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resented by:
Sally Ordway, Learning in Retirement, University of South Florida
Fran Cary, Florida Humanities Council
Shirley Foss, Senior Academy, University of South Florida, Sarasota
Bill Baker, ASPEC, Eckerd College (Moderator)
This workshop focused on ways local cultural organizations can help your
program develop highly desirable member benefits, social and program opportunities
and provide subject matter experts and other resources.
Please contact presenters for more detailed information.
Learning in Retirement, University of South Florida
• LIR offers an eight-session program that utilizes different local
experts in the field. Each session spotlights a different arts venue in
the community that ties into the over-arching topic of the program.
• For instance they offered a program entitled “Exploring
Masterworks of Greek Art: 8th through 4th Centuries, B.C.E.” that
utilized the Tampa Museum of Art and it’s Curator of Education;
the Tampa Business Committee for the Arts and its Executive Director;
The Curator of Greek and Roman Art at the Tampa Museum; and several docents
from venues that have exhibits on this topic.
• They offered another program on “The Art and Culture of
Tampa Bay.”
• This program utilized the expertise of the Executive Director
of the Hillsborough County Art Council, the Director of Arts and Culture
for Tampa; the Executive Director of the Tampa Bay Business Committee
for the Arts, local actors, playwrights and theater founders, the musical
director of the Chamber Orchestra of Florida, a jazz performer, the Director
of the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, fine artists, representatives
from the Dali and Tampa Bay Art Museums, and exhibitions and performances.
• The third all-encompassing arts program they offered was entitled
“Introduction to Sculpture: Construction Techniques, Processes,
Types.”
• This eight-week program utilizes local sculptors, tours of museums
and studios, hands-on demonstrations and a review of great works of sculpture
art.
Florida Humanities Council
• Get to know your local Humanities Council—The FHC has over
30 years of exploring the Florida experience: distribute
• Applications and guidelines, information brochure, issues of FORUM
were distributed.
• A brief overview of Grant program guidelines was discussed
• The FHC supports public programs that feature history, literature,
anthropology
• and other humanities disciplines
• It is important to create good partnerships that have long-term
benefit for your own organization
• Some other FHC programs: The Gathering, a cultural tourism weekend;
Speakers Bureau,
to get a good speaker for a program that's open to the public; FORUM,
our magazine
about Florida heritage and culture.
• There are Humanities Councils in every state just waiting to send
scholars and historians to your LLI with educationally-oriented special
events, thanks to grants the Councils have awarded to the presenters.
To find the Council in your state go to the national website of state
councils at http://www.neh.gov/whoweare/statecouncils.html
Senior Academy, University of South Florida, Sarasota
Here are some examples of the many Arts organizations and events Senior
Academy has used.
• Sarasota Ballet
• Romanticism Through the Ages
• Asolo Theater
• Florida Studio Theater
• 20th Century Humanities
• Players Theater
• And all that Jazz
• Community Theater
• Victorian Art and Literature
• Sarasota Opera Fieldtrip
• Chippendale and all that
• Preparing for 4 Operas at Sarasota Opera
• Oriental Poetry
• Storytellers
• History of Classical Music
• Wealth of Art in Sarasota
• Famous Opera Singers
• Art Gallery Hopping-Main St and Palm Ave
• How Broadway Musicals Evolved
• Bradenton Area Artists
• Four Famous Films
• Towles Court Artists
• Mote Marine
• Asian Museum
• Wonders of World: Travel Agents
• Arts by the Bay: Outdoor Sculpture show
• Sarasota School of Architecture
• New College/USF Art Offerings: Sainer Hall
• Ringling School of Art and Design, Selby Gallery
• Ringling Museum
• CadZan
• Statuary gardens at Ringling Museum
• Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg
• Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg
• Art galleries around St. Petersburg
• Gulf Coast Museum, Largo
• Prizewinning Play Author
Here are some examples of how they have utilized other community
resources:
• Faculty of USF: Education, Economics, Latin American English,
• Panels or symposium of lawyers, travel agents
• Religious leaders leading a series on World Religions, Middle-East
Archeology,
• Agricultural extension agents discussing ecology, horticulture,
Florida House
• State and county Archeologist
• Sarasota and Manatee county historians for series of our history
• Media: Sarasota, Bradenton, and smaller local publishers: Channel
6 and 40
• Retired Diplomatic service personnel
• Criminal Justice System: ad litum, courts, public safety, corrections,
local,etc
• Alternative therapies, Doctors,
• Financial consultants
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September 7, 2008
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