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Lessons from Social Entrepreneurs: How to Add Value to Your Organization and Career
Emerging Arts Leaders/Los Angeles presents its day-long 2012 Creative Conversations Event
Tickets Available Now!
Social entrepreneurs seek to satisfy unmet needs within the community by growing an organization that often has a heartfelt and unprecedented mission that aligns with the founder’s personal values. At Emerging Arts Leaders/Los Angeles, we represent a groundswell of young professionals coming up in established organizations or looking to start our own. Often our members have a young, fresh perspective on social/community needs that no one else is addressing. Indeed, many older arts organizations often find themselves behind the curve when it comes to spotting new trends or opportunities for growth in the community.
April’s Creative Conversation will give us insights from entrepreneurs as to how we can identify unmet needs in our community or organization, and show us how we can shape our work to meet those needs. We will explore challenges our speakers have faced and the creative and logistical know-how they drew upon to face those challenges. By looking at our work through an entrepreneurial lens, even if it’s just an exercise for those who do not seek to build our own organizations, we will make ourselves and our points of view invaluable to our organizations and community, and find opportunities to advance our careers.  We’ll have the opportunity to join one another in group discussions and activities – who knows, you could meet your next collaborator on an entrepreneurial venture!
Saturday, April 21, 10:15am-3:30pm
Plaza de la Raza
Cultural Center for the Arts & Education
3540 North Mission Road
Los Angeles, CA 90031
PARKING: Use the lot directly in front of Plaza de la Raza or nearby street parking.
A catered lunch from Panera Bread is included in your ticket price. Within your purchase confirmation email you will be provided with an email address in case you need to indicate any dietary restrictions.
Finally, we hope you’ll join us afterward for Happy Hour at: Barbara’s at The Brewery
620 Moulton Avenue #110
Los Angeles, CA 90031
Driving directions to our Happy Hour location will be provided at the event.
10:15-10:30am:Â Registration
10:30-10:45am:Â Opening Remarks
10:45-11:45am:Â Keynote
Terence McFarland, Chief Executive Officer, LA Stage Alliance
11:45am-12:45pm:Â Lunch & Youth Mariachi Ensemble Performance
12:45-2:05pm:Â Your Arts Career Through an Entrepreneurial Lens
- Rebecca Ansert, Founder & Principal, Green Public Art Consultancy
- Edgar Arceneaux, Executive Director, Watts Tower Project
- Molly Cleator, Owner/Founder, A Place to Create
- Judy Tatum, Independent Non-Profit Consultant
2:05-2:45pm:Â Applying Entrepreneurial Thinking to Your Personal Goals: Small Group Discussions
2:45-3:15pm:Â Right Brain Entrepreneurism: Creative Collaborative Activity
Molly Cleator will lead us through a fun and energizing creative activity.
3:15-3:30pm: Final Wrap-Up & Depart for Happy Hour at Barbara’s at The Brewery!
Tickets Available Now!
Rebecca Ansert, founder of Green Public Art, is an art consultant who specializes in artist solicitation, artist selection, and public art project management for both private and public agencies. She is a graduate of the master’s degree program in Public Art Studies at the University of Southern California and has a unique interest in how art can demonstrate green processes or utilize green design theories and techniques in LEED certified buildings.
Green Public Art is a Los Angeles-based consultancy that was founded in 2009 in an effort to advance the conversation of public art’s role in green building. The consultancy specializes in public art project development and management, artist solicitation and selection, creative community involvement and knowledge of LEED building requirements. Green Public Art also works with emerging and mid-career studio artists to demystify the public art process. The consultancy acts as a resource for artists to receive one-on-one consultation before, during, and after applying for a public art project.
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In December, Dance Exchange hosted Amara Tabor-Smith, our first Green Choreographer-in-Residence. Amara and her collaborator Sherwood Chen spent a week with Dance Exchange artists exploring sustainable food practices and food justice. Amara’s residency, which took place in our studios, as well as at sites like Eco City Farms in Edmonston, MD, culminated in a Thursday night HOME event featuring a potluck dinner and reflections on food and family. Visit Dance Exchange’s Facebook page to view more pictures from the residency.
