Online Registration is now closed. Walk-in registrations will be accepted Friday morning at the event. Hope to see you there!
View the sessions of this years summit below:
- Building Community through Storytelling
Sarah Pearce, Managing Director, Sundance Institute
As a champion and curator of independent stories for the stage and screen, the Sundance Institute provides and preserves space for artists in film, theatre, film composing, and digital media to create and thrive. Sarah Pearce, Mana...
Online Registration is now closed. Walk-in registrations will be accepted Friday morning at the event. Hope to see you there!
View the sessions of this years summit below:
- Building Community through Storytelling
Sarah Pearce, Managing Director, Sundance Institute
As a champion and curator of independent stories for the stage and screen, the Sundance Institute provides and preserves space for artists in film, theatre, film composing, and digital media to create and thrive. Sarah Pearce, Managing Director of Sundance Institute, will share with us Robert Redford’s vision for the Institute he founded in 1981 and talk about how the wide variety of public and artist development programs create community around independent storytelling. This informal session is perfect for community leaders interested in film festivals and event management and for filmmakers/artists looking for more professional development opportunities.
- Hollywood Backstory with Andrew Steele
Andrew Steele, Creative Director, Funny or Die
Andrew Steele grew up in Iowa City, graduated from the University of Iowa and wrote himself to a successful 25-year career in Television and Film. Currently he is the Creative Director of Funny or Die, a comedy web site and production company started by his friends, Judd Apatow, Adam McKay and Will Ferrell. Through an informal Q&A session, we’ll find out the path he traveled from Iowa to Hollywood, share a few laughs, and hear what he’s learned along the way.
- Sustaining Artist Networks
Noah Keesecker, Program Director of Artist Development, Springboard for the Arts
Building a sustainable career as an artist is a balancing act that can be made easier with a strong support group of professionals. Learn about toolkits available to artists that support everything from financial management to working in community development, find out how to develop and utilize a strong network to apply these toolkits to your career and hear about real work methods for sustaining artists groups in and outside of your local communities.
- Time, Space and Engagement: Artist Residencies in Community
Brad Kik, Board Member, Alliance on Artist Communities
As places deeply dedicated to the process, not the product of art-making, artist residencies have a unique role to play in the ecosystem of support services for artists. Far from the cliched model of a gated studio on the hill, with town and gown problems, the rapidly expanding network of artist residencies are inventing brave new models for community engagement.
Brad Kik of the Alliance of Artist Communities and Crosshatch Center for Art and Ecology will lead a two part presentation—first on the basics of embedding a residency program in your institution (or just starting one from scratch) and then on the many ways residencies can facilitate exchange with the larger community.
- Creative Places: Public Art in Your Community
Kirstin Wiegmann, Consultant and Program Director, Forecast Public Art
Public art manifests itself in the public sphere in many ways—from site specific projects that directly engage with the physical nature of a site to artworks that find a home after they're created, to projects that are deeply rooted in the people, history and context of a specific place. Projects can be momentary or long lasting, monumental or intimate. Public art is powerful in its ability to shape human experience—through a place, through other people, and through ideas. This session will offer an overview of the pioneering work of Forecast Public Art. In addition to its international magazine Public Art Review and statewide grant program for artists, Forecast partners across sectors and promotes best practices for working with artists. Kirstin Wiegmann will engage attendees in an inspiring dialogue and offer resources vital to any successful public art program.
- Tools for Art Business Management
Ela Troyano, Artist and Consultant, Creative Capital
Learn the essential components of managing your artistic practice, including managing relationships, hiring employees, contracts, negotiation, budgeting, cash flow, time management, space organization, marketing and business etiquette.
- Fundraising. Not My Job!
Lori L. Jacobwith, Chief Fundraising Culture Changer & Master Storyteller
Asking for money is something most people simply don’t want to do. So between board & staff whose job is it to do the tasks that lead to getting more gifts from individuals? This session is designed to dispel some myths about the differences between fundraising and development. This is a high-energy, interactive session that will help you and your team identify ways to provide your board members, donors & staff with clear direction and guidance, even training, about how to participate in helping raise awareness & dollars so it feels rewarding and an integral part of their role. You’ll leave this session with concrete tools and techniques that will result in raising more money from individuals.
- Creative Placemaking: Bringing Arts and Culture to the Community Planning and Development Table
Jamie Bennett, Executive Director, ArtPlace America
Jamie Bennett is the Executive Director of ArtPlace America. To date, ArtPlace has invested $85 million in 233 projects across 155 communities of all sizes in which artists and arts organizations are working with their neighbors to help shape their communities’ social, physical, and economic futures. Jamie will share both the philosophy of this approach, as well as real world examples of what this looks like in practice.
- Legal Protections for Independent Filmmakers
David Bright, President, Iowa Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts
Navigating the legal requirements of filmmaking can be tricky. Learn about how Iowa Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts can assist by providing legal services and technical expertise to filmmakers in Iowa. David Bright, President of Iowa Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, will address legal considerations for filmmakers, what to look for in filmmaking contracts and will leave plenty of time for Q and A. Bring your questions and concerns about how to cover all your legal bases when making film and media productions in Iowa.
- The Artist Spark
Art does not happen without artists. The Artist Spark will feature the excellent and innovative work being done by artists across Iowa. This session will highlight selected artists who will have up to 3 minutes each to share their vision, idea or project with the session audience.
- Flashes of Iowa Innovation
Find the pulse of the arts in Iowa! Flashes of Iowa Innovation will present innovative and exciting ideas for the arts in the state. This session will highlight selected presenters from Iowa organizations and communities who will have up to 3 minutes each to share their idea, initiative or story with the session audience.
- Creating Connection: Changing Social Norms, Exploring Public Values, and Leveraging the Power of Creative Expression
David Fraher, President & CEO, Arts Midwest
National research and experiments in real time are revealing new approaches to communications and engagement that can help align your messaging with existing public values, broaden and diversify your audiences, and shape your programs to respond to changing public expectations and desires. Learn more about the data behind the social change movement, Creating Connection, and access strategies and resources you can take back to your organization to help you map your organization’s relationship to four core public values: growth, voice, well-being, and happiness.
Attend the Iowa Arts Summit, a statewide event for artists, cultural organizations and communities that seeks to enhance the quality of life in Iowa through the arts.
At this bi-annual conference, learn new ways to elevate the arts field through professional development and networking opportunities. Participate in breakout sessions, hear dynamic keynote speakers and experience artwork by Iowa artists.