Events
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How Do I Measure and Track the Impact of My Art When Standard Evaluation Methods Feel Limiting?
Each year over 500 individuals associated with the professional dance field join Dance/USA for the Annual Conference. Attendees include independent artists, dance presenters, agents and artist representatives, education and service providers, executive directors, artistic directors, company managers, fundraisers, presenters, development and marketing staff, and more from across the country and around the world. Session Description:[...]
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Consulting in the Creative Economy
The DC Department of Employment Services hosted its inaugural Young Women in the Workforce Intensive to allow young women (ages 19-24 years old) in Washington DC to gain exposure, resources, and other tools needed to confidently pursue their ambitions in the workforce. Attendees included young women from Washington DC enrolled in the Summer Youth Employment[...]
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Creatively Exploring Health Equity
In 2017, Richmond Memorial Health Foundation (RMHF) began exploring notions of health and equity as understood by Richmonders by funding eight artists and artist collectives to consider the following questions in tandem with their creative works. (1) What does it mean to be well? (2) How do aspects of identity, such as race, ethnicity, gender,[...]
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Collecting and Interpreting Data to Learn from Your Past, Plan for Your Future, and Tell Your Story
Alison is excited to be leading a workshop during the 2019 Arts Administrators of Color Network Annual Convening. Session Details: Preparing for change within an organization requires a bit of planning. In an ideal environment, we are able to collect and interpret data on our current experiences and use that insight to inform our future[...]
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Joys & Pitfalls of Conducting Program Evaluations in the Arts & Culture Sector
Program evaluation is a multidisciplinary, rapidly expanding, global field. As such, guest speakers -from a variety of disciplines-have been invited to the University of North Carolina, Wilmington (UNCW) to host events that will broaden student understanding of how evaluation is applied in diverse, real-world contexts. Alison has been invited to host two events at UNCW.[...]
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Coaching and Giving & Receiving Feedback
Alison has been invited to speak with graduate students enrolled in American University's arts management program about values alignment and giving feedback.
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Black Artists Matter Too
Alison was featured on “The Counter Narrative Show” with other art archivists, curators, art administrators, and collectors. Together they discussed their your unique perspective, challenges, and lived-experiences trying to produce, promote and amplify Black art. Featured Panelists: Alisha Patterson, Managing Director, Afro House Anika Kwinana, Program Manager, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts[...]
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Decolonizing Dance and Shifting the Rubric
The Sole Defined Live! programming series is the brainchild of Dance Place's 2018 Artist in Residence, Sole Defined. The series is intended to convene dance professionals to discuss topics impacting the dance world. Alison was honored to be invited as a panelist in the session that discussed the realities of being a dance professional in[...]
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The Power of Giving: A National Roundtable Discussion
The Black Funders of St. Louis hosted a lunch & learn webinar series to celebrate Black Philanthropy Month. These roundtable discussions and educational seminars focused on social justice, racial equity, nonprofit growth, civic engagement, and black charitable giving. Series panelists included the brightest Black nonprofit professionals, activists, elected officials & subject matter experts. Alison was[...]
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Art, Education, & Racial Justice
The HU Ideas Symposium presents a national conference hosted by the Office of the Provost. The “From Protest to Policy National Conference” will amplify the important social and racial justice work that already happens every day at Howard University in classrooms, in laboratories and research centers, in libraries and archives, and in meetings (both formal[...]