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2008-2010 Enitiative Projects in Arts and Culture
Enitiative funding has been awarded to the following projects that exemplify the vision of entrepreneurial Scholarship in Action for arts and culture:
- An Arts, Cultural, and Entertainment District in Downtown Auburn (ACE)
- African Drumming
- Composers in Public Schools
- See My Story
- Alphabet in Your Own Backyard
- Northside Arts Collaborative
- “Rethinking Art Education” Picture eBook Project
- Museum of Young Art – Syracuse University Art Education Partnership
- Syracuse International Film Festival
- Redhouse Arts Radio
- Collaboration: Entrepreneurship in the Arts
- Mobile Literacy Arts Bus
An Arts, Cultural, and Entertainment District in Downtown Auburn (ACE)
Dia Carabajal, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at Cayuga Community College, Donna Lamb, Executive Director of Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, and Angela Daddabbo of Auburn Public Theater, have been awarded an Enitiative grant to explore the feasibility and benefits of creating a Downtown Auburn Arts, Culture, and Entertainment District (ACE).
ACE aims to encourage development and tourism in downtown Auburn by promoting existing cultural resources and encouraging programs that bring the arts and visitors to downtown Auburn. The project will include researching arts districts in other cities, identifying potential programs and incentives for artists and businesses such as zoning for artist live/work spaces or low interest loans, cooperative marketing, and cultural tourism strategies.
African Drumming
Bill Cole, Professor of African American Studies at Syracuse University has been awarded an Enitiative grant to establish a course in West African drumming and dance as part of a musicological curriculum in the African American Studies Department.
Cole has partnered with master drummer and dancer Biboti Ouikahilo. Mr. Ouikahilo, an area resident originally from the Ivory Coast, is the creator and director of Wacheva Cultural Arts. In addition to drumming and dance, Mr. Ouikahilo will teach students how a person can make a living as a drummer and dancer, and explain how he developed Wacheva Cultural Arts, the obstacles he encountered in that process, and how he overcame them.
Composers in Public Schools
Diego Davidenko, adjunct professor in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts, and Neva Pilgrim, Director of the Society for New Music, have been awarded an Enitiative grant to involve graduate-student composers from the Setnor School of Music in composing new works for performance by the ensembles of Henninger and Corcoran high schools.
Student composers will develop and practice skills that are crucial to becoming a successful professional, including networking skills, the ability to work in cooperation with others, and the flexibility to adapt their music to the needs of a commission. High school students will be introduced to music very different from what they are used to performing. This exposure can encourage students to continue pursuing music both in study and professionally, as they will see it as a living and exciting art form.
See My Story
Steve Davis, chair of the Newspaper Department of Newhouse, Syracuse University, has been awarded an Enitiative grant to develop a joint project between the South Side Newspaper Project and the Onondaga Nation.
Newspapers everywhere are challenged with the task of survival in a digital, visual age. They are also challenged by the Internet’s ability to feature news and views on blogs and “vlogs” (video blogs) that exhibit the pure sentiment of communities often marginalized in mainstream media. “See My Story” will empower and equip local youth with the video technology and interviewing skills to share storytelling from a community perspective. Workshop attendees will gain skills that demonstrate the importance of news in the voices of the newsmakers and will bring voice, and video, to youth who may often feel silenced through media exclusion.
Alphabet in Your Own Backyard
Gail Hoffman, Assistant Professor at Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts, has been awarded an Enitiative grant for, “Alphabet in Your Own Backyard,” a collaborative community project between VPA and four schools from the Syracuse City School District: Henninger, Fowler, Corcoran and Nottingham.
Students will create and self-publish accordion books that will be exhibited in the Warehouse and in the Special Collection exhibit cases in the Bird Library. From these exhibitions, a jury of design faculty will select 26 letters to comprise a final alphabet accordion book that will be professionally printed each semester. Students will research printing options, identify their audience/consumer, determine the production and middleman costs and profit, contact local vendors, develop a plan for delivering the product to the market, and determine the quantity of books that the market can handle. This process will introduce to the students practical strategies that they can use to turn their personal artwork into something marketable and desirable to a wider audience.
Northside Arts Collaborative
Maarten Jacobs, of the Franciscan Collaborative Ministries (FCM), has been awarded an Enitiative grant to pursue entrepreneurial ideas for making the Northside Arts Collaborative sustainable.
FCM will work with Le Moyne College professors and students to develop a business and marketing plan for Franciscan Guitars with the goals of producing more guitars and selling them consistently to become sustainable, and ultimately become a revenue generator for FCM. In the second year of the grant, Le Moyne College faculty and students will once again work with FCM staff to develop a business plan and marketing strategy for mART, a small retail space on the Northside that is geared toward selling small artistic items created by community members. With the proper planning, mART will become a sustainable business venture, generating revenue to support the Northside Arts Collaborative.
