Freedom to Create: A Leadership Forum on the Cross-Sector Value of Creativity
Took Place on Wednesday, November 7, 2007
12:00 noon to 4:00 p.m.
National Press Club, 529 14th Street N.W., Washington, D.C.
Luncheon Program 12:00 noon - 1:30 p.m.
Dana Gioia, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, will be the keynote speaker.
Afternoon Session 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Representatives from Americans for the Arts shared the latest findings and thinking from the October meeting of the 2007 National Arts Policy Roundtable, which was focused on the role of the arts in building the 21st century workforce. A cross-sector panel of respondents engaged the audience of arts and policy leaders in developing next steps. The Roundtable was sponsored by Americans for the Arts, under the direction of Robert Lynch, and the Sundance Preserve, under the direction of Robert Redford.
This Forum was convened by The MacDowell Colony, which is among America's oldest artist's residency programs, and a model for hundreds of others, and the Alliance of Artists Communities (AAC), a professional association representing the more than 250 organizations in the United States dedicated to nurturing the creative process. It was made possible, in part, through a matching challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Press and Press Releases About the Symposium:
Click to read the press release - 11.2. 2007.
Background
Freedom to Create: A Leadership Forum on the Cross-Sector Value of Creativity is the third in a series of conversations organized by the Alliance of Artists Communities to bring dialogue on creativity and imagination, the arts and research and development, to the forefront of the national dialogue. Begun in 1996 as a reaction to the “Culture Wars” of the mid-nineties, these creativity symposia have evolved as the times we live in have evolved, recognizing the global context of our work even as we remain primarily concerned with the United States. (more).