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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2009
The Wes Watkins Center
11:00-4:00 REGISTRATION at Wes Watkins Conference Center
1:00-4:00 PRE CONFERENCE SESSIONS
Arts Managers’ Networking Forum
Navigating through an economic downturn poses unique challenges for larger cultural institutions with long-term program commitments and a high public profile. This session provides time and space for arts managers to meet to discuss common challenges and explore strategies for a sustainable future.
Facilitator, John McCann
Annual ONEAL Networking Forum (Oklahoma’s New and Emerging Arts Leaders)
ONEAL is a statewide network of new and emerging arts leaders who are 35 years or under, or have less than 5 years in the field of arts administration. Don’t miss this opportunity to join the ONEAL peer group and get connected!
For more information, contact Molly O’Connor
Phone: 405-521-2025, Email: molly.oconnor@arts.ok.gov
Reunion and Forum for Leadership Arts Graduates, Class 2008-09
Leadership Arts graduates will reunite to share and discuss their continued role as arts leaders in Oklahoma, present case studies on current projects, and discuss issues that are influencing cultural development in their communities.
For more information, contact Georgia Williams
Phone: 405-521-2024, Email: georgia@arts.ok.gov
“Managing Your Career” for Career Bound Performing Artists
This two-part workshop will address the business skills needed to advance your career management skills in touring and performing.
Part one: Marketing Maximizer will focus on acquiring communication skills, (email, social networking and effective website content) that will help you present a more effective marketing message to various audiences.
Part two: Website Maximizer appeal to presenters and media. Actual websites will be critiqued and the group will discuss how websites can offer more appeal to increase bookings.
This track for performing artists will continue through Thursday.
Workshop Leader: Jeri Goldstein, Performing Biz
6:00 EVENING EVENTS
NETWORKING RECEPTION – Zannottis Wine Bar, Downtown Stillwater.
8:00
To Kill a Mockingbird, Sponsored by OSU Allied Arts
Concert Hall, OSU Campus
DINNER ON YOUR OWN
Enjoy dining and networking at Stillwater’s locally owned restaurants and pubs.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2009
The Wes Watkins Center
BREAKFAST ON YOUR OWN
8:30 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE BAR
Resource Tables: Arts organizations, agencies and artists are encouraged to bring promotional materials for the resource area at the conference center.
Sign Up for Optional Information Session with Oklahoma Arts Council Staff
Conference attendees may sign up for the Oklahoma Arts Council’s consultation session with program staff.
9:30-10:30 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS
GENERAL SESSION
Rules of Engagement: Understanding the Role of Legislators in Supporting the Arts
Communicating with legislators is critical to the success of arts organizations nationwide. This panel discussion will address how to approach legislators and tips for making a case for the cause. The panel will also address the current economic climate in the state of Oklahoma and the impact on public funding.
Moderator: Kym Koch Thompson, Oklahoma Arts Council
10:30-12:00 CONCURRENT SESSIONS
How to Create a Dynamic Fundraising Board
In the language of Jim Collins who wrote From Good to Great, “Do you have the right people on the bus?” This workshop addresses how to create a culture of fundraising in the boardroom. Learn how to determine if you have the right team for successful fundraising, how to deal with ineffective board members, and techniques for recruiting a pro-active fundraising board.
Workshop Leader: Chuck Loring
How to Develop Outstanding Grant Proposals: Straight Talk from an Expert
From guidelines to deadlines and everything in between, this workshop provides the tools you need to package a concise and credible grant proposal. Learn how to approach prospective granting entities and how to navigate from the idea phase to the final presentation.
Workshop Leader: Norman Hammon
“Managing Your Career” for Career Bound Performing Artists
The Art of Marketing: Creating Your Unique Identity Brand
This session will help performing artists better understand how to market themselves based on who they are as artists and who their target market is. This is an intensive session with lots of writing and interaction among fellow artists and the workshop leader. You will leave this session with a new strategy for reaching your target audience.
Workshop Leader: Jeri Goldstein, Performing Biz
Public Art: Your Partner in Revitalization, Reinvestment and Renewal
Public Arts programs redefine how people relate to their environment by enhancing quality of life, creating a sense of place and vitality, and contributing to a community’s economy. This session examines what public art is and how it can serve as an integral element of community capital improvement and infrastructure. Examples of successful projects will be shown and discussed.
