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2009-2011 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:
- 219/ Red House Project
- Educating After School Arts Educators
- Entrepreneurship in Design Curricula
- Urban Video Project as a Connective Classroom
- Goldring Critics-In-Residence
- Tonalities
- Looking at My Neighborhood: Making a Book about a Place
- Central New York International Film Festival
- CNY Arts Covenant
- 601 Tully: Sustainable Community Arts Center
219/ Red House Project
Chris McCray, assistant professor in the College of Visual & Performing Arts at Syracuse University, and Scott Allyn, a local entrepreneur, will develop 219 South West LLC and the Red House into mutually sustainable enterprises on the Near West Side of Syracuse.
219 South West LLC is a small business development firm focused on for-profit and non-profit endeavors in the creative arts. Faculty and students will develop new models for collaborative business development between a for-profit and non-profit organization (219 and the Red House). They will explore the best use of space, how best to interact with the community, and what business relationships need to be developed to sustain the Red House. 219 will also work with SU's Bandier Program to provide incubator space for student music production companies.
Educating After School Arts Educators
This project will train new employees, both university students and community artists, who are facilitating Say Yes to Education arts after school workshops in the Syracuse City School System and will match them with mentors experienced in teaching their artistic discipline to K-12 students.
Syracuse University's Art Education Department will develop a community-based art education course for this project. The intention is to create a standard of excellence in arts education in Say Yes after school programs by training university students and community artists and preparing them to competitively seek one of the many jobs Say Yes will need to fill in arts after school as it expands each year.
Entrepreneurship in Design Curricula
The Design Department at Syracuse University will bring guest entrepreneurs into several program areas to participate directly in course projects and lectures, student reviews, and brainstorming sessions with faculty. The entrepreneurs will work with students to develop an entrepreneurial project appropriate for that discipline that may be further developed and manufactured via the COLAB incubator. The entrepreneurs will also observe and review existing curricula to suggest teaching methods and projects to integrate entrepreneurship into the current class structures.
Urban Video Project as a Connective Classroom
Denise Heckman, associate professor in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, will expand the Urban Video Project (UVP) to include multiple institutions of higher education located in or near the city of Syracuse.
UVP projects art on the side of buildings, making use of underutilized space in urban areas, such as abandoned buildings. The Enitiative Sustainable Entrepreneurship grant will enable Heckman to expand the academic focus of the UVP in a way that includes multiple institutions of higher education located in or near the city of Syracuse. Several colleges and universities will participate in classes, seminars, and activities that bring students together in shared classrooms working on projects that explore the city of Syracuse or issues of specific relevance to the post industrial condition of medium sized urban areas.
Goldring Critics-In-Residence
The Goldring Arts Journalism Program is a highly selective one-year masters program at Syracuse University's Newhouse School conceived in 2003 that uses the local community of Central New York as a laboratory to teach journalists to report and write about culture.
Entrepreneurship for arts journalists is a fundamental value emphasized not only during their classroom courses, but also is the primary lesson in training them for a lifelong career as cultural entrepreneurs in the rapidly-changing field of media. The best critics have inside experience with cultural organizations so that they communicate authoritatively, they are independent thinkers and self-starters, and are also excellent reporters and journalists. The Goldring program is launching a new initiative, the Critics-in-Residence, in which students will become "embedded" in a local cultural organization, such as the Syracuse Symphony, Everson Art Museum, Open Hand Puppet Museum, or Syracuse International Film Festival. By spending time inside the organization, students will gain an insider's perspective on the cultural organization and its works. Students will write and produce online multi-media features, business coverage, profiles, and other packages about the organization's activities; the students will also be free to write reviews and opinion pieces that reflect their outlook on the organization's work.
Tonalities
Dennis Kinsey, associate professor in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, is working with Barre O'Neill to provide visually impaired visitors to the Everson Museum with a richer, more satisfying art experience.
