Arts & Culture for ALL
DEAR FRIENDS, It’s Black History Month, so I’m going to take up some space. For the Black culture. Last year Renée Watson, founder and volunteer (read: unpaid) Executive Director
January 2020: Starting with Why
Dear Friends, While I look to January as the start of a new year and a time for intention-setting, I am reminded that the start of the year is also
2019: Deep Listening, Intentional Building
Dear Friends, In June, I decided to take my own advice. For years, I’d hear Red Olive Clients and Black Art Futures Fund (BAFF) grantees speak about capacity and their
Small Ship, Big Sails: Asset-based Storytelling
Dear Friends, We’re here. The end of 2019 is upon us. While we at Red Olive are working with almost 15 groups across the country to tell their organization’s story
When Going Gets Tough: Managing Barriers to Local Arts Patronage
I’ve been thinking about DéLana’s most recent monthly letter, in which she describes using a local arts calendar to find distraction and comfort in the weeks following her father’s death.
Finding Solice in Local
Dear Friends, Last September, when my father died, I had been in South Carolina for two months and stayed for a third month to be with my mother and continue
