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To expand the number of practitioners with understanding of the principles and practices of effective community engagement, ArtsEngaged conducts workshops for groups and provides training for individuals. Individual training is designed for staff members or volunteers to put into practice in their own organizations.
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The Team
CEO
Doug Borwick
Doug Borwick is a leading advocate for community engagement in the arts. He is author of Engaging Matters, a blog for ArtsJournal, author/editor of Building Communities, Not Audiences: The Future of the Arts in the U.S., and author of Engage Now! A Guide to Making the Arts Indispensable. Dr. Borwick has served as keynote speaker and workshop presenter at conferences across the U.S. and Canada as well as in Beijing, Singapore, Australia, and Chile. Notably, he has been featured speaker for statewide arts gatherings in Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Wisconsin as well as for the Canadian Arts Summit in Banff, Alberta. In addition, he is CEO of ArtsEngaged, offering training and consultation services to artists and arts organizations seeking to engage with their communities more effectively as well as CEO of Outfitters4, Inc., providing management services for nonprofit organizations.
Doug Borwick is an artist. He holds the Ph.D. in Music Composition from the Eastman School of Music and is an award-winning member of ASCAP. He gained experience as an arts administrator and producer working with the Arts Council of Rochester (NY) and through founding and leading the NC Composers Alliance in the mid-1980’s.
Dr. Borwick is an educator, having served for nearly thirty years as Director of the Arts Management and Not-for-Profit Management Programs at Salem College in Winston-Salem, NC. (He was named Salem Distinguished Professor in 1997.) He has served as President of the Board of the Association of Arts Administration Educators.
Trainers
ArtsEngaged is proud to have a growing number of individuals from around the country who are prepared to lead arts organizations in preparing and planning to engage more effectively with their communities.
Anne Cushing-Reid
Director Engagement, Special Programs & Partnerships, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music
A passionate advocate for access to arts experiences for all people, at CCM Anne Cushing-Reid brings together the artistic excellence of CCM students, faculty, and staff with a variety of partners in schools, neighborhoods, and beyond. She leads CCM’s partnership with Lives United: Music, Arts & Community (LUMAC) an initiative located in the Mt. Auburn neighborhood of Cincinnati. Additionally, she serves as an adjunct faculty member teaching arts education and community engagement for the Arts Administration graduate program.
For more than 25 years, Anne worked for the Cincinnati Symphony and Pops Orchestra (CSO) in a series of positions leading to her 2009 appointment as Senior Director of Community Engagement and Learning. In that capacity, she led the Orchestra’s community engagement, educational and regionalization initiatives and developed strategies that increased the reach of the orchestra’s programs by more than 80%. Anne’s team created the CSO’s Classical Roots concerts, celebrating the richly diverse African American musical experience with a 150-voice community mass choir.
Jason Holland has been at Segerstrom Center for the Arts, serving the communities of Southern California, for over 17 years. He has built and sustained impactful school and community programs, partnerships, and overseen audience engagement initiatives for Segerstrom Center during his tenure; culminating with the creation of a new, discrete department for the organization – Community Engagement. Jason serves on a number of local Boards including two Chambers of Commerce and the Institute for Community Impact. He has completed a certification in Arts and Culture Strategy through National Arts Strategies through the University of Pennsylvania and participated in the Senior Executive Symposium at Cornell through the International Association of Venue Managers. Locally, Jason founded the Orange County Community Relations Collaborative comprised of external relations/community engagement professionals across multiple ‘pillars’ in a community (arts, business, government, family services, faith, healthcare, and education) in an effort to share best practices and create deeper field building in the area of community engagement.
Jason Holland
Vice President of Community Engagement, Segerstrom Center for the Arts