Creative Campus Innovations Grant

Notes from Brainstorming Meeting - December 21, 2009

Funding - (Potential)

Passport advertising - to offset cost to students

IT grant

Sustainability grant

Pepsi grant

Alumni grant

Symposium funding

Multicultural / Diversity funding

Advancement

New England Foundation for the Arts (artist support)

National Endowment for the Art   (artist support)

Office / All deans (A+H, Science, P&GS)

Departments

Partners -

Vision 2020

NHDI

SW Community Action

SW Regional Planning Commission

Peterborough Players

MOCO

Antioch
Potential Partners -

City of Keene

Public Library - Keene

Andy’s Summer Playhouse

Arts Alive

Colonial Theatre

Starving Artist

Hourglass Readers

Edge Ensemble

Keene Community Kitchen

Monadnock Folklore Society

Cheshire TV

Florentine Films (K. Burns ex. all)

Big Brothers Big Sisters

Mc Dowell Colony

YMCA

Town Bands (Various)

Apple Hill

Monadnock Music

Impetus Dance

Sharon Arts Center

Vermont Performance Lab

SAU 29 + 38

Keene Farmers Market

Access (J. Miller Group)

Nubabusit Library Coop

Hannah Grimes

Main Street Merchants Group

ISC.org

Gardening Clubs

Harris CTR

Cheshire County Conservation District

UNH (Sustainability office, CAS, etc)

Artists -

Sandglass Theatre

Pearson + Widrig Dance

Potential Artists -

Civilians

Campus Connections -

Early Sprouts

Community Service Office - Acting Out, Many Options

MCST

TAD

Music

Symposium

Keene is Reading

HGS

Cohen Center

ISP

ES

EDUC

Sustainability Office

Mason Library

Thorne

3 Deans offices

Advancement

Alumni

Wheelock

Orientation

Potential Campus Connections -

Student Assembly

Common Ground

Habitat for Humanity

O Staff + PAT

Project eye to eye

WKNH

KTV

Film

Journalism

Putnam

IFF

Equinox

Institutional Research

KSC Activism Course

Distance Learning - Continuing education

Community Outreach -

Develop Community of Practice Model w/ Arts Directors

Resource / Idea sharing (= Arts Alive)

Artists in Schools, Around Town

Food drive - buy tickets, bring can

Food / Potluck

Participatory Arts / Service w/ technology / cell phones

Transportation / Arts Shuttle / Arts Carpool

Partner w/ Artisans / community meal (Schackleton)

Goals -

We are energized to continue beyond grant period

To develop cross campus partnerships + sustain

To develop community partnerships + sustain

Create dialogue on campus and into community around “What Sustains Us?” in broad definition

Student engagement and empowerment

Faculty + Staff engagement

Strengthen partnerships with local schools

Cross disciplinary boundaries - bring arts into academic and community life

Find new ways for Redfern to engage community

Arts more accessible for disabilities

Course requirements at events off campus

Outreach to community for attendance (Transportation)

Bring attention to neglected spaces thru art

Accessibility / transportation barriers

ISP Course(s)

Independent

Outcomes -

Passport - Attendance, New attendance, transportation

Newsletter, Arts Listing

We have changed the way we think about presenting

Website

Film - Documentary

More developed internship program around sustainability

Student Survey

Independent study:  Credit for participating in arts here or in community

- explore models that could work

Internships -

Peterborough Players

Documentation

Vision 2020

Letter from Provost Mel Netzhammer to the Campus Community inviting the campus into the discussion of “What Sustains Us?”:

Colleagues,

I am writing to share exciting news, and to invite you into a campus wide discussion on a question very much in line with our public liberal arts mission:  What sustains us?

The question of what sustains us as human beings, both in good times and challenging times, is an enduring question without a single answer.  However, its contemplation is essential if individuals are to make life-sustaining personal choices, and for the creation of healthy, thriving communities-however those communities might be defined (e.g., college campuses, towns, workplaces, etc.).    With the motto “Enter to Learn, Go forth to Serve” Keene State College wants our students to graduate with a strong sense of what sustains them personally and their role in sustaining their chosen communities:  basic human needs (food , shelter, healthcare), meaningful work, work/family balance, connection to the environment/natural world, art, spirituality, and connectedness and service to others.

This past summer Keene State College, under the leadership of Redfern Arts Center, put forward a preliminary grant application to receive funding to engage in a campus-wide dialogue on this topic from the Doris Duke Foundation (via a grant program from the Association of Performing Arts Presenters).  The exciting news is that Keene State College’s application was recently tapped as one of the top 31 applications submitted from institutions around the country.  The attached press release lists the other institutions with which we share this honor, including institutions such as The Ohio State University, Penn State University, University of Michigan, and UCLA.

