The New Normal—we hear about it every day, but what does it mean to your organization?
The 2012 Americans for the Arts Annual Convention this June 8–10 in San Antonio, TX will bring together more than 1,000 arts and community leaders to focus on how the arts field can function, change, and thrive in The New Normal—a landscape of economic uncertainty and shifting demographics.
Early Bird Registration now open.
Don’t miss this information packed workshop for arts administrators, arts organization’s board members and community arts advocates. The day will include a challenging professional development workshop with content for all levels and a primer on arts advocacy that will prepare you to be an effective advocate for the arts or other issues in your community.
Watch for you invitation and registration information
For More information Contact: mburketfa@gmail.com
Costs
$25 ~ TFA Member; $50 ~ additional person from a TFA member
$75 ~ Non-Member
($25 goes to one-year annual membership in TFA)
Prices include registration and lunch
January 30, 2012
6-8pm
Gourmand’s
2316 Webberville Road: map
Austin, TX 78702
Let us know you are coming: RSVP
Jesus Pantel is an Austin grant writer and development consultant—familiar with both sides of the grant writing process, having worked as a grant writer for a nonprofit organization and currently administering grants for one of Austin’s major arts funders.
Jessica Thompson spent three years working at the Austin Creative Alliance, first as the Outreach Director and then as the Cultural Concierge Director. During her time with the organization, she co-chaired the Austin Emerging Art Leaders Network with Jesus Pantel. In 2009, she led the ‘Dine-Around’ discussion on forming emerging leader networks at the National Arts and Marketing Project Conference for the Americans for the Arts. Prior to moving to Austin, Thompson was the founding director of the Foundation of Retaining Creative Energy in Madison, WI. There she served on the Americans for the Arts Emerging Leaders Council. Thompson’s organization joined Arts Wisconsin in forming Wisconsin Emerging Art Leaders Network and was the co-host of the 2007 Emerging Leaders of Wisconsin Summit.
Latifah Taormina
Latifah Taormina, 2011 Outstanding Contribution to Austin Theatre
A Year With Frog and Toad Summer Stock Austin
Rudy Ramirez The Physicists
David Meissner (Momo, Henry, Man, Watch Seller, Jean-Paul) The Adventures of Iris and Momo
I’ve Never Been So Happy Rude Mechanicals and Center Theatre Group
Thomas Graves and Lana Lesley I’ve Never Been So Happy
Andrew Cannata (Austin) I Love You Because
Haley Smith (Marcy) I Love You Because
Brian Coughlin (Edna Turnblad) Hairspray
Janis Stinson (Motormouth Maybelle) Hairspray
The Dudleys!: A Family Game TUTTO Theatre Company
Gary Jaffe The Dudleys!: A Family Game
Shelby Davenport (Jack Tanner) Man and Superman
Lauren Lane (Barbara Fordham) August: Osage County
Michael Stuart (Charlie Aiken) August: Osage County
Chris Humphrey (Nanna) MilkMilkLemonade
Frankenstein: The Trouble Puppet Show Trouble Puppet Theater Company
Connor Hopkins Frankenstein: The Trouble Puppet Show
Justin Scalise (Hamlet) Hamlet [Scottish Rite Theatre and Black Swan Events]
Babs George (Martha) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Travis Dean (Baylor) A Lie o
f the Mind
Rebecca Robinson (Beth) A Lie of the Mind
Ia Ensterä Here Comes Gosling!
