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Our Summer of Arts Transformation
Welcome to an impactful season of development! Our Summer Arts Programming is officially underway, marking a pivotal moment for our arts incubator as we dedicate ourselves to enhancing our core capabilities. This summer, we’re not only fostering artistic expression but also undertaking significant organizational capacity building and digital platform redevelopment. Our goal is to ensure our growing arts projects and community programs are administered with even greater efficiency and impact, all while empowering our team and community with essential new skills.
Building Our Foundation: Capacity & Digital Transformation
One of our biggest focuses this year is truly building up our organizational capacity. We’re not just talking about creating incredible art – though that’s always at our heart! We’re also talking about the vital work of administering the growing number of arts projects and community programs we’re involved with. To that end, we’re diving deep into the redevelopment of our digital platforms and processes. It’s about making sure we have the strongest possible foundation to support everything we do.
Digital Salvage & Skill Building
This spring, we took on our “Digital Salvage” project, and it was a real eye-opener. We successfully retrieved and restored so many of our valuable past projects, creating a special digital sandbox to house our gallery content. A huge part of this work was learning how to really structure, curate, and effectively communicate materials for our art exhibitions and community events. This skill is becoming incredibly important, especially as we connect with the aging population in many of the communities we work with. It’s about making sure our stories and art are accessible to everyone.
Looking Ahead: Our Arts Incubator & Impact
The work continues full speed ahead this summer! We’re gradually rolling out our upgraded Arts Incubator platform, which includes everything from brand new arts management databases to smarter schemas, dynamic event calendars, and streamlined project postings. But more than just the tech, this summer is all about clearly communicating the real impacts and outcomes of our work. It’s also about making sure the skills we’re learning are truly put into practice. This means focusing on digital literacy, sharpening our arts photography, mastering digital storytelling, and even exploring how artificial intelligence (AI) can help us automate some of our paperwork, impact measurement, and reporting.
So, stay tuned and follow along – it’s going to be a incredibly busy, productive, and exciting summer of community arts development and digital transformation!
