Page 6 - ABC 2016 Annual Report

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Exhibition of work by Walter Feldman Fellow, Julia Csekö.
YEAR IN REVIEW
This past year at the A&BC was one of excitement, growth, and impact.
• We completed our merger with the Fort Point Cultural Coalition (FPCC), the co-developer of Midway Studios in South Boston. This merger formed the basis of our new creative space initiative, Creative Campus.
• Our newer artist development programs, the Creative Entrepreneur Fellowship and the Walter Feldman Fellowship for Emerging Artists, hit their stride, graduating talented and diverse artists who are making their mark in Greater Boston and beyond.
• Our Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts program assisted approximately 260 artists and arts organizations with their legal needs.
• In partnership with the world’s largest online auction house, Invaluable.com, we created an open marketplace for contemporary artists. Since its launch in April, the online gallery has been quickly gaining momentum and is, at the time of this report, host to 66 pieces of ne art.
• We led or facilitated more than 30 educational events, including Get on Board trainings, professional development seminars at local colleges, speaking engagements for out-of-state arts councils and conferences, multiple nonpro t incorporation seminars, and a series of business programs for the North Bennet Street School and the Gri n Museum of Photography.
• We ran a successful fiscal sponsorship program, which included supporting the highly lauded Butterfly Music Transgender Chorus.
• This year also saw the launch of the Creative Campus, a mission-driven real estate initiative that seeks to invest in the arts sector and its diverse people, organizations, and communities.
• To better communicate these programs and initiatives to our constituents and funders, we also redesigned our website and created an animated “explainer” video.
YEAR IN REVIEW