Workshops

ArtsEngaged offers customizable workshops on topics related to community engagement and the arts.
These can be tailored for boards of directors, staff members, donors, artists, or students.
Some samples are listed below.

To learn more about workshop content and more workshop topics, visit Services Overview.

Community engagement: Myths, Motives, & Means

Community engagement holds great potential for invigorating arts organizations and supporting healthier communities. Unfortunately, there is much misunderstanding about what it is and what it is not. This facilitated conversation, designed for arts organizations’ internal stakeholders, will address the relevant issues and lay the groundwork for efforts to increase relevance to the community.

arts and community engagement: new thinking Yields new options

This workshop, designed for practicing artists who want to develop a community focus in their work, examines the close connection between arts entrepreneurship and community engagement.

Engaging for success

This workshop is intended for those interested in or curious about the potential that community engagement represents for the arts. Its focus is on relevant background, definitions, and advocacy regarding the importance of engagement for the future of the arts.

Engagement: making it real

ArtsEngaged's flagship offering, this workshop provides opportunity to examine how community engagement can be incorporated into the fabricof what arts organizations already do, recognizing the fact that resources do not exist to "do one more thing."

• Part I–Understanding Engagement
  Terminology, rationales for, misunderstandings about, and principles of successful community engagement.
• Part II–The Engagement Process
  An overview of the process of planning for and implementing community engagement strategies.

Preparing artists for the future: A Higher education residency

Presentations for students and consultation with faculty on preparation for careers in the arts that understand the importance of community focus–awareness, communication, and experience in the skills required to effectively interact with the public.

Custom workshop

For presentations, workshops, residencies, and certificate programs. More topics and workshop content, visit Services Overview.

understanding engagement - 1 session

This training is designed for board members, upper level staff of arts organizations, anyone else wishing to better understand community engagement as it applies to the arts. It introduces basic concepts of and rationales for community engagement.

CET Cohort model - 5 sessions

This training is designed for anyone (organization-based teams or individuals) interested in helping arts organizations connect more deeply with their communities. It emphasizes the means of implementing a community engagement agenda.