network. She serves as a board member for the SOMArts Cultural Center.

Manish Vaidya is Civic Engagement Coordinator, Queer Cultural Center; Founder and Artistic Director, Peacock Rebellion. Manish is a comedian; life coach to burned-out activists; program coordinator at Queer Cultural Center, home of the National Queer Arts Festival; and the founding Artistic Director of Peacock Rebellion, a social justice arts organization for queer and trans people of color.

PROJECT

We Hear You: lolzculturalequity, a Resource and Support Hub for the Voiceless

The Cultural Equity team founded and runs lolzCulturalEquity, a multi-site hub that seeks to empower Bay Area artists, arts administrators, and cultural producers through its use as a destination for creatives to anonymously share experiences regarding cultural equity-related challenges within the Bay Area arts community. This media platform allowed the the EAP Cultural Equity Research team the opportunity to serve our community as well as connect artists to organizational resources and individuals ready and willing to empower others. In addition to the online web format, the team created a dedicated warmline for sharing of and support thru uncomfortable and unacceptable, non-urgent incidents. The number allowed our community to leave a message detailing these incidents and experiences of cultural (in)equity, thus providing an outlet that had never before been offered to our community. If requested by the caller, one of the lolz Cultural Equity founders followed up the caller via email or by phone within 48 hours. All information was kept confidential. – http://lolzculturalequity.tumblr.com/

RESOURCES

Online

Microaggressions. Power, privilege and everyday life – This blog seeks to provide a visual representation of the everyday. http://www.microaggressions.com/

Media Diversified is a young and growing non-profit organisation which seeks to cultivate and promote skilled writers of colour by providing advice and contacts and by promoting content online through its own platform. http://mediadiversified.org/

Local Organizations

Destiny Arts (Oakland) http://www.destinyarts.org/

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Collective Approaches – State of the Arts & Society – EMERGENCE 2015 – Morning Panel

Crossing Into Race and Privilege in the Arts – EMERGENCE 2015 – Afternoon Workshop

Collective Approaches – State of the Arts & Society – EMERGENCE 2015 – Morning Panel

Crossing Into Race and Privilege in the Arts – EMERGENCE 2015 – Afternoon Workshop

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Collective Approaches – State of the Arts & Society – EMERGENCE 2015 – Morning Panel

Collective Approaches – State of the Arts & Society

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Crossing Into Race and Privilege in the Arts – EMERGENCE 2015 – Afternoon Workshop

Crossing Into Race and Privilege in the Arts

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