Dear ELNYA,

It’s official!  We are hosting the season’s kickoff event Wednesday, September 15^th, on the rooftop of Educational Alliance.  We have an open bar for $15 from 6:00 to 8:30 PM, allowing us to collectively support our upcoming Creative Conversations, networking events, book clubs, and panel discussions.  Come ready to share information about the new projects, events, and performances you have in the pipeline!  Enjoy sky-high networking before NYC’s cold front sets in!

  To recap…

 Who:  ELNYA + friends

What: Rooftop party in the Lower East Side

Where: Educational Alliance, 197 East Broadway

When: September 15 (6-8:30PM)

Why:  To enjoy a post-summer get together that supports emerging leaders!

In case of rain, we will be located in Educational Alliance’s Mazer Theater (same address).

 Please R.S.V.P. to me at sdockery(at)artsandbusiness-ny(dot)org.

 See you soon!

Dockery

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Summer is fast coming to a close.  I know, it’s sad.  But that does mean ELNYA Book Club will resume soon!  Take a gander at the potential book club selections below.  Note: We’ve even thrown in an applicable fiction choice this time around.  Please take a moment to vote for the books you are interested in by Friday, August 13.

Just, follow the Doodle.

And MARK YOUR CALENDARS, the first book club of 2010-11 will take place on TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 at 6:30PM.  We’re currently accepting RSVPs and offers to host via the contact page (select “Book Club” from drop down.)

Other book club dates include:

• Tuesday, November 16, 2010
• Tuesday, January 18, 2011
• Tuesday, March 15, 2011
• Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Read on for book summaries…

The Ask: A Novel
by Sam Lipsyte
This latest slice of mucked-up life follows Milo Burke, a washed-up painter living in Astoria, Queens, with his wife and three-year-old son, as he’s jerked in and out of employment at a mediocre university where Milo and his equally jaded cohorts solicit funding from the Asks, or those who financially support the art program. This takes a tone of lucid lament to the devastated white-collar sector; in its merciless assault on the duel between privilege and expectation, it arrives at a rare articulation of empire in decline.  (304 pages)

The Ask: How to Ask for Support for Your Nonprofit Cause, Creative Project, or Business Venture
by Laura Fredericks
This thoroughly revised and updated edition of the best-selling book The Ask is filled with suggestions, guidelines, and down-to-earth advice that will give you the confidence to ask anyone for any size gift, for any purpose. Written in winning language, filled with sample dialogues, and offering a wealth of tips and tools, this book addresses common mistakes made when asking and shows how to correct each mistake, providing guidance and direction on how to make a great ask. (272 pages)

Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World
by Tyler Cowen
According to Cowen, human brains are constantly absorbing bits of information that get smaller and are delivered faster as technology advances. The more information people receive, the more they crave—this shorter attention span is far from a flaw to the author, but a liberating mechanism that allows humans time to contemplate more ambitious, long-range pursuits. The relentless analysis is occasionally overwhelming, but Cowen’s illustration of our neurological filing system may help readers understand the mass consumption of information and just about everything else. (272 pages)

The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success
by Scott Eblin
After the thrill of promotion to an executive position comes the sobering reality of just how difficult it is to succeed at this level–and how hard it can be to find help. Some 40 percent of new executives don’t last 18 months. Why? Scott Eblin shows that it’s because in order to succeed at the Next Level, you need to adopt new behaviors and beliefs, and, more important, let go of old ones.  (240 pages)

We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People
by Dan Gillmor
Gillmor shows how anyone can produce the news, using personal blogs, Internet chat groups, email, and a host of other tools. He sends a wake-up call to newsmakers-politicians, business executives, celebrities-and the marketers and PR flacks who promote them. He explains how to successfully play by the rules of this new era and shift from “control” to “engagement.” And he makes a strong case to his fell journalists that, in the face of a plethora of Internet-fueled news vehicles, they must change or become irrelevant.  (336 pages)

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How would arts organizations operate if they couldn’t depend on the generosity of individuals and meager government grants?  Is the “standard” 501c3 the only viable model for a creative and artistic enterprise today and what does an alternative to the nonprofit business model look like? In this conversation, panelists Marisa Catalina Casey, Robert Elmes and Connie Hall with the moderation of Melissa Dibble explored a few of the standard operating assumptions of the non-profit arts organization and how they are being successfully up-ended.

