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Convention Overview
Americans for the Arts State Advocacy Captains
Peer Group Leader: Nina Ozlu, Americans for the Arts
Description: The State Arts Advocacy Captains are part of a newly created network of arts advocates who have been designated as the official state advocacy liaisons to Americans for the Arts in order to advance federal arts legislation at the national level. The meetings at the annual convention are designed to provide opportunities for captains to receive detailed legislative briefings, customized training on legislative action requests, and exchange successful grassroots action ideas with one another.
Americans for the Arts PSA Campaign Partners
Peer Group Leader: Nina Ozlu, Americans for the Arts
Description: The "Art. Ask for More." PSA Partners are the official partners of Americans for the Arts public awareness campaign entitled, "Art. Ask for More." The meetings at the annual convention are designed to provide opportunities for partners to hear about the latest campaign updates, preview new creative for ads, and exchange ideas of successful outreach efforts in various communities.
Arts and Healing
Peer Group Leader: Martin W. Nagy, Arts Council Lake Erie West
Description: The purpose of the Arts & Healing Peer Group is to provide a forum to explore and promote the arts and healing; encourage intelligent interdisciplinary dialogue on the arts and healing; inform and inspire those wishing to learn more about the arts and healing; and explore issues related to the arts and healing in communities.
Arts Education
Peer Group Leader: Paul Minicucci, California Arts Council
Description: The Arts Education Peer Group is designed for local arts agency staff and professionals who specialize in developing arts education programming. The meetings are opportunities for people to exchange ideas about arts education in school and community settings, discuss trends and opportunities related to arts education and school reform, evaluation in arts education and inform Americans for the Arts’ arts education initiatives and services to the field.
Cultural Diversity
Peer Group Leader: Mark Fraire, Wisconsin Arts Board
Description: The Cultural Diversity Peer Group is designed for local arts agency managers, staff and boards who rank issues of diversity and equity in our communities as a priority in strengthening a community's artistic infrastructure. This group is also interested in developing policy suggestions for Americans for the Arts’ annual plan on increasing diversity within the local arts agency field and identifying opportunities for people of color.
Community Planning and Partnerships
Peer Group Leader: Bill Bulick, Creative Planning Consultants
Description: New realities—the pace of change, demographics, new definitions and trends in cultural participation, economic challenges—require us to update our approach to community planning and partnership development. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss issues and trends and share case histories and creative solutions, including the implications and opportunities presented by keynote speaker, Richard Florida’s "Rise of the Creative Class."
Emerging Leaders
Peer Group Leader: Graham Dunstan, Fulton County Arts Council
Description: What do emerging leaders in the arts today have in common? The desire for experiences that help them grow and learn! During these peer group sessions, attendees will focus on determining the most critical issues facing emerging arts professionals today, the most effective opportunities for growth, and policy and programming suggestions for the future.
Executive Directors/Presidents
Peer Group Leader: Jill A. McGuire, St. Louis Regional Arts Commission
Description: This peer group is an opportunity for arts professionals in the #1 position in their organizations to come together to share trends, updates, and strategies for success. During these meetings you will be able to discuss the challenges of program development plus administrative and board management issues that exist in the field today and explore innovative approaches to help you reach your goals.
Grantmaking
Peer Group Leader: George W. Loudon,The Arts Partnership Of Greater Spartanburg
Description: The grantmaking peer group works to provide a forum for formal and informal communication about issues of common concern to grantmakers in the arts. Topics can include funding trends, equity in funding, funding sources, categories of support, program guidelines, evaluation criteria, grant review processes, grantee accountability, and training of applicants and panelists. This group provides a network for communication, and a conduit for working with Americans for the Arts on professional development initiatives, information distribution and the development of standards within the grantmaking area.
National Community Arts Network (statewide assemblies)
Peer Group Leader: Betty Plumb, South Carolina Arts Alliance
Description: NCAN -- the National Community Arts Network (formerly referred to as the statewide assemblies) are statewide arts organizations that provide services and advocate for the arts in communities. They serve a broad constituency of arts organizations, artists, arts educators, presenters, corporate and individual arts supporters in both large and small, rural and urban communities. NCAN meets regularly at Americans for the Arts’ annual convention as well as at other times throughout the year to discuss issues pertinent to developing local arts agencies as well as their own professional development.
Rural & Small Communities
Peer Group Leader: Libby Maynard, The Ink People Center for the Arts
Description: This group is a gathering of local arts representatives from less densely populated parts of the United States, areas with fewer resources and smaller audiences, but burgeoning with creativity, artistic imagination and initiative. This gathering is a place where people from rural and small communities can come together to share successes, challenges, and solutions. Just as we do in our communities, we can support each other and make connections through similarities of style and culture.
State Community Development Coordinators
Peer Group Leader: Christy Farnbauch, Ohio Arts Council
Description: This peer group explores the interests of colleagues from State Arts Agencies whose work focuses on the development of local arts agencies, building arts/non-arts partnerships, and positioning the arts as central to healthy community development. An annual retreat is planned after each Americans for the Arts convention.
United Arts Funds
Peer Group Leader: Roderick Rubbo, Canton Cultural Center for the Arts
Description: This peer group is for people who work on united arts funds campaigns which are defined as combined or federated appeals for arts funding that are conducted annually to raise unrestricted money on behalf of three or more arts, culture, and/or science organizations. This is the opportunity to share interests, successes and challenges that are central to broadening support for the arts, promoting excellence in the arts and arts management, and ensure that arts organizations are financially stable.
