artist-in-residence benchmarking report and other ideas

[Mike Nutt]

Hi all,

At last week's Liberact conference, we heard about some interesting collaborations between libraries and artists. I was reminded of a benchmarking report produced by Golan Levin, Director of the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University. Though it's 6 years old at this point, it's still really useful for understanding the process, and it has a particular focus on issues of intellectual property, which came up at Liberact. 

http://studioforcreativeinquiry.org/public/university_artist_in_residence_report_2013.pdf

One useful piece of feedback from the artists at Liberact is that if you are launching an artist in residence program, you should advertise the opportunity on rhizome.org: https://rhizome.org/community/opportunities/

Finally, someone should steal Jer Thorp's artist in every library idea and make it happen!

Mike