New Urban Arts: Announcing our Spring 2010 Conversation Series

March 24: A conversation moderated by Abigail Satinsky
On Organizing for Creative Practice

Abigail Satinksy is the co founder of InCubate, a research institute in Chicago dedicated to new approaches to arts administration and funding. InCUBATE stands for the Institute for Community Understanding Between Art and the Everyday. InCUBATE organizes exhibitions, publications, lectures, and produces artists projects. The core organizational principle is to treat art administration as a creative practice. By doing so, the hope is to generate and share a new vocabulary of practical and experimental solutions to the issues of independently producing contemporary art. Abigail is currently in residence as a fellow at the JNBC at Brown University, where she is working on a series of articles that document artist-initiated creative funding models. These will take the form of interviews and a catalog of artist projects to spark a dialogue about the ways artists, administrators, and organizers are re-imagining infrastructures of support for their work and the challenges they are facing on a pragmatic level in making it happen.