Be Our Guest: Finding Creative Time + Space
a conversation on artists-in-residence programs
with Caitlin Strokosch, Executive Director, Alliance of Artists Communities
presented in partnership with Prairie Center of the Arts
Wednesday, August 11 - 6:00-7:30pm
Prairie Center of the Arts
Cordage Factory / Warehouse Gallery One
1506 SW Washington Street [ map ]
Peoria, Illinois
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
For more information, email Erin@prairiecenterofthearts.org
Visual artists, writers, composers, performance artists, choreographers and more - this is for you! Learn about the hundreds of artists' residency opportunities available for artists of all kinds and every career stage, in your backyard and across the globe. Find out what distinguishes them, the best way to apply, and how to maximize your experience.
The Alliance of Artists Communities is the national and international association of artists' residency programs - organizations that provide artists of any discipline with dedicated time and space for the creation of new work. The Alliance represents a field of more than 500 residency programs in the U.S. and over 1,000 worldwide. Believing that the cultivation of new art and ideas is essential to human progress, the Alliance's mission is to advocate for and support artists' communities, in order to advance the endeavors of artists.
Caitlin Strokosch has served the Alliance since 2002, and was appointed Executive Director in 2008. Prior to joining the Alliance, Caitlin managed several nonprofit professional music ensembles in Chicago, and she worked for a PR firm specializing in nonprofit arts organizations, including the National Youth Orchestra Festival and the Stradivarius Society. She has received training in nonprofit management from the Chicago Nonprofit Financial Center and as a selected participant in the Arts & Business Council's National Arts Marketing Project. Caitlin has been a guest speaker and lecturer at conferences and colleges around the country, including Columbia College Chicago, Roosevelt University, Brown University, Roger Williams University, and the Rhode Island School of Design on a range of topics - from grantwriting to contemporary music to intersections of art and architecture. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in music performance from Columbia College Chicago and a Master's in musicology from Roosevelt University, where her research focused on music as a tool for building communities of resistance and social dissent; she was a PhD candidate in Ethnomusicology at Brown University.