Contact:
Victoria Hutter
202-682-5692
hutterv@arts.gov

9:00 a.m.

Tour of Balboa Park
Location: Start point for the tour is Village Place Drive by Natural History Museum, 1788 El Prado.

10:15 a.m.  

Tour of the NTC Promenade, former Naval Training Center in Point Loma
Location: Start point for the tour is Command Center, 2640 Historic Decatur Road.

2:00 – 3:30 p.m.  

Public Forum: An Art Works Conversation
Location: La Jolla Playhouse, 2910 La Jolla Village Drive, Weiss Theatre
Panelists include:

• Colette Carson Royston, chair, Commission for Arts and Culture
• Victoria Hamilton, executive director, Commission for Arts and Culture
• Hugh Davies, director, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
• Vicki Estrada, chairperson, Media Arts Center/Latino Film Festival
• Lou Spisto, executive director, The Old Globe Theatre
• Jennifer Vanica, president, Market Creek Plaza-Jacobs Center
• Alan Ziter, executive director, NTC Foundation
• Christopher Ashley, artistic director, La Jolla Playhouse

LOS ANGELES: Monday, March 15
 

10:00 a.m.

Tour of Inner City Arts with Inner City President & CEO Cynthia Harnisch

10:15 a.m.  

Private briefing: Arts Education in Los Angeles, participants include:

• Mark Slavkin, vice president of education, Music Center
• Cynthia Harnisch, president and CEO, Inner City Arts
• Ayanna Hudson Higgins, director of arts education, Los Angeles County Arts Commission and Arts for All
• Cynthia Campoy-Brophy, executive director, The HeArt Project

2:30 p.m.  

Private briefing: Arts, Culture, and Urban Revitalization, participants include:

• Bert Green, Bert Green Fine Arts Gallery
• Russ Brown, executive director, Historic Downtown Business Improvement District
• Evelina Fernandez, member, Los Angeles Theatre Center/ Latino Theater Company
• Simon Pastucha, City of Los Angeles Department of City Planning/ Urban Design Studio
• Jay Lopez, executive director, Downtown Art Walk
• Pamela Huntoon, education director for Councilwoman Jan Perry and Art Walk board member
• Lillian Burkenheim, project manager, Community Redevelopment Agency
• Jessica Wethington McLean, Bring Back Broadway, Councilman Jose Huizar
• Tom Gilmore, CEO, Gilmore Associates

3:45 p.m.

Presentation: A Park for Civic and Cultural Vitality
Presentation participants include:

• Aaron Paley, president, Community Arts Resources
• Martha Welborne, managing director, Grand Avenue Project
• Howard Sherman, executive vice president and COO, Music Center
• Bill Witte, president, Related California
• Mark Rios, principal, Rios Clementi Hale Studios

5:30-6:30 p.m.

Reception: Meet & Greet with Los Angeles Arts Leaders

SAN FRANCISCO: Wednesday, March 17
 

10:15 a.m.  

Private briefing: Working Together for Arts Education, participants include:

• Frances Phillips, program director, arts, the Walter and Elise Haas Fund
• Judy Nemzoff, community arts and education director, San Francisco Arts Commission
• Thomas DeCaigny, director, Performing Arts Workshop
• Kiff Gallagher, CEO, PeaceLabs Music National Service
• John McGuirk, program director for performing arts, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
• Moy Eng, former program director for performing arts, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
• Sammi Madison, director, education programs, San Francisco Symphony
• Robert Daniels, Visual and Performing Arts Office, San Francisco Unified School District
• Steve Shapiro, executive director, San Francisco Community Music Center

2:30 p.m.  

Private briefing: San Francisco's Urban Revitalization: Past, Present, and Future, participants include:

• Elvini Padilla, executive director, Tenderloin Economic Development Project
• Joe D'Alessandro, CEO, San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau
• Rich Hills, Mayor's Office of Economic and Work Force Development
• Shannon Jackson, chair, Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies Department, University of California/Berkeley
• John Killacky, program officer, Arts and Culture, San Francisco Foundation
• Josette Melchor, executive director, Grey Area Foundation for the Arts

3:45 p.m.

Walk through Yerba Buena Cultural District. Site visits include: Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Contemporary Jewish Museum

5:30-7:00 p.m.

Reception with guests from the arts, urban design/revitalization, and education fields

OAKLAND: Thursday, March 18
 

10:30 a.m.  

Student presentations and conversation
Location: Envision Academy of Arts & Technology, 1515 Webster Street, school auditorium

Project presentations by four students, one from each of Envision's schools. This is to be followed by brief presentations from the Arts Council of Silicon Valley, Creative Commons, and ZERO1 and then conversation among students, organizational representatives, and the audience.

12:00 noon

Conclusion