Organizational Stability Grant

ARAC's Organizational Stability funds will be directed to sustaining the arts and artists. Our approach is not just more artists producing more art and making more money, though we believe our project will produce that immediate result. The ARAC goal an this project also addresses sustainability, which OACC has studied as an organization and through its logic model has developed projects that build our constituents' understanding of its key concepts: 1) the interconnectedness and interdependence of self, community and system; 2) that every organism/system goes through stages; 3) systems function because of diversity; 4) systems achieve equilibrium when resources are shared to meet the needs of living things across places and generations; 4) every system has a carrying capacity; 5) every place has its own needs and limits; 6) every action has effects beyond immediate reactions; 7) and elements of systems affect each other and are connected through larger patterns. We will measure our success by assessing our constituents sense of change in their understanding of the key concepts of sustainability, as well as their perspective on each program's effectiveness in achieving artistic success as measured by OACC's indicators: INTEGRITY - ethical use of material with specific cultural origins and context. COHERENCE -constituents feeling emotional and intellectual clarity and creating meaning beyond individual experience and perspective. OPENNESS - constituents feeling welcomed and willing to consider new and sometimes contradictory perspectives. MOVEMENT - constituents undertaking productive movement flowing from the emotional experience art evokes to action on civic or social issues. STICKINESS - when creative work creates sustained resonance or impact, leading to new ways of being and doing.