Arts Participation Leadership Initiative

The Wallace Foundation and the Washington State Arts Commission are undertaking an innovative, four-year arts funding partnership designed to develop the skills and expertise of leaders of arts organizations to build arts participation.

The Arts Commission hosted an online webinar on Monday, November 28, 2011 to review and further discuss the successful October 3rd Arts Participation Leadership Initiative forum and workshop topic “Innovation: Connecting to a New Era of Arts Participation, presented by the Washington State Arts Commission and The Wallace Foundation. The webinar featured Richard Evans from EmcArts and was facilitated by consultant Jerry Yoshitomi of Meaning Matters.

 

Resources for the Innovation Forum, Workshop and Webinar

1. Video
2. Powerpoint from Richard Evans' Innovation Forum talk

 

Recent Forum and Workshops

• Engaging Your Young Adult Audiences, 21 to 35
• Personal Engagement in the Arts through Digital Media: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going
• Who’s New in Town? Arts Organizations Respond to Changing Demographics
• Activating Your Audience
• Focus on Yakima Arts webinar
• Innovation: Connecting to a New Era of Arts Participation

 

Background

Nine Seattle arts organizations will receive $6.1 million in grants from the Foundation, and the Washington State Arts Commission will receive $1.6 million to provide services.

 

In recognition of their commitment to community and participation building activities, the Foundation is giving its prestigious Wallace Excellence Awards to Experience Music Project / Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, One Reel, On the Boards, Pacific Northwest Ballet Association, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Opera, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle Youth Symphony, and SIFF (Cinema Seattle). Each of these organizations will receive four-year grants ranging from $500,000 to $750,000.

 

In addition to giving the Excellence Award grants to nine arts organizations, the Foundation is partnering with the Washington State Arts Commission over the next four years (2009-2012) to create a learning network for Puget Sound arts organizations and to foster arts engagement to inform and support the participation-building work of many arts organizations.

 

"This generous and visionary support by The Wallace Foundation is an investment in the future of arts organizations in the region," said Kris Tucker, executive director of the Washington State Arts Commission. "We are honored to be working with the Foundation to maximize this opportunity to benefit arts organizations and communities in Seattle and throughout the region."