Intersection for the Arts
For The San Francisco Bay Area Emerging Arts Professionals Project
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Amount$17,270
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Program
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Date Awarded4/15/2009
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Term12 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
Support for The San Francisco Bay Area Emerging Arts Professionals (SFBEAP), a fiscally sponsored project of Intersection, will underwrite the new organization’s inaugural event "Evolve and Vocalize: A Spotlight on Next Generation Arts Leadership", (April 11, 2009) and provide stipends for eight local arts administrators to attend the Americans for the Arts (AFTA) Conference, Reflect, ReThink & Renew in Seattle, June 17-21, 2009. SFBEAP is a volunteer-run peer-based group that was created in late 2008 by six emerging arts leaders who had met while participating in a series of focus groups on Next Generation Leadership issues held by the Hewlett Foundation’s Performing Arts Program. Created to carry forward the discussions and recommendations catalyzed by the focus group work, SFBEAP is developing a series of programming targeted at evolving the professional capacities of arts administrators, managers, cultural workers and artists within the Greater San Francisco Bay Area. The initial one day facilitated event will bring 80 cross-generational artists, arts administrators and arts administrators together to discuss how the expanding SFBEAP collective can improve the career prospects for emerging leaders in the Bay Area. In conjunction with the event, online tools will be used to gather data and feedback by the SFBEAP steering committee and make the day’s learning to those who could not attend in person. SFBEAP will also invite junior arts administrators under 40 living and working in the Bay Area to apply for $1,250 stipends to attend the AFTA conference (which has a track specifically around career development in the field), and to participate in a discussion group afterwards.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.theintersection.org
Address
1446 Market Street, San Francisco, CA, 94102, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for the Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area
The Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area is a fiscally sponsored project of Intersection for the Arts. It connects and catalyzes groups of arts education providers, educators, and advocates to help ensure youth located throughout the San Francisco Bay Area receive a comprehensive and quality arts education. It provides services including regranting, event sponsorships, training and facilitation, and field leadership; serves as the regional hub for five local networks of arts education alliances; and aligns its work with statewide and national arts education efforts. Support for the Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area advances the Performing Arts Program’s Youth strategy through the Policy and Advocacy substrategy.
for Zoo Labs
Zoo Labs, a fiscally sponsored project of Intersection for the Arts, supports and empowers Bay Area-based musicians and other artists to own and amplify their creative projects. Its work includes the curricular development and delivery of arts business training, public panel discussions with industry leaders, and other services in support of arts entrepreneurs and small business owners. Since 2013, Zoo Labs has conducted 26 accelerator residencies, engaging over 350 mentors to serve over 250 local artists. This grant, in alignment with the program’s Artists strategy, will enable Zoo Labs to continue and evolve its artist support programs.
