Ms. Deb Vaughn
Maintaining the Post-Conference Euphoria
Posted by Mar 15, 2011 0 comments
Ms. Deb Vaughn
One of the big pieces of my job as a state arts education coordinator is to, well, coordinate.
And it’s one thing to bring people together face-to-face (although there are certainly challenges: travel expenses, coordinating schedules, finding an agreeable geographic location, how much food to order from the caterer, etc.).
But it’s another thing entirely to connect people when they can’t meet face to face.
Three years ago, the Oregon Arts Commission started convening a yearly Arts Education Congress. The first gathering took place right after the 2008 general election, when the spirit of grassroots political action was high.
We invited people from all sides of the arts education Venn diagram to serve as voluntary delegates at this event, looking forward to dialogue with people who dipped their toes in the arts education pool from all different angles.
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