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  • Member-to-Member Dialogue: Cultural Power of the Arts
    Contains 1 Component(s) Includes a Live Web Event on 12/14/2023 at 4:00 PM (EST)

    Join us for a Member-to-Member Dialogue about the Cultural Power of the Arts. This virtual forum offers an opportunity for members across the country to work and share in a collaborative space. This conversation about the Cultural Power of the Arts will be moderated by Americans for the Arts staff but will be driven by the members. Come ready to meet new people, ask questions, share ideas, and learn! This is a live event that will not be recorded, so make sure to save the date!

    December 2023 Member-to-Member Dialogue:

    Cultural Power of the Arts

     Join us for a Member-to-Member Dialogue about the Cultural Power of the Arts. This virtual forum offers an opportunity for members across the country to work and share in a collaborative space. This conversation about the Cultural Power of the Arts will be moderated by Americans for the Arts staff but will be driven by the members. Come ready to meet new people, ask questions, share ideas, and learn! This is a live event that will not be recorded, so make sure to save the date!

  • Member Office Hour with Nina Ozlu Tunceli
    Contains 1 Component(s) Includes a Live Web Event on 11/21/2023 at 4:30 PM (EST)

    Join us for a brief presentation from Nina Ozlu Tunceli about the Arts Action Fund and federal advocacy, followed by a Q&A.

    November 2023 Member Office Hour

    Nina Ozlu Tunceli

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    Join us for a brief presentation from Nina Ozlu Tunceli,  AFTA Chief Counsel, Gov't and Public Affairs and Executive Director of the Americans for the Arts Action Fund, about the Arts Action Fund and federal advocacy, followed by a Q&A. Bring your questions for an exciting conversation! Learn more about the Arts Action Fund HERE!

  • Member-to-Member Dialogue: Educational Power of the Arts
    Contains 1 Component(s) Includes a Live Web Event on 10/10/2023 at 2:00 PM (EDT)

    Join us for a Member-to-Member Dialogue about the Educational Power of the Arts. This virtual forum offers an opportunity for members across the country to work and share in a collaborative space. This conversation about the Educational Power of the Arts will be moderated by Americans for the Arts staff but will be driven by the members. Come ready to meet new people, ask questions, share ideas, and learn! This is a live event that will not be recorded, so make sure to save the date!

    October 2023 Member-to-Member Dialogue:

    Educational Power of the Arts

    Join us for a Member-to-Member Dialogue about the Educational Power of the Arts. This virtual forum offers an opportunity for members across the country to work and share in a collaborative space. This conversation about the Educational Power of the Arts will be moderated by Americans for the Arts staff but will be driven by the members. Come ready to meet new people, ask questions, share ideas, and learn! This is a live event that will not be recorded, so make sure to save the date!

  • Member Office Hour with Dr. Genna Styles-Lyas
    Contains 1 Component(s) Includes a Live Web Event on 09/19/2023 at 4:30 PM (EDT)

    Join us for a brief presentation from Dr. Genna Styles about the Arts & Economic Prosperity 6 study (AEP6), followed by a Q&A.

    September 2023 Member Office Hour

    Dr. Genna Styles-Lyas


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    Join us for a brief presentation from Dr. Genna Styles-Lyas,  AEP6 Director, Community Engagement & Equity, about the Arts & Economic Prosperity 6 study (AEP6), followed by a Q&A. Bring your questions for an exciting conversation! Learn more about AEP6 HERE!

  • Member Office Hour with Nora Halpern
    Contains 1 Component(s) Includes a Live Web Event on 07/18/2023 at 4:30 PM (EDT)

    Join us for a brief presentation about relationship development from Nora Halpern, followed by a Q&A.

    July 2023 Member Office Hour

    Nora Halpern

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     Join us for a brief presentation about relationship development from Nora Halpern, VP Leadership Alliances, followed by a Q&A. Bring your questions for an exciting conversation! Learn more about ways to support Americans for the Arts HERE!

  • Member Office Hour with Nolen Bivens
    Contains 1 Component(s) Includes a Live Web Event on 05/23/2023 at 4:30 PM (EDT)

    Join us for a brief presentation from our CEO, Nolen Bivens, followed by a Q&A. Bring your questions for an exciting conversation!

    May 2023 Member Office Hour

    Nolen Bivens

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    Join us for a brief presentation from our CEO, Nolen Bivens, followed by a Q&A. Bring your questions for an exciting conversation! Learn more about Nolen HERE!

  • Member Office Hours 2023
    Contains 6 Product(s)

    Office Hours are bi-monthly Zoom calls where members can meet Americans for the Arts staff members and learn about how their work supports that of our members. Each session will feature a brief presentation from the staff member followed by a Q&A. Bring your questions! This is a live event that will not be recorded.

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    About Member Office Hours 2023

    Office Hours are bi-monthly Zoom calls where members can meet Americans for the Arts staff members and learn about how their work supports that of our members. Each session will feature a brief presentation from the staff member followed by a Q&A. Bring your questions! This is a live event that will not be recorded.