What: A Creative Conversation – 501c3: Is it working for me?
Where: WNYC’s Jerome L. Greene Performance Space, 44 Charlton Street @ Varick Street
When: Monday, June 14, 2010, 6:30-8:30pm

Listen to the podcast:
Download audio file (Creative Conversation 501c3_ Is it working for me_.mp3)

See a slideshow of images:

Read on for info on panelists….

MODERATOR:

Melissa Dibble, Director of Client Partnerships & General Manager, EmcArts

Melissa Dibble directs EmcArts’ operations, while also working with funding and cultural partners in their efforts to realize breakthrough strategies. Melissa has engaged with partners from a variety of disciplines, including Streb/SLAM, COCA – Center for Creative Arts, and Children’s Theatre Company as part of the Innovation Lab for the Performing Arts, and ArtSpace and Young Audiences Connecticut as part of the New Pathways for the Arts Initiative. Melissa is also lead facilitator for the Irvine Foundation’s Arts Innovation Fund, supporting California’s largest cultural institutions in development of new ideas. Other past partners include Carnegie Hall, Aspen Music Festival and School, New England Conservatory, The Wallace Foundation and Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. Prior to EmcArts, Melissa held leadership positions with Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. She is a Fellow of the American Symphony Orchestra League’s Orchestra Management Fellowship Program, and holds a Bachelor of Music in Flute Performance from Boston University’s School for the Arts.

PANELISTS:

Marisa Catalina Casey, Founder & Executive Director, Starting Artists, Inc.

Marisa Catalina Casey is Founder and Executive Director of Starting Artists, Inc. a nonprofit community-based arts center in Brooklyn. Marisa obtained her BA in Latin American Studies from Brown University and her MA in Arts Administration from Columbia University Teachers College. Marisa has worked as a photojournalist for CARE-Peru and The Providence Journal.  She has held positions at the William Randolph Hearst Foundations, Teen Ink, NYS Arts, Alliance for Children, and APERTURE Foundation. Additionally, she co-authored Born in Our Hearts: Stories of Adoption, selling over 11,000 copies with proceeds benefiting international orphanages. Marisa has received scholarships from the NEA, Americans for the Arts, Columbia University, and Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute. She is member of the Americans for the Arts Emerging Leaders Council and a founding member of Emerging Leaders of New York Arts. A 2009 YouthActionNet Global Fellow, Marisa participated in the American Express Nonprofit Leadership Institute and is a new member of the Transatlantic Network 2020, a coalition of young Europeans and North Americans taking collaborative action on global issues selected by the British Council. In September 2010, Marisa will attend the Lucca Leadership Academy in South Africa.

Robert Elmes, Founder & Director, Galapagos Art Space

Robert Elmes is the founder and director of the award winning Galapagos Art Space. The New York Times called Galapagos “an ever-growing cultural oasis”, Time Out New York called it an “essential element of New York City”, and The Village Voice wrote that Mr. Elmes is “building a cultural movement brick by brick.”  Galapagos’ new DUMBO location in New York City houses a 1600 square foot lake inside its building, and will soon become NYC’s first LEED certified “green” cultural venue. The venue was awarded the ‘Building Brooklyn Award’, nominated for the Municipal Art Society’s ‘MASterwork Award’, and awarded “Best New Art Space” by the New York Press.  Galapagos does not accept government grants or public funding of any kind. Elmes writes that “if the work we present is strong, communicative, and effective work, we will survive. This is New York City. One of the greatest cultural cities to ever have risen, perhaps the greatest. As cultural leaders in New York City we can’t simply be placeholders, bystanders in the midst of what others before us have built – we have to lead.”

Connie Hall, Producing Director, Conni’s Avant Garde Restaurant

Connie Hall is the producing director of Conni’s Avant Garde Restaurant. She has helped to create and mount over 20 new plays in New York, San Francisco, Puerto Rico, France, Canada and Thailand as an independent producer, fundraiser, and actor. She has been a contributing writer and performer with several New York ensemble-based theater companies, including Knife, Inc., Saga Theatre, SaBooge, and International WOW and at such venues as St. Ann’s Warehouse, La MaMa e.t.c., and Repertorio Espanol. She has performed at the Ohio Theatre in the title role in Robert Woodruff’s Godard (distant and right) directed by Robert Woodruff, as Dr. James Barry in Deborah Wallace’s Psyche and with the International WOW Company’s Death of Nations cycle.  Connie is currently a grantwriter on staff at New Dramatists. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and she is a graduate of the Culinary Management Diploma Program at the Institute of Culinary Education in New York.

