HOW WE SERVE THE GENERAL PUBLIC

PUBLISHING: RECOMMENDED PRACTICES

ISC provides substantive and accurate scholarly research that supports ground-breaking policies aimed at improving current practices in pedagogy, hiring systems, outreach, and professional development in all of the arts. We will become a center for the ongoing collection of professional development curricula taught in academia and other institutions in order to find threads between, and to make recommendations on, best practices.

All of our publishing will support and inform every aspect of our focused areas. As we collaborate with partners, we will provide current research to share with each. We will make real-time data available on our website to support our consulting and resource-connecting efforts. And all of our advocacy strategies will be backed up by past, current, and future studies, reports, and data sets.

Key Components:

Identifying, mapping and growing a database of generous arts community leaders to share and distribute.

• Culling data from grass-roots efforts.

• Leveraging our partnership collaborations to exchange and publish research findings.

• Gathering recommendations by selected ISC mentors.

• Sharing recommendations to elevate and expand arts journalism in regional hubs, thereby strengthening published writings in smaller communities (artists writing on artists’ works and their lives, alternative ideas of art criticism, etc.).

• Collecting Professional Development curriculum from every academic institution and organization across the US to analyze, make recommendations, publish and distribute widely.

• Providing nuanced and detailed Professional Development curriculum to all artists.

• Leveraging our website to distribute reports, findings, and other important resources.

Why It’s Needed:

Although the arts research landscape is generally well-funded, there is a need to share the micro-pathways that are helping to sustain careers in the arts. Collecting and publishing professional development curriculum in a central database hub will allow comparisons between the old and the new, unveiling connections previously missed. Based on meetings of thousands of artists in person over the past 10 years, we have learned how important it is to collate data from the front lines of the arts ecosystem.

Identifying important arts leaders is also essential in community building and will contribute to making the arts landscape more transparent. No other entity has compiled this type of data, and ISC will build upon what has been gathered to collaborate with other grass-roots organizations and their findings.

DEAI focus:

All information and initiatives are transparent and shared with artists of color, different abilities, women, and those who reside in underserved and underrepresented communities in order to create tangible, pragmatic solutions for sustaining their creative lives.