Americans for the Arts

The Leadership Track at the Annual Convention is about vision and inspiring others to think and work differently. Examples of leadership can be seen in every session at convention, but in the Leadership Track it is on stage and under the spotlight. Come learn how to lead by cultivating the best in oneself and in others, and how to lead an organization through a new initiative or institutional challenge.

Every October, we help coordinate the country-wide celebration of National Arts and Humanities Month. Part of the month’s continued success is due to the partnerships forged among arts and other community groups that host exciting events during the month. This year, we are happy to have Art21 as an official partner of NAHM. Art21 is a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing knowledge of contemporary art, igniting discussion, and inspiring creative thinking by documenting artists at work and in their own words.

As part of NAHM, Art21 invites you to participate in Art21 Access ’09, an international screening initiative of hundreds of public screenings and events for the upcoming fifth season of the Peabody Award-winning television series, Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century, this October before its premiere on PBS.

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Planning an Art21 Access event is simple and free for all participating venues. You can host your own event in collaboration with your local museum, library, arts council, university, community-based organization, or art space between September 28 and October 30, 2009.

If we arts administrators thought we had a herculean task before us, imagine the plight of the placard-carrying savior seeking to shepherd the lost to atone for their sins as we walked along the Freemont Street Experience tonight. Little did she know we (and by we I mean me) were quietly judging the Barbara Krueger-esque (minus the art) aesthetic of her sign as we craned our necks to watch the specially commissioned Jenny Holzer truisms live on the biggest screen on the globe (self proclaimed.) As a jaded, ex-New Yorker who now lives in LA it takes a lot to impress me and a multiple block long LED light display filled with a few minutes worth of Holzer's truisms above head as the drunken gamblers stumbled along was just this side of transcendent. Thank you to all the Sinners who made that series of moments possible for me and the unwashed masses with their to-go cups.

Vegas, baby! Sin city, I wish her luck. Makes my work seem a little easier.

Meanwhile...back on The Strip...day one at the Flamingo, or really inside the flamingo.