Recent related articles you mind find interesting:

• State of the Art (Artsjournal, June 6, 2010)
• The Blurring Line Between Business and Charity (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, June 1, 2010)
• Is the Not-for-Profit Structure Destructive? (Artsjournal, January 28, 2010)
• And here is the ELNYA Resource Guide: 501(c)3 Alternatives & Nonprofit Issues that was compiled around our last Creative Conversation discussing the not-for-profit model in June 2008.

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Eighty-degree weather means it is time to hit your local park, roll out a blanket, and do a little relaxation and reading.

While soaking up that vitamin D, be extra-productive and pick up our next book club book – Mass Career Customization: Aligning the Workplace with Today’s Nontraditional Workforce by Cathleen Benko and Anne Weisberg.

The next book club gathering is Tuesday, May 18 from 6:30-8:30PM at The Drawing Center.

So you’ve got plenty of time and hopefully a few lazy days to hit the park between now and then.

RSVP to the Book Mistress at christy@mmdg.org.

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Image: TreeHouse by Benjamin Jones for Figment

In recent years, New York City has become a major locus for exploring the role of art in public spaces, art as public space, and the art of public space. These valuable initiatives represent not only a means for engaging and developing vibrant communities, but give us new ways to think about managing the arts. For this Creative Conversation, four local champions in public art practice shared behind-the-scenes cases of projects they have managed; reflected on motivations, strategies for success, and lessons learned as advocates for dynamic, livable cities.

Panelists: David Koren, Executive Producer, Figment Lauren Ross, Curator and Director of Arts Programs, The High Line Representative from Department of Transportation, Urban Art Program

Moderated by: Katie Denny, North Brooklyn Public Art Coalition

Wednesday, April 21, 6:30pm WNYC’s Jerome L. Greene Performance Space 44 Charlton Street (at Varick Street)

Listen to the podcast:
Download audio file (Public Art Discussion.mp3)

View Images

Read on for panelist bios and more…

Panelist bios:

David Koren is the executive producer of FIGMENT, and serves as the executive director of Action Arts League, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization dedicated to participatory arts and culture. He has significant experience in the areas of arts, architecture, marketing, event production, and management. David is an Associate Principal and the Director of Marketing at Perkins Eastman, the largest architecture firm in New York. He is the author of The Architect’s Essentials of Marketing, a basic guide to marketing for architects, published by John Wiley & Sons. In January 2008, David was named one of the “40 under 40″ in Building Design & Construction Magazine. He is a graduate of New York University (BFA in Dramatic Writing) and Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland (M.Phil. in Irish Theatre). Two of his plays are published, and are performed frequently around the United States and abroad. FIGMENT celebrates an abundance of creativity and passion, challenging artists and our communities to find new ways to create, share, think, and dream. Become a part of events in NYC (June 11‐13) and Boston (June 5), and interactive exhibits on NYC’s Governors Island from June through October. For more information, visit http://figmentproject.org.

Lauren Ross is the curator and director of arts programs at The High Line, Manhattan’s elevated public park that opened in 2009. The park traverses well-known art districts and aims to make a connection with the arts through commissions and creative partnerships.

Department of Transportation, Urban Art Program The Urban Art Program is an initiative to invigorate the City’s streetscapes with engaging temporary art installations. As part of the World Class Streets initiative, art will help foster more vibrant and attractive streets and offer the public new ways to experience New York City’s streetscapes.

Katie Denny (moderator) will represent the North Brooklyn Public Art Coalition. The mission of the North Brooklyn Public Art Coalition (NbPac) is to work with artists and the communities of Williamsburg, Greenpoint and Bushwick to produce art in public spaces. Based in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NbPac aims to create opportunities for artists, spark dialogue with community members and address issues within our neighborhoods and open spaces.

