[spectre] Future of Creativity symposim (favor for peter richards)

[Beau Takahara]

Please join us for
the Alliance of Artists' Communities'
~
=46UTURE OF CREATIVITY
SYMPOSIUM
~
November 1 ~ 3, 2001 - Symposium
November 4, 2001 - Alliance Annual Meeting (for Alliance members only)

=46or ~
opinion leaders, policy makers, and creative thinkers
in the arts, sciences, humanities, business, education, and government

Our goal ~
to provide visions, models, and strategies
for building healthy, sustainable, creative communities in the 21st century

Where:
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
With an event at the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum,


What role will artists, scientists, thinkers, and visionary citizens play
in building the communities of the future?  THE FUTURE OF CREATIVITY
symposium brings together some of the nation's leading thinkers to address
this question, and to present a range of "case study" models of innovative
communities.  Expanding on the Alliance of Artists' Communities highly
successful 1996 symposium ("American Creativity at Risk"), this symposium
aims to encourage collaboration that crosses traditional boundaries of
discipline, politics, and race, and to work toward better solutions to
society's complex problems.

It is not only noble, adult, and civilized to pay a tithe toward collective
enterprises, it is noble, adult, and civilized to contribute to the future
that we will never see. -Lewis Hyde,
at the Alliance's 1996 "American Creativity at Risk" symposium

 FUTURE OF CREATIVITY SYMPOSIUM
PRESENTORS

Master of Ceremonies ~ Joel Wachs (President, Andy Warhol Foundation for
the Visual Arts)

Keynote Speakers ~
~ Carol Becker (Writer, Art Critic, Dean of the School of the Art Institute
of Chicago)
~ Stanley Crouch (Writer, Jazz Critic)
~ Clifford Jones (Pastor)
~ Bill Joy (Co-founder and Chief Scientist, Sun Microsystems, Inc.)
~ Jaime Lerner (Governor of Parana, Brazil / former Mayor of Curitiba)

Town Meeting Participants ~
Creative Director:  Guillermo G=F3mez-Pe=F1a (Writer, Performance Artist)
Mediator: Veronica Barrera
~ Carlos Cumpi=E1n (Poet, Cultural Organizer)
~ Mike Davis (Urban Design Critic, Author)
~ Gregorio G=F3mez (Poet, Performance Artist)
~ Suzan Shown Harjo (Poet, Performance Artist, Native American Activist)
~ Haki Madhubuti (Poet, Chicago State University Professor of English,
Publisher of Third World Press)
~ Don Marinelli (Co-Director, Entertainment and Technology Center, Carnegie
Mellon University)
~ Rebecca Solnit (Social Historian, Art Critic, Environmental Journalist)
~ Sandy Stone (Performance Artist, Cyber-Theorist, Writer, Professor, U. of
Texas in Austin)
~ Silvana Straw (Poet, Cultural Organizer)
~ Baldemar Velazquez (Director, Farm Labor Organizing Committee)

Presentors of Innovative Communities (Case Studies) ~
~ T. Allan Comp (Historian, Founder)-Acid Mine Drainage and Art, Johnstown, =
PA
~ Monica Haslip (Director)-Little Black Pearl Workshop, Chicago, IL
~ Ruby Lerner (Executive Director)-Creative Capital, New York, NY
~ Chris Quigg (Theoretical Physicist)-Fermilab, Chicago, IL
~ Alan Weisman (Writer, Journalist for Patagonia)-Gaviotas, Columbia, S.
America (founded by Paolo Lugari)

Special Presentors on National Arts Research ~
~ Maria Rosario Jackson (Senior Research Associate, and Director, Arts,
Culture, and Communities Program, Metropolitan Housing and Communities
Center, The Urban Institute)
~ Holly Sidford (Arts Consultant to The Urban Institute, Ford Foundation,
and other major arts funders)

Respondents (who will periodically respond to discussions throughout the
symposium, and summarize the symposium discussions into a Call for Action
at the symposium's end) ~
Chair ~ Roger Mandle (President, Rhode Island School of Design)
~ Helene Fried (Director, International Design Conference)
~ Michael Naimark (Artist, formerly associated with Interval Research)
~ Achy Obejas (Fction Writer, Poet, Activist, Staff Writer for Chicago Tribu=
ne)
~ Nicholas Rabkin (Senior Program Officer, Human & Community Development
Program, John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation)
~ Haki Madhubuti (Poet, Chicago State University Professor of English,
Publisher of Third World Press)

=46UNDING for the FUTURE OF CREATIVITY symposium has been provided by the
National Endowment for the Arts, [have Logo] the John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation [have text logo of sorts], the Andy Warhol Foundation
for the Visual Arts, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation [have Logo], Sara
Lee Foundation [have Logo], New Manchester Alliance, The Eskin Family
=46oundation, and an anonymous Chicago art donor.  Cosponsors of the
symposium include Ragdale Foundation, Peter Richards and Tryon Center for
Visual Art, The Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design,
Metropolitan Group [not sure yet], The Illinois Arts Alliance/Foundation,
and the President's Advisory Council on the Arts.

