GARE Innovation and Implementation Fund Arts and Culture Grant Application Copyrighted
September 21, 2020
City of Dubuque Consent Items # 18.
City Council Meeting
ITEM TITLE: GARE Innovation and Implementation Fund Arts and Culture Grant
Application
SUM MARY: City Manager recommending acceptance of a grant application submitted
on July 19, 2020, to the GovernmentAlliance on Race & Equity(GARE)
Innovation and Implementation Fund Arts and Culture Grant program to
support planning and outreach related to the Dubuque Renaissance
Project.
SUGGESTED Suggested Disposition: Receive and File;Approve
DISPOSITION:
ATTACHMENTS:
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GARE I nnovation and I mplementation Fund Arts and City Manager Memo
Culture Application-MVM Memo
Staff Memo Staff Memo
GARE Innovation and Implementation Arts and Supporting Documentation
Culture_Application
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SUBJECT: GARE Innovation and Implementation Fund Arts and Culture Application
DATE: September 16, 2020
Arts & Cultural Affairs Coordinator Jenni-Petersen-Brant is requesting City Council
acceptance of a grant application submitted on July 19, 2020, to the Government
Alliance on Race & Equity (GARE) Innovation and Implementation Fund Arts and
Culture Grant program to support planning and outreach related to the Dubuque
Renaissance Project.
I concur with the recommendation and respectfully request Mayor and City Council
approval.
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TO: Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
FROM: Jenni Petersen-Brant, Arts & Cultural Affairs Coordinator
SUBJECT: GARE Innovation and Implementation Fund Arts and Culture
Application
DATE: September 16, 2020
INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this memorandum is to seek acceptance of a grant application
submitted on 7/19/2020 to the Government Alliance on Race & Equity (GARE)
Innovation and Implementation Fund Arts and Culture Grant program to support
planning and outreach related to the Dubuque Renaissance Project (the Project).
BACKGROUND
The GARE Innovation and Implementation Fund Arts and Culture Grant program
provides flexible resources of up to $20,000 for local governments to seed projects that
are focused on eliminating structural racism. Staff identified this grant program as a
potential funding source to support planning and outreach for the Project, being
spearheaded by the Accessibility, Engagement, and Inclusion Working Group (Working
Group) of the City's Arts & Culture Master Plan.
DISCUSSION
The Project seeks to inspire and connect local arts and culture institutions, venues, and
independent artists throughout the community in collaborating to present a series of
programs throughout the 2021-22 academic year aimed at empowering and elevating
the voices of Artists of Color in our community. The Working Group, the Office of Arts &
Cultural Affairs, and Travel Dubuque are partnering to serve as a hub of coordination,
promotion, and funding procurement with a sub-committee of the Working Group,
including Alanda Gregory, Claudette Carter-Thomas, Jason Neises, John Stewart, and
myself, guiding the overall project. The steering committee intends that the Project is
adopted as a multidisciplinary, community-wide, race conscious recurring initiative
aligning with racial equity goals of the City Council and DEI-related strategies of the
City's Arts & Culture Master Plan.
To meet project objectives, the steering committee has prioritized broad community
outreach and new audience engagement through direct funding to presenters to support
new and diverse offerings alongside a centralized umbrella marketing campaign in
partnership with Travel Dubuque. The steering committee has also identified contracting
with an Artist of Color, experienced in social engagement in their artistic practice to
serve as a community-based artist-in-residence, as a strategy to achieving desired
outcomes.
The GARE Innovation and Implementation Fund Arts and Culture Grant application
requests $18,500 in grant funding with funds to be received and managed by the City's
Office of Arts & Culture Affairs. $12,000 will be regranted through a competitive
application process in Spring 2021 to local 501 c3 organizations to support activities
aligned with Project objectives; $6,500 will support outreach to engage residents and
potential visitors in Project opportunities. GARE funds would also serve as matching
funds to leverage in forthcoming funding opportunities towards the estimated $73,500
budget for the 2021-22 implementation.
BUDGETIMPACT
There is no FY21 budget impact at this time as the City is not required to match the
grant award.
Additional private and grant investment is being sought by the steering committee to
fully realize the Project's intended scope. The Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs welcomes
drafting an FY22 Improvement Package for long-term project support. In addition, the
Arts & Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission is considering aligning FY22 Special
Projects applications with this initiative.
RECOMMENDATION/ACTION STEP
I respectfully request approval of the GARE Innovation and Implementation Fund Arts
and Culture Grant application.
Cc: Jill Connors, Economic Development Director
Kelly Larson, Human Rights Director
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What is the GARE Associate Member
membership type of
the primary
applicant?
Name of Jurisdiction City of Dubuque, Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs
Level of Government Department/Office
Number of Up to 500
Employees
In your opinion, what In the early 1990's, Dubuque experienced racial strife that attracted
are the biggest national attention beginning with a cross being burnt next to the
challenges or most garage of an African-American family which caught fire. In the ruins,
significant tensions parts of the cross were found, with the inscription "KKK Lives."
around racial inequity Another cross was burned a fewweeks later. This was found to be
in the jurisdiction? the work of a group of young men who were well known racists -
Please be as several members already had criminal records. At about the same
courageously honest time, the city embarked on a plan to encourage more minorities to
as possible in move to the area. Some of the critics tried to stir up fear by telling
answering this people that the city was planning on taking a bus to a large city and
question. grab the first 100 African-Americans that they found. In reality, the
city was planning on making a recruiting drive to bring African-
American professionals to the city. The city's program, and the cross
burning polarized the community and had the effect of bringing
negative media attention to the city. The problems also attracted the
unwelcome attention of hate groups including the Ku Klux Klan which
held a rally in downtown Dubuque. Although, we do not experience
cross burnings or see hate groups speaking out in the public realm,
our African American community is unemployed at a rate 5 times that
of our White residents, see a median income that is 1/3 of our White
residents, with White residents owning homes at 8 times the rate of
African Americans.
Which past efforts or When it comes to arts and culture, and the work of the City's OfFice
initiatives to address of Arts and Cultural Affairs, efforts to address racial inequity center
racial inequity have on the incorporation of diversity, equity, and inclusion through
worked or had some aspects of the City's 2016 Arts and Culture