Discover Jersey Arts communities at the ABC Cultural Planning conference

New Jersey cities, towns and other communities are invited to highlight their arts and cultural activities at the Arts Build Communities Cultural Planning Leadership conference.  The conference will be February 11, 9 to 4 pm, at Rutgers University in New Brunswick.

Any community with at least one representative at the conference will have the chance to provide brochures and other handouts, or have tabletop displays to promote their community.  Communities will get a lot of visibility: The exhibits will be in the same area that participants get their meals and walk through to go from session to session.  Because of space limitations, each community will share a table with another community.

Space is limited and is provided on a first-come, first-served basis to those registered for the conference.

This opportunity is eligible only to workshop registrants and is for the purpose of promoting arts activities in communities.  For example, an arts organization based in Vineland is welcome to exhibit information about Vineland and the arts and cultural organizations in the community.  In other words, the purpose is to promote the community, not a single organization.

Registrants from the same community should work together on a display.  To reserve a space and find out if other members of your community are registered for the conference, please contact Conference Manager Deborah Schulze at schulze@eden.rutgers.edu or 732-932-3822, x635

As of January 26, cultural and policy professionals from the following communities are registered for the conference:

Atlantic Highlands, Barnegat, Basking Ridge, Blackwood, Branchburg, Chatham, Cranbury, Englewood, Freehold, Hoboken, Holmdel, Millville, Montclair, New Brunswick, Newark, Oceanville, Perth Amboy Princeton, Rahway, Toms River, West Long Branch, West Orange, and Woodbridge,

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More speakers announced for ABC Cultural Planning Leadership Program

A number of people involved in creative placemaking in New Jersey will be speaking and facilitating sessions at the upcoming Arts Build Communities Cultural Planning Leadership conference, February 11 at Rutgers University in New Brunswick.

Here are the scheduled speakers and facilitators:

• Gary Steuer, Chief Cultural Officer and Director, Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy, City of Philadelphia
• Joseph Barris, Supervising Planner, Monmouth County Planning Board
• Morris Bellamy, Former Manager, Arts and Culture and Former Manager, Community Development, City of Melbourne, Australia
• Mary Eileen Fouratt, Executive Director, Monmouth County Arts Council
• Tom Gilmour, Director of Commerce, Asbury Park
• Ben Goldman, Executive Director, City Without Walls, Newark
• Pat Hutchinson, Chair, Belmar Arts Council, Belmar
• James Kennedy, Executive Director, Rahway Arts District and former Mayor, Rahway
• Stuart Koperweis, President, Making Public-Private Partnerships Simple! and former President, Jersey City Economic Development Corporation, Jersey City
• Taneshia Nash Laird, Executive Director, Trenton Downtown Association
• Gail Levinson, Chair, Valley Arts, Orange
• Marianne Lods, Executive Director, Glasstown Arts District and Millville Redevelopment Corporation
• Leonardo Vazquez, Director, Arts Build Communities, Rutgers University

For more information, or to register for the conference, please visit: http://policy.rutgers.edu/PDI/abc/2011_ABC_Leadership_Program_Flyer[1].pdf

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Gary Steuer, Philadelphia's Chief Cultural Officer, to headline Arts Build Communities Cultural Planning Conference

Arts Build Communities is pleased to announce that Gary P. Steuer, Philadelphia's Chief Cultural Officer and Director of the city's Office of Arts, Culture and Creative Economy, will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming ABC Cultural Planning Leadership Conference.

The conference, at Rutgers University in New Brunswick on February 11, from 9 am to 4 pm, will focus on building, growing and sustaining creative communities.  Participants will learn from the success stories of community and cultural leaders, and explore ideas for their own communities in workshops.

Gary Steuer has headed Philadelphia’s Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy since 2008. The Office’s charge is increasing the public’s access to and awareness of the arts, arts education and cultural opportunities and activities, coordinating the efforts of City agencies and cultural institutions, and promoting public and private investment in the creative economy sector.

As Chief Cultural Officer, he serves as a member of the Mayor’s Cabinet, advising the Mayor and all City agencies on cultural and creative economy issues. Before joining the Nutter administration, Mr. Steuer was the Vice President for Private-Sector Affairs at Americans for the Arts, and had the additional title of Executive Director of the Art and Business Council of Americans for the Arts. He was responsible for leading efforts to stimulate more private sector support for the arts, including promoting partnerships between the arts and business sectors. Mr. Steuer served for ten years as the President and CEO of the Arts & Business Council Inc. before and during its merger with Americans for the Arts. Earlier in his career he was a theatre producer, both in the commercial and nonprofit theatre, served as a program director for the New York State Council on the Arts, and was an aide to a United States Congressman. He has written, lectured and taught extensively on arts management and policy issues and has served on many boards of directors and funding and advisory panels for local, statewide and national organizations. 

Learn more about or register for the conference


To read Gary Steuer's blog, go to http://artscultureandcreativeeconomy.blogspot.com

Arts Build Communities (ABC) helps community and cultural leaders make better decisions in connecting the arts and community and economic development.   ABC is produced by the Professional Development Institute of Rutgers University's Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy.

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