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Artists' Political Power Workshops
This month at #UjimaWednesdays we're studying Artists' Political Power in honor of the Ashe Ashe 2021 Cultural Assembly. Join us this month for a thematically curated series of workshops and discussions centered on the importance of artists creating systems and infrastructure for caring cultural economies.
Art is labor. Art is work. These truths undergird the sustained organizing efforts of BIPOC artists over the last century. Like any field, artistic production is part of our economy and should be enumerated by an equitable wage. And yet, artists and cultural workers still struggle to access such guarantees. This Assembly will be an opportunity to come together, set collective priorities, and develop shared practices with artists, creatives, and cultural organizers for political power and economic development in Boston.
Edwin Torres joined Grantmakers in the Arts as president & CEO in October 2017. Torres served on the GIA board of directors from 2011 through 2016. GIA just released Solidarity Not Charity: Arts & Culture Grantmaking in the Solidarity Economy, a report that explores how the grantmaking community can support culture-workers and artists through an increasingly just economy. Eddie most recently served as deputy commissioner of cultural affairs for New York City, where he worked on elements of the city’s long-term sustainability plan, a study of and efforts to support the diversity of the city’s cultural organizations and the city’s first cultural plan. Prior to joining the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, he was a program officer with The Rockefeller Foundation, where he worked on the foundation’s support for arts and culture, jobs access, and resilience. He has also served in the dean’s office at Parsons the New School for Design, on the arts and culture team at The Ford Foundation as well as on the staff of the Bronx Council on the Arts. He holds a Master of Arts in Art History from Hunter College and a Master of Science in Management from The New School.
brandon king, Community Engagement Coordinator, Resonate Co-Op
brandon king (all lower-case*) is a community organizer, dj, visual artist, overall creative originally from Hampton Roads Virginia where he currently resides. brandon moved to Jackson Mississippi in 2014, to actualize the mission and vision inherent in the Jackson-Kush Plan, a plan aimed at struggling for Black self-determination and economic democracy. he worked there for six years as a Cultural Organizer, Cooperative Developer, and Program Coordinator for Cooperation Jackson, an organization of which he is also a founding member. While there, brandon served on the executive committee and was a farm anchor of Freedom Farms Cooperative. he's currently serving as a board member for the cooperative network. brandon also is the Community Engagement Coordinator for Resonate Co-op, an international music streaming platform and cooperative that’s co-owned and democratically managed by the artists, developers and listeners who use the platform. his main role in this position is guiding the design and implementation of community processes and protocols for maximizing participation and democratic inclusion in collective decision-making.
7:15-8:30PM - #Co-Create: Study Team and Cousins (Timebank) Member Team
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