Open Engagement is an international conference and platform to support socially engaged art.

Joined February 2010
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Congratulations to our very own Assistant Director Latham Zearfoss for being named one of New City’s Art 50 2018: Chicago’s Artists’ Artists! art.newcity.com/2018/08/30/a…
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Last week at @ACREresidency the Open Engagement team began work on an Arts Administrators' Bill of Rights. What would you want to see included? #artsadministration
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The OE Team is @ACREresidency all week.
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#FBF to our poster on publics from OE 2013. #openengagement
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Questions to the field collected following the last Open Engagement conference.⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ This weeks question:⠀ How do we create more access?
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Each Wednesday we will share out a question to the field collected at the last Open Engagement conference.⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ This weeks question:⠀ How can we create work that is meaningful and useful? ⠀ #openengagement#100questions#sociallyengagedart
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Next up in our visual annotated bibliography:⠀ Cartiere and Zebracki, The Everyday Practice of Public Art: Art, Space and Social Inclusion, 2016, Routledge Annotation: Book features a history of Open Engagement. #sociallyengagedart #openengagement #publicpractice #publicart
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Breaking news! All of the OE 2018 featured presentations are now up on our youtube channel, including Mel Chin​, Lucy Lippard, the OE organizers conversation with Laura Raicovich​ and Paul Ramirez Jonas​. youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
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Next up in our visual annotated bibliography:⠀ Temporary Services, Group Work, 2007, Printed Matter Inc. A favorite, full of beautiful quotes on the nature, struggles, and beauty of collective work. #groupwork #collectiveimpulse #temporaryservices
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How will we sustain these practices when the funding has moved on to the next hot topic? ⠀⠀ How do you currently support your practice? Who gets funding? What are better ways?⠀
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Every Monday OE Director and founder @jendelosreyes will share a selection from her personal library of books surveying the history of art and social practice. ⠀ ⠀ Next up in this visual bibliography:⠀ ⠀ Stephen Wright, Toward a Lexicon of Usership, 2013, VanAbbemuseum⠀
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Each Monday OE Director and founder @jendelosreyes will share a book from her personal library surveying the history of art and social practice. 1st up in this visual bibliography: Lucy Lippard, “What Do You See? Think? Say? Private and Public Responses to Art”, 1976
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We are reaching out to our community to ask how we should move forward? We want to serve as a site of care for the field, and we can’t do so without direct input from you! Take the survey today: openengagement.info/survey-f…

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Our friends @badatsports have posted their Open Engagement coverage! badatsports.com/ and more still to come. Check it out!

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We want your reflections on the past 10 years of Open Engagment! openengagement.info/17090-2/

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Did you miss the incredible Lucy Lippard talk at #OE2018 @QueensMuseum ? Don't fret, our friends @MakerParkRadio live streamed it! More documentation to come from the OE team in the coming weeks. livestream.com/makerparkradi…

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Love seeing the sharing continue! x.com/_eeems_/status/9960389…

Another gem from Mel Chin x.com/wileycount/status/9956…

"Do not chase down disasters to make your art....that's some ambulance-chasing bullshit." - Mel Chin @OPENENGAGEMENT #OpenEngagement #oe2018
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Love this question from the @LACountyArts session x.com/_eeems_/status/9958040…

Great takeaways from the @decolonize_this training x.com/atofighi/status/995884…

"Who's your affinity group? You don't necessarily need a bunch of artists; you need people with skills who share the same politics" - Amin Hussain on organizING and artING. Thank you for inspirING. #decolonizethisplace @amh2011newyork @OPENENGAGEMENT @decolonize_this