Get the creativity flowing now…
Posted by mgonzalez02 on October 16, 2007
This is a conversation for YOU and your peers. The topics we discuss on October 29 will be drawn from the ideas, questions, dreams, concerns, plans, and passions we collect HERE.
Then, together, we’ll dig into these issues, open them up, and plot our path forward. Start the conversation by sharing your thoughts on these questions:
- A critical look at Providence: what conditions, challenges, and issues are we facing where the creative process can lend a big hand?
- Propose specific solutions or a vision: What needs doing that artists, designers and creators do best?
- As an emerging creator/leader who wants to make something happen in the city, what do you find in your way/blocking the path? What leadership and management skills do you most want to learn?
We will comb the response and pull out the common themes for the conversation on the 29th of October. Please click here to comment or click on the title above.
John Caserta said
How does one find affordable, nurturing and productive space in which to make work? Providence is a city, and one that has high commercial vacancies. Can there be a HUD-type organization for arts/cultural practitioners? An organization that works with downtown building owners to make office/studio space affordable?
Julia said
As a newcomer to Providence, I still have a hard time navigating the arts scene. I want to be involved and, having recently graduated from a grad program here, would like to find work in the city so I can stay in this community. But it’s not clear to me where arts work is happening, except for a few major organizations.
When I hear about what’s going on in the city from friends who have been here for longer, they have a much different sense of hte landscape. I wonder how seasoned community members’ perspectives could be surfaced, so that newcomers could understand the issues and opportunities present here.
Julia said
Another thought … I’m intrigued by this question from the well:
To whom do you feel responsible in your work?
To me, this makes me think about the audience I want to reach. I wonder if my sense of the arts audience in this city is accurate, or if it matches the sense that existing arts organizations have. I’m not sure.
I am interested in issues about the accessibility of the arts, and thinking about how to engage audiences. I’d like to know about the adult audience for arts in Providence. Looking especially at the 35-and-under audience, are our needs being met?
In comparison, I feel like there are other cities that speak more convincingly to this audience. E.g. San Francisco, certainly New York, maybe Chicago and Minneapolis. I feel like there’s a lot missing here, and I’d like to discuss what this might be.