Open Engagement

Open Engagement is an international conference and platform to support socially engaged art.

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Congratulations to our very own Assistant Director Latham Zearfoss for being named one of New City’s Art 50 2018: Chicago’s Artists’ Artists! https://t.co/mxHUhJhmo6

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@PRH_Houston turns 25! As part of their anniversary programming they are presenting “Social https://t.co/lnNr4Yxgi0 Justice” a day long symposium on September 8.
Open Engagement Director and founder @jendelosreyes will be participating on the panel "Beyond Social Practice" #prh25

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@PRH_Houston turns 25! Join them for “Social https://t.co/lnNr4Yxgi0 Justice” a day-long symposium on September 8 that will include OE Director and founder @Jendelosreyes

https://t.co/SdAGU4Vlx0

#projectrowhouses
#prh25

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Last week at @ACREresidency the Open Engagement team began work on an Arts Administrators' Bill of Rights. What would you want to see included?
#artsadministration

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The OE Team is @ACREresidency all week.

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#FBF to our poster on publics from OE 2013. #openengagement

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Questions to the field collected following the last Open Engagement conference.⠀⠀
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This weeks question:⠀

How do we create more access?

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Each Wednesday we will share out a question to the field collected at the last Open Engagement conference.⠀⠀
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This weeks question:⠀
How can we create work that is meaningful and useful?
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#openengagement#100questions#sociallyengagedart

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Next up in our visual annotated bibliography:⠀
Cartiere and Zebracki, The Everyday Practice of Public Art: Art, Space and Social Inclusion, 2016, Routledge

Annotation: Book features a history of Open Engagement.

#sociallyengagedart #openengagement #publicpractice #publicart

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Breaking news! All of the OE 2018 featured presentations are now up on our youtube channel, including Mel Chin​, Lucy Lippard, the OE organizers conversation with Laura Raicovich​ and Paul Ramirez Jonas​.

https://t.co/AZpQPyjpyD

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Next up in our visual annotated bibliography:⠀

Temporary Services, Group Work, 2007, Printed Matter Inc.

A favorite, full of beautiful quotes on the nature, struggles, and beauty of collective work.

#groupwork #collectiveimpulse #temporaryservices

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How will we sustain these practices when the funding has moved on to the next hot topic?
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How do you currently support your practice? Who gets funding? What are better ways?⠀

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Every Monday OE Director and founder @jendelosreyes will share a selection from her personal library of books surveying the history of art and social practice. ⠀
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Next up in this visual bibliography:⠀
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Stephen Wright, Toward a Lexicon of Usership, 2013, VanAbbemuseum⠀

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Each Monday OE Director and founder @jendelosreyes will share a book from her personal library surveying the history of art and social practice. 1st up in this visual bibliography:

Lucy Lippard, “What Do You See? Think? Say? Private and Public Responses to Art”, 1976

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We are reaching out to our community to ask how we should move forward? We want to serve as a site of care for the field, and we can’t do so without direct input from you! Take the survey today:
https://t.co/WJlnvgw8B0

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Our friends @badatsports have posted their Open Engagement coverage! https://t.co/DdQcTjPLup and more still to come. Check it out!

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We want your reflections on the past 10 years of Open Engagment! https://t.co/Nfkz7vz5MM

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Did you miss the incredible Lucy Lippard talk at #OE2018 @QueensMuseum ? Don't fret, our friends @MakerParkRadio live streamed it!

More documentation to come from the OE team in the coming weeks. https://t.co/o6i2CPW8Tz

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Love seeing the sharing continue! https://t.co/ZMIhYfMM2d

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Another gem from Mel Chin https://t.co/tJgjXT3Ljv

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"Do not chase down disasters to make your art....that's some ambulance-chasing bullshit." - Mel Chin @OPENENGAGEMENT #OpenEngagement #oe2018