Practical new tools and resources for volunteer Board development across Ontario

Monday, March 31, 2014
CSI Regent Park, 585 Dundas Street East, 3rd Floor, Toronto, ON
Presented by OAAG in conjunction with Maytree and CPAMO

Registration OAAG Member $75 | General $85
To register, fill in this Registration Form (Word doc) or this Registration Form (PDF)
or, email communications@oaag.org or call (416) 598-0714.

Maytree invests in leaders to build a Canada that can benefit from the skills, experience and energy of all people. Our policy insights promote equity and prosperity. Our programs and grants create diversity in the workplace, in the boardroom, the media and in public office, changing the face of leadership in our country. Maytree Foundation

Workshop Leaders
Charles Smith, Project Lead, Cultural Pluralism in the Arts Movement Ontario (CPAMO)
Cathy Winter, Manager, DiverseCity OnBoard, Maytree
Veronica Quach, Assistant Director, Ontario Association of Art Galleries

Maytree Foundation has pointed out that there is a significant diversity gap at levels of executive leadership and Board levels across many sectors in Ontario. This includes Ontario’s public art galleries. Join us for this important and timely opportunity to talk about Board governance, leadership and change management in Ontario’s public art galleries!

This workshop is part of OAAG’s Diversity and Leadership Project, funded in part by the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF). Your fee includes a hard copy of the CPAMO Toolkit: Evidence-based Strategies to Promote Pluralism in the Arts and Maytree Foundation’s toolkit Diversity in Governance: A Toolkit for Nonprofit Boards.

Content

CHARLES SMITH CPAMO

• Examine Ontario-based artists, arts organizations, presenters, associations and other members who committed to advancing cultural pluralism in the arts.
• How to successfully integrate culturally diverse values and principles in operations, planning, audience development, marketing, programming and decision-making processes.
• Look into the CPAMO Toolkit: Evidence-based Strategies to Promote Pluralism in the Arts and how it can be applied in the public art gallery sector in Ontario.

CATHY WINTER MAYTREE

• Provide comprehensive tools and good ideas for executive directors, board chairs, and board directors, particularly in the nonprofit sector, for increasing diversity on their organizations’ boards of governance.
• Share the ideas and success of DiverseCity onBoard, a project of the Maytree Foundation, which aims to transform the leadership landscape by connecting qualified candidates from minority and under-represented immigrant communities to agencies, boards and commissions in the public and nonprofit sectors.
• Give participants the opportunity to reflect on the current composition of their own board and strategize on ways to make it more representative of the community it serves.
• Demonstrate the use of Maytree Foundation’s toolkit Diversity in Governance: A Toolkit for Nonprofit Boards.

VERONICA QUACH OAAG’S DIVERSITY-THROUGH-MENTORING LEADERSHIP PROGRAM

• OAAG is creating opportunities for six culturally diverse arts professionals to design their own mentoring relationships with senior arts managers to help them accelerate their transition into leadership positions in public art galleries across Ontario. Veronica Quach will review the timeline for calls for participation from potential mentors and mentorees.

Learning Objectives

• Improve decision-making by engaging diverse perspectives.
• Legitimize the mandate of the organization for the whole community.
• Build social capital and cohesion among diverse populations.
• Become more responsive to the community and clients.
• Support fundraising, marketing and reaching out to your markets more effectively.

You may be eligible for a bursary which helps to cover transportation and other costs: http://www.museums.ca/Services/Bursaries/?n=14-100

Special thanks to Maytree, CPAMO, the Toronto Arts Council, and the Ontario Trillium Foundation.

Thanks to PACART.

The Culture Build Investment Program provides matching funds to assist the City’s not-for-profit cultural sector with financing for state of good repair capital projects. The program also provides funding for feasibility studies for projects that meet the criteria. The arts and cultural organizations that are supported through the Culture Build Investment Program provide a wide variety of opportunities for Toronto residents to engage in the arts as participants, volunteers or audience members. In 2014, Toronto City Council has earmarked $330,000 for the program. To date, the Culture Build Investment Program has helped bring 71 cultural facilities closer to a state of good repair.

Applicants to the Culture Build Investment Program must meet the following eligibility criteria:

1. incorporated as a non-for-profit organization;
2. located in the City of Toronto;
3. have been in existence for a minimum of three years;
4. own the facility or have at least five years remaining on their current lease at the time of applying for the program; and
5. are not in city-owned facilities.

Funding for feasibility studies may be provided to those organizations that meet the existing eligibility criteria.

