Schedule At-A-Glance
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Registration Open |
| 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Public Art Preconference Dine-Arounds |
| 8:00 am - 9:00 am | Preconference Breakfast |
| 8:00 am - 6:00 pm | Registration and CenterStage Open |
| 9:00 am - 6:00 pm | Intercultural Leadership Preconference |
| 9:00 am - 6:00 pm | Public Art Preconference - Partnerships, Artists and Community |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Public Art Five in Five Presentations |
| 8:00 am - 8:30 am | Preconference Breakfast |
| 8:00 am - 11:00 am | United Arts Funds Summer Meeting |
| 8:00 am - 6:00 pm | Registration and CenterStage Open |
| 8:30 am - 11:00 am | Intercultural Leadership Preconference |
| 8:30 am - 11:00 am | Public Art Preconference - Partnerships, Artists and Community |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | State Arts Agencies/State Arts Action Network Combined Meeting |
| 10:00 am - 11:30 am | Newcomers and New-at-Heart Meet-and-Greet |
| 10:00 am - 11:30 am | Newcomers and New-at-Heart Meet-and-Greet |
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Opening Plenary and Lunch |
| 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Networking Break |
| 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Concurrent Sessions |
| 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Equity in the Panel Room |
| 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm | How to Write a Public Art Emergency Preparedness Plan |
| 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Incorporating Mindfulness in Your Organization |
| 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Meet and Ask the National Endowment for the Arts |
| 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Preparing Boards and Commissions for Systems Change |
| 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Readability as a Tool for Access and Equity |
| 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Succeeding at Complex Partnerships |
| 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Using Arts-And Communication Frames to Increase Public Value |
| 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Networking Break |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Advocacy Rules of the Road |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Concurrent Sessions |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Creating Dedicated Funding Streams |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Creative Economy in Rural Places |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Evaluation Round-Up |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Investing in Accessibility |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Mapping Arts Education to Pursue Both Policy and Equity |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Perfecting Your Escalator Pitch |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Public Art at the Intersection of Gentrification and Resistance |
| 6:00 pm - 6:45 pm | Arts Action Fund Reception and Fundraiser |
| 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Opening Reception at the Commons |
| 9:00 pm - 12:00 am | On-Your-Own Exploration of Northern Spark Festival |
| 8:00 am - 8:45 am | Job Title Affinity Groups Breakfast |
| 8:00 am - 6:00 pm | Registration and CenterStage Open |
| 8:45 am - 9:00 am | Break |
| 9:00 am - 9:45 am | Affinity Groups |
| 9:00 am - 9:45 am | LGBTQIA Affinity Group |
| 9:00 am - 9:45 am | People of Color Affinity Group |
| 9:00 am - 9:45 am | What Are DEI-Related Affinity Groups, and Why are they Useful? |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Networking Break |
| 10:45 am - 12:15 pm | Saturday Plenary and Leadership Awards |
| 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm | Networking Lunch |
| 1:15 pm - 1:45 pm | Networking Break |
| 1:45 pm - 3:00 pm | 4 Common Business Challenges and How Business is Using the Arts to Address Them |
| 1:45 pm - 3:00 pm | Brushing Up Your HR Toolkit |
| 1:45 pm - 3:00 pm | Changing and Honoring the Narrative of Military Experience |
| 1:45 pm - 3:00 pm | Concurrent Sessions |
| 1:45 pm - 3:00 pm | Managing and Supporting Positive Disruption in Your Organization |
| 1:45 pm - 3:00 pm | New Policy Mechanisms to Further Equity |
| 1:45 pm - 3:00 pm | Recognizing and Dismantling Inequitable Default Systems |
| 1:45 pm - 3:00 pm | Research Round-Up |
| 1:45 pm - 3:00 pm | Spectacular Failures! |
| 1:45 pm - 5:15 pm | ARTventure Tours |
| 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Networking Break |
| 3:30 pm - 4:15 pm | Case Study Concurrent Sessions |
| 3:30 pm - 4:15 pm | Community Cohesion: Hyde Square Task Force/Artes Pa'lante |
| 3:30 pm - 4:15 pm | Education: The Wooden Floor |
| 3:30 pm - 4:15 pm | Health/Wellness: Musicians on Call |
| 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm | Science/Environment: Water Bar |
| 4:15 pm - 4:45 pm | Networking Break |
| 4:45 pm - 6:00 pm | Concurrent Sessions |
| 4:45 pm - 6:00 pm | Encouraging Arts-And Lenses in Corporate Giving Programs |
| 4:45 pm - 6:00 pm | How Does Arts Education Fit in the School Choice Policy Landscape? |
| 4:45 pm - 6:00 pm | Incubating Local Talent to Grow the Creative Economy |
| 4:45 pm - 6:00 pm | Localizing Social Impact Decisionmaker Education |
| 4:45 pm - 6:00 pm | Place-Based Experiments in Intercultural Leadership Development |
| 4:45 pm - 6:00 pm | Racial Equity in Local Arts Agencies |
| 4:45 pm - 6:00 pm | You Should Think About Running for Local Political Office |
| 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Meet-the-Members Reception (open to all) |
| 8:00 am - 11:30 am | Registration and CenterStage Open |
| 9:00 am - 9:45 am | Emerging Leaders Thread |
| 9:00 am - 9:45 am | Rural Thread |
| 9:00 am - 10:30 am | Actually Using the Data Piling Up on that Desk |
| 9:00 am - 10:30 am | Concurrent Sessions |
| 9:00 am - 10:30 am | Cultivating Influencers into Allies |
| 9:00 am - 10:30 am | Dismantling Racially-Driven Barriers to the Creative Economy |
| 9:00 am - 10:30 am | How to Make and Use a Theory of Change |
| 9:00 am - 10:30 am | Turning Lessons Learned into Action Steps for Disaster Preparedness |
| 9:45 am - 10:30 am | Arts Education Thread |
| 9:45 am - 10:30 am | Mid-Career Thread |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Networking Break |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Closing Keynote |
