Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative

“Flash Grant” Winner:  Nathan Vonk!

Thanks to everybody who showed up for our General Meeting at the Marjorie Luke Theatre, and also the great crowd at the Carr Winery collaborating with the SB Performing Arts League.  We had a great time and got a bunch of good fundraising ideas for SBAC’s Direct-to-Artist Grants.  A special thanks to each of you who submitted your ideas, our Steering Committee reviewed all of them in detail.  The energy in that room was a testament to the power of creative collaborating.

And the winner is . . .

Nathan Vonk works at Sullivan Goss and is the creator and webmaster for The Santa Barbara Art Blog, www.sbartsblog.com.  He has a genuine collaborative ethic and has been a vital part of SBAC’s growth.  He also had a really good idea.

So good, in fact, that we decided to have a little more fun and keep it under lock and key for a while long longer.  So until we lock down the details, let’s just say it’s going to be a phenomenal event in a very unexpected location – a location that almost no one in town will ever step inside.

Stay tuned, we’ll be releasing more information in the next few weeks.

New Website v2.0

Last summer we launched our first website with about six weeks of concentrated effort from a dedicated group of volunteers – webmaster Joe LaCorte along with Kimberly Hahn, James Van Arsdale and Warren Schultheis.  After that remarkable accomplishment, they’ve hardly taken a break since.  Months were spent listening to what the arts community wanted in a collaborative web forum. We researched and built a more powerful site to facilitate collaboration between artists and arts organizations from all corners of our community.

We’ve added some important new features.  For example you can now create a personal profile showing your work, your interests, what resources you have to share and how you’d like to help.  You can contact other members and make connections.  There’s a discussion forum to post comments, articles, ideas, etc.  There’s an events calendar.  There’s a showcase to post galleries of your work, etc.

The tools are in place.  This new website is a community canvas we all can paint on – dancers connecting with musicians, painters with photographers, actors with poets, filmmakers with sculptors – the combinations are endless.  There’s a Help link that should get you though anything on the site – it’s right there on the right side of the menu.

Like any web forum . . . It’s what you make it.  So come give it a go.  If you’re already registered, complete your profile, put up pics, etc.  If you’re new, make sure you register.  Some of you who registered recently at the old site may have gotten lost in the transition so try to login and re-register if necessary.
Huge props to Joe and the web committee for their dedication and hard work.  The power of collaboration and volunteerism at its finest.

Let’s collaborate!

SBAC

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