FWD: Webinar: Transitioning into the Arts Sector: NAILING THE INTERVIEW!

 

·         Webinar – Transitioning into the Arts Sector:  Nailing the Interview  (share this one with your colleagues and friends!  It's open and free to Members and Non-members of Americans for the Arts)

November 9, 2011

From: AFTA Emerging Leaders List [mailto:AFTAEL-L@LISTSERV.ARTSUSA.ORG] On Behalf Of Stephanie Evans Hanson

Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 4:24 PM
To: AFTAEL-L@LISTSERV.ARTSUSA.ORG
Subject: Arts and Leadership News

 

Hi ELs,

 

Happy Friday!  Hope you have all had a great week, full of inspiring work and ideas.  I just returned from Chicago, where I participated in the Independent Sector national conference as well as the NGen PreConference.  It was a great opportunity to step outside of the arts world for a few days, and check in on some things happening in the non-profit sector as a whole.  Not surprisingly, non-profit emerging leaders have many of the same concerns and challenges that arts specific emerging leaders do.  I'm looking forward to incorporating some of the new ideas and lessons I learned into the programming we do here.  Stay tuned! 

 

Here are a few upcoming events and opportunities:

 

·         Webinar – Transitioning into the Arts Sector:  Nailing the Interview  (share this one with your colleagues and friends!  It's open and free to Members and Non-members of Americans for the Arts)

November 9, 2011

 

·         Webinar – Award Winning Arts and Business Partnerships

November 16, 2011

 

·         Don't forget to cast your vote for the Emerging Leaders Council nominees!  You can vote here, and you must enter your Member ID in order for your vote to be counted.  You should have all received an email with your ID.  If you have any questions, please email me. 

 

Some news to share:

 

·         I've been really liking Josh Linkner's posts recently.  He's always writing something that really resonates with me. 

·         Philippa Hughes' What I'm Reading posts on her Pinkline blog make me want to stop whatever I'm doing, and read everything she's reading.  I can't always keep up with her.  But, she's got a really great news roundup here, as well! 

·         The Denver Post talks about how curating a board of directors for an arts organization is equally important to curating a performance season or gallery show. 

·         Emerging arts and technology leaders are using technology to find one another in NYC, London, and elsewhere.  Who wants to show me how to use FourSquare? 

·         Related to the above article, Technology in the Arts and Patricia Martin just published a report titled Tipping the Culture:  How Engaging Millenials will  Change Things.  The study was commissioned by Steppenwolf Theatre Company.  Key conclusion:  "Fulfilling the emotional desire of Millennials to be connected, heard, and have meaningful experiences will increase the retention rates for this generation in your organization. 

·         And while we're on the subject of social media, if you had to choose between a higher salary or access to social media at work, which would you choose?  Apparently, 40% of college students and 45% of young professionals would choose social media.  Wow. 

 

Happy weekend, everyone! 

Stephanie Evans Hanson
Leadership Development Program Manager

Americans for the Arts
1000 Vermont Ave., NW -- 10th Floor
Washington D.C., 20005
T - 202-371-2830 ext. 2036

Americans for the Arts is the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America. With more than 50 years of service, it is dedicated to representing and serving local communities and creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts.

 

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Fwd: The Art of Roger Williams: Exhibit & Talk at Brown

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Date: Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 2:41 PM
Subject: The Art of Roger Williams: Exhibit & Talk at Brown
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The Rhode Island Black Heritage Society is pleased to share this event with you.

 

 

 

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Lecture! Nov. 3, 2011: Latin Roots: The History of Latin Americans in RI

Fwd: CFP: Thirteenth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's & Gender History

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Date: Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 7:35 PM
Subject: CFP: Thirteenth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's & Gender History
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Thirteenth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's & Gender History Presents:

INDECENCY

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
March 1-3, 2012

Submission Deadline: November 1, 2011

The Executive Committee of the Thirteenth Annual Graduate Symposium on
Women's and Gender History at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce a call for papers. The
Symposium, which is the capstone event of the History Department's
Women's History month celebration, is scheduled for March 1-3, 2012.
To celebrate and encourage further work in the field of women's and
gender history, we invite submissions from graduate students from any
institution and discipline on any topic in the field of women's and
gender history. Papers submitted as a panel will be judged
individually. Preference will be given to scholars who did not present
at last year's Symposium.

The history of gender and sexuality is in many ways the history of
indecency—of bodies, acts, and attachments that were deemed indecent
by culture or legal code, and of the various ways subjects questioned,
resisted, or embraced that label. Indeed, indecency has long
functioned as a pivot upon which concepts and experiences of inclusion
and exclusion depend, and thus it offers us a valuable way of
exploring both dominant paradigms and their undoing.

