10/13/16 breakout session ii: center for performance and civic practice: the catalyst initiative

Center for Performance and Civic Practice

The Center for Performance and Civic Practice (CPCP) is a national resource for artists and communities working together to build civic health, equity and capacity.

We believe – artists have the tools to partner with communities to address urgent needs and make change where people live, work, learn & play.

• How do artists and arts organizations develop cross-sector partnerships and for what reasons?

• How do artists translate our role, our work and our assets in non-arts contexts?

• What process tools do artists possess that can allow us to broaden the way we and our non-arts partners conceptualize arts-based activity, interventions and collaborations?

CORE QUESTIONS

Articulating a spectrum of art-making in relation to an engaged practice —

Studio Practice: Artists make their own work and engage with publics as an audience.

Articulating a spectrum of art-making in relation to an engaged practice —

Studio Practice: Artists make their own work and engage with publics as an audience.

Social Practice: Artists work with publics on an artist-led vision in ways that may include research, process, and/or content with an intention of social impact outside traditional audience experience.

Articulating a spectrum of art-making in relation to an engaged practice —

Studio Practice: Artists make their own work and engage with publics as an audience.

Social Practice: Artists work with publics on an artist-led vision in ways that may include research, process, and/or content with an intention of social impact outside traditional audience experience.

Civic Practice: Artists co-design project with publics; the spoken intention is to serve a public partner’s self-defined need. The impulse of what to make comes out of the relationship, not an artist-driven proposal.

Articulating a spectrum of art-making in relation to an engaged practice —

What does the word engagement mean to you?

• Building new audiences

• Making certain our organizations survive

• Deepening audience experience of our programming

Common Engagement Goals

• Engage our communities by partnering • Connect to our communities by listening • Define our art as object and event and process and tool

• Imagine our work as exchange, not just presentation • Become a community resource, not just a space for the dissemination of culture

Other Goals

What does listening mean – in your practice,in your organization,in your life?

Catalyst Initiative California

Nikiko Masumoto, Mary Kimball, and the Center for Land-Based Learning

Catalyst Initiative California

Nikiko Masumoto, Mary Kimball, and the Center for Land-Based Learning

Catalyst Initiative Kentucky

Mark Kidd, Valerie Horn, and the Cowan Community Action Group

Catalyst Initiative Kentucky

Mark Kidd, Valerie Horn, and the Cowan Community Action Group

Catalyst Initiative Kentucky

Mark Kidd, Valerie Horn, and the Cowan Community Action Group

What values around collaboration do you bring into your work?

Where do those values come from?

What experiences brought you to those values and/or

nourish you as you hold onto those values in your work and life?

// What values around collaboration do you bring into your work?

// Where do those values come from?

// What experiences brought you to those values and/or nourish you as you hold onto those values in your work and life?

What role do cross-sector partnerships play in your practice or organization?

What role do cross-sector partnerships play in your practice or organization?

What is an example of an impactful community or arts partnership from your experience?

// What role do cross-sector partnerships play in your practice or organization?

// What is an example of an impactful community or arts partnership from your experience?

// What aspects of the partnership did you find successful?

If you could design a small grant program ($5,000 - $15,000 grants) to

support art, community development, and/or social justice in your community,

who and whatwould you make sure to include

in the design of grant?

Why?

How do we design listening and partnership development into our

programs and work?

CENTER FOR PERFORMANCE+ CIVIC PRACTICE

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