At the heart of Tonalities is an idea that is several centuries old - that particular colors have specific relationships with particular musical notes. Tonalities involves translating works of art into music so that visually impaired persons can "hear" a painting. This project will draw upon multiple university strengths and student involvement. Music majors in the Setnor School of Music at SU will play the music representing each painting. The music will be recorded by SubCat Music Studios, a professional recording company located in Skaneateles, NY. The pre-recorded soundtracks will accompany the Everson's "Turner to Cezanne" exhibit. In addition, public diplomacy students will engage in practical work and study related to the evaluation, message construction and media requirements of an entrepreneurial initiative such as Tonalities.
Looking at My Neighborhood: Making a Book about a Place
Sarah McCoubrey, associate professor in Syracuse University's College of Visual & Performing Arts, will produce a book about the Near West Side of Syracuse for use in art as well as social studies classrooms.
Working with the Near West Side Initiative, the Partnership for Better Education, and Syracuse University's Writing Program, this project will bring together artists and poets, Blodgett School students and Syracuse University students, Blodgett faculty and SU faculty to create a curriculum and learning experience which draws together these diverse populations into a common study of art as a means to understand social history. For students from Syracuse University, this project will provide an opportunity to oversee the development of multi-partner project, bringing together a diverse set of participants, towards the completion of multi-media (book, coloring book, etc.) for a specific client, Blodgett Middle School. These students will research the neighborhood, accumulate material and see at firsthand the transformation of that effort into a product.
Central New York International Film Festival
Since 2004 the Syracuse International Film Festival has become one of the largest and most influential international festivals on the East Coast. In light of SU's and FilmFest's desire to connect the entire Central New York academic region we will explore interest in repositioning and re-branding the festival as a Central New York International Film Festival.
Incorporating CNY into the festival could generate significantly more educational opportunities for SU students and faculty through greater Scholarship In Action and community engagement programs, create new collaborations, develop new funding partnerships, expand economic growth in Syracuse and CNY, and shed an international spotlight on our entire region.
A new Film Festivals course will be offered every fall beginning in 2010 corresponding with the October Festival, along with Film Business for Artists, a course that prepares film students for entering festivals, applying for grants, understanding copyright law, and budgeting productions, among other entrepreneurial topics related to filmmaking, exhibition, and distribution.
CNY Arts Covenant
Dr. Caroline Tauxe, visiting assistant professor in Le Moyne College's Department of Anthropology, Criminology, and Sociology, and Amy Komar, Th3 Coordinator, have teamed up with other local arts activists to create the CNY Arts Covenant.
- Buy 3 pieces of original art (large or small) produced by local artists
- Attend an arts/cultural event in a medium/genre that is new to you
- Attend an arts/cultural event connected to a culture that is different from your own cultural background
- Take a step to engage with the arts in a personally active way, such as by taking an art class; performing or showing your own work; volunteering at an arts/cultural event; or by volunteering for, joining, or financially supporting an arts organization.
An arts entrepreneurship module will be incorporated into SOC 402 (Program Evaluation) and students will conduct assessments of the AC.
601 Tully: Sustainable Community Arts Center
Marion Wilson, assistant professor and Director of Community Initiatives in the Visual Arts in the School of Education, will design and build 601 Tully, into a hub in the Near West Side neighborhood of Syracuse for some of the most innovative and transformative cultural resources of Syracuse University.
601 Tully will be a Near West Side sustainable storefront for arts, writing, publishing, and emerging entrepreneurialism built on the collaborative energies of Fowler High School, Blodgett School, neighborhood elementary schools, Syracuse University, and SUNY-ESF. 601 Tully is housed in a college class taught by Marion Wilson called Social Sculpture: 601Tully. The storefront project is based on the belief in student empowerment and an attempt at true non-hierarchical design-build collaboration between the community, University, artist and architect, faculty and students. 601 Tully works with the School of Education, School of Management, School of Architecture, SUNY-ESF, and the Business Academy of Fowler High School to develop a feasible business plan for the storefront. This project will be a central component of the Fowler entrepreneurial literacy studies.
