2024 ARTS LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE

This year’s Arts Leadership Institute will be held on June 7, 2024, prior to the State Arts Conference. Featuring sessions designed to support your local advocacy efforts, dynamic trainers will work with arts leaders of all types, providing the tools & tactics you need to address local policy and decision-makers.

Featuring learning sessions and opportunities to network with your colleagues, along with helpful resources and follow-up cohorts to help implement what you have learned. Find more information on this year’s sessions below, and see the full schedule, registration, and hotel information for the 2024 State Arts Conference here.

For questions, please reach out to Community Development Director Andrew Reinartz at Andrew@ArtsSouthDakota.org.

WHAT IS THE ARTS LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE?

Amazing arts and culture projects are happening all across South Dakota, but we are spread out and often isolated from our colleagues. With this program, we want to help support those who are doing the critical work of fostering their local creative communities.

The institute will take place regularly, providing deep dives into a changing set of topics of interest to many different types of arts organizations and their staff, volunteers, boards, and more. Equally important, they will provide time to gather with your colleagues to help strengthen the arts ecosystem across the state.

SCHEDULE

Friday, June 7, 2024

• 12:00 – 1:00 | Registration Open
• 1:00 – 1:15 | Arts Leadership Institute Starts – Welcome and Overview
• 1:15 – 2:45 | Session 1 – The Art of Advocacy (Janet Brown)
• 2:45 – 3:15 | Break & Networking
• 3:15 – 4:30 | Session 2 – Arts Education Advocacy Case Study and Discussion (Janet Brown with Mary Cogswell: Arts Education Advocacy Cohort Coordinator, Laura Schenk: South Dakota Music Education Association Executive Director & Educator Shane Wuebben: Sioux Falls School District Fine Arts Coordinator)
• 4:30 – 5:00 | Wrap Up / Open Q&A
• 6:30 – 9:00 | Arts Conference Social and Levitt at the Falls Performance

The Arts Leadership Institute is made possible by the generous support from:

COURSE INFORMATION

The Art of Advocacy

A workshop with Janet Brown

“When enough people come together, then change will come and we can achieve almost anything.  So instead of looking for hope…start creating it.” –Greta Thunberg

Advocating for the arts at the local government level…your town, your county or school board…is sometimes daunting and personally frustrating. But there are strategies that make your efforts successful. In this session, those strategies will be reviewed and put into context. No matter the size of your community or your past successes, the best advocacy efforts are on-going, building relationships, using research and activating stakeholders. Action takes planning and success takes creativity.

Arts Education Advocacy Case Study and Discussion

One critical component to a thriving arts ecosystem is access to vibrant arts education opportunities in K-12 programs across the state. This session will provide an open discussion to employ the tools and tactics learned in the first session to the dilemmas and possible actions to address these concerns.

Lead trainer Janet Brown will be joined by members of the new Arts Education Advocacy Network to participate with the attendees in a conversation to discuss the needs of K-12 arts education, identify the gaps in services, and discuss potential local advocacy efforts.