Getting Your Sh*t Together Online Radio by GYST Radio | BlogTalkRadio

Getting Your Sh*t Together Online Radio by GYST Radio | BlogTalkRadio

"Art is Business"  VADP is mentioned in this radio show.... Check out my interview.

Liza Simone of Phantom Galleries LA in Los Angeles is currently the host but there will be guest hosts in cities nationally and internationally.  The Pop-Up Research Station will be a place to glean information. We see the Pop-Up Research Station as the portal to documenting our legacy, giving emerging curators and artists, new to the world of creative placemaking, a “Tool Kit” that has already been 20 years in the making, researched, developed, and implemented by artists who have carved out niches and built new communities from empty storefront to monthly art walks. 

 

GYST Radio on Blog talk will cover snapshots of artist stories, host real discussions on the problems we face, offer a support system as well as soliciting advice on how to avoid the potholes moving forward.  The interviews done for GYST Radio on Blog talk are conversational and geared toward the artist’s mindset, but will be helpful for those interested in our projects as a research tool.

Visual Arts Development Project Report Card

Report Cards- Do It Yourself

Take a moment and construct a survey question that best answers questions you may have about your individual contribution? Then, under each applicable project, I would like to put your comments on the blog. This report will serve as a tool for the board of directors' end-of-year report. Thank you in advance for helping me construct this document.

Table of Contents:

Introduction/Definitions/Explanations

Purpose of this whole thing
Methodology-

Tool Kit-
Tools for interacting with artist support projects, Blog interface, Facebook

Relationship Building:
State and Local Partnerships- Partnership with Placer Arts Council
Establishing VADP as a non-profit organization (Letters of Incorporation, By-laws)

Topics: 2013, what suggestions do you have for 2014?
Introduction to the concept- "Land Trust," Sacred Land, Sacred Place, Purification Ceremony, Commitment to Live, Lunar Moon, Building a Labyrinth Clay Workshop, Ceremonial Circle Training, Making Symbols, Making Paint from Natural Vegetation,

Photo by Andrea "YaYa" Porras

Environment

Overall evaluation of VADP Retreat

Cross-cut w/ disability/accessibility

Cross-cut w/youth

Cross-cut w/seniors

One Prominent Environmental Issue, please give an example.

Why did you participate in this Retreat?

Placer Arts Council will be the VADP fiscal receiver; how can they support future professional development training.

Would you suggest the Retreat be in a private or public space?

Cost Share (Amounts and Rankings)

• Travel
• Airfare
• Rail (Amtrak, BART, RTA)
• Car Rental
• Bus-
• Mileage/Gas receipts
• Supplies (In-Kind/Donations)
• Value of donation- (list the item or items you donated)

• Meals

Did you help in preparing community meals? What are your suggestions for preparing meals in the future beyond BYOB?

• Cash Donations

Did you contribute a cash donation to assist with the cost of the Retreat? How much?

If so, were you given a donation letter for your records?

Facilitators/Faculty:

How did you prepare for the workshop? If so, how well did you prepare?

Where are others encouraged to participate?

What was the feedback from participants?

Please give a list of all your invited guests, along with contact information, for our mailing list. I would also like to add them to our blog, so they can contribute comments, images, or recommendations.

  

Recommendations:

I have no idea how many more questions we would want to put in this exercise, but I think it should end with a question like, "Looking over your answers to these questions, did the retreat meet your standards?"

Artist - Donor Fundraising Campaign 2013-2014

Labyrintheme Back to Our Senses

Reposted from American Alliance of Museums

The Labyrintheme project has brought together theatre makers, museum staff and enthusiasts, teachers, the staff of educational institutions, and students from a considerable number of countries.

We call our handbook for trainers Back to Our Senses because we found during the piloting phase of the project that this is the main resource that sensory labyrinth theatre has to offer: a renewed perspective on the ways we perceive and acquire information through our basic senses.

 While everything around us competes in terms of getting bigger and louder it also risks becoming two-dimensional and, frankly, quite boring. We found that this context is actually a great opportunity to surprise our audiences and visitors by becoming three-dimensional: focusing on creating an image inside the head and not in front of the eyes. The ‘theatre’ element comes in when we learn how to tune the five senses so that we create controlled sensory images and share these images on a human-to-human level rather than through a patronizing I-will-provide-knowledge experience. It also helps objective information to become personal again by means of storytelling. But more of this inside.

