inkubator session B
THE LOCAL SPHERE: BLOOM WHERE YOU'RE PLANTED
Thursday March 19, 12:00-1:30pm, Salon 200 BC
Facilitator: Katie Ries, St. Norbert College, De Pere, Wisconsin
Email: Katherine.ries@snc.edu
This INKubator session will consider the Local Sphere as an important arts ecology that can be cultivated, restored, and stewarded by artists and by printmakers specifically. We will share experiences with creating spaces and projects that build and promote a diverse and robust local arts sphere as well as the non-traditional ways in which academic institutions and non-arts businesses can contribute to and partner to support the Local Sphere. Have you started a printshop? Are you running a non-traditional studio-space or driving your mobile gallery around town? How are you growing, expanding, propping up, cashing in on, or otherwise cultivating your local Art Sphere? We want to hear wisdom from the trenches: what works, what doesn’t and what you’ve done to grow the Local Art Sphere in your area. How can emerging and established artists and printmakers grow their Local Sphere? Emphasis is on collaborative work and practical examples. A small tabloid-sized map of Knoxville’s Local Art Sphere will be available to session attendees who wish to take a physical and self-guided tour through the city’s Local Sphere.
To participate in this session, email Katie Ries. There is room for 17 more participants.
In advance of the conference, INKubator facilitators will establish an email thread or Yahoo Group to promote common readings or discussions by session participants. While INKubator sessions emphasize collaborative and dialogic processes, they are also intended to foster future outcomes, from exhibitions and portfolios, to projects and publications.
