Category: Arts

Audio features and interviews on the arts, centered around Charlottesville, Virginia.

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PCA’s Arts Access Project: Outcomes and Strategies for the Future

Since September 2008, the Piedmont Council of the Arts has been holding a series of Creative Conversations in order to help grow the region’s artistic community. On April 20, 2010, the PCA convened a discussion on its new Arts Access Project.

Featured Arts Access partners opened up the conversation by sharing lessons learned from the project’s pilot year. A group discussion then explored follow-up strategies for expanding the project to further address access to the arts and audience development in our community.

Strategies identified by the group will be implemented by PCA with funding from Altria Group, Inc.

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Charlottesville Right Now: 2-26-10 Meghan Eckman and Christopher Hlad

Filmakers Meghan Eckman and Christopher Hlad join Coy Barefoot to talk about their documentary on a special place where people park their cars on the Corner. The Parking Lot Movie examines the attendants as they mete out a unique kind of justice while monitoring the many vehicles that use the lot daily. The film will be shown at the South by Southwest Festival next month, and will have its premiere in Charlottesville at the Paramount Theatre on March 27th, 8pm.

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Arts & Economic Development: National Initiatives and Ideas for Charlottesville

Charlottesville is home to many artists and arts organizations. But, is our community fully capitalizing on its own reputation? That was the general topic of the latest in a series of Creative Conversations facilitated by the Piedmont Council of the Arts.

Our recording begins with Maggie Guggenheimer, PCA’s executive director. After a brief round of introductions, she describes an effort in Chattanooga called CreateHere.

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Following Phish on the Internet

The jam band Phish closed its reunion tour Saturday night with a sold-out show in Charlottesville, Virginia. Phish never had a hit single but still grew to be a national sensation by encouraging fans to record their shows and share them for free with other
fans, called Phish-heads. Producer Lydia Wilson talked with a Central Virginia Phish-head who remembers following the band before the internet.

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PCA Community Conversation: Dos & Don’ts for Collaborative Arts Education Projects & Partnerships

On October 26, 2009, the Piedmont Council of the Arts held the latest in a series of Creative Conversations. The project is a chance to bring representatives from different arts organizations together in order to share ideas. This time around, the topic centered around the idea of developing partnerships across many different non-profit groups.

After a round of introductions, Greg Kelly of the Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative and Pete O’Shea of SiteWorks began discussing how they were able to forge the StoryLine project in collaboration with the Piedmont Council of the Arts, the Charlottesville Parks and Recreation Department, and the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Freedom of Expression. Afterwards, the panel and participants had a conversation about what worked, what didn’t, and what lessons can be learned to inspire similar collaborations in the future.