3 Terrific Keynote Speakers & Topics!

Nina Simon, Executive Director, Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History

THE ART OF RELEVANCE

How can we build the brightest possible future for the arts in California? Art has power when it matters to people–when it is relevant to diverse constituents’ lives and experiences. Join Nina Simon, Executive Director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History and author of the new book The Art of Relevance, for an interactive keynote about the role of relevance in the arts today. Get ready for surprising stories and powerful metaphors that will change the way you see your work in relation to your community.

Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Chief of Program and Pedagogy at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco

CREATIVE INQUIRY TO CIVIC IMPACT

This keynote will use Joseph’s recent commissioned project by the Guggenheim Museum and YBCA’s model of the art space as social incubator as case studies for discussion. Whose responsibility is it to *steward* inspiration in civic life? How do we strategically integrate artists in our systemic practices, and not just in our programmatic ones? Joseph suggests a response that mirrors his active role in making performance for opera, for stage, and for urban public sites.

James Mayer, President & CEO, California Forward

CALIFORNIA AS CONFLUENCE

A)  Where nothing had to change and everything has

B)  Where iconic is a noun

C)  Where technology is destiny and the STEAM Age is just beginning

D)  Where cultures, ideas and visions simultaneously collide and creatively converge

E)  Where we still think we get our own dream

F)  All of the above… and too much more