With this honor, we have been awarded a $7,000 grant to plan and submit a full grant application due in March, with the potential to receive $200,000 if our full application is deemed to be one of the top 10.  This presents an amazing opportunity to engage all corners of our campus (faculty, staff, students and alumni) and our partners in the Keene community in a 2-year dialogue around the theme  ”What Sustains Us.” The purpose of this grant is to help us think creatively as a campus about this question through activities of our choosing in a variety of formats, such as the visual and performing arts, lectures, classroom activities, shared campus experiences, and community outreach. This project has the potential to enhance and be enhanced by many of our existing academic and co-curricular programs, such as our Biennial Symposium 2011, the Keene is Reading program, Founder’s Day, and the many lectures held on an annual basis across campus.

Partnering with us in this effort is Cheshire Medical Center’s Vision 2020, which aims to make Keene the healthiest community in the nation by 2020, and the New Hampshire Dance Institute.

I, along with the core team working on the grant proposal, invite all members of our campus community into this dialogue and challenge you to think about what sustains YOU and your community.  Please watch in the coming weeks for opportunities to add your voice to the discussion, including a blog and other forums that will be forthcoming.  We hope this is just the beginning of what will become an enduring dialogue on our campus, lasting well beyond the period of any grant.

Mel

For Immediate Release
Contact: Bill Menezes, 603-358-2171 and bmenezes@keene.edu

Arts Presenters Announces Keene State’s Redfern Arts Center as a Semifinalist in the 2010 Creative Campus Innovations Grants to Colleges and Universities

November 19, 2009; Washington, D.C. - The Association of Performing Arts Presenters (Arts Presenters) announces that Keene State College’s Redfern Arts Center is one of 31 semifinalists in the 2010 Creative Campus Innovations Grant Program.

The Creative Campus initiative began in March 2004, following the 104th American Assembly at Columbia University, where more than 60 arts and higher education leaders gathered to examine the factors that characterize effective partnerships in education and the arts - the projects, proposals, curricula, and creative forces that make such partnerships work.

In 2006, Arts Presenters initiated The Creative Campus Innovations Grant program with funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. This program was designed to support a set of innovative performance-based projects on American campuses that exhibit the importance of the arts to the educational, service, and scholarly missions of the academy and that fully integrate the performing arts into the life of the academy and the community. In 2007, eight campus-based presenters were awarded one- or two-year grants to implement projects that had the potential to increase value and expand support for integrating the performing arts into the academy and the campus community.

In March 2009, Arts Presenters announced a new round of the Creative Campus Innovations Grant Program with the intent to identify, support, and document exemplary campus-based performing arts presenters who develop and implement programs and strategies that go beyond conventional practice and who integrate their work into the academy. In September 2009, 31 semifinalists were chosen from a pool of nearly 150 applicants, and each will be given $7,000 to help develop a project concept for full consideration as part of the final selection process of this grant program. Up to 10 one- to two-year project grants, ranging from $100,000 to $200,000 each, will be awarded in August 2010 to college- and university-based presenters from among these semifinalists.

The following semifinalists have been invited to submit full proposals: Arizona State University, ASU Public Events / Gammage; Bard College, Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts; Baruch College, Baruch Performing Arts Center; Berklee College of Music, Berklee Office of Special Programs; California State University-Long Beach, Carpenter Performing Arts Center; College of Saint Benedict/Saint John’s University, Fine Arts Programming; Colorado College, I.D.E.A. at Colorado College; Columbia College Chicago, The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago; Cuyahoga Community College, Division of Creative Arts; Hiram College, Center for Literature Medicine and Biomedical Humanities; Howard University, Cramton Auditorium; Keene State College, Redfern Arts Center on Brickyard Pond; Lafayette College, Williams Center for the Arts; Lehigh University, Zoellner Arts Center; Montclair State University, Arts and Cultural Programming; Pennsylvania State University, Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center; Skidmore College, Office of the Dean of Special Programs; State University of New York-Oswego, ARTSwego; Syracuse University, University Arts Presenter; The Ohio State University, Wexner Center for the Arts; University of British Columbia, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts; University of California-Irvine, Irvine Barclay Theatre; University of California-Los Angeles, UCLA Live; University of Dayton, University of Dayton Arts Series; University of Florida, University of Florida Performing Arts; University of Kentucky, Singletary Center for the Arts; University of Michigan, University Musical Society; University of Minnesota, Northrop Concerts and Lectures; University of Washington, UW World Series; Western Michigan University, Miller Auditorium.

Arts Presenters

Founded in 1957, the Association of Performing Arts Presenters (Arts Presenters or APAP) is the national service organization for the field of arts presenting. The organization is dedicated to developing and supporting a robust performing arts presenting field and the professionals who work in it. Arts Presenters has 2,000 organizational members worldwide and brings more than 3,800 performing arts professionals together from around the world at the annual APAP Conference NYC. Members range from the nation’s leading performing arts centers, to civic and university performance facilities and festivals, to the full spectrum of artist agencies, managers, national consulting practices and collaborators, and a growing roster of self-presenting artists who engage communities through live performances. Arts Presenters, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, based in Washington, D.C., is led by CEO and President Sandra L. Gibson.

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

The mission of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (www.ddcf.org) is to improve the quality of people’s lives through grants supporting the performing arts, environmental conservation, medical research, and the prevention of child maltreatment, and through preservation of the cultural and environmental legacy of Doris Duke’s properties.

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