The handbook is dedicated to all of you who have already found such an experience interesting and are willing to replicate it and/or adapt it to similar contexts. It’s a DIY guide that also makes constant reference to situations we’ve encountered in our Labyrintheme experience and may become subjects for further exploration.

We hope you enjoy it, and please help us make it better by reaching us at http://labyrintheme.org and https://www.facebook.com/Labyrintheme.

Resources:
- See more at http://labyrintheme.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=11&Itemid=63&lang=en#sthash.pPtQjxbj.dpuf

PlacerARTs in Auburn California Welcomes VADP

ARTspace for Teaching and Learning-

Angela Tahti (Arts Services) -- Auburn

As Executive Director of the Arts Council of Placer County since 1997, Angela Tahiti collaborates with artists and community volunteers of all ages, public officials, and business leaders to improve Placer County's quality of life through the arts. She develops, administers, and promotes a wide variety of community arts programs, including visual, performing, and literary arts presentations; a Regrant Program; Arts in Education Programs; and cultural tourism initiatives such as the Auburn Art Walk, Autumn Arts Studios Tour, Library Garden Summer Series, Jazz at 808, AGROart Competition, Feats of Clay and the One Root Festival.

Her "Director's Message" in Perspectives, Placer Arts' quarterly arts newsmagazine informs members and the local community about the state of the arts locally and statewide. In addition, Ms. Tahti is Sierra Nevada Arts Alliance liaison to the Sierra Nevada Conservancy and County Arts Lead to the California Department of Education for Placer County Office of Education.

ARTspace, located on the lower level of The Arts Building, is designed to bring Artists and Student Artists together in a teaching and learning environment.

ARTspace provides various ongoing workshops and classes for students of all levels and is available to rent for workshops and events such as birthdays and other celebrations.

Visual Arts Development Project will be coming to The Arts Building 2014-

Hosting our first Executive Board of Directors Meeting- to Plan our Annual Retreat

We are now taking perspective- to be submitted to Andrea "YaYa" Porras, Executive Director and Curator of the International Society of Altar Making.

The VADP’s Goals for the next three years are to develop our residential artist’s studio program, to provide artistic experience to the Sacramento community, and to outline rural communities in the San Joaquin Valley, Placer County, and Fresno County, where existing partnerships have been developed. In addition, to collaborate and extend programming for that intersect with poets, musicians, performance artists, and installation artists.

Year one: We have hired a volunteer project director to develop programs for the resource center and seek additional operational support funding.

The long-range goals are to concentrate our fundraising efforts, cover administrative activities, provide technical assistance for faculty, and provide curriculum development training for new faculty members.

Donate today: All donations are tax-deductible. Please mail to: VADP, 808 Lincoln Way.
Auburn, CA 95603

Sacramento Banana Festival 2014

Arts, Entertainment, Food Food & Fun for a Good Cause

August 10-11, 2013 at William Land Park
The two-day festival celebrates the banana’s influence with world music performances, banana-themed activities, food tastings, and more.
 Good Cause

Radio Disney Takes Banana Jungle Stage Radio Disney will be hosting a variety of events at the Banana Festival this year. On Saturday, August 10, from 2 to 4 p.m. on the Banana Jungle Stage, Radio Disney will be playing music and organizing games for kids of all ages. Radio Disney will also be hosting an on-site radio show that will feature Banana Festival Bunch of Fun Passports station activities. Radio Disney is a radio network based in Burbank, CA, that broadcasts music aimed at a young teenage audience. It is a youth-targeted contemporary hit radio and subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company. It can be streamed online or on the radio network at KMKY 1310 for the Bay Area or KMKY 1470 for Northern California. Grateful Banana Festival is all about fun, but did you know it also does good in our community? Proceeds of the Banana Festival support the Sojourner Truth Multicultural Art Museum and Development Center, which provides programs and resources for more than 15,000 children and youth in the Greater Sacramento area. And many other community organizations participate in and benefit from Banana Festival as well, including B.E.S.T (Building Empowerment Skills Today) and Women’s Empowerment. B.E.S.T and Women's Empowerment along with other non-profit organizations will serve samples of their special Banana Bread recipes to visitors who get to stroll down a tropical path full of delicious Banana Breads and taste all the samples. After tasting all the delicious samples, festival-goers can vote for the Banana Bread they like the best by putting money into the organization’s donation jar. The organizations get to keep all the money in their jars and festival-goers get to taste lots of Banana Bread.