The theme is meant to be open-ended—provocative rather than
prescriptive—and papers need not take up the question of indecency in
any direct or obvious way. In gathering together what we hope will be
a geographically, temporally, and disciplinarily diverse body of
papers, the conference will create opportunities for dialogue and
discussion across these different fields. To that end, successful
proposals might focus on topics such as: the construction of
indecency; immigration, hygiene, and public health; prostitution and
"indecent" labor; religion and decency; obscenity, censorship, and the
law; disgust and desire; material cultures of indecency; sensory
perception and offense; propriety and literary form; menstruation;
family structures; the grotesque in travel accounts; pornography;
gossip as a historical force or source; the history of scandal; the
moral economy of decency; responses to matter out of place; and
alternative archives for exploring indecency. As always, we welcome
proposals that surprise us by taking the theme in unexpected (or
perhaps even indecent) directions.

For the Thirteenth Annual Symposium, we are delighted to announce a
keynote speaker who engages many of these themes in her work:

• Judith Surkis, Scholar with the Institute for Advanced Study at
Princeton University. Author of Sexing the Citizen: Morality and
Masculinity in France, 1870-1920 (Cornell University Press, 2006),
Surkis is currently at work on a project titled Scandalous Subjects:
Intimacy and Indecency in France and French Algeria, 1830-1930.

To submit a paper or panel by email (preferred method): please send
only one attachment in Word or PDF format containing a 250-word
abstract and a one-page curriculum vitae for each paper presenter,
commentator, or panel chair to gendersymp@gmail.com

To submit a paper or panel in a hard copy format, please send five (5)
copies of all abstracts and curriculum vitae to:

Programming Committee, Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History
309 Gregory Hall, 810 S. Wright Street
Urbana, Illinois 61801
MC - 466

For more information, please contact Programming Committee Chairs
Ashley Hetrick and Derek Attig at gendersymp@gmail.com

Fwd: News Alert - Students, Teachers, & Museum Professionals Save $120 on "Balance & Beauty: Georgian Design in Early America" Forum at Historic Deerfield November 11-13

Historic Deerfield News Alert Immediate Release October 24, 2011   Contact Marc Belanger 413-775-7127 mbelanger@historic-deerfield.org PLEASE POST AND SHARE WITH COLLEAGUES   Savings of $120 for Students, Teachers,    & Museum Professionals   New Low Registration Rate Announced for Georgian Forum   Historic Deerfield will offer a discounted registration fee of just $285 to all students, teachers, and museum professionals who wish to attend the upcoming two-day forum "Balance and Beauty: Georgian Design in Early America," taking place November 12-13. Attendees will gain access six lectures -- including a keynote address by Dr. Adam Bowett, Independent Furniture Scholar and author of the acclaimed book Early Georgian Furniture, 1715-1740 (2009).  Registration also includes two receptions, one lunch, and one dinner.  Workshops are available on Friday, November 11, for just $40 each.  Click here to download an information and registration form.   "This is a special opportunity to learn from leading experts in the field," said Philip Zea, President of Historic Deerfield. "We are proud to sponsor educational programs that build knowledge, promote collegiality and further scholarship."   The Georgian style had its roots in 17th-century England, when architects Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren designed buildings influenced by Andrea Palladio's principals developed during the Italian Renaissance. Roman and Greek temples were being excavated in the 18th century inspired decoration, while technology and increasing prosperity allowed for more expansive and spacious architecture.   "The Georgian era (1714-1830) refers to the period when four kings, all named George, successively occupied the British throne," said Amanda E. Lange, Curatorial Department Chair and Curator of Historic Interiors. "Even though fashions in architecture, interior design, and decorative furnishings changed during that time, Georgian taste based on elegance, balance, and symmetry, achieved favor in Great Britain and its colonies in North America."Colonists looked to England for precedents of fashion and taste. Georgian designs became popular emblems of cultural sophistication for wealthy Englishmen, and by 1700 began to reach the American colonies in the form of architectural pattern books. Those who desired to display their status, knowledge, and refinement selected the Georgian style for their new homes and furnishings.   "Although unfair to call their grand 18th-century Georgian homes 'McMansions'," said Lange, "homeowners in the American colonies certainly saw these structures as physical manifestations of their growing success."   In addition to the keynote Dr. Bowett, speakers will include: Dr. Kimberly Alexander, Chief Curator of Strawbery Banke; Brock Jobe, Professor of American Decorative Arts at the Winterthur Museum and author of Harbor and Home: The Furniture of Southeastern Massachusetts, 1710-1850 (2009); Thomas Michie, The Russell B. and Andrée Beauchamp Stearns Senior Curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Art of Europe, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Joshua Lane, Curator of Academic Programs and Curator of Furniture at Historic Deerfield; and Janine Skerry, Curator of Metals at Colonial Williamsburg, and co-author of Salt-Glazed Stoneware in Early America (2009).   For more information and registration, please call Julie Marcinkiewicz at 413-775-7179 or email events@historic-deerfield.org.  ### Historic Deerfield is a member of Museums10, a partnership of ten outstanding museums - Beneski Museum of Natural History at Amherst College, Emily Dickinson Museum: The Homestead and The Evergreens, The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Hampshire College Art Gallery, Historic Deerfield, Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Smith College Museum of Art, University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMass Amherst, and the Yiddish Book Center - in one gorgeous place: the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. For more information about Museums10, please visit www.museums10.org. A portion of Historic Deerfield's operating funds is provided through a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.  Historic Deerfield www.historic-deerfield.org 80 Old Main Street, P.O. Box 321 Deerfield, Massachusetts 01342 T: 413-775-7214 F: 413-775-7220

