MKE Creative Community

March 04th, 2009 | Category: Inspiration

This blog post is meant to be a brainstorming session about building a Milwaukee-based creative community social network. I’m just throwing out thoughts - please comment and discuss, suggest things, disagree. Please note that I’m not pro or con any thing on these lists - I’m just putting questions out there that occur to me.
(If it would be helpful, a wiki might be a good idea if this is something people really want to talk about.)

What is it for?

Communication
Mutual Support
-monetary?
-attendance?
-planning?
-sharing resources?
-sharing information and experiences?
Collaboration
Events
Venues
Common Voice for legislation or activism
Calendar

Questions?
Who would be a part of it?
–dancers?
–traditional art?
–designers (graphic)
–designers (textile) (Fashion Ninja, Fasten, costume designers)
–crafters (ala art vs. craft?)
–tattoo artists?
–writers?
–writing groups?
–actors?
–bands?
–spoken word?
–theatres?
–clubs?
–bars?
–galleries?
–radio stations
–events? (festivals?)
–stores? (paper boat? broadway paper?)
–Bucketworks
–venues?
–studios? (like, dance studios that might host training seminars, etc.)
–newspapers?
–museums?
–art & music teachers?
–art schools? MIAD? School of the Arts?
–art students?
–current media that lists artistic events? Footlights?
–twitterers (ArtCity?)

What is the definition of a member? Do we even want to go here? Will it be open to anyone? Aspiring artists? People who just want to be a part of the artistic crowd? Will there have to be a proven connection to art or interest in art, or ??

Size of Artist matter? For example, is this for local artists that are not supported by UPAF? Bel Canto Choir? The MKE Symphony? The MKE Ballet? Ko-Thi? Or just smaller artists? Is this for ALL MKE art? Is this for smaller artists?

What is Local? City of Milwaukee? Greater Milwaukee area? What does that include?

Presence? Live and Virtual? Regular meetings, like Fuel Milwaukee? An Organization? Or more like a community collective?

What do you envision? Give me an example of interaction of this Creative Community.

Are there already artistic communities that exist in the area for this?

Are there artistic communities out there that already do this that we could emulate?

3 Comments so far

  1. Pete Prodoehl March 5th, 2009 3:34 pm

    Open to anyone.

    Local artists… any.

    Milwaukee-area-ish… so a 30 minute drive to Milwaukee is fine.

    Presence? Both live and online.

    Envisioning meetings, discussion (online and off) showing of work, mailing list…

    Talk to Bucketworks about this… definitely.

  2. Tarik Moody March 5th, 2009 4:14 pm

    I think their should be committee of people from media, artists, blogs, venues to have input in developing a network, if it is feasible and something people would use. Maybe a start would to develop a survey and have the community to fill it out, might be a good way to start.

  3. xponential March 5th, 2009 4:20 pm

    I guess my main question, though, is what is this social network for? WMSE seemed to emphasize that it isn’t just about communication of schedules/lineup, but be a valuable resource. Perhaps we should get a group together and brainstorm what the social network would be for, and then put together the survey from that?

    I’d like to see a description of an end vision of something this social network would provide. Are we talking social network like Drinking Liberally - the purpose of socializing, or are we talking a social network that accomplishes goals like Fuel Milwaukee?

    Thoughts?

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