What the Midterm Elections Mean for the Arts: Summary of 2014 Election
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Nina Ozlu Tunceli
State of New York
Nina Ozlu Tunceli
Adapting to a shift in the volunteer landscape is one of the exciting challenges that the Arts & Business Council of New York (ABC/NY) and many arts organizations now face. As a new team running ABC/NY, my colleague Caleb Way and I are putting our heads together to come up with innovative ideas to expand and modernize our local volunteer matching program.
Aaron Bisman
Sean Daniels
For Geva Theatre in Rochester, NY, I created an engagement group that has significantly impacted the way we interact with patrons and stakeholders, it’s called The Cohort Club.
I started with four ideas:
1) Education breeds excitement.
Terry Liu
Adarsh Alphons
The key to building support for arts education lies in the unlikeliest of places: numbers.
Caleb Way
Caleb Way
It was about six years ago, in 2007, sitting in my small Hong Kong apartment, that I put down ideas for a work practice that would use public art and modern culture as means of developing community and habitat. A practice where the arts would be used not just as an aesthetic to beautify or to activate space, but as productions of communality with the residents of a place and through a process that would open a space for community members to develop and connect.
Jennifer Lantzas
Barrie Cline