Co-presented by: ELNYA & SNEAC

Emerging Leaders of New York Arts (ELNYA) is a New York City-based networking and professional development group that explores challenges, best practices, and new ideas in the field of arts management. We are an evolving group of arts administrators in our 20s and 30s who strive to empower ourselves with hands-on leadership opportunities and programming that elevates our field.

Student Network Exploring Arts & Culture (SNEAC) is an NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service student group whose mission is to promote informed discourse and activity in the arts and cultural sector with an emphasis on policy and administration.

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The ELNYA Steering Committee will soon announce topics for Creative Conversations at WNYC’s Greene Space on Thursday, April 21 and Monday, June 14, 2010.  Please save those dates.

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Arts & Business Council of New York is planning a learning event for late June 2010 about arts administration career strategies. ELNYA has hosted similar events in the past but this year we’re hoping to engage both emerging and established professionals as well as job seekers and hiring managers in lively and practical conversation.

We intend to invite 3-4 guests with expertise in career strategy or talent management to discuss topics our participants define as most useful for them. Please take a minute and tell us what career topics you want to learn about and what speakers you’d like to hear from using this form: http://tinyurl.com/arts-admin-career-workshop.

Thanks for your input!

–
Selena Juneau-Vogel
NYU Wagner, MPA Candidate, 2011
Emerging Leaders of New York Arts, Moderator
juneauvogel@gmail.com

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Emerging Leaders of New York Arts invites you to meet and mingle with other young arts managers while viewing work by the artist collective Barnstormers.

Thursday, March 25, 7- 9 PM
Joshua Liner Gallery
548 West 28th Street, 3rd Floor
Manhattan

Barnstormers are a collective of over thirty-five New York/Tokyo-based artists who create large-scale collaborative paintings, films and performances.  Expanding to host the collective’s full spectrum of art practices, the gallery will show individual works in painting, printmaking, photography, video, installation, and other mediums.

The Barnstormer artists are: Alex Lebedev, Bluster One, Che Jen, Chris Mendoza, Chuck Webster, Daikon, David Ellis, Dennis McNett, Doze Green, GION, Guillermo Carrion, James (UFO) Lynch, Joey Garfield, José Parlá, KAMI, Kenji Hirata, Kiku Yamaguchi, KR, MADSAKI, Marlene Marino, Martin and Alice Mazorra, Maya Hayuk, Mikal Hameed, Mike Houston, Mike Ming, Miyuki (Pai) Hirai, Naomi (South) Kazama, Pema Rinzin, ROSTARR, SASU, Shie Moreno, SWOON, Manny Pangilinan (WELLO), WEST ONE, Yuri Shibuya, and Yuri Shimojo.

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Enjoy this slideshow of images from the March 1, 2010 Creative Conversation: How Do We Create a Future for the Arts Through Education?

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(L-R) Nathan Sensel, Tim Lord, Katherine Gressel, Catherine Fukushima

WHEN: Monday March 1, 2010
WHERE: WNYC’s Jerome L. Greene Space, 44 Charlton Street, Manhattan

When we talk about the challenges of sustaining our arts institutions and a place for the arts in our cultural landscape, we regularly return to the importance of education–in terms of creating new audiences, fostering artistic development, and training new leaders in the field. At the beginning of a new decade we asked which topics today will become the backbone of arts education in the future.  This conversation featured three NYC leaders in arts education challenged to consider ‘hot topics’ in the field of arts education.

Listen to the podcast:
Download audio file (ELNYA-CC-ArtsEd.mp3)

See images from the event here.

Our guests included:
Catherine Fukushima, Independent Consultant: Arts, Culture, Arts Ed
Katherine Gressel, Freelance Artist & Consultant, Public / Community Art
Tim Lord, Co-Executive Director, DreamYard Project
Nathan Sensel (Moderator), Associate Educator, Museum of Modern Art

More info on the panel discussion and panelists …

Some questions we asked were:

What will a successful arts education initiative in 2020 look like? What is the role of digital media in the future of learning strategies and audience engagement? How can local community engagement through the arts result in a deeper national investment in the arts? How will funding priorities – public and private – in arts education continue to shift? When do we invest in general arts appreciation and when do we focus on audience development for a specific organization? How will the increasing focus on assessment and evaluation change the way we learn about and participate in the arts?