“Rethinking Art Education” Picture eBook Project
James Rolling, Associate Professor of Art Education at Syracuse University, and Laura Reeder, Executive Director of Partners for Arts Education, have been awarded an Enitiative grant to develop the “Rethinking Art Education” Picture eBook Project.
The project will create a series of electronic image-based fiction and non-fiction picture books and graphic novels promoting the arts as an information product, a reservoir of diverse cultural heritages, a cultivator of multiliteracies, and a means of entrepreneurship. The authors will be enrollees in community workshop classes for adults and students from selected K-12 public school classrooms. Each author will be introduced to great works of narrative artmaking while learning how to create their own camera-ready works of art for their book project. The finished project for each adult author will be an original, self-published picture eBook or graphic novel offered for sale on the Art Education website.
Museum of Young Art – Syracuse University Art Education Partnership
James Rolling, Associate Professor of Art Education at Syracuse University, and Susan Fix, Executive Director of the Museum of Young Art (MOYA), have been awarded an Enitiative eTeam grant to create an educational collaboration promoting the arts as a focal point of social entrepreneurship.
Through a series of workshops to be conducted at the new Museum of Young Art, youngsters will work in groups to identity site-specific locations in the Syracuse area and Central New York region where there is a problem that can be addressed with a work of art that either beautifies, expresses an important community or global story, or illuminates a social injustice that must be corrected. The youngsters will work as a team with facilitating Art Education department students who are educators, as well as artists, from project conception, to execution, to installation. The youngsters will work with adults to promote, seek publicity for, and secure the interest of some private or business entity that will co-sponsor the funding to execute the work of art. Installation of projects will be accompanied by a launch exhibition of children’s artwork made in association with the Art Education programs at Syracuse University.
Syracuse International Film Festival
Owen Shapiro, Professor of Transmedia Studies at Syracuse University and co-founder and director of the Syracuse International Film Festival, has been awarded an Enitiative eTeam grant to increase the sustainability and efficiency of the festival.
Shapiro will partner with professors Larry Bennett and Arthur Brooks to create a business plan for the festival. Bennett’s undergraduate entrepreneurship students will create a business plan as part of the capstone course in the Entrepreneurship & Emerging Enterprise program. Brooks’ graduate students will bring their background in public administration and nonprofit management to the festival business plan. Through participation in festival-related courses and as festival interns, students gain the opportunity to learn first-hand how to run a successful film festival that creates economic growth and stimulates the culture of a city.
Redhouse Arts Radio
Joanna Spitzner, Assistant Professor in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, and Natalia Mount, Managing Director of the Redhouse Arts Center, have been awarded an Enitiative grant to create Redhouse Arts Radio.
Redhouse Arts Radio will be an internet station of The Redhouse Arts Center and will feature an MP3 stream and pod-cast archive of music, discussion, documentaries, theater, literature, and audio art. Its programming will be developed with existing businesses, cultural and community groups in Syracuse, as well as through the curriculum connections at Syracuse University. The local community will be directly involved with Redhouse Art Radio by contributing content for the streaming MP3 talk and music shows, and by listening and actively engaging in the cultural and political landscape of Syracuse and its surrounding areas. Syracuse University students will be involved by becoming producers for individual programs created on- and off- campus and through coursework.
Collaboration: Entrepreneurship in the Arts
Barbara Tagg, Instructor at the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, and Melissa Rashford, Executive Director of the Syracuse Children’s Chorus, have been awarded an Enitiative grant to expose SU students to internationally renowned composer Libby Larsen.
SU music education students and area professional music educators will have an opportunity to have direct access to Libby Larsen and The Cassatt String Quartet. SU Conducting Interns in MUE 510: Practicum in Children’s Choirs will learn about the organizational structure of the chorus and the business side of sustaining the organization. SU composition majors will be invited for dialog with Ms. Larsen regarding making a living as a composer, and the quartet will discuss the business side of building the quartet into one that performs throughout the United States and internationally.
Mobile Literacy Arts Bus
Marion Wilson, Professor of Practice at the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, has been awarded an Enitiative grant to partner with the Syracuse City School District to develop a student-managed and run arts organization, Mobile Literacy Arts Bus (MLAB).
This project will establish MLAB as a non-profit arts organization or define its permanent home within a College or Department, teach Syracuse University students social entrepreneurship and how to structure and manage an arts organization by looking at best practices, and develop a printed and digital “zine,” BALM. The curriculum will include creating a mission statement and business plan, addressing human resource issues, implementing and managing a Board of Directors, establishing non-profit-status, conducting fundraising, coordinating on-going evaluation, and managing long-term sustainability. The zine, BALM, will serve as a source of revenue, feeding back into the project. The project will establish the MLAB as a sustainable arts organization and provide SU sculpture students with much needed entrepreneurial skills and experience within an art context.
