How Visual Metaphors Are Powerful Tools for Change
This is one facilitator’s perspective on the power of a visual metaphor to help a group gain clarity during difficult change work.
Springboard Responds: This Is What An Adaptive Board Looks Like
Springboard for the Arts responds to our August topic about adaptive boards with an awesome photo essay. They rock!
Springboard for the Arts Asks: How Do Our Artist Selves Change the Organization?
What does it mean to be an organization run by artists? How do our creative skills show up in our work?
4 Perspectives on What Organizations Can Learn From Artists
We took a moment to dig into the ArtsFwd archives and revisit four posts from the past two years that focus on the artistic process.
Interview: Young Jean Lee on Experimentation, Failure, and Getting Out of Her Comfort Zone
In this interview, theater writer/director Young Jean Lee reflects on her approach to making new plays and building the best trap for her audience.
Public Access Design
Public Access Design is a rapid response design clinic that provides community social justice organizations with grass-roots organizing tools.
OurGoods.org
OurGoods undertook capacity-building initiatives to attract new users, match the diversity of barter requests, and improve its website.
April Topic: What Can Organizations Learn From Artists?
In April, we’ll be focusing on artists to explore what kinds of practices adaptive organizations might learn from the artistic process.
Artist Residencies
In this podcast, Richard Evans, Jean Davidson, and Marlène Ramírez-Cancio share stories about artist residencies that are highly rewarding for the artist, the presenter, and the public.
Artist-led Ecosystem Interventions
McColl Center for Visual Art’s community engagement model highlights the value of artist-led ecosystem interventions that foster inter-generational relationships, create stronger communities and elevate the value of artists as catalysts for change.
Artist/Community/Reciprocity
Springboard for the Arts explores systems and infrastructure that support and nurture our artists and that demand from them their engagement and commitment.
Policy, Prisons, and Pranks: Artists Collide with the World
How can the field learn from artists working at the intersections of science, technology, community organizing, entrepreneurship and the media?
Beyond Scarcity
What happens when we shift the focus from “How can artists get more money?” to the deeper question of, “How can artists get more resources?”
Why Aren’t More Organizations Bringing Artists into the Office?
Many artists have administrative skills in addition to creative power. Why aren’t more arts organizations tapping those skills for their own teams?
How Are the Arts at the Core of Educational Change?
University academic departments tend to work in silos. How can the arts bridge new collaborations across disciplines and inspire educational change?