Active Arts
A programming series that offers diverse participatory art-making experiences transforms an arts center.
Author: artsfwd
About artsfwd
Curator, Catalyst, and Caretaker of Curiosity
Hoping to expand the ways in which audiences connect to the organization outside the performance experience, GroundWorks embarked on two experiments.
Dance Advance Team
A dedicated group of ambassadors engage their personal networks to bring in new audiences and promote learning about dance.
A New World
Shakespeare Festival St. Louis gave the entire canon to its residents with only one rule: make the play happen any way you see fit.
Transformation and Capitalization
Opera Philadelphia used venture capital modeling to fuel artistic innovation and create financial stability.
How I Learned to Leap Without a Destination
Berkeley Rep approaches change with a focus on grasping opportunity, ignoring criteria, and avoiding expectations for outcomes and deliverables.
Rebuilding Our Building
What happens when you inhabit “the best new building since the Cold War” and it isn’t working at its highest capacity?
Silo-Busting: Transforming the Rake into the Flower
What if you could re-invent a museum and create an organizational chart from scratch on a blank sheet of paper?
A Math Teacher and an Accountant Walk into an Arts Center
Two unlikely art heads are members of YBCA’s game-changing, all access art program YBCA:You. Hear how Lawrence Li, an accountant, came to identify as a street performer and how Henri Ducharme began using art to help his students make sense of numbers.
Small Town, Big Vision
Lanesboro Arts Center is reimagining the future of rural America and the role that the arts can play in its sustainability by transforming an entire small town into an arts campus.
Artist-led Ecosystem Interventions
McColl Center for Visual Art’s community engagement model highlights the value of artist-led ecosystem interventions that foster inter-generational relationships, create stronger communities and elevate the value of artists as catalysts for change.
Radical Hospitality
Revolutionizing access to live theatre has changed Mixed Blood Theatre Company’s audiences, shaped a new way of doing business, and defined a strategy for pursuing social justice through the arts.
Reclaiming Our Community
The All My Relations Arts Gallery has created a destination and anchor in the south Minneapolis American Indian community that continues to generate innovative ideas and strategies for a more vibrant future.
Harnessing the Power of Art to Inspire and Transform Communities
What happens when artists from multiple disciplines come together in an unprecedented fashion to bring art to the people?
Creative Practice + Social Service = Happy People
Pillsbury House + Theatre is exploring how artists and artistic practice can infiltrate social service in a way that makes radical organizational restructuring easier, collaboration and collective impact successful, and neighborhoods better places to live (without displacing the people who live there).