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We center creative worker leadership, while enabling allies to collaborate effectively
Values
We honor the legacy of this work.
We are powerful, curious, and action-oriented.
We treat others with love, care, compassion, and respect.
We build power within our communities and in alliance with others to win collective freedom for all.
We take responsibility for working on the problems we identify.
We build reciprocity, solidarity and mutual support into every relationship we foster.
We build trustworthiness through consistent accountable, transparent, and clear engagement and communication.
We value pluralism, process, and context as integral to how we work.
We value the dignity of working artists without the need to prove their worth.
We acknowledge multiple ways of being, knowing, and communicating. There is a strength in a multiplicity of voices.
We center the voices and perspectives of those operating at the margins.
*The NAPA Co-Design Team developed these values to guide the early phase of this work. We expect to iterate them as our work evolves.
Community Working Groups
Community Working Groups
NAPA is organized around two groups of stakeholders: our core community of creative and cultural workers to whom we are accountable, and the institutional partners we collaborate with to drive systems change.
Each quarter, NAPA will host Open Meetings where we evaluate progress towards goals, and iterate our strategies and action plans. Anyone who self-identifies as a NAPA community member may join those meetings, which will be divided into Working Groups to facilitate effective collaboration.
We intend to start hosting open meetings as soon as NAPA staff is in place. In the meantime, we are hosting Open Office Hours in June and July to connect and answer any questions that you may have.
Governing Board
The NAPA Governing Board is responsible for setting NAPA’s annual strategy, goals, and objectives, participating in quarterly learning and iteration, and advising United States Artists on resource allocation and staffing decisions.
Adia Sykes
Althea Erickson
Arturo Méndez-Reyes
Cézanne Charles
Claire Rice
David Holland
Emily Washines
Evan Bissell
Gabrielle Chapman
Gustavo Herrera
Judilee Reed
Kara Elliot-Ortega
Sarah Calderon
Ted Russell
Staff
We are hiring our first three team members, hired in the following order:
Co-Director, Organizing
Co-Director, Advocacy & Policy
Co-Director, Stewardship.
These Co-Directors will work in a distributed leadership model, with shared decision-making power and distinct areas of responsibility aligned to NAPA’s strategy. In year one, they will be accountable to the CEO of United States Artists or their delegated representative.
Applications for the Co-Director, Organizing are open now.
Institutional Support
NAPA is being incubated by United States Artists, with funding from Good Chaos, The Barr Foundation, The Doris Duke Foundation, The Hewlett Foundation, and The Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
Over time, as NAPA becomes an independent entity, accountability and reporting will transition from United States Artists to the NAPA Governing Board.
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