more meetings I'll miss: Art Huddles

Via email:

The Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington is convening three, ninety-minute Art Huddles in October for arts leaders, artists, arts funders and arts patrons to establish priorities and identify critical issues facing the arts community in the Washington DC Metropolitan region.

These gatherings, facilitated by Business Volunteer consultants, are designed to provide a forum where leaders of the cultural community can freely discuss concrete ways to build collaborations and create a strong, unified regional arts voice. Each Art Huddle will be convened by a Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington Board member and hosted by an arts organization.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009
9:30-11:00 AM
The Harman Center for the Arts
610 F Street NW, Washington, DC 20004
Board Convener: Septime Webre, Artistic Director, The Washington Ballet
Host: Chris Jennings, Managing Director, Shakespeare Theatre Company

Monday, October 26, 2009
6:30-8:00 PM
Joe's Movement Emporium
3309 Bunker Hill Road, Mount Rainer, MD 20712

Wednesday, October 28, 2009
10-11:30 AM
Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts
1645 Trap Road, Vienna, VA 22182
Board Convener and Host: Beth Brummel, Vice President of External Affairs

Registration information is on the webpage. For questions or more information, contact staff@cultural-alliance.org or (202) 638-2406 x14.

For my take on this issue as it relates to DC proper, see:

-- Art, culture districts, and revitalization
-- More on arts "districts"
-- A clustering approach to the management of civic assets
-- Arts-based revitalization, community building, network strengthening, commodification, and Artomatic
-- More Arts Displacement
-- Arts vs. arts-plus for commercial district revitalization
-- Cultural resources planning in DC: In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
-- More on (DC's) Cultural Infrastructure
-- You Gotta Have Community Building

The Economic Function, Billboard text at the corner of Corporation Street & Alma Street, Sheffield S3. 6 April - 20 April 2004.

The work 'The economic function of public art is to increase the value of private property' sets out to question the function of art in the public realm within the economic regeneration of post industrial cities. The image will accompany a text in a journal by Public Art Forum to be published later this year.

This work is the second part of a commission for Public Art Forum. It completes the project 'I Won an Artist in a Raffle' where Hewitt & Jordan presented themselves as a prize to the delegates at the Public Art Forum conference held in London in April 2003.