Debby Williams, Director, Oklahoma Arts in Public Places
Valuing the Role of Mentors: For Arts Administrators
Whether your are beginning a career in the arts, or are experienced but in need of guidance, it is difficult to plan for your professional future while facing challenges along the way. This session will address how to identify a potential mentor who can provide valuable guidance through your career advancement. ONEAL (Oklahoma’s New and Emerging Arts Leaders) and their mentors will discuss how their relationships have positively impacted their work in the arts.
12:00-1:30 LUNCH AND GENERAL SESSION
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Burns Hargis-President, Oklahoma State University
GENERAL SESSION: Oklahoma’s Creative Arts Spaces: a visual tour. Wherever artists are engaged in community life, you will find creative arts spaces. These spaces exist in country settings or on city streets, in galleries and community centers, performance halls and coffee houses. Whether arts spaces are temporary or permanent, slick and sophisticated, or located in abandoned buildings; they all animate and energize our communities.
1:30-1:45 BREAK
1:45-3:15 CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Philanthropic Fundraising: Inspiring Your Board Members
Most nonprofit board members have little knowledge of the dynamics of philanthropic fundraising. This workshop builds on the material presented in the 10:30 session, Creating a Dynamic Fundraising Board. Learn how to teach willing board members to be effective fundraisers, even the ones who say they hate to fundraise.
Workshop Leader: Chuck Loring
Common Sense Budgets: Creating and Presenting a Reasonable Request for Funding
Learn how to develop a realistic request for grant funds, the importance of demonstrating community support for your program, and how to determine what is appropriate to include in the proposed budget. Mr. Merrick will also provide information on how to avoid common mistakes.
Workshop Leader: Frank Merrick
“Managing Your Career” for Career Bound Performing Artists
Negotiating Fair Performance Deals
This workshop explores negotiating skills, how to develop market value, and the five main types of negotiated agreements used in performing arts booking. Participants will practice mock negotiation and discuss the results.
Workshop Leader: Jeri Goldstein
Make Your Community a “Center for the Arts.”
Often rooted in the culture of the community or neighborhood, arts centers have their own unique character. They support the work of local artists, serve as an excellent resource for schools, energize neighborhoods and generate creative engagement for citizens of all ages. Learn about or share strategies for developing innovative arts spaces and programs, and how engagement in the arts impacts social and community development. This session will be facilitated as a roundtable discussion with time for dialogue among participants.
3:15-3:30 BREAK
3:30-5:00 CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Oklahoma Presenters Unite: An Introduction to the Oklahoma Presenters’ Network (OPN)
Performing arts presenters from around the state have joined together to form the Oklahoma Presenters’ Network (OPN.) OPN brings audiences and performing artists together by advancing the presentation of the performing arts in Oklahoma through collaboration, shared resources and professional development. To learn more about OPN and how to become a member of this valuable network, join us for this informative session.
Presented by members of the Oklahoma Presenters’ Network
Oklahoma Arts Council Staff Consultations
This session is for conference attendees who signed up for consultation time with Oklahoma Arts Council staff. The Council’s grants and services will be reviewed and programming questions will be answered.
The Ada Arts District: A Study in Community Renewal
Ada’s downtown Arts District showcases numerous cultural amenities including the new Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center, the restored McSwain Theatre, a sculpture garden, a variety of downtown events and an architectural tour. In addition, the district has experienced an increase in downtown retail and restaurant establishments. Learn from key organizers, how creative partnerships are developed and how to cultivate broad-based community support for planning an arts district.
Panelists: Dr. Rick Wetherill, Bridget Forshay, Dr. Brad Jessop
Visiting Artists’ Programs: The Community Engagement Perspective
All over the world, artists, arts organizations and communities are creating environments that inspire the development of a healthy global society. This innovative practice in civic engagement starts with one community at a time. The panel will showcase how artists’ residencies evolve beyond a prescribed art making format to an interactive approach to artistic and social development.