    If you would like to register for all Member Office Hours please click the red register button in the top right hand corner, if you would like to register for specific sessions please click to the activity from the content page.

                                        DateStaff Guest
    Tuesday, January 24
    		Jessica Stern, Senior Manager, Local Arts & Business
    Tuesday, March 21Jay Dick, Sr. Dir, State & Local Gov't Affairs & Tooshar Swain, Director of Public Policy
    Tuesday, May 3Nolen Bivens, CEO
    Tuesday, July 18Nora Halpern, VP Leadership Alliances
    Tuesday, Sep 19Dr. Genna Styles, AEP6 Director, Community Engagement & Equity
    Tuesday, Nov 21Nina Ozlu Tunceli, AFTA Chief Counsel, Gov't and Public Affairs and Executive Director of the Americans for the Arts Action Fund


  • Budgeting and Disability Justice - 2023 Disability Justice Virtual Resource series
    Contains 2 Component(s) Includes a Live Web Event on 05/19/2023 at 2:00 PM (EDT) Recorded On: 03/02/2023

    Listen to Vanessa Cruz and Beth Prevor discuss how organizations can be proactive in addressing accessibility and disability justice in their budgets. Vanessa and Beth push the audience to see how local art agencies can make things accessible that look like art in their 30 minutes pre-recorded conversation. After watching the video join for a live conversation with Vanessa and Beth on May 19th 2023 at 2 PM ET!

    Budgeting and Disability Justice

    Video and Live Conversation 

    The 2023 Disability Justice Virtual Resource series is part of an ongoing effort by Americans for the Arts (AFTA) and Mid Atlantic Arts to provide resources to support individuals and organizations in the mid-Atlantic region with engaging in the essential work of accessibility and disability justice in their communities.

    This pre-recorded video and live conversation are on the topic of budgeting and disability justice. 

    • First, listen to Vanessa Cruz and Beth Prevor, in a pre-recorded 30-minute video, how an organization can be proactive in addressing accessibility and disability justice in their budget.
    • Then, join Vanessa and Beth for a live conversation on May 19, 2023 at 2 PM ET! 

    View the pre-recorded videos on your own time, and feel free to share them with your networks! Then, if you want to keep the conversation going, join us for a candid live conversation on each topic. Live conversations will not be recorded, and there is a registration caps of 50-people-- so sign up today! ASL interpretation and live captioning will be provided for live conversations. 

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    Beth Prevor

    Executive Director, Hands On

    Beth Prevor is a co-founder and Executive Director of Hands On, an arts service organization that advocates for access to the cultural arts for the Deaf community and audiences with disabilities. For the last 30+ years, Hands On has been providing access for the Deaf and hard of hearing communities of NYC through sign language interpreted theater at some of NYC’s most prestigious theaters including The Roundabout Theater Company, The New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater and The New Victory Theater.

    As Executive Director, Beth works with arts organizations to ensure inclusion for all by providing marketing, community engagement and audience development strategies. As a disabled advocate, Beth is active as an advisory member to many groups including, The Shubert Accessibility Committee, The New Jersey Theatre Alliance, and the Museum, Arts and Culture Access Consortium (MAC).  She has led workshops on accessibility and the arts for organizations around the country including the Kennedy Center’s LEAD (Leadership Exchange in Arts and Disability) Conference, Americans for the Arts, The National Arts Marketing Project, the Alliance of Resident Theaters/New York (ART/NY) and Theater Communications Group (TCG). She currently works as a Disability Consultant with ART/NY.

    She is the 2015 recipient of the John F. Kennedy Center’s Excellence in Accessibility Leadership Lifetime Achievement award.

    Website: Handson.org

    Twitter: @HandsOnSign  

    Vanessa Hernández Cruz

    Vanessa Hernández Cruz (she, her, ella) is an interdependent Chicana Disabled dance artist, filmmaker, visual artist, poet & an Intersectional Disability Justice activist. She was born and raised in the unceded land of the Tongva & Kizh lands colonially known as Los Angeles, California. She received her Associates Degree in Dance from Santa Monica College. She recently graduated from California State University Long Beach with her Bachelor of Arts in Dance Science.  Vanessa recently premiered two solos: “Nycto-Eternity” & “Timeless Hourglass” at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles as a guest artist with the international dance company LuxBit Art Company based in Seoul, Korea. In the summer of 2022, she was commissioned through the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs to produce the dance film “Los Portales del Corazón” for the ‘Dance in the Districts’ program.

    Vanessa has been implementing the Disability Justice framework (Sins Invalid) through her activism & dance work. She is currently working with DANC (Dance Artists’ National Collective) as their Communications & Social Media Co-Coordinator. She also serves as a consultant in their BIPOC & Disabled Circle. She is also working as an Accessibility Advisor for HomeLA. In the past, she guided Cal State Long Beach Department of Dance to adopt Disability Justice elements into their dance productions and curriculum with the support of CSULB Affinity AIDE (Advocates for Inclusion & Dancer Equity). She has developed two workshops: Dismantling Ableism in Dance & Accessibility at the Forefront of Dance Making Series. In addition she offers accessibility consulting to individuals & a variety of arts organizations.

