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CPC Associate Director to Give Keynote at “Enhancing Assets” Conference

On Saturday, January 29, The Civic Knowledge Project, the community connections initiative of the Division of Humanities will host “Enhancing Assets,” a one-day conference designed to bring small-scale arts and humanities organizations on the South Side together so they can network with one another and receive the tools they need to run healthy arts and humanities organizations. The all-day event will offer classes and panel discussions on such topics as grant writing, curatorship, technology and the arts, law and the arts, and public relations. The goal is to make the conference a biannual event and, ultimately, help South Side arts and humanities institutions serve as anchors to their communities. The conference will be held on the first floor of Harper Memorial Library, and begins at 9am.

Diane Grams, Associate Director of the Cultural Policy Center will deliver a keynote address entitled; “Understanding the Socio-economic context of your work,” from 1:00-1:30pm in Harper 103. Grams will address such questions as: What effect do small arts and cultural organizations have on their communities? How can your organization think of itself in the context of the Southside transformation that is happening today? Grams will discuss her own discoveries of the positive effects of arts organizations on community development.

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