Et Al.: New Voices in Arts Management

ISBN: 978-1-946011-14-5

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21900/pww.15

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Publication Date: May 11, 2022

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Et Al. imagines kaleidoscopic possibilities for decolonizing arts management. The arts and culture can enhance society by strengthening our connections to each other and to the earth. This book was born during a racial reckoning and accelerated by a global pandemic. What exactly is the business of no-business-as-usual? The ethical challenge for arts management is more complex than asking how to get things done; we must also ask who gets to do things, where, and with what resources? Et Al. contributes to the conversation about arts and cultural management by providing rare, behind-the-scenes insights on justice-centered arts management praxis — ideas tied to action. The book makes space for people to publicly reflect, write, and share insights about their own ideas and ways of working. Its polyphonic voices speak to pragmatic strategies for arts management across cultures, genres, and spaces. Its stories are told from the perspective of individuals and families, micro businesses, artist collectives, and civic institutions. As a digital publication, the platform lends itself to multi-media knowledge objects; the experiences documented within it include ethnographies, qualitative social research, personal and communal manifestos, dialogues between peers, visual essays, videos, and audio tracks.

Et Al. presents an interactive landscape for readers, thinkers, and creators to engage with multimedia and intergenerational essays by Amy Shimshon-Santo, Genevieve Kaplan, Gerlie Collado, Abraham Ferrer, Julie House, Britt Campbell, Delia Xóchitl Chávez, Sean Cheng, Yvonne Farrow, Allen Kwabena Frimpong, Kayla Jackson, Erika Karina Jiménez Flores, Cobi Krieger, Loreto Lopez, Cynthia Martínez Benavides, Christy McCarthy, Janice Ngan, Cailin Nolte, Michaela Paulette Shirley, Robin Sukhadia, Katrina Sullivan, and Tatiana Vahan.

Chapters

  • We Have Always Been Fabulous

    Amy Shimshon-Santo, Genevieve Kaplan

  • Using Our Superpowers: Dismantling Exclusion and Racism in Arts Management

    Gerlie Collado

  • Shí Yázhí “there is money underneath your fingers”: A Hózhó-centered Arts Management Framework

    Michaela Paulette Shirley, Kayla Jackson

  • Creating Spaces for Black Artists to Thrive: A Multimedia Manifesto for ZEAL

    Allen Kwabena Frimpong

  • Taking it Virtual: Community-Based Arts Education Programming

    Karina Esperanza Yánez

  • A Suit and Tabla: Lessons on Arts Leadership

    Robin Sukhadia

  • The Womxn Who Saved VC

    Abraham Ferrer

  • Reimagining African American History Through Prosthetic Memory and Family Archives

    Julie House

  • New Approaches to Preserving Chinese Antique Porcelain

    Sean Cheng

  • White Space / Black Space + Occupational Hierarchy = Racial Battle Fatigue

    Yvonne Farrow

  • The Process is the Goal: A Candid Discussion about Research in the Arts

    Cobi Krieger, Tatiana Vahan

  • From Observer to Researcher

    Katrina Sullivan

  • The Fire in Time: Black Women Leading Arts Institutions

    Danielle Hill

  • Textos Textiles / Texts in Textile

    Delia Xóchitl Chávez, Cynthia Martínez Benavides, Erika Karina Jiménez Flores

  • Community, Creativity, and Catastrophe: A Freirean Approach to an Arts Sector in Crisis

    Cailin Nolte

  • Interaction and Accessibility through Public Art Maps / Interacción y acceso al arte público a través de mapas

    Loreto Lopez

  • Thirsting for the Written Word

    Christy McCarthy

  • Archival Re-Imagining Through Sound: Versos y Besos Amplify the Story of Manuela Garcia

    Janice Ngan, Britt Campbell

Author Biographies

Amy Shimshon-Santo

Amy Shimshon-Santo is the author of Even the Milky Way is Undocumented (Unsolicited Press, 2020), Endless Bowls of Sky (Placeholder Press, 2020); editor of Arts = Education (UC Press, 2010) and Et Al.: New Voices in Arts Management (IOPN, 2022), and was the consulting producer for KCET’s Artbound episode on arts education (2021). Her writing appears in Prairie Schooner, ArtPlace America, GeoHumanities, Zócalo Public Square, Entropy, Tilt West, Boom CA, KCET/PBS, Yes Poetry, SAGE, SUNY Press, Public, Tiferet Journal, and she has performed internationally at venues including the Kennedy Center for the Arts. Amy was recognized on the National Honor Roll for Service Learning, and has been nominated for Pushcart Prizes in poetry (2020) and creative nonfiction (2017), Rainbow Reads Award in poetry (2020), and Best of the Net in poetry (2018). Her teaching career has spanned research universities, community centers, K-12 schools, arts organizations, and spaces of incarceration. Learn more about her body of work at www.amyshimshon.com.

Genevieve Kaplan

Genevieve Kaplan is the author of (aviary) (Veliz Books, 2020); In the ice house (Red Hen Press, 2011), and four poetry chapbooks, most recently I exit the hallway and turn right (above/ground press, 2020), an anti-ode to the office. She earned her MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writer's Workshop and her PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from USC; she works as an adjunct professor, small press publisher, literary administrator, and freelance editor. Genevieve lives in southern California.

Gerlie Collado

Gerlie Collado is an arts, culture, and social justice junkie. Professionally, she has spent the majority of her career working with grantmaking and direct-service nonprofit organizations. She currently serves as the grants and administration lead of The Panta Rhea Foundation, a family foundation aimed at catalyzing a just and sustainable world through food sovereignty, people-powered systems change, and grassroots resilience around the globe. In addition, Gerlie has designed and curated participatory-driven arts and culture programming for multidisciplinary arts organizations in Los Angeles. She holds a MA degree in arts management from Claremont Graduate University, and a BA in business administration from the University of San Francisco.