Panelist bios:

Catherine Fukushima is both an experienced arts administrator with a background developing programs for two major art museums; and a strategic grantmaker, having managed philanthropic investments in the arts across the county for the New York-based Wallace Foundation.  As a senior program officer for Wallace, Catherine was responsible for advancing two initiatives: the Wallace Excellence Awards that sought to build participation in the arts, and Arts for Young People that helps cities make systemic improvements to enable them to provide high quality arts education on a more equitable basis.

Prior to joining Wallace, Catherine was a museum educator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art where she oversaw programs and publications for K-12 teachers. Before joining the Met, she was Manager of School, Youth and Family Programs at the Brooklyn Museum. She began her museum career at the American Folk Art Museum.

Ms. Fukushima has served on the board of the Museum Association of New York. She has been an active member of the Development Committee of the National Art Education Association’s Museum Education Division. Additionally, she served for several years as a Steering Committee member and then chair of the New York City Museum Educator’s Roundtable. From 2000 to 2006 she was an adjunct professor in the Museum Professions program at Seton Hall University. Ms. Fukushima holds a B.A. in Art History from Connecticut College and an M.A. from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

Tim Lord co-founded DreamYard in 1994 with Jason Duchin. He is a graduate of Brown University, from which he received a B.A. in Political Science.  Tim also received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) in San Francisco, California. He was a member of the acting company at A.C.T. before moving to New York City.  Since co-founding DreamYard in 1994, Mr. Lord has taught in public schools, in after school programs and in social service organizations.

Tim was a 1993 echoing green fellow with his Co-Director, Jason Duchin.  Tim has spoken on education reform panels at the Harvard Business School and for echoing green, serves on New York City Chancellor Joel Klein’s Task Force on Quality Arts Education and has served on funding panels for the New York State Council on the Arts and the Center for Arts Education.  DreamYard recently received a three-year research grant from the Ford Foundation to learn from and measure best practices in its Bronx Arts Learning Community schools.

Katherine Gressel holds a B.A. in Art from Yale and M.A. in Arts Administration from Teachers College/Columbia, and has worked in diverse arts education settings as both a teaching artist and arts administrator.  Katherine currently serves as Program Manager for the young nonprofit Arts to Grow, planning and implementing visual and performing arts education programs in out-of-school-time settings throughout NYC and northern NJ.

Prior to ATG, Katherine worked as Director of Partnerships and Development at the Urban Assembly School of Music and Art (UAMA), a small arts-based public high school. At UAMA, she served as the primary liaison to partners in the arts and business communities, coordinating special events and spearheading UAMA’s first major public relations and fundraising campaign as well as new after-school and internship programs.

Katherine is also a founding board member and regular volunteer at Starting Artists, Inc., a Brooklyn-based nonprofit training teens in media arts and entrepreneurship.  She has worked as a teaching artist and muralist with Groundswell Community Mural Project, San Francisco’s Precita Eyes Muralists, the Brooklyn Museum, CityKids Foundation, Community-Word Project, and Hester Street Collaborative, among other organizations. Most recently, she was awarded for a 4-week travel grant through CEC Artslink to lead collaborative public art projects in Krasnoyarsk and St. Petersburg, Russia.

Her scholarly writing on socially-engaged collaborative art has been presented in the CUNY Graduate Center’s online journal and in the 2007 Social Theory, Politics, and the Arts conference at NYU, and she is also a contributing editor and writer to the recent art publication Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo.

In Fall 2009, Katherine founded Brooklyn Utopias?, an original exhibition and programming series inviting artists, youth, and community groups to respond to local environmental and social issues.  Katherine’s work can be viewed at www.katherinegressel.com

Nathan Sensel (Moderator) is Associate Educator for Teen Programs at the Museum of Modern Art, coordinating a leadership program that cultivates communication, community and awareness through the arts for the city’s youth. As the Assistant Director for ARTime, an independent arts and education organization, he is devoted to providing access and information about contemporary art and creates online content for www.ARTimeNY.com. He is also an artist who has had work shown in a group drawing exhibition at the Lexington Art League.

Thanks for a great event!
–The 3/1/10 CC Team (Stephanie Pereira, Lisa Lurie, Erin Eisenberg, & Selena Juneau-Vogel)

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