     Vanessa is committed to generating substantial changes in the dance field and making the dance field an equitable  space for our multi-marginalized disabled communities.

     

    Follow & Learn More:

    https://www.galaxiesdance.info

    https://www.instagram.com/galaxiesdance/

     

    Headshot & Image Description:

    [Image Description 1: a headshot of Vanessa in a long sleeve lace undershirt with a textured abstract skeleton black dress with a silver metallic corset. She is leaning against Pluto (her purple walker) she is spiraling her torso as one arm is reaching up. She is in front of a dark grey textured background. ]

  • Accountability and Disability Justice - 2023 Disability Justice Virtual Resource series
    Contains 2 Component(s) Includes a Live Web Event on 04/14/2023 at 2:00 PM (EDT)

    Listen to Dominic Bradley and Lily Lipman discuss the complexity of accountability within Disability Justice as a topic area that is still being discovered. Dominic and Lily work to inspire the audience to dig deeper in their 30 minutes pre-recorded conversation. After watching the video join for a live conversation with Dominic and Lily on April 14th 2023 at 2 PM ET!

    Accountability and Disability Justice

    Video and Live Conversation 

    The 2023 Disability Justice Virtual Resource series is part of an ongoing effort by Americans for the Arts (AFTA) and Mid Atlantic Arts to provide resources to support individuals and organizations in the mid-Atlantic region with engaging in the essential work of accessibility and disability justice in their communities.

    This pre-recorded video and live conversation are on the topic of accountability and disability justice. 

    • First, listen to Dominic Bradley and Lily Lipman, in a pre-recorded 30-minute video, discuss the importance of holding individuals and the organization as a whole accountable a topic that is still being discovered.
    • Then, join Dominic and Lily for a live conversation on April 14, 2023 at 2 PM ET! 

    View the pre-recorded videos on your own time, and feel free to share them with your networks! Then, if you want to keep the conversation going, join us for a candid live conversation on each topic. Live conversations will not be recorded, and there is a registration caps of 50-people-- so sign up today! ASL interpretation and live captioning will be provided for live conversations. 

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    Dominic Cinnamon Bradley

    Dominic Cinnamon Bradley (The Johns Hopkins University BA | Columbia University MSW) is a Brooklyn-based Black, disabled, non-binary artist reared in the crunk-era “Dirty South.” Currently, Dominic is a co-editor for an upcoming book project on disability artistry. 

    Lily Lipman

    Director of Accessibility

    Emit Theatre

    Lily Lipman (she/they) is a disabled freelance access consultant, educator, and actor. Lily is the Director of Accessibility for Emit Theatre where she makes their immersive productions for children more accessible for everyone participating. Lily also works at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts where she runs the Lincoln Center Moments program for folks with Dementia and their caregivers. She’s worked throughout NYC as an access consultant for cultural institutions including the Leslie Lohman Museum and New York City Children’s Theatre. Lily is an educator for the Museum Access Consortium where she teaches a course through CUNY to disabled students about careers in cultural institutions. She believes in creating spaces for disabled and d/Deaf people to find community and advocate for more accessible systems. They love talking with other disabled creatives and workers about advocating for change. If you’d like to chat with them feel free to reach out at LilyALipman@gmail.com or visit their website at www.LilyLipman.com

  • Member-to-Member Dialogues 2023
    Contains 6 Product(s)

    Member-to-Member Dialogues are bi-monthly open Zoom calls where members across the country can work and share in a collaborative virtual space. While this discussion will be moderated and by Americans for the Arts staff, these sessions are designed to promote networking and conversations between members. Come ready to meet new people, ask questions, share ideas, and learn! We hope you will keep these conversations going both in your own communities and with the new connections you make during the session. These are live events that will not be recorded.

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    About Member-to-Member Dialogues

    2023


    Member-to-Member Dialogues are bi-monthly open Zoom calls where members across the country can work and share in a collaborative virtual space. While this discussion will be moderated and by Americans for the Arts staff, these sessions are designed to promote networking and conversations between members. Come ready to meet new people, ask questions, share ideas, and learn! We hope you will keep these conversations going both in your own communities and with the new connections you make during the session. These are live events that will not be recorded.

    If you would like to register for all Member to Member Dialogues please click the red register button in the top right hand corner, if you would like to register for specific sessions please click to the activity from the content page.

    Date                                                         Member to Member Dialogues 
    Wednesday, February 8Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Access
    Tuesday, April 11Economic Power of the Arts
    Thursday, June 15Social Power of the Arts
    Wednesday, August 9Public Art
    Tuesday, October 10Educational Power of the Arts
    Thursday, December 14Cultural Power of the Arts