The ARTL Beat: May 2nd, 2022 No images? Click here The ARTL BeatARTL Beat is posted weekly. Students, alumni, and faculty are highly encouraged to submit community news and events. Email our Program Coordinator Cay Lane to share your news, job postings, and events in the ARTL Beat! Upcoming ARTL Conference Presentations The AAAE 2022 Conference: New Directions in Arts Administration will approach the consequences of this crisis as an opportunity to reexamine arts managers’ responsiveness to the current situation and the way their role has been shaped by education in arts administration. The New Directions theme welcomes you to explore the changes in the field of arts administration, from the new hybrid pedagogy through experiential learning to the transition from classrooms to the arts workforce. Click each presentation's date for more details and registration information. Stefanie Fatooh, MFA'22, Disassembling the Hierarchy of Dance in Academia Thursday, May 26, 2022, 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM EDT To better understand changes that could be made within academic dance programs, this paper presents reflections from faculty members within the dance programs at Arizona State University, Wesleyan University and the University of Colorado Boulder. Presented in relation to each other, these interviews will demonstrate ways that the former hierarchy of dance can be disassembled and creative changes can be made in order to better embrace the need for polyvocality in dance studies. This dialogue can also serve as a powerful template for academic and other systems that are seeking to make meaningful and inclusive changes. Tanya Sharp, MFA'21, The ‘Shadow Pandemic’ of Gender-Based Violence (GBV): Activism Art Raises Awareness about GBV During a Global Crisis Tuesday, May 24, 2022, 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM EDT Public art and activism art diverge where activism art is built on concepts of audience, relationships, communication, and political intention where public art is centered in “place” or “location” (Lacy, 1995). Historically public art is grounded on the principle that establishing art accessibility, can solve societal issues, however, public art can’t heal those affected during volatile times such as a pandemic, war, or famine (Mlambo-Ngcuka, 2020). Through the lens of personal experience, a literature review, case study analysis, interviews, and visual mapping, this project examines how public art can provide routes to new conceptions of community and provide avenues to heal. Kevin Maifeld, Debbie Chinn, and Diane Claussen, Arts Consulting: What changed? What is changing? What still needs to change? Wednesday, May 25, 2022, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT In the last two years, the arts community has experienced widespread shutdowns, layoffs, the Great Resignation, DEI demands and responses, government relief funds, organizations and industry closures and re-openings, new programming models, financial uncertainty and exhaustion. As a result, consultants are conducting searches, researching and predicting sales trends, and audience preferences, offering DEI workshops and more in-depth H.R. trainings, and leading strategic planning processes. A panel of four arts consultants will present the significant changes they are observing and experiencing in their own work and in the field, and share what is inspiring and activating arts consulting requests and practices. If you are a student and want to attend the AAAE Conference, AAAE values your attendance! Students are invited to serve as respondents during the 2022 conference. Given the wide variety of topics, we are looking for respondents with varying backgrounds, expertise, and research interests. If interested, please view the conference schedule and register here and complete this form by May 10, 2022, indicating which sessions you would like to serve as a student respondent. ARTL Community Updates Professor and Creative Producer Debra Webb, MFA'13, alongside alum Amanda Feng, MFA'21, and student Ade Abatan MFA'22's art, tech, and justice project, Emerging Radiance, is an official selection of the Tribeca Immersive Festival! Emerging Radiance, directed by Tani Ikeda and illustrated by Michelle Kumata, celebrates the untold stories of Japanese American strawberry farmers who lived in Bellevue from 1920 to 1942. With a hand-painted mural and Spark AR Instagram filters, visitors have the opportunity to meet Toshio Ito, Rae Matsuoka Takekawa, and Mitsuko Hashiguchi, three survivors of the World War II incarceration camps, as they share in their own words their connections to the land before World War II, during incarceration, and post-World War II. Produced by Meta Open Arts. The Tribeca Immersive Festival takes place on June 8-19th. Click here to learn more! Dana Winter, MFA '21, is excited to be joining the box office team as part of Marketing and Guest Services at The 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle. Congratulations Dana! Speaking of, 5th Avenue's 2021/22 season kicked off this weekend with Afterwords: The Musical. Check out more info here and get your tickets! ARTL Faculty on the Road: Claudia Bach and Sonia Nelson in Hawaii Alum Sonia Nelson, MFA'16, shared this fun update about seeing ARTL professor and AERP founder Claudia Bach: "During her recent visit to Big Island, Claudia came with friends for a tour of the Donkey Mill and then I took her to a luau hula show 😊" We love to see our ARTL community out in the wild! Sonia also shared exciting career news - she was hired as the Development Coordinator for the Donkey Mill Art Center last September and was recently promoted to Donor Relations Manager. Congratulations Sonia! The Donkey Mill Art Center is a community art center serving West Hawaii residents and visitors at their facility in Holualoa. They also provide art education and experiences in local schools and throughout their community. In recent Donkey Mill news:
