Lake Placid Center for the Arts
Job Description – Production Manager/Office Manager
Reports to Assistant Director
Responsibilities include general office responsibilities, supporting fundraising activities, and programming activities as follows:
Office Manager:
- general office responsibilities including - answering phone, processing office correspondences,
filing, bulk mailings, assembling programs, distribution of printed materials, copying, etc.
- staff the Box Office as needed per scheduling
- coordinate maintenance of office equipment
- inventory and order all office supplies and office printed materials
- assist in maintaining master mailing list for donors, benefits, schools artists, etc.
- assist in maintaining permanent history of donation records
- record donations received annually
- process acknowledgments to donors
- assist with annual fund appeal/membership drive printing, labels and mailing
- assist in processing annual thank you
- assist on processing special targeted mailings and campaigns
- assist in processing ticket reservations and workshops registrations
- assist at all special events including performances, receptions, and benefits
- assist in soliciting annual program advertisers
- process mailings of gallery invitations and prospectus for artists and schools
- other duties as assigned by the Assistant Director and Director
- coordinate all bulk mailings
Production Manager:
- coordinate housing, hospitality and special needs for artists and instructors
- coordinate receptions for performances and special events
- produce performance printed programs
- maintain master grid of space allocation for all spaces
- coordinate special off-site programs ie: bus trips annually
- coordinate volunteers for program activities ie: Green Market Wednesday
- assist with the installation and dismantling of gallery exhibitions
- develop and maintain workshop supplies
- assist in processing instructor contracts
- coordinate gallery receptions
- assist in processing exhibition lists and labels for shows
Full-time salaried position (range $23,500 to $26,000 to start based on experience). Some weekend and evening hours may be required. Regular schedule Mon-Fri. 9am-5pm. Full benefit package: Health Insurance, Retirement Plan, Flexible Spending Plan and annual paid vacation, holiday and sick time.
Please send resume and cover letter to: LPCA, 17 Algonquin Drive, Lake Placid, NY 12946
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Friday, June 19, 2009
Convention Links
Hi Everybody,
Americans for the Arts has provided these links for people interested in following the convention:
I have also added a session to my program:
Tanya
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Storymapping in Communities
Presented by – Joe Lambert, Director, the Center for Digital Storytelling
Bruce France, Co-Founder, Mondo Bizzaro
Before you read any further, call this phone number: (504) 256-1116. When prompted, choose and dial any number between 01-20. Now listen….
What you are experiencing is I-Witness Central City, a storymapping project in New Orleans. This is a community-based storytelling project on steroids! Goodbye stages, microphones, metal folding chairs, and Kinko’s copies….Hello 21st century!
Essentially, “storymapping” is a method of reclaiming the dialogue and character of individuals and a community. The presenters use modern, readily available technologies, to create a map of stories in cities around the world. Usually these cities or town have a dramatic, traumatic, or interesting story to tell, stories that speak to a forgotten time or place, stories that have been embellished or changed over time, or stories that are happening at the moment. Individuals who participate are asked to tell a story, any story of a place – they are not interviewed. The stories are recorded and/or videotaped, edited and uploaded, and then the people (encouraged by signs placed in the locations of each of the stories) call a phone number and hear the story. The program is supplemented by a website with video of some of the individuals telling their stories at the locations they are talking about. The Center of Digital Storytelling has worked with organizations and individuals in 16 cities, all over the world. Generally, each project is promoted signs, indicating which locations are represented in the project, local press and word of mouth. Some projects and their supporting organizations also host receptions and/or musical or theater performances based on the project. The technology and stories are approachable and storymapping is a community arts project any organization (willing to commit the manpower and funds) can accomplish.
Here are some of the questions participants asked after the presentation: (the answer is listed in italics)
1. Who holds the copyright for each individual story and the project as a whole? The teller always owns the story. In the future, The Center for Digital Storytelling would like to create a digital archive for the stories told in projects they work on. After 75 years, as defined by current copyright laws, the archive would be public with no restrictions or liabilities.
2. How do you find stories? Word of mouth! Once somebody tells their story, they often say we should speak to so-and-so –that is how we find most of our stories.
3. Where does the funding for these projects come from? The money comes from a variety of places including grants, community or regional philanthropic organizations, local arts councils, and/or state government. Both the Center for Digital Storytelling and Mondo Bizarro hold workshops to train staff at collaborating organizations in media use, film/sound editing and marketing techniques.
4. What technology is used for these projects? For video projects, everything from PowerPoint to iMovie can be used. There are hundreds of options for video and sound programs – you just have to do a little research. A good place to start is the NYU ITP Phonebank – the students and faculty in this program are doing innovative things – one student is working on a program that lets your plants call you when they need to be watered! (AWESOME!)
Here are some websites to check out:
You can see video of the I-Witness Central City project at: www.mondobizzaro.org
www.storycenter.org - The Center for Digital Storytelling
www.geograffiti.com - is an open-source resource that allows cell phone users to leave a “graffiti tag” of their location
http://www.museudapessoa.net/ingles/ - The largest storymapping project in the world.
www.voicethread.com - an open source resource where visitors can share stories. The site also acts as a collaborative tool for storytelling
P.S. Didn’t know what storymapping was at first – ended up loving this discussion!
Bruce France, Co-Founder, Mondo Bizzaro
Before you read any further, call this phone number: (504) 256-1116. When prompted, choose and dial any number between 01-20. Now listen….
What you are experiencing is I-Witness Central City, a storymapping project in New Orleans. This is a community-based storytelling project on steroids! Goodbye stages, microphones, metal folding chairs, and Kinko’s copies….Hello 21st century!