 FUTURE OF CREATIVITY SYMPOSIUM
AGENDA OF MAJOR EVENTS
Thursday, Nov. 1 ~ Saturday, Nov. 3, 2001

Unless otherwise noted, all events take place in the Ballroom of the School
of the Art Institute of Chicago, 112 S. Michigan Ave.  Maps and details
will be provided in the symposium registrants' packets.  The following
schedule is subject to change.

Thurs. Nov. 1	2:30pm	Registration
	5	Buffet/Reception and Welcoming Remarks
	7	EXPERIMENTAL TOWN MEETING, Directed by Guillermo G=F3mez-Pe=F1a
(see participants list)

=46ri., Nov. 2 	8-10am	Private Viewing of Van Gogh Exhibit at the Art
Institute Museum
	10-12	Keynote Speaker:  Stanley Crouch
		Case Study Presentations and Respondents (see participants
list)
	Luncheon
	1-5	Case Studies, Presentations, Respondents (see participants
list)
	7	DAY OF THE DEAD CELEBRATION & Buffet/Reception, Mexican
=46ine Arts Center Museum

Sat., Nov. 3	9-12	Keynote Speaker:  Bill Joy
		Case Studies and Respondents (see participants list)
		Keynote Speaker:  Carol Becker
	Luncheon
	1:30-4:30	Speaker at Chicago Cultural Center, Preston Bradley
Hall
		TOWN MEETING
		Respondents convene to prepare Call to Action
		Alliance Board of Trustees Meeting
	5-6:30	Reception
	7	Final Discussions and Respondents' Presentation of CALL TO
ACTION
		Buffet/Reception and Celebration & Performance


End of public symposium program

Sun. Nov. 4
Annual Member Meeting (for Alliance Members only)

	8-10	Breakfast and Panel:  Alliance Trustees and AICAD
Presidents, hosted by AICAD
	9	ALLIANCE MEMBERS LEAVE FOR RAGDALE, Lake Forest, IL
	10:30-12	Tour/exploring Ragdale
	12	Luncheon for Alliance Members hosted by Ragdale
	1-3:30	Alliance Member Business Meeting, including elections
	3:30	Reception
		4	Buses leave for Chicago and O'Hare & Midway
Airports (approximate			arrival: 5pm)

 MAJOR SPEAKERS

Stanley Crouch
Stanley Crouch has been a contributing editor to The New Republic, is an
editorial columnist for the New York Daily News, and is a frequent panelist
on television and radio talk shows. He is the author of Always in Pursuit,
The All-American Skin Game (nominated for a National Book Critics Circle
Award), Notes of a Hanging Judge, and the novel Don't the Moon Look
Lonesome.  For years a staff writer for the Village Voice, he is artistic
consultant for jazz to the Lincoln Center and Executive Vice President of
the Louis Armstrong Education Foundation.. A recipient of a MacArthur
fellowship, Crouch lives in New York City.

Bill Joy
Called by Fortune Magazine "The Edison of the Internet," Bill Joy has led
Sun Microsystem's technical strategy since 1982.  He spearheaded Sun's open
systems philosophy, designed their Network File System (NFS) and the SPARC
microprocessor architecture, and led the business and technical strategy
for their Java programming language and platform.  As part of his public
policy, Joy has been investigating the nature of emerging 21st century
sciences and technologies.  His cover article in the April, 2000 issue of
Wired Magazine, entitled "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us" has ignited a
worldwide discussion of the potential dangers and ethical issues
surrounding the development of these technologies.

Carol Becker
Carol Becker is Dean of Faculty and Vice President for Academic Affairs at
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of numerous
articles and several books including:  The Invisible Drama: Women and The
Anxiety of Change; The Subversive Imagination:  Artist, Society, and Social
Responsibility; Zones of Contention:  Essays on Art, Institutions, Gender
and Anxiety; and the forthcoming Surpassing the Spectacle:  Global
Transformation and the Changing Politics of Art.

The FUTURE OF CREATIVITY symposium is being convened by ~
	Alliance of Artists' Communities
	2311 E. Burnside St., #300, Portland, OR 97214
T:  503-797-6988       F:  503-797-9560
E:  aac@artistcommunities.org       W:   www.artistcommunities.org





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