This month, we are kicking of our Fall Fundraising campaign by looking at how we are impacting the Triangle Arts Community.
First, we look at our impact on individual artists, by talking to Buffy Taylor.
Buffy Taylor is an emerging visual artist working in the Raleigh and the greater Triangle area. While her creative works include multiple mediums and substrates (including walls and sidewalks in public spaces) she mainly uses acrylic paint on canvas. Buffy has been a part of the Triangle Artworks community for two years, serving on our TEAL Steering Committee, attending our professional development workshops and participating in our annual SMASH event. She is just one example of how Triangle ArtWorks actively WORKS to provide support, community and opportunity to the Triangle’s artists of all disciplines.
“Joining the TEAL (Triangle Emerging Arts Leaders) Steering Committee was the best decision I could have made as an emerging artist. Every moment I put into planning and attending the educational and social events by TEAL for Triangle Artworks benefits me ten-fold. Connecting with new people leads to new opportunities and new opportunities connects to new creative groups of people. The Triangle area is flourishing in creativity and creatively minded people. Having an organization that is out there helping us to better ourselves as we better our craft is incredibly rewarding. I truly am humbly grateful for this experience.”
–Buffy Taylor, Visual Artist and member of TEAL Steering Committee
We love artists (like Buffy) and we love supporting them! But we simply can’t do it alone. We need YOUR HELP to keep working hard for the area’s creative community. Show your support for building a thriving Triangle Art scene with a financial gift to Triangle ArtWorks today – any gift amount helps!
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Want to build upon your development skills?
Come learn from area expert, Christina Menges, in our upcoming TEAL. discussion.
During this interactive discussion we will explore key topics such as:
All in an interactive, discussion setting, where you can ask questions, share strategies and learn from the speaker and each other! For more information, email us. Let your friends know you are coming on our Facebook event page!
What? Never heard of TEAL?
Want to learn more about Triangle Emerging Arts Leaders (TEAL) – who they are and what they do? Look at their Program page on ArtWorks Site. For up-to-date information about TEAL events, check out their Facebook page!
Tags: Arts Fundraising, ARTS NC STATE, Christina Menges, Development, TEAL, TEAL TALKS, The Frontier, triangle artworks, Triangle Emerging Arts LeadersAre you getting the support you need to grow as an arts leader?
What resources or programs do you need?
Come learn how others are finding support and help us look at ways to better support Emerging Leaders.
This article in the recent Americans for the Arts Emerging Leaders blog salon, caused several TEAL members to contact us and say “Are emerging leaders getting the support they need?” So…let’s talk about it!
Join us for a TEAL roundtable discussion about what pressures Emerging Leaders feel to grow, learn, and adapt their work, and how they are dealing with it. Talk to other Triangle’s young arts leaders about how and where they are getting the support and resources they need. Also, help ArtWorks identify unmet needs and help us brainstorm on ways to meet them.
Afterwards, join other Emerging Leaders and more “seasoned” arts leaders for networking, fun and perhaps a local beer or two!
Date: Monday, June 23rd
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Mercury Studio 401 W. Geer Street Durham (behind & below Motorco)
The Game Plan:
6:30-7 Networking and Mingling
7:00 Roundtable discussion begins
8:30 Group adjourns to Fullsteam to continue discussion/networking
We will also be inviting leadership from other arts service organizations to listen to the discussion, so that we can have more minds and organizations involved in working on this issue.
Let us know you are coming! RSVP by email.
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Triangle ArtWorks is working with a Core Group of local arts leaders to create a Triangle Emerging Arts Leaders Group. The idea is to create a networking group of “young” arts administrators that will meet periodically for discussion and networking, with a goal of not only helping the Group’s members learn from each other and some discussion leaders, but also to facilitate collaboration between them and their organizations.
What is an Emerging Arts Leader?
When is the first meeting?
The first meeting will take place on the “Fourth Friday” March 23rd at noon, at Shiki Sushi. If you are a Emerging Arts Leader in the Triangle, come out to meet your peers, share ideas and have a great time with other current and future leaders of the cultural sector. Each gathering will have a discussion topic, and we will look to our Core Group and peers to facilitate conversations. The first meeting will be an informal meet and greet, and we’ll also have an open discussion about future topics, locations for gatherings, and what experiences members would like to get out of participating.
How can you participate?
If you fit the above definition of Triangle Emerging Arts Leader, send us an email and we will put you on the Group’s mailing list. If you can come to the meeting on March 23rd, let us know so we can include you in the reservation!
See you there!