NETWORKING RECEPTIONS
5:00-6:00 RECEPTION AND FACULTY ART EXHIBIT
Gardiner Art Gallery, Bartlett Center for Visual Arts on the OSU Campus
6:00 RECEPTION AND TOUR
Multi Arts Center
Join the staff and local arts community at the Multi Arts Center for a come and go reception and tour of the facility. Enjoy new original works on display in the lobby exhibit “Wear It Out,” view student-artists at work, and watch glassblowing demonstrations. The Multi Arts Center also features a permanent gift gallery space highlighting original artwork by more than 60 Oklahoma artists.
7:30 Stillwater Jazz Concert
Houston Theatre, 315 W. 8th Street at the Stillwater Community Center
Don’t miss this chance to hear Stillwater’s great jazz musicians at the Stillwater Jazz Concert. The concert is free and open to conference attendees and general public.
DINNER ON YOUR OWN
Enjoy dining and networking at Stillwater’s locally owned restaurants and pubs.
8:00 EVENTS
FACULTY RECITAL: Conor Nelson, flute
Concert Hall on the OSU Campus
CAFÉ KZANY: Hosted by Zanni Kzany and Family.
Let the zaniness begin at Cafe Kzany, the temporary “new vaudeville” exhibition space and late-night cabaret. Step right up folks, you can become members of the Kzany family just by showing up. The entry fee for this event is that you promise to leave your serious self at the door. Bring your poems, stories, musical instruments and a zany sense of humor. All characters are welcome. Kazoos will be provided.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2009
The Wes Watkins Center
BREAKFAST ON YOUR OWN
8:30-9:30 REGISTRATION/COFFEE BAR/ANNOUNCEMENTS
9:30-10:45 CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Responsible Governance in the Age of Accountability
The nonprofit sector employs 10% of the US workforce and comprises 10% of the gross national product. In these challenging times, it is vitally important that good governance is a hallmark of our nonprofit profile. Topics to be covered include the classic ten responsibilities of a nonprofit board, and the legal responsibilities and obligations of individual board members. Participants will learn how to assess the effectiveness of their own boards.
Workshop Leader: Chuck Loring
Picture My Weekend: Community Engagement Through the Arts
Learn how the Alva community engages citizens in the creative process and encourages them to view their everyday environment through a new lens. This intensive photography workshop and exhibit was organized with a modest budget by collaboration of individuals at Northwestern Oklahoma State University and the Alva community. Picture My Weekend attracts scores of photographers throughout the region from all levels of experience and culminates as an exhibit at the historic Runnymede Hotel, Alva’s creative community center.
Panelists: Dr. Kay Decker, Dr. Rod Morrow, Kathleen Earnest, Mike Klemme
The Arts Education Roundtable
This roundtable will provide a forum for dialogue around what citizens, schools, educators, and arts organizations want to see in terms of arts education. Strategies such as arts integration and community arts collaborations with schools and youth service organizations will be explored.
Roundtable Moderator: Hayden Roberts, Director of the Oklahoma Center for Arts Education, University of Central Oklahoma
10:45-11:00 BREAK
11:00-12:15 CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Oklahoma Film and Music Office
If you want to learn more about how the film and music industries fuel Oklahoma’s economy, plan to attend this informative session. Representatives from Oklahoma’s Film and Music Office will discuss initiatives for film production and music promotion in Oklahoma.
Creative Community Partnerships: Understanding Effective Collaboration
This workshop examines the benefits of forming creative partnerships in a healthy or difficult economy. Mr. Merrick will discuss how to identify potential partners, how partnerships can save your organization money, expand your outreach efforts and increase your profile in the community.
Workshop Leader: Frank Merrick
The Power of Positive Relationships: Starting on the Right Foot and Staying the Course with Grantmakers
This panel provides insight on how to build and maintain a good working relationship with your funders. Learn about positive communication with grants officers, the significance of adhering to guidelines and deadlines, and respecting protocol. Time will be allotted for a question and answer session.
Moderator: Norman Hammon
Panelists: Brenda Granger, Julie Bohannon, Douglas Newell, Tonya Ricks, David Pettyjohn
The Artist/Community Connection: Valuing the Teaching Artist
This panel will address how artists can expand their career options by serving as a valuable resources for schools or communities, with new audiences or special populations. Learn from panelists the value of creating a curriculum, available resources, and successful ways to promote yourself as a teaching artist.
12:30-2:00 LUNCH
Final Networking and Reports from Peer Groups
2:00-2:30 CLOSING REMARKS
