WEBINARS

When was the last time your local congressperson came to see a show? This webinar will introduce arts professionals to strategies and tactics for engaging local government leaders with your organization. How do you properly host, organize, and promote arts events that include government officials that will elevate your standing and visibility in the community? Attendees will be introduced to the basics of advocacy work, how to use their space for advocacy events and government convenings, how to steward partnerships with leaders, and opportunities for engaging leaders around election cycles.

The hottest story in technology right now is artificial intelligence. With the release of image, text and video generators over the past six months, after years of promising, AI seems ready to start a revolution. The claims are enormous: millions of jobs lost, a vast new world of misinformation, that Google's stranglehold on search is over, that everything about the way we do business will change and that to not adopt AI will be death to entire legacy industries.

In the short term, image-generators that have ingested millions of images raise new questions (and fears) about copyright and creative ownership. Text-generators such as ChatGPT have teachers afraid the college essay is dead.

Meanwhile, entrepreneurs are already out there promising myriad new ways to make money off the new technologies. Some are calling AI a new industrial revolution.

So beneath all the hype, hoopla and hyperbole, what do you need to know to keep up as artists and arts administrators? Whether you have plans to jump into AI or are just wondering what all the fuss is about, this session will show you where we are in the revolution and explore the opportunities and dangers of a new technology that promises to change the world.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are the key words dominating the operations all arts organizations over the past few years; how are these ideas integrated in your donor stewardship operations? In addition to focusing on growing your BIPOC audience members, are you strategizing the role this audience plays in your fundraising and development long range planning?