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Utopias: A conversation

Please join us at 5:30pm on October 28th for a panel conversation responding to our current exhibition "Building Expectation: Past and Present Visions of the Architectural Future".   An interdisciplinary conversation between local architects and members of Brown's faculty moderated by the exhibition curator, Nathaniel Robert Walker, the panel will be a unique opportunity to explore some of the pertinent questions regarding the imaging and imagination of our futures (both past and present) arising from the current exhibition.    Building Expectation presents a collection of historic and ongoing visions of the future from the 19th century until the present day. The focus of the show is less upon canonical designers or art-historical movements and more upon broadly based, popular speculation in the public sphere. According to exhibition curator, Nathaniel Robert Walker, "The world of tomorrow has usually been imagined first and foremost as a place - the new Promised Land, the millennial landscape. And architecture, cast since the Enlightenment as the calling card for cultural and technological periods in the grand narrative of human development and progress, has always been one of the future's most revealing and recognizable features." The exhibition's content has been drawn from a number of university libraries and private collections, as well as the Swiss state-supported museum of utopia known as the Maison d'Ailleurs (House of Elsewhere). Many of the objects in the exhibition have never been exhibited in the United States.    For more information on the exhibition:    http://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2011/08/future   Click here to RSVP or invite friends via Facebook (optional)

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Dr Ian Alden Russell | Curator

David Winton Bell Gallery | List Art Center | Brown University

64 College Street | Providence, Rhode Island 02912 | USA

direct: +1 401 863-3163 | fax: +1 401 863-9323

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Fwd: How Providence Became a City: The Impact of the Hardscrabble & Snowtown Race Riots of 1824 and 1831

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Date: Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 3:09 PM
Subject: How Providence Became a City: The Impact of the Hardscrabble & Snowtown Race Riots of 1824 and 1831
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How Providence Became a City: The Impact of the Hardscrabble & Snowtown Race Riots of 1824 and 1831

Please join Roger Williams National Memorial and our community partners for Inspired Providence - A bold look at our city's rich cultural history from Roger Williams' "lively experiment" in 1636 to the rise of a Creative Capital.

When: Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 6pm

Where: Old State House, 150 Benefit Street, Providence

Early 19th century Americans viewed their world through the prism of the newspaper. Newspapers with a point of view. Newspapers written with "respectable" townspeople in mind. It was the newspapers that spoke about the townspeople in mind. It was the newspapers that spoke about the tensions in the rapidly growing town of Providence between those with wealth and those without; the tensions between those who had steady employment and those that struggled to get steady employment; the tensions between the African- American neighborhoods and the rest of the town. All too often, these tensions played out in violent ways, as was the case with the race riots in HardScrabble and Snowtown of 1824 and 1831. What was the impact of these uprisings on Providence and its ability to protect its citizens? Join us as Ray Rickman paints a picture of growing Providence, a burgeoning African-American population, and the role of local newspapers in creating divisions around race and class.

Ray Rickman is President of the Rickman Group, a consulting firm that raises funds and conducts management and diversity training for non-profits and small businesses. He is the former Rhode Island Deputy Secretary of State and has served as both Equal Opportunity Officer and Executive Director of the Human Relations Commission for the City of Providence. He is the former President of the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society. Ray regularly conducts architectural and African-American history tours of the Brown University area in Providence.

For more information, visit: http://www.nps.gov

This project is made possible with support from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities.

 

 

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Fwd: New public art launch: "Intertwine" by Larry Kirkland

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Date: Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 9:31 AM
Subject: New public art launch: "Intertwine" by Larry Kirkland
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Please join the Public Art Committee, Brown University, for a reception celebrating "Intertwine" by Larry Kirkland Thursday, November 10, 5:30pm   Artist's Lecture in Auditorium 107   Reception to follow Warren Alpert Medical School 222 Richmond Street, Providence   Gallery Hours  Monday - Friday, 11 to 4 Saturday - Sunday, 1 to 4 This is the Bell Gallery's new e-mail list.  Subscribers receive announcements for openings and events.  You can adjust your subscription settings through the link at the bottom of this e-mail.  To join the list, please go to: Bell Gallery Mailing List   On Facebook you can see event photos, press, and recent announcements. Thank you, The Bell Gallery

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Fwd: November 14 program postponed until February 23, 2012

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Creative Traditions: Crafting Contemporary Indigenous Identity in Taiwan (postponed until February 23) DATE: Changed from November 14, 2011 to February 23, 2012 TIME: 5:30 p.m. LOCATION: TBD We invite you to attend an alternative event on November 14, 2011 sponsored by Brown University's Strait Talk Symposium, Curating Heritage: The Politics of Museums in Taiwan and Mainland China.  The panel will meet at Smith-Buonanno, Room 106, 95 Cushing Street, Providence at 7:00 p.m.  Visit Brown's Calendar page for more information.   Join Our Mailing List! Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology Manning Hall Providence, Rhode Island 02912 (401) 253-8388

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