2025 ARTS LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE
This year’s Arts Leadership Institute will be held on April 29-30, 2025, in Sioux Falls. Come together with arts leaders, trainers, and panelists from across South Dakota to learn more about how you can develop your organization’s audience by providing accessible experiences developed in collaboration with your community. You won’t want to miss this opportunity!
COURSE INFORMATION
BUILDING YOUR AUDIENCE THROUGH ACCESSIBILITY & COMMUNITY
As arts organizations, we work hard to make an impact by creating programming with the community, and not just for the community, to broaden our reach and develop new audiences.
One key factor to providing these types of experiences is accessibility. The 35th Anniversary of the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act this year is a great time to revisit conversations surrounding accessibility with lessons that apply to helping your whole community feel welcome and engaged, including physical accessibility, representation and cross-cultural conversations.
Tailored to both rural and non-rural organizations, these sessions will feature practical tools to expand your audience and create even more vibrant organizations across the state.
Join for learning and opportunities to network with your colleagues, along with helpful resources and follow-up cohorts to help implement what you have learned.
For questions, please contact Community Development Director Andrew Reinartz at Andrew@ArtsSouthDakota.org.
Trainers & Panelists
- Vicki Stewart – Executive Director of Employment Disability Resources
- Emily Shuman – Director of the Rocky Mountain ADA Center
- Patricia Acevedo Fuentes – Arts South Dakota Board Member, Architect & Community Leader
- Jessica Callies – 401 Create by Lifescape, Mitchell
- Dan Cleberg – Fallout Creative Community, Aberdeen
- Alex Weiland – Penguin Project (The Premiere Playhouse), Sioux Falls
- Mary Payton Zajicek – Artist and Arts Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities Recipient, Sioux Falls
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.