Natalie George Baal
Leegrid Stevens The Dudleys!: A Family Game
Susan Branch Towne Hairspray
Chris Humphrey The Elementals: AIR
Melinda Rebman and Zenobia Taylor The Dudleys!: A Family Game
Travis Dean Hunter Gatherers
Leegrid Stevens The Dudleys!: A Family Game
Leegrid Stevens The Dudleys!: A Family Game
Dan Monceaux, Angela Hill, David Bengali, Jordan Rein, Josh Lampman, David Mauro, Camilo Munar and Jake Witlen The Dudleys!: A Family Game
Frankenstein: The Trouble Puppet Show Trouble Puppet Theater Company
The Dudleys!: A Family Game TUTTO Theatre Company
Roderick Sanford and Joshua Denning (Tom Collins and Angel Dumont Schunard) RENT
Joshua Michael Braun (Newton) The Physicists
Confidence Men The Institution Theater
Biography of Physical Sensation – Rubber Repertory, Salvage Vanguard Theater, Rude Mechanicals and Fusebox Festival
I’ve Never Been So Happy: A Western Musical & Transmedia Shindig – Rude Mechanicals
The B. Iden Payne Awards organizers and Austin Creative Alliance Monday evening jointly announced that—after 37 years as a special event of the Alliance—the B. Iden Payne Awards Council (BIPAC), has become a separate, sponsored nonprofit project of the Austin Creative Alliance.
The Council is comprised of a group of volunteers who remain focused on recognizing artistic excellence within the Austin theatre community, and will continue with creation and distribution of the nomination ballot for voting community members.
Marcy Hoen, Interim Executive Director of Austin Creative Alliance says, “We are so proud that this venerable Austin tradition, which has been woven into our own history as an organization, has now grown to the point where it can spin off into its own, distinct organization.” She adds, “We look forward to many years of collaboration with the Council.”
BIPAC on Monday also announced the nominees and details for the October 24th Awards ceremony, which will be held at the State Theatre. List of nominees—on which members of the newly formed BIPAC can vote—are listed in full below.
Voting members will pay a small membership fee to BIPAC. 100% of membership fees will be used to fund the annual B. Iden Payne Awards ceremony, as well as cover administrative costs associated with creation and distribution of the nomination ballot each season.
To purchase tickets click here or call 512.474.1221
Here Comes Gosling! Pollyanna Theatre Company
Just So ZACH Performing Arts School
Monsters! kidsActing
The Physicists VORTEX Summer Youth Theatre
A Year With Frog and Toad Summer Stock Austin
Dede Clark Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
Judy Matetzschk-Campbell Here Comes Gosling!
Michael McKelvey A Year With Frog and Toad
Rudy Ramirez The Physicists
Adam Roberts Just So
Outstanding Performer
Sophia Franzella (Mouse, Young Frog, Squirrel, Stumpy Tree) A Year With Frog and Toad
Dylan Kittleman (Maurice) Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
Julie Linnard (Chunk, Admiral Pekin Duck) Ducks vs. Squirrels: Battle for the Park
David Meissner (Momo, Henry, Man, Watch Seller, Jean-Paul)
The Adventures of Iris and Momo
Hairspray ZACH Theatre
Hillcountry Underbelly: A Pilgrimage on the Outskirts paper chairs
I Love You Because Penfold Theatre Company
I’ve Never Been So Happy Rude Mechanicals and Center Theatre Group
Urinetown: The Musical Summer Stock Austin
Bonnie Cullum The Elementals: AIR
Thomas Graves and Lana Lesley I’ve Never Been So Happy
Michael McKelvey I Love You Because
Michael McKelvey Urinetown: The Musical
Dustin Wills Baal
Andrew Cannata (Austin) I Love You Because
Arthur DiBianca (Ko-Ko) The Mikado
Zach Green (Leo Bloom) The Producers
Tyler King (Officer Lockstock) Urinetown: The Musical
Trevor McGinnis (Max Bialystock) The Producers
Kylie Baker (Housewife) di[verge]: an original play with songs
Elizabeth Newchurch (Julie Jordan) Carousel
Brooke Shapiro (Tracy Turnblad) Hairspray
Haley Smith (Marcy) I Love You Because
Aaron D. Alexander (FunkBot) Mighty Five’s Infinite Funk Odyssey
Brian Coughlin (Edna Turnblad) Hairspray
Joey Hood (Ekart) Baal
Tyler Mount (Roger Debris) The Producers
Alejandro Rodriguez (Woof) Hair
Chase Crossno (Svettka, Luise, Older Sister, Young Lady) Baal
Amy Downing (Velma Von Tussle) [June 29-Aug. 28] Hairspray
Amy Downing (Diana) I Love You Because
Sophia Franzella (Little Sally) Urinetown: The Musical
Janis Stinson (Motormouth Maybelle) Hairspray
August: Osage County ZACH Theatre
The Dudleys!: A Family Game TUTTO Theatre Company
Hunter Gatherers Capital T Theatre
An Englishwoman Abroad: Tea in Tripoli Austin Phoenix Productions & Bernadette Nason
Vigil Hyde Park Theatre
Gary Jaffe The Dudleys!: A Family Game
Mark Pickell Hunter Gatherers
Dave Steakley August: Osage County
Don Toner Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps
Estevan J. “Chuy” Zarate Dos Pocitos
Shelby Davenport (Jack Tanner) Man and Superman
Owen Egerton (everyone) The Other Side of Sleep
Robert Pierson (Ibsen) Heddatron
Charles P. Stites (Kerr) Chesapeake
Xaq Webb (Emory) MilkMilkLemonade
Elizabeth Bigger (Janice) Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake)
Lana Dieterich (Violet Weston) August: Osage County
Lauren Lane (Barbara Fordham) August: Osage County
Bernadette Nason (herself) An Englishwoman Abroad: Tea in Tripoli
Martina Ohlhauser (Victoria) Too Many Husbands
Jon Wayne Martin (the men) On the Verge
Rupert Reyes (Uile) Dos Pocitos
Michael Stuart (Charlie Aiken) August: Osage County
Jericho Thorp (Elliot) MilkMilkLemonade
Mical Trejo (Mervyn) A Behanding in Spokane
Jennifer Coy (Mary) Cardigan
Jenny Gravenstein (Mac) “The Thief of Tears”, Three Viewings
Chris Humphrey (Nanna) MilkMilkLemonade
Breanna Stogner (women) Down the Drain
Irene White (Ivy Weston) August: Osage County
Frankenstein: The Trouble Puppet Show Trouble Puppet Theater Company
Hedda Gabler Palindrome Theatre
A Lie of the Mind Capital T Theatre
Paradise Key a chick and a dude productions
Topdog/Underdog City Theatre Company
Connor Hopkins Frankenstein: The Trouble Puppet Show
Lisa Jordan Topdog/Underdog
Melissa Livingston Paradise Key
Christina J. Moore Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Don Toner The Trip to Bountiful
Collin Bjork (Equality 7-2521) Anthem
Tom Green (Dr. Halb) Paradise Key
Joey Hood (Jerry) The Zoo Story
Ev Lunning, Jr. (George) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Justin Scalise (Hamlet) Hamlet [Scottish Rite Theatre and Black Swan Events]
Mary Agen Cox (Carrie Watts) The Trip to Bountiful
Dawn Erin (Ann Martin) Defiant
Babs George (Martha) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Meredith McCall (Linda Waterman) Fiction
Rebecca Robinson (Hannah Jelkes) The Night of the Iguana
Aaron D. Alexander (Papi) Fight
Travis Dean (Baylor) A Lie of the Mind
Micah Goodding (Aaron McKinney, Stephen Belber) The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later
Daniel Sawtelle (Slim) Of Mice and Men
Jacob Trussell (DJ Snowstorm) Flying
Shannon Grounds (Fool) Lear
Sadé Jones (Lady in Green)
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf
Julia Lorenz-Olsen (Ophelia) Hamlet [Scottish Rite Theatre and Black Swan Events]
Rebecca Robinson (Beth) A Lie of the Mind
Gricelda Silva (Bushy Tail) Flying
Ia Ensterä Here Comes Gosling!
Lisa Laratta Baal
Lisa Laratta Heddatron
Anne McMeeking Fight
Michael Raiford August: Osage County
Kathryn Eader Eurydice
Natalie George Baal
Stephen Pruitt Frankenstein: The Trouble Puppet Show
Stephen Pruitt I’ve Never Been So Happy
Steven Shirey Flying
Steven Shirey Uncle Vanya
the company Baal
the Gunn Brothers Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps
Buzz Moran Heddatron
Justin Sherburn Flying
Leegrid Stevens The Dudleys!: A Family Game
Dawn Allee, Pam Martin and Jennifer Davis
A Midsummer Night’s Dream [The Baron’s Men]
Glenda Barnes Urinetown: The Musical
Ia Ensterä Here Comes Gosling!
Pam Friday MilkMilkLemonade
Susan Branch Towne Hairspray
Chris Humphrey The Elementals: AIR
Michael McKelvey I Love You Because
Michael McKelvey Urinetown: The Musical
Allen Robertson Hairspray
Michael “Thuso” Stevens Ti-Jean and His Brothers
Danny Herman and Rocker Verastique Carousel
Robin Lewis Hairspray
Ananda Mayi Moss and Sadé Jones
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf
Melinda Rebman and Zenobia Taylor The Dudleys!: A Family Game
Adam Roberts and Jennifer Young Just So
Travis Dean Hunter Gatherers
Trey Deason Cardigan
Raul Garza Dos Pocitos
Kirk Lynn I’ve Never Been So Happy
Bernadette Nason An Englishwoman Abroad: Tea in Tripoli
Leegrid Stevens The Dudleys!: A Family Game
Adam Glasseye Beckley and Reverend Glasseye Woyzeck
Rob Greenfield and Andy Tindall Baal
Jerry Hagins, Jesse Gregg and Chris Peterson A Lie of the Mind
Chris Humphrey The Elementals: AIR
Peter Stopschinski I’ve Never Been So Happy
Leegrid Stevens The Dudleys!: A Family Game
Owen Egerton and Les McGehee The Other Side of Sleep
Lettuce Turnip Media and Robert Jacques Frankenstein: The Trouble Puppet Show
Miwa Matreyek I’ve Never Been So Happy
Dan Monceaux, Angela Hill, David Bengali, Jordan Rein, Josh Lampman,
David Mauro, Camilo Munar and Jake Witlen The Dudleys!: A Family Game
Will Hollis Snider di[verge]: an original play with songs
Frankenstein: The Trouble Puppet Show Trouble Puppet Theater Company
Heddatron Salvage Vanguard Theater
The Dudleys!: A Family Game TUTTO Theatre Company
Hunter Gatherers Capital T Theatre
I’ve Never Been So Happy Rude Mechanicals
Morning’s at Seven Different Stages
Topdog/Underdog City Theatre Company
David Stahl and Michael Stuart (Clown 1 and Clown 2) Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps
Angelica Faye Davis, Kia Dawn Fulton and Tiffany Mann (the Dynamites) Hairspray
David Meissner and Toby Minor (Rabbit and Froggie) Here Comes Gosling!
Alejandro McDonald-Villarreal, Aaron Niemuth, Eva McQuade, Heath Thompson,
Gene Storie and Samantha Smith (the mechanicals)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream [The Baron’s Men]
Ryan Borses (Toad) A Year With Frog and Toad
Joshua Michael Braun (Newton) The Physicists
Keith Gruber (Kolokolo Bird) Just So
Ben Roberts (Bobby Lazenbee) Monsters!
Xander Slay-Tamkin (Möbius) The Physicists
Austin Secrets The Hideout Theatre
Confidence Men The Institution Theater
Get Up Gnap! Theater Projects
The Megaphone Show The New Movement Theater
Midnight Society ColdTowne Theater
UPDATE!
As I’m sure you know, we had our second installment of the Crisis and Opportunity discussion forum last week. Unfortunately, we realize not all interested parties could attend the event with keynote speaker Matt Lehrman of Arizona’s Alliance for Audience and ShowUp.com.
Do not fear, however, we have his notes from the discussion including tons of information, discussion points, and more. Think of it as if Matt Lehrman was a rock star and we snagged his set list and we’re now are posting it up for all of you to enjoy. You can find those notes right here.
As always, if you have any thoughts/comments/concerns about Crisis and Opportunity 2.0, please share them on the Facebook Crisis and Opportunity Community page.
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Thank you to all who attended the Crisis & Opportunity open meeting on June 7th. We were pleased that so many of you took the time to gather with us for discussion. On July 28th, from 6-8:30pm, we will be back at the MACC for a follow-up-forum.
After conversations with attendees, and review of comments and suggestions, we felt we had a clear direction for the next gathering. We heard from most of you that innovation and collaboration were among the foremost topics on our minds, and so we are very excited to be bringing Matt Lehrman of Arizona’s Alliance for Audience and ShowUp.com to present his customized seminar–and upcoming book–Audiences Everywhere!
With Audiences Everywhere, Lehrman offers original, thought-provoking and highly impactful strategies by which individual organizations – as well as entire arts cultural communities – can work to broaden, deepen and revitalize audience and member engagement.
This will be an interactive session where your thoughts and ideas can be expressed and developed, with the aim of gaining clear actionable goals.
We’d love for you to join us to continue this conversation.
For more information, stay tuned to AustinCreativeAlliance.org , Nowplayingaustin.wordpress.com, @AustinCreativeA on Twitter, and of course, right there on Facebook.
Here is a review of Lehrman’s most recent seminar for Arts Orange County:
“ Anyone who knows Matt or has seen one of his presentations knows that this is one enthusiastic and dynamic arts marketer. But this presentation demonstrated quite clearly that there is enormous substance behind what Matt is advocating. It was a well-thought out, clear-headed workshop, peppered with Matt’ s unique brand of humor, and with ample opportunities for interaction with the attendees.” – Rick Stein, Executive Director, Arts Orange County
On who should attend, Lehrman has this to say: ” …this is not just a discussion for Marketing Directors. This discussion has to involve Artistic Directors, Curators, artists, Education directors, CEO’s, Board members and your organization’s leadership team – and because we are talking about new paradigms and new technologies – I very much recommend that you involve some of your organization’s emerging leaders and rising stars in this discussion. Their fresh perspective is really valuable to this discussion.”
Check out Matt’s Invitation here:
The Creative Fund provides funding to Austin emerging artists enabling them
to further their creative endeavors. Through generous member and donor
support, The Creative Fund supports works that are interesting, cutting edge,
enlightening, life-changing and deserve to be seen by the Austin community.
Our goal is to elevate Austin arts by providing the funding needed to take local
artists and their audiences to the next level.
For more information about the program and details about the types of performances we seek, please visit The Creative Fund’s website.
To become a member of The Creative Fund, click here.
Due to state and federal regulatory issues, some artists on E.A.S.T.’s unique tour need upgrades to their studios. FRAMEWORKS E.A.S.T. gives us an opportunity to give them a hand by raising the seed money to fund a microlending program to provide these great artists quick, low-interest loans with forgiving plans to help with specific issues involving their studios. This will allow them to comply with code in time for the East Austin Studio Tour this fall. With your support, the ACA will provide micro-lending, consulting and a resource center to help artists and their studios comply with Federal and State standards.
FRAMEWORKS E.A.S.T. provides a way for you to show your support for E.A.S.T.’s artists, as well as a chance to bid on specially selected works from those artists. Join us for live music by The Pons and the Ron Titter Band, refreshments, good times, and more, June 29th, 7:30 at ND.
Individual tickets are $20, available at AusTIX, also, we invite you to sponsor the event to provide a strong foundation for the lending program. Sponsorship levels are as follows:
$250 – Apprentice
$500 – Journeyman
$1,000 – Master
For more information about becoming a Sponsor of Frameworks:E.A.S.T. please visit http://austincreativealliance.roundtablelive.org/east or call at (512) 247-2531.
Thanks so much to our sponsors!
And to our donating artists!
Thanks so much for all the help from:
Our Glorious Sponsors:
Austin Creative Alliance http://www.austincreativealliance.org/
Big Medium http://www.bigmedium.org/
ND at 501 Studios http://ndvenue.com/
The Pons http://theponsmusic.com/
Ron Titter Band http://www.therontitterband.com/
Moxie Realty Group http://www.http/://moxierealtygroup.info/
Tito’s Vodka http://titosvodka.com/
Zoltan David Atelier http://www.zoltandavid.com/
Premier Residential Mortgage of Texas http://www.prmtx.com/
In-Kind Donators:
Blue Starlite Urban Drive-In
Austin Shakespeare
Zach Theater
Long Center
Austin Symphony
Esther’s Follies
The Vortex
Austin Chamber Music Center
Advanced Watch Group
Hotel St. Ceclia
Farmhouse Delivery
Spartan & Bows + Arrows
FaceKandy
Ann Marie Skincare
Art on 5th
Kendra Scott Earrings
Justine’s
Elements Laser Spa
Retro Chanel
Contributing Artists:
Individual tickets are $20, available at
http://nowplayingaustin.tix.com/Schedule.asp?ActCode=65425, also, we invite
you to sponsor the event to provide a strong foundation for the lending program.
Sponsorship levels are as follows:
$250 – Apprentice
$500 – Journeyman
$1,000 – Master
For more information about becoming a Sponsor of Frameworks:E.A.S.T. please
visit http://austincreativealliance.roundtablelive.org/east or call at (512) 247-2531
News from Crisis & Opportunity:
Following the successful forum, KXAN did a piece featuring the Austin Creative Alliance and Crisis and Opportunity forum and how it reflects the arts in Austin.
See our most recent thoughts and a letter to the community about Crisis and Opportunity here!
Check out notes on the event here!
Robert Faires’ Chronicle article on Crisis and Opportunity here.
Check our tweets @austincreativea and @wyattbrand, and #crisisandopp for highlights from the night and future updates!
We’ll be posting more information and a survey on topic for the next meeting soon, so stay tuned!
Moving strongly into the new year, and the precursor to many grand new changes at the Austin Creative Alliance, we’d like to announce our new Interim Executive Director: Marcy Hoen.
Marcy Hoen comes to the Austin Creative Alliance after 7 years as an entrepreneur and passionate advocate of the arts in Austin. She founded Austin Art Start in the fall of 2006 and her work has included consulting with the AUSTIN STATE HOSPITAL, GRUBB & ELLIS REALTY INVESTORS’ art installations, private curation of professional art shows with independent artists, business consulting for artists and collection consulting with private collectors. Her volunteer work includes board service for FUSEBOX, volunteer work with RUDE MECHANICALS, CATALYST 8, the BOOTSTRAP NETWORK, and ART ALLIANCE AUSTIN.
Marcy grew up in the Pacific Northwest, however, Austin has long become her home. She earned her BA from the University of Washington where she worked post-graduation as a research specialist studying brain chemistry. She loves food, cooking and two-stepping and she lives with her fiancé, Bijoy Goswami and their two furry children, Fergus and Jelly Bean.
Marcy will be filling the incredibly large shoes of outgoing Executive Director, Latifah Taormina, who officially announced her retirement last Fall at the 2010 B. Iden Payne Awards, and announced Marcy’s coming on during the 2011 Association of Performing Arts Service Organizations Conference, this year held in Austin and hosted by the Austin Creative Alliance.
“Marcy is perfect,” Latifah says. “She’s involved with the creative community on many levels, she’s connected with Austin’s young professionals, she’s action oriented and visionary. I always knew that it would be my job to get Austin Circle of Theaters to become the Creative Alliance and to guide that process forward. I never thought that running the Alliance would be my job to do. So I’m thrilled that we’ve found the right person to lead the organization forward from here.
