- Change in trickled down funding
- Offering micro-grants
- Identifying a different business model
- Find a way to get more money for the independent artist
- Assign someone under 30 on the board
- Advocacy, Becoming knowledgeable about legislation that affects the arts
- Funders round table
- Education for both artists and founders
- Continue to nourish opportunities for potential collaborations and networking
- Arts + political involvement
- Identifying and funding artists healthcare as well as sustainable survival
- Giving money for program development and process not just product
- Identifying/Creating Space, like Red Ink Studios in Hunters Point
- Collect best practices + finance information to share with emerging artists / organizations
- Develop internships for arts advocacy to support knowledge and action of/on legislation
- Support the work of SF BAEAP
- Build cross disciplinary programs to support shared goals
- Identify symbiotic relationships between institutions
- Mentorship programs for administrators of artists run spaces and community arts organizations
- Plugging into existing communities i.e. critique groups, artist run spaces, etc
- Networking – hearing other people stories
- Resist the desire to be all things to all people
- Make friends who have insight (explore need for partnerships)
- Clarifying our mission
- Forums, networks building bridges
- Foster connections
- Create a website for people to interact
- Offer professional development opportunities
- Offer a space for people to barter services (on website)
- Create book clubs
- Exchange of art and non art sectors
- Partnerships – match making
- Create Professional mentorship programs
- Create an advisory board – with specific roles
- Emphasize work/life balance
- Offer organizational support towards personal art practice, professional development and social benefits
- Opportunity to interact as artists not just “arts professionals”
- Professional mentorship opportunities
- Build philosophy of continued learning/development built into job description or mission
- Creativity model: TED.COM
- A collective voice to share our outcomes as artist to broad communities.
- Share outcome with other cross-disciplinary artists as well
- Meaningful collaborations across diverse platforms for showcasing one another, a more social (more arts, less production work) sustainable and fun.
- Meeting model: Meet-up.com (people sharing what they are working on, while having fun.
- Stride towards a tangible connection between arts thinking and street level / community level contexts.
- Provide a dedicated space (arts center with housing)
- Offer a portal for how for-profits/non profits can work with one another
- Our community – Artistic + design thinking
- Increase the bottom up input model (communities, artist, bottom level workers)
- Offer entrepreneurial programs
- Offer creative workshops, services for corporations
- Help individual artists navigate while positioning themselves in a capitalist workforce (diversify their offerings)
- Online/off line networking opportunities
- Bridging gaps between generations
- Advocating for a new model – the Obama Model
- How to run a self sustainable organization with low funds
- Mentorship program to share skills between emerging and established art professionals
- Set a bulleting board for members interaction
- Facilitate a barter system
- Time to get together to identify specific topics “Support Groups” Meet-up.com
- Artistic administrative counseling on communication (organizational coach)
- Helping to identify a career trajectory and leveraging skills
- Educating current leaders about resources within community – how can it benefit the organization?
- Meet more
- Identify issues
- Organize workshops
- Get to know our community challenges /solutions
- Share resources
- Find allies
- Find common goals
- Work on different strategies
- How do we articulate our strengths? Capitalize on creativity.
- Prevent burnout / artist isolation
- Fund research and advocate on impact of the arts – How can we bring this perspective into our organizations?
- Increase collaborations and partnerships
- Get more funds for office operations and administrative costs
- Help create giving circles
- When resources are scarce, how do organizations/artists make time, think about new approaches/models
- Transfer of knowledge inter-organization – communication is key
- Affect career centers at universities
- Recognizing your own value as an artist
- Offer an avenue for community to vent (network affiliation)
- Or vent by redefining roles – owning craft, making your own community
- Value yourself / confidence / worth (skills)
- Understand options (+/-) for sustainability
- Make real world solutions available and transferable
- Offer training in writing a business plan
- Knowing your worth instead of seeking external validation for $
- What IS the next step?
- Teach Teamwork vs. corporate models
- Block / protect soul sucking
- Teach how one can balance methods for making a living
o How to maintain fiscal sustainability
- A culture of service – education/theater/health, science, food/nutrition
- Tap into the diversity
- Definition of community – Regional vs. local
- Arts advocacy and economic development
- Recognize that competition for funding discouraging alliances
- Translate policy language
- Fund arts administration degrees
- Stop recreating the wheel!
- Experimentation – art as research
- Teach people to become their own advocates
- Help people develop the language they need
- Develop a culture of natural mentorship
- Building learning communities
- Cross pollinate ideas/programs/people
- Create a mentorship blueprint
- Offer career path counseling
- Can BEAEAP be the repository or information source or cleaning house for case studies of art career paths
- What already exists – opportunities, life styles, communities, +/- attributes framework
- Act as a resource radar and transparency
- Information sharing about opportunities for professional development
- Emphasizing importance skills value or artists in professional sector
- Keep asking questions, infuse new ideas
- Key: grass roots, volunteer and DYI environments
- Distilling the many opportunities within the bay area
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