The program does not support the following:

1. regular building maintenance costs; and
2. cost of purchasing or building a facility.

The submission deadline is April 14, 2014. Applications and information about the Culture Build Investment Program is available by contacting Lori Martin at 416-392-5225 lmartin2@toronto.ca

The Latin American Speakers Series aims to contextualize Latin American art within Canada as well as enrich our understanding of the art from both the continent and the Diaspora. Performance artist Regina José Galindo (Guatemala), educator and artist Pablo Helguera (Mexico/New York), community artist Judy Baca (Mexico/Los Angeles) and curator Mari Carmen Ramírez (Puerto Rico/Houston) have been asked to share their work through lectures, audio-visual presentations and discussions.

In addition to the Lectures we will also host Interviews and Studio Visits (please check our website for more information).

The Latin American Speakers Series is curated by Tamara Toledo and presented by Latin American Canadian Art Projects.

JUDY BACA

Arte Intimo, Arte Público: Spirit, Vision and Form – The Art of Judy Baca

Moderator Veronica Díaz

Friday, March 14, 2014
6:30pm
OCAD University’s Auditorium, Room 190
100 McCaul Street
Free Admission

JUDY BACA is a Mexican-American renowned painter and muralist, community arts pioneer, scholar and educator who has dedicated her career to demonstrate the ways in which public art, created in partnership with community members, can be a force for social change. What sets her apart from many other artists is an inspired ability to teach and a creative pursuit of relevancy in developing educational and community based art methodologies. Through a lifetime of achievement, Baca has stood for art in service of equity for all people.

One of her first projects in 1969 was a collaborative mural aimed at tempering gang violence. She is co-founder of the first City of Los Angeles Mural Program, which evolved into a community arts organization known as the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC). SPARC has been creating sites of public memory that address the identities and concerns of women, immigrants and the economically disadvantaged since 1976. Baca’s most celebrated work is The Great Wall of Los Angeles, a mural project begun in 1973 in the Tujunga Flood Control Channel of the San Fernando Valley. Completed over the course of five years, The Great Wall is a visual narrative of California’s history from the perspective of the underrepresented. Baca has been teaching art at UCLA Cesar E. Chavez Department of Chicana/o Studies and Department of World Arts and Cultures for the past 15 years.

VERONICA DÍAZ is a visual artist, photographer and community cultural activist. Díaz is currently pursuing her Master in Environmental Studies (MES) at York University. Her graduate work focuses on Muralismo and the Transformation of Diasporic Women through Earth-based Arts. Díaz is co-founder of Tamarind Eco Art Projects and is the Photography Editor of Avenida Latin@ Youth Magazine. She was recently selected to be part of Continuum, a mural art mentoring and apprenticeship program with Mural Routes. She has led community and participatory murals in the University of Waterloo, Tatamagouche Centre in Nova Scotia, and most recently in Toronto with Food Share’s Intensive Leadership Facilitation Training.

Co-Presented by LACAP, the Community Arts Practice Program of the Faculty of Environmental Studies and the Visual Arts Department at York University

About LACAP:
The Latin American Canadian Art Projects is a not-for-profit arts organization dedicated to the implementation of projects that expose Canadians to Latin American art and culture, artistic excellence and critical thought.

About the Curator of the Latin American Speakers Series:
TAMARA TOLEDO is a Toronto-based artist, educator and curator. Toledo is a graduate of OCAD University (Honours) and holds an MFA from York University. She is co-founder of the Allende Arts Festival and the Latin American Canadian Art Projects. Toledo’s curatorial projects include: Alienation,Idiomática, Recycled Captions, Pilgrimage of Wanderers, Home Sweet Hogar, Pop and Politics and the Latin American Speakers Series. Toledo has participated in various conferences for her curatorial work, such as Performing Feminist Motherhood (New York), Memory and Migration (Vancouver) and Critical Dialogues: Cross Cultural Perspectives on Curating and Artistic Practice (Toronto). She has written various articles on Latin American art for ARM Journal, C Magazine and Fuse Magazine.

For more information please contact us at:
lacap@bellnet.ca
www.lacap.ca
601 Christie Street, Suite 158
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6G 4C7

LACAP gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts. LACAP also acknowledges the support of its corporate sponsors InterContinental Toronto Centre and SeeThroughWeb as well as its partners: Prefix ICA; Justina M. Barnicke Gallery; the MVS Program at the University of Toronto; Hart House; Community Arts Practice (CAP) Program of the Faculty of Environmental Studies and Visual Arts Department at York University; and OCAD University.