Dancing at Casita: South Bronx Culture Trail
Working together, Casita Maria and Dancing in the Streets are investigating the artistic legacy of the South Bronx.
Digital Diaspora Family Reunion
Chimpanzee Productions created a touring multimedia event and online portal to share hidden history contained in family photo albums.
Public Access Design
Public Access Design is a rapid response design clinic that provides community social justice organizations with grass-roots organizing tools.
StreetWise: Hunts Point
Groundswell engaged local youth, artists, and community members in a series of community mural-making projects to identify local traffic and safety issues.
OurGoods.org
OurGoods undertook capacity-building initiatives to attract new users, match the diversity of barter requests, and improve its website.
Mannahatta 2409
Mannahatta 2409 invites the public to develop and share their own ecological designs for the future of Manhattan.
Active Arts
A programming series that offers diverse participatory art-making experiences transforms an arts center.
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.