Starting 20 zot-6 with a bang

ARRRRRRR! Eliott Turns Mighty Mighty 6

So we've survived the January lurch. Into the new year we bring flu, cold-bug, pirate antics and exhaustion. But we've survived the month. This weekend Sarah performs with NEWARTiculations Dance Theater for a three night run of a contemporary and playful take on an olf fairy tale, Hansel & Gretel. Not the best project they've put together, but a heartfelt attempt to open the company to a new younger audience.

As a side note, I've accepted a position on the Board of Directors for NEWART, which basically entails sipping wine and munching cheese while we try to help the modern dance company find a stronger, more substantial way of providing the kind of movement art that they've help to plant so strongly in Tucson. It should be an exciting chance to learn the ins and outs of a small non-profit arts organisation, and definitely plays into my passion for arts administration work.

I'm nearing the end of a start-stop-start effort to design a brochure for the Department of Media Arts, which has been an excersize in patience and political sensitivity...

(few days later)

This brochure will be the first step in integrating an overall visual presence through the Media Arts program. Next up is the premeir of our fundraising/ audience development "Friends group," which will directly benefit the Student Internship program, and hopefully bring in more well-known local celebs to our visiting speakers/filmmakers events.

The Friends of Media Arts group will have it's own tri-fold brochure, to compliment the content and outreach capabilities of the larger department brochure. Also - I have a few hundred square feet of wall throughout the department on which I must present the departments History, presence, mission, and "WOW." A series of significant event posters, and a "Wall of Fame," of our visiting artists/filmmakers/ scholars/ and professionals.

Also recently started developing a simple website for our student internship program. I have a couple of great student interns doing to prep work, and we'll finish this and go live in February if all goes well.

This site will serve both the students looking for internships, as well as the companies looking for interns.

More later.