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The Anchorage Concert Association: Developing a Civic Practice

Anchorage Concert Association

Jun 15, 2017

Recognizing the limitations of its traditional business model, the Anchorage Concert Association (ACA) undertook a radical shift in direction. It moved from presenting art to facilitating community transformation through art. After undergoing training in “civic arts practice”, ACA staff, board and artists experimented with new and unexpected community partnerships. Focused on its long-term resilience, ACA also made several key internal changes to embed this new experimental mindset into the “DNA” of the organization.

Announcements Project Updates

New Pathways | Calgary Selects Three Arts Organizations to Participate in Incubating Innovation

By Louise Brooks

Nov 16, 2016

Alberta Theatre Projects, Downstage, and Swallow-a-Bicycle Theatre have been selected to move forward into Incubating Innovation, a program that supports organizations in designing and prototyping new strategies for increased public impact and value.

Op-Eds

Calgary’s “Kill Group” Carves out Space for Innovation

By Ellen Close

Nov 2, 2016

. . . The small group I was in spent time discussing the suggestion that we “come together to dismantle and kill ideas.” Like how some carnivores work in packs to bring down big animals, we would collaborate to tackle our biggest challenges . . .

Op-Eds

Evaluating Innovation: An Introduction to Developmental Evaluation

By Jamie Gamble

Jun 13, 2016

In this Op-Ed, Jamie Gamble introduces the field of developmental evaluation, which combines creative and critical thinking in order to evaluate innovative programs and prototypes in uncertain and dynamic conditions.

Op-Eds Project Updates

Moving Forward — Experiments in Self-Organizing at NALAC

By Claudio Dicochea

Apr 7, 2016

In this post, Claudio Dicochea describes NALAC’s prototypes in our Innovation Labs for Arts Development Agencies, which involved the activation of two regionally-allied “NALAC Pods.”

Videos

Working Open: Center Stage’s Transparency Project

By Hana Sharif, Working Open Fellow

Mar 23, 2016

This is the last of a series of three Working Open posts about Center Stage’s learning journey through EmcArts’ Innovation Lab for Performing Arts Organizations.

Project Updates

Photo Essay: Looking for Leverage in the Providence Community Innovation Lab

By Nayantara Sen, Communications Manager, EmcArts

Feb 3, 2016

Dilan Alvarado and Jose Navarro-Robles at AS220 Youth in Providence produced this photo essay documenting the second Providence workshop, Looking for Leverage.

Project Updates

Photo Essay: Seeing Local Systems in the Providence Community Innovation Lab

By Nayantara Sen, Communications Manager, EmcArts

Jan 28, 2016

In the Community Innovation Lab pilot sites of Winston-Salem, NC and Providence, RI, we commissioned local photographers to produce original art in the form of photo essays. This photo essay by Dilan Alvarado and Jose Navarro-Robles from AS220 Youth in Providence documents the first Providence workshop on Seeing Local Systems.

Project Updates

Photo Essay: Looking for Leverage in the Winston-Salem Community Innovation Lab

By Christine Rucker

Jan 14, 2016

In the Community Innovation Lab pilot sites of Winston-Salem, NC and Providence, RI, we commissioned local photographers to produce original art in the form of photo essays. This second photo essay by Christine Rucker from Winston-Salem documents “Looking for Leverage,” the second Lab workshop.

Project Updates

Photo Essay: Seeing Local Systems in the Winston-Salem Community Innovation Lab

By Christine Rucker

Dec 16, 2015

In the Community Innovation Lab pilot sites of Winston-Salem, NC and Providence, RI, we commissioned local photographers to produce original art in the form of photo essays. This photo essay by Christine Rucker from Winston-Salem captures and documents the first Lab workshop on Seeing the System.

Innovation Stories

Site-specific Storytelling: La Jolla Playhouse’s Theatre Without Walls

La Jolla Playhouse

Aug 13, 2015

La Jolla Playhouse offers an annual subscription series of six new plays, re-imagined classics, and musicals to over 100,000 patrons in San Diego County and Southern California. In their Arts Innovation Fund project, they created Theatre Without Walls (WoW), a site-specific initiative designed to remove the physical limits of typical performance venues by immersing audiences in theatrical work in a variety of community settings.

Publications

Three Case Studies: Innovating at the Intersections of Arts and Social Justice

By Karina Mangu-Ward

Jun 30, 2015

Featuring Alternate ROOTS, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, and The Theater Offensive, this rich and rigorous publication examines the contours, possibilities and limitations of adaptive change for three arts and social justice organizations in our Labs.

Videos

Working Open: What’s your experience using a sliding-scale?

By Monica Valenzuela, Working Open Fellow

Jun 20, 2015

At Staten Island Arts we’re experimenting with using a sliding-scale and suggested donations. Do you have stories to share about when these strategies have been useful for you?

Project Updates

The origins of EmcArts’ Community Innovation Labs

By Karina Mangu-Ward

May 27, 2015

Here’s the origin story and inspiration behind EmcArts’ new Community Innovation Labs program, which will pilot in two U.S communities in 2015. Community Innovation Labs is a new approach to solving tough social challenges by bringing together a diverse, cross-sector group of stakeholders, and deeply integrating artists and artistic experiences into rigorously designed and facilitated change processes.

Publications

Lessons from the Field: Case Study on COCABiz

By ArtsFwd

May 12, 2015

An in-depth case study documenting the successes of COCABiz, a program of the Center for Creative Arts that supports the business community in St. Louis, Missouri with integration of artistic practices.