Building the Field of Our Dreams
Monday, October 13, 11:10am – 12:40pm
Organized by Rick Noguchi, Senior Program Officer, The James Irvine Foundation.
Moderated by Josephine Ramirez, Program Director, Arts, The James Irvine Foundation. Presented by Adrian Ellis, Director, New York, AEA Consulting; Elizabeth Ellis, Principal, New York, AEA Consulting; and Don Howard, Interim President and CEO, The James Irvine Foundation.
The Bridgespan Group developed the Strong Field Framework to help organizations collectively assess the strengths and needs of the field they seek to build, working towards a common goal with a set of shared and proven approaches. The Irvine Foundation, with AEA Consulting, is applying this framework to the arts to learn how to develop and support a field within a field of arts organizations, nonprofit partners, researchers, and policymakers committed to engaging more and different kinds of people in the arts using emergent, sustainable approaches. In a highly participatory fashion, we will learn about the Strong Field Framework and help define the potential contours of this field by exploring the initial concepts and values that could anchor it.