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Red Eye will extend the continuum of opportunities for the authentic engagement of the next generation of artists and artistic leadership. Outcomes: Red Eye will launch a two-year pilot program for an artist fellow position designed to provide a practical overview of day-to-day operations, along with programming and production experience. At least one of fiscal year 2012's Works-In-Progress artists will be offered a chance to further develop his/her work as a participant in the fiscal year 2013 Isolated Acts program. The Isolated Acts artists submit narrative evaluations that address the quality of their experience in the program at Red Eye. These are reviewed by staff and shared with the Board. We use the feedback in these to tweak the program's design and to help us demonstrate the value of the program as articulated by those we serve. 2: Red Eye will be a leading facilitator of critical feedback sessions for artists developing performance works. Outcomes: Artists will learn reflective tools to help them continually improve the quality of their work, and will be provided opportunities to practice those tools. The community of artists practicing critical response protocols to dialogue about each other’s work will expand. The quality of the performances that result provide evidence of the effectiveness of these protocols. As to value, each of the artists served highlighted the critical response sessions in their evaluations as an essential component of the program.
Red Eye will extend the continuum of opportunities for the authentic engagement of the next generation of artists and artistic leadership. Not only did Red Eye feature one of the 2012 Works-In-Prog artists in the 2013 Isolated Acts program, we featured new projects by two participants from prior seasons, extending the continuum of artistic opportunities to a total of three emerging artists. In the spring, Red Eye leadership also invited two next generation artists to help design and coordinate a new program for emerging directors/choreographers, for which we are currently fundraising. This program is what the artist fellow idea has morphed into since our original application. 2: Red Eye will be a leading facilitator of critical feedback sessions for artists developing performance works. Red Eye facilitated fourteen critical response sessions during the New Works Four Weeks program, providing feedback to the artists on their pieces throughout the program's six month development period. These sessions involved the twelve primary creators, 35 additional artists collaborating on the projects, and others (artist participants from previous years, colleagues, board members, etc.). Two more sessions were held with the artists following the public performances to provide Red Eye with feedback about the program itself using the same protocols. Red Eye held one additional session in the spring for several artists who are working on a major commissioned piece to premiere at Walker Art Center.
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