Many congratulations to Donkey Mill! Apply Now for 2022/23 Jane Lang Davis Creation Lab! Seattle Opera seeks to cultivate the next generation of opera composers and librettists in Washington State through their Creation Lab. Each season, Seattle Opera will present new works by Washington State composer and librettist teams. These short operas will tell the diverse stories of our region through new compositions by local artists. Composers, songwriters, librettists, and lyricists of all genres are encouraged to apply to create new operas that tell compelling, resonant stories through vocal music. Selected participants will develop a 20-minute opera to be presented in a concert format for a public audience in Tagney Jones Hall at the Opera Center during the 2022/23 season. Each opera will undergo a development process that includes a table reading, music workshop, and rehearsal prior to the public performance. The creative teams will receive support from professional composers and librettists as they develop their work. Seattle Opera will provide creative mentors, cover the costs of printing materials for rehearsals and performances, provide support for table readings and music workshops, hire musicians, promote events, and provides professional support and feedback. Organizational opportunities can now be submitted through this easy form! Community Events Introduction to the Arts Public Funding Ecosystem presented by The National Endowment for the Arts Are you familiar with the funding opportunities available for arts organizations at the federal, regional, state, and local levels of government? Would you like to learn more about which NEA grant program for organizations is the right fit for your project? Please join NEA staff members and representatives from arts agencies across the country for an overview of grantmaking opportunities for arts organizations. Pamela Z | Other Rooms at On The Boards Pamela Z’s performance evenings combine live electronic processing, sampled sound, and rear-projected video to create a spectacular multi-medium event. A pioneer of live digital looping techniques—Pamela Z’s processes her voice in real time to create dense, complex sonic layers—allowing her to manipulate sound with physical gestures. Her live works combine experimental extended vocal techniques, operatic bel canto, found objects, text, and sampled concrète sounds. Inside, Outside, and Undersea by SPACE at Magnuson Magnuson Park Gallery, a division of the Sand Point Arts and Cultural Exchange, is Eurydice directed by Sunam Ellis Dying tragically on her wedding day, Eurydice is prematurely plunged into the underworld. Reunited with her father there, she struggles to remember her past life and love. Filled with fantastical characters roaming a surreal landscape, this contemporary retelling of the traditional Orpheus myth, recenters the hero's journey on the heroine, in a touching, darkly comic examination of loss and love. "Where is Gender?" Artist Panel with Professor Jodi O'Brien With vulnerability and empathy, artists Natalie Krick, Barry Johnson, Hanako O’Leary, Rafael Soldi, Kali Spitzer and Anthony White explore the expanse of gender with their practice.. Acknowledging that gender is performative, rather than anatomical, how does our physical embodiment contribute to our gender identity? Don 't miss the opportunity to join the public conversation led by Professor Jodi O’Brien. Hear directly from the exhibition artists in the Wyckoff Auditorium at Seattle University, May 24 at 6 pm! Winnie The Pooh presented by StoryBook Theater Join Winnie the Pooh (performed by Buddy Todd, MFA'21) and his forest friends as they explore, experience and exclaim the importance of friendship and how to work together in the Hundred Acre Wood. #DoTheWork Don't forget to join the LinkedIn Group for early and immediate access to arts leadership job postings! New positions:
Still Available Positions - Local (Washington and Oregon)
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Don't forget to check out the following organizations for SEVERAL open positions! Local (Washington and Oregon) Listings
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Arts Leadership Formation Part of our commitment, as Arts Leaders, is to remain open and teachable in the formation of our leadership posture and approach. None of us have gotten where we are alone and there is always more we can learn. To help support our continued learning, check out these opportunities.
Current ARTL Students: If an opportunity listed is of interest to you for possible practicum or internship work, please check in with your Advisor to discuss it further. And don't forget to regularly check SUArtsLeadership.com for open organization-based practicum listings! Open Calls & Opportunities Artist Calls & Juried Competitions (with Awards)
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