2006 Conference Proceedings | Grantmakers in the Arts

Beantown Remix
Omni Parker House
Boston, Massachusetts

November 12–15, 2006

Advocates, instigators, abolitionists, suffragists. Cyberartists, high tech. Catalyze! Empower! Convene! Red brick and brownstones. Streets that wander from pasture to plaza and culture to community. Where old greets new: civic potential, tension, texture, triumph. First People, immigrants, students, politicians. Dancers, painters, poets. Arts in action. Ships and tea. Taxation with representation. A revolution again. This is the art of it. Boston.

Beantown Remix highlighted the assets of the region's arts community while continuing and deepening conversations had begun at earlier conferences. A list of topics that were explored include: historic preservation, working artists and cultural tourism, research and cultural economic development, cultural democracy and civic dialogue, arts education, support for individual artists, and the intersection between art and technology.

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Conference Proceedings: Break-out Sessions

Community Building Potential of the Arts

Organized by Janis Foster, executive director, Neighborhood Small Grants Network, Presented by Janis Foster; Che Madyun, small grants consultant, Mabel Louise Riley Foundation; and Joel Ratner, program officer, The Cleveland Foundation
Funding for Cultural Organizations in Metro Boston

Organized by Ann McQueen, senior program officer, The Boston Foundation, Presented by Anne Freeh Engel, associate; Technical Development Corporation (TDC); Susan Nelson, principal, TDC; and Ann McQueen

Conference Proceedings: Plenary Sessions

Theresa Secord Keynote

Theresa Secord
Tod Machover, composer and Professor of Music and Media at the MIT Media Lab

Tod Machover
Steve Curwood, host of NPR's “Living on Earth”

Steve Curwood