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?
Articles
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).
Artist/Community/Reciprocity
Springboard for the Arts explores systems and infrastructure that support and nurture our artists and that demand from them their engagement and commitment.
Policy, Prisons, and Pranks: Artists Collide with the World
How can the field learn from artists working at the intersections of science, technology, community organizing, entrepreneurship and the media?
Inspiring a Community of Music Makers
The Community of Music Makers program takes patron and community engagement to a new level by inviting audiences to play and sing on their stage.
From Expert to Collaborator
Moving from the traditional stance of ‘the expert with important stories to tell’ to ‘building stories with community’ requires an openness and humility that is often not easy for museums.
Creating Performances That Cannot Exist Without an Audience
Off-Center @ The Jones’s programming takes into account the full audience experience and puts it at the center of the artistic process.
Unlikely Pairing, Lasting Implications
What seemed like a mismatched pairing with The Second City turned out to be Lyric Opera of Chicago’s surprise hit of the season with traditional and new audiences alike.