Sharing the Wealth - by Wendy Levy, Director of Creative Programming at Bay...
I’m heading to Boston on Wednesday for an industry conference called Commonwealth. The conference, co-hosted by the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC) and the Center for Independent...
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By Donna Choi Just came out of Friday's opening plenary with some interesting discussion on the meaning of Commonwealth and collaborative work. The plenary, moderated by Valerie Linson of WGBH and led...
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The commons describes a social practice that unleashes people’s capacity to create things together and take their lives and livelihood into their own hands. It is a social form that has long lived in...
View ArticleThe Open Zones of CommonWealth: the National Alliance for Media Arts and...
CommonWealth functioned like a primer on telecommunications policy challenges like net neutrality, broadband and arts stimulus while it also provided navigational systems and mappings of digital media,...
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Facing Race Conference Highlights
Author: Traci L. Morris The 2010 Biannual Facing Race national conference, held September 23-25 in Chicago, was both invigorating and inspiring. Presented by the Applied Research Center (ARC), the...
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Where the Old and New Collide: The SIEGE 2010 Expo
Author: Nettrice R. Gaskins My NAMAC 'travelogue' series begins with my love of scavenger hunts, you know, those games in which the participants must gather, or perform tasks or take photographs of...
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Making Media Now 2010: November 5-6, 2010 (Boston, MA)
This annual event for professional film, video, and new media makers in New England is right around the corner! Making Media Now 2010, hosted by Filmmakers Collaborative, and this year the theme is...
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Annals of Philanthropy: GIA 2010 Conference Blog
Author: Arlene Goldbard Two notes to you, dear readers:First, from Sunday through Wednesday (17-20 October 2010), I'll be one of three bloggers invited to attend and write about the annual conference...
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Annals of Philanthropy: GIA 2010 Conference Blog 2: Shine on Me: Scenes from...
Author: Arlene Goldbard I spent the day at Grantmakers in The Arts' Support for Individual Artists preconference (entitled Artists and Grantmakers: A Shared Enterprise). Dozens of artists and funders...
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Annals of Philanthropy: GIA 2010 Conference Blog 3: Capitalization
Author: Arlene Goldbard The first plenary session of this Grantmakers in The Arts' conference focused on the National Capitalization Project, a GIA initiative launched this past January. It was...
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Annals of Philanthropy: GIA 2010 Conference Blog 4: Third Space
Author: Arlene Goldbard Joi Ito, founder and CEO of Creative Commons, was the luncheon speaker at Monday's GIA meeting. His relaxed and likable presence comes across as realness personified. His...
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Annals of Philanthropy: GIA 2010 Conference Blog 5: Prove It
Author: Arlene Goldbard On Tuesday, I attended a Grantmakers in the Arts conference presentation on "Participatory Arts and Community Health: Challenges and Opportunities," organized by Amy Kitchener...
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Annals of Philanthropy: GIA 2010 Conference Blog 6: Cook It Up
Author: Arlene Goldbard This is my sixth and final post about the Grantmakers in the Arts 2010 conference, where I was invited to take part as a live blogger. It was tremendous fun: I got to write...
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Where the Old and New Collide: IBM Place Summit 2010
Author: Nettrice R. Gaskins The IBM Center for Social Software hosts the first ever Place Summit in Cambridge, MA and I am one of over 100 people invited to the event. The Social and the Spacial:...
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NAMAC Announces Recipients of the 2014 NAMAC Awards
Each NAMAC Conference provides an opportunity for NAMAC’s Board of Directors to honor the contributions made by an artist, an organization, and a philanthropic organization, to further the work of the...
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