FIELD NOTES | Unbreakable Solidarity
May 29, 2020
"If you desire a more just world, it’s time you muster the courage to talk with people who are professionally, ideologically, and politically different from you." - LFH
Stay up-to-date on the latest news in the artist residency field.
Artist Communities Alliance (ACA) News provides information about happenings at our organization and throughout the artist residency field. This includes announcements about upcoming ACA events, Advocacy Alerts that spotlight policy issues, funding opportunities for artists and arts organizations, and press releases.
In addition to this News page, ACA regularly sends newsletters that feature important news and happenings that are relevant to artists, artist residency staff and other arts administrators.
COVID-19 Arts Preparedness + Response Resource List
May 16, 2020
We have expanded our COVID-19 Residency Preparedness + Response page where you can explore AAC field surveys, letters to the field, and a compilation of resources organized by topic.
New additions include:
- A timely Dance Magazine article by Raja Feather Kelly who questions “Has Anyone Asked Artists What They Need?”
- W.A.G.E.’s
FIELD NOTES | Asking Artists What They Need
May 15, 2020
“Before you get what you want, gotta give the people what they need.” — Public Enemy
FIELD NOTES | Beyond Place
May 8, 2020
“That despite being so human and so terrified, here, standing on this unfinished staircase to nowhere and everywhere, surrounded by the cold and starless night—we can live. And we will.” — Ocean Vuong
FIELD SURVEY | Cancellations + Postponements
May 1, 2020
AAC is tracking the current status of residency programs as they navigate COVID-19. Last week AAC launched a mini-survey exploring the current status of residency session and other programming.
FIELD NOTES | How we experience this moment.
April 24, 2020
“The decisions we make now will have an impact for years and decades and will reconfigure the planet.” — Yuval Noah Harari
FIELD NOTES | Pause. Record. Dialogue.
April 20, 2020
"The only answer to fear is more understanding. And there is no understanding if there is no effort to look more deeply to see what is there in our heart and in the heart of the other person." - Thich Nhat Hanh
TECH ACCESS | #ResidenciesConnect Recap
April 17, 2020
On Thursday April 14th, J. Soto, Manager of Programs and Inclusion at Eyebeam, Tony Grant, Co-Director at Sustainable Arts Foundation, and Flannery Patton Director of Member Services + Communications at AAC joined us for a #ResidenciesConnect session on Tech Access for Connectivity, Productivity + Information Exchange.
Seasonal Residency Programs | #ResidenciesConnect Recap
April 10, 2020
Residency practitioners took part in the discussed the impact and implications of postponement/cancellation on their residency programs in a discussion moderated by Lisa Funderburke Hoffman, Executive Director of the Alliance of Artists Communities, featuring Paul Sacaridiz, the Executive Director of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts.
