Characteristics Breakout Sessions

Characteristic #10
The arts flourish with new and diverse leaders informed by those who paved the way for them.

Guiding Characteristic of the Development of Emerging Leaders:
The arts flourish with new and diverse leaders informed by those who paved the way for them.

Guiding Question:
How can we nurture relationships between current leaders and emerging leaders to learn from each other?

Curator: Leslie A. Ito
Facilitator: Roberto Bedoya

PART 1
In Part One of this session, we will discuss the contextualization of generational values, aspirations and ideologies. What does it mean to come from a generation of pre/post NEA and Culture Wars, pre/post civil rights and multiculturalism movements, pre/post technology and globalism? How do these contrasts of generations shape our work as leaders in the arts?

PART 2
In Part Two of this session, we will hear from the experts regarding the transference of cultural knowledge and values, both from the emerging to the current and vice versa. How is leadership developed? How does you empower talent? What models currently exist? Where do you see yourselves in 20 years? And how can emerging and current leaders help each other to achieve these goals?

Experts:
Ed Cardoni, Executive Director, Hallwalls
Kara Olige, National Arts Administration Mentoring Program Fellow, Hallwalls
Wendy McClellan, General Manager A.S.K Theatre
Adrienne Edwards, Program Associate, Pew Charitable Trust

Overall Session Questions
1) What are the core professional values of emerging and current leadership? How are they similar? How are they different?
2) What can emerging and current leaders learn from each other?
3) How do we support/nurture relationships and collaborations between emerging and current leaders? How does one mentor? What is the role of a mentee in such relationships?
4) How do we bridge the two generations of leadership?
5) How do organizations and/or the field benefit from these cross-generational relationships/collaborations?

Reading Materials:
www.naao.org/cgen.html - Description of the Co-Generate Project. National Association of Artists Organizations leadership development program which convened nine regional think tanks across the country.

NAAO's Field Guide 1999-2000 which documents the results of this study can be purchased through the organization.

"Los Angeles Emerging Arts Leaders," Angie Kim and Wendy McClellan, Grantmakers in the Arts Reader Vol. 12, No. 1, Winter 2001, p.5.