The first annual Priddy Symposium in Arts Leadership blew our minds, or at least mine. Dr. Davis ( Director of the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts and director of the Priddy fellowship program) arranged this amazing weekend for us. He called together past Priddy fellows and past Marcus ( the fellowship before the Priddy which was exclusively for visual arts, the Priddy is for visual and music) fellows as well as faculty and community leaders from the "metroplex" and made time and space available which allowed this rich generative dialogue to occure while he was overfeeding us and giving us free cocktails. I don't know what was richer, the food, the deserts, ( of which I ate many) or the conversations the presentations generated. We talked about what it takes to make the arts a viable, vibrant player and contributor in our culture from just about every angle one could conceive, from the down and dirty nitty gritty of money to the lofty ideals of what art does for us and in us as human beings and everything in between.
I am very full on many, many levels.
I will pass on the details and insights as the occasion is ripe, as I will try to do with everything I learn here.
home sweet shoebox
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