Essentially, “storymapping” is a method of reclaiming the dialogue and character of individuals and a community. The presenters use modern, readily available technologies, to create a map of stories in cities around the world. Usually these cities or town have a dramatic, traumatic, or interesting story to tell, stories that speak to a forgotten time or place, stories that have been embellished or changed over time, or stories that are happening at the moment. Individuals who participate are asked to tell a story, any story of a place – they are not interviewed. The stories are recorded and/or videotaped, edited and uploaded, and then the people (encouraged by signs placed in the locations of each of the stories) call a phone number and hear the story. The program is supplemented by a website with video of some of the individuals telling their stories at the locations they are talking about. The Center of Digital Storytelling has worked with organizations and individuals in 16 cities, all over the world. Generally, each project is promoted signs, indicating which locations are represented in the project, local press and word of mouth. Some projects and their supporting organizations also host receptions and/or musical or theater performances based on the project. The technology and stories are approachable and storymapping is a community arts project any organization (willing to commit the manpower and funds) can accomplish.
Here are some of the questions participants asked after the presentation: (the answer is listed in italics)
1. Who holds the copyright for each individual story and the project as a whole? The teller always owns the story. In the future, The Center for Digital Storytelling would like to create a digital archive for the stories told in projects they work on. After 75 years, as defined by current copyright laws, the archive would be public with no restrictions or liabilities.
2. How do you find stories? Word of mouth! Once somebody tells their story, they often say we should speak to so-and-so –that is how we find most of our stories.
3. Where does the funding for these projects come from? The money comes from a variety of places including grants, community or regional philanthropic organizations, local arts councils, and/or state government. Both the Center for Digital Storytelling and Mondo Bizarro hold workshops to train staff at collaborating organizations in media use, film/sound editing and marketing techniques.
4. What technology is used for these projects? For video projects, everything from PowerPoint to iMovie can be used. There are hundreds of options for video and sound programs – you just have to do a little research. A good place to start is the NYU ITP Phonebank – the students and faculty in this program are doing innovative things – one student is working on a program that lets your plants call you when they need to be watered! (AWESOME!)
Here are some websites to check out:
You can see video of the I-Witness Central City project at: www.mondobizzaro.org
www.storycenter.org - The Center for Digital Storytelling
www.geograffiti.com - is an open-source resource that allows cell phone users to leave a “graffiti tag” of their location
http://www.museudapessoa.net/ingles/ - The largest storymapping project in the world.
www.voicethread.com - an open source resource where visitors can share stories. The site also acts as a collaborative tool for storytelling
P.S. Didn’t know what storymapping was at first – ended up loving this discussion!
General Session: Lunch, Awards, Statements on the State of the Arts, American’s for the Arts Annual Report
Fun Fact: 1200 artists, arts educators and arts administrators are attending the convention.
The general session was a wonderful mix of networking and time to reflect on the current state of the arts. I was seated between an architect from New York City who specializes in public art projects and city/organizational collaboration and the ED of an arts council in Tennessee. Bill Ivey, the guest speaker and advisor to the Obama campaign, spoke passionately about how to move forward in a new administration. He encouraged everybody to walk away and do the following: 1. Trust in your national leadership – even if it may not work as quickly as you would like, he knows first-hand how important the arts are to our new administration 2. Work hard to make your leaders follow through with their promises 3. Move from sustaining the arts in a community to the arts sustaining a community.
Lunch ended with the Americans for the Arts Annual Report where Robert Lynch, President and CEO of Americans for the Arts, highlighted four goals defined in their 3-year (2009-2011) strategic plan:
1. Strengthening informed leaders – from emerging leaders to state and national policy makers
2. Increasing resources and meaningful policies in the arts
3. A better understanding of the broad value of the arts
4. Ensure the organizational stability of Americans for the Arts.
At the general session I had (what I think is) a great idea – let’s put together a resource library for the Emerging Upstate Arts Professionals. The idea came to me while Bill Ivey was discussing and (admittedly) shamelessly, promoting his book, published in 2008, Arts Inc., Let me know what you think – would you use a resource library? What books and/or publications should we include? Does anybody know of any grants or funding opportunities for something like this….for a group that is not a 501c3?
The general session was a wonderful mix of networking and time to reflect on the current state of the arts. I was seated between an architect from New York City who specializes in public art projects and city/organizational collaboration and the ED of an arts council in Tennessee. Bill Ivey, the guest speaker and advisor to the Obama campaign, spoke passionately about how to move forward in a new administration. He encouraged everybody to walk away and do the following: 1. Trust in your national leadership – even if it may not work as quickly as you would like, he knows first-hand how important the arts are to our new administration 2. Work hard to make your leaders follow through with their promises 3. Move from sustaining the arts in a community to the arts sustaining a community.
Lunch ended with the Americans for the Arts Annual Report where Robert Lynch, President and CEO of Americans for the Arts, highlighted four goals defined in their 3-year (2009-2011) strategic plan:
1. Strengthening informed leaders – from emerging leaders to state and national policy makers
2. Increasing resources and meaningful policies in the arts
3. A better understanding of the broad value of the arts
4. Ensure the organizational stability of Americans for the Arts.
At the general session I had (what I think is) a great idea – let’s put together a resource library for the Emerging Upstate Arts Professionals. The idea came to me while Bill Ivey was discussing and (admittedly) shamelessly, promoting his book, published in 2008, Arts Inc., Let me know what you think – would you use a resource library? What books and/or publications should we include? Does anybody know of any grants or funding opportunities for something like this….for a group that is not a 501c3?
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