Radically Rural

Arts track resources

Session 1

Resources to review before the session:

Freedom Maps – an incredibly in-depth study that looks at rural arts funding in the South and its social and cultural implications and impacts: https://freedommaps.us/

Sunup Initiative: https://sunupcorbin.com/

Show up for Racial Justice Chapters & Affiliates – notice the number of affiliates in rural communities: https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/chapters-and-affiliates.html

Fact sheet on the issue from National Association of State Arts Agencies: https://nasaa-arts.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Rural-Grant-Making-Fact-Sheet.pdf

Report from the National Governors’ Association on rural arts capacity: https://www.nga.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/NGA_RuralArtsReport.pdf

Panelist organizations and Projects:

1. INTERCULTURAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE – ILI Intercultural Leadership Institute

2. Freedom Maps – an incredibly in-depth study that looks at rural arts funding in the South and its social and cultural implications and impacts: https://freedommaps.us/

3. WESTAF Emerging Leaders of Color

4. The Community Creativity Initiative at the Bush Foundation

5. First Peoples Fund

6. Artplace America

7. Art of the Rural

8. the Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange

9. WESTAF Arts + the Rural West Virtual Workshop Session Report

Resources for Advancing Equity in Cultural Philanthropy

1. Not Just Money: Equity Issues in Cultural Philanthropy

2. A Cultural New Deal for Cultural and Racial Justice. « Join us!

3. Living Traditions – National Endowment for the Arts

4. Are You Ready for the Country?: Creative Placemaking in Rural America

5. Grantmakers in the Arts: Racial Equity in Arts Funding Statement of Purpose and Recommendations for Action

6. Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity in Arts & Culture Philanthropy

Resources shared during the session

History, Truth and the Search for Common Ground

Artplace America October 2020 Summit

Video of Ron Ragin leading Breath & Sound work to find centering & grounding

Kentucky Rural Urban Exchange

Pa’i Foundation

Intercultural Leadership Institute Fellows

National Association of Latino Arts & Cultures

Appalshop

Oglala Lakota Artspace

Alternate Roots

The Nap Ministry on Instagram

Session 2

Catherine Stewart, NH Theatre Project

Questions from Catherine's Elephant-in-the-Room session.

1. What are the "elephants" in your life? What are you afraid to talk about?

2. What questions do you have about this isolating issue?

3. What resources (person, place or thing) that you could share about this isolating issue?

4. How does it feel to discuss these issues in the open?

Play created during the session on Belonging - we wrote a play during our session!

Rachel Balaban's Dance for All People

Program video link

DANCE FOR ALL PEOPLE video

HB Lozito, Out in the Open

Rural LGBTQ+ Oral History Resources from HB Lozito of Out in the Open

COUNTRY QUEERS

THE SEXUAL MINORITY ARCHIVES

THE LESBIAN HOME MOVIE PROJECT

Andrews' Inn interviews on the Out in the Open website

ONE ARCHIVES (Look for the eye for online items)

Digital Archives link

RFD Magazine

Barbara Schaffer Bacon, Animating Democracy - https://www.animatingdemocracy.org/

Evaluation & Measurement tools for arts & belonging

THE SOCIAL PROFIT HANDBOOK A guide to defining social and civic outcomes and indicators. It is a toolkit

Continuum Impact Guide - Animating Democracy, Americans for the Arts

Session 3

Speakers’ websites

Dartmouth Hitchcock Art Program

Vermont Jazz Center

Craig Stockwell Artist

Amanda Whitworth’s Articine

Museum of the White Mountains

Kate Beever’s Maine Music & Health