Work Environments of the Future
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from Americans for the Arts Annual Convention 2014
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Work Environments of the Future
- 1. Work Environments of the Future
- 2. Stand if you’re a practicing artist ...if you were once a practicing artist ...if you have ever been moved by a work of art
- 3. This is a presentation about work environments, which is really conversation about the way we work. It’s really a discussion about working as an artist.
- 6. Prototype and test. Solve problems.
- 7. ARIANA JACOB ART & SOCIAL PRACTICE
- 9. What do artists do? Observe their environment and create work that responds to it. Develop new ideas. Put themselves into their work. Unabashedly engage intuition. Collaborate. Prototype and test. Solve problems. Market! Do business!
- 10. Must administrators be relegated to the role of logistics, producer, enabler, business person? You are that artist!
- 13. As individuals. Expect to have good ideas. Make art on your own time. Collaborate with colleagues and partners in different sectors. Be in the world. Gently challenge your manager. Don’t worry about getting credit for your ideas. If they’re good your manager will come back to the source.
- 15. As managers. Hire good people and trust them. In office? Out? Let them choose. Create space for ideas and tests. Take field trips. Take lunch breaks. Be vulnerable. Be passionate. Let our staff be unique individuals. Create a culture of experimentation, collaboration, creative feedback.
- 16. “Trusting others doesn’t mean that they won’t make mistakes. It means that if they do (or if you do), you trust they will act to help solve it….Leaders must demonstrate their trustworthiness, over time, through their actions—and the best way to do that is by responding well to failure.”—Ed Catmull, founder of Pixar
- 17. More Resources Queens Museum Springboard for the Arts Creative Capital Arts Fwd
Editor's Notes
- Given the current innovation crisis, we need to be seeing our work in a new way.
- You can see that culinary art is my favorite art form in Portland right now. But Portlanders—and artisans all over the nation—have turned furniture, bicycle fabrication, motorcycles into fine art. They own it.
- Portland also has was I understand to be the first academic program in art and social practice at Portland State University. This discipline is still in search of a definition, but it can be loosely defined as artwork that engages the public in some way. PSU. Ariana Jacob’s medium is conversation. Inspired by Studs Terkel, she traveled the U.S. and Canada asking folks about their work as a means of investigating the presence that work has in our lives today, as a counterpoint to Terkel’s interviews in the 1970s. Bad art, bad activism. has given me permission to break down barriers between art and activism, administration, community, education.
- This event raises questions about who is the artist, who is the administrator, educator, producer, and even who is the audience. In general, I think if we’re going to break down barriers that will invite more people to participate in our organizations, we have to embrace this kind of blurring of boundaries. You can see this as a great example of an arts institution engaging artists. But I also see this as a blurring of boundaries.
- How many times have you heard someone say that they went into arts administration because they couldn’t make it as an artist?
- It’s trendy right now to talk about creating conditions that are conducive to generating new ideas, and I recommend that you read all of these books. They focus largely on the successes of creative businesses. There’s a lot to learn from design firms and start-ups in terms of work space and collaborate structures, but I think the primary building block is that they fundamentally see their work as equal parts creativity and business. So why is the arts field—one based on the premise of creativity—lagging behind? There are a few elements that is clear.
- Chance favors the connected mind. - Steven Johnson Just get out of the office! Ideas don’t come up when you’re responding to email. Sometimes they happen over a beer, when exchanging ideas with
- We came into this work because we are inspired by art. Now, I invite you to continue to be inspired by art. I invite you to play well with others, and to work together to invent things. To see this work as inherently creative. I invite you to have fun. Let’s also see our audience members as artists. Let’s let our imaginations run wild and create work that is relevant, engaging, inspiring and taking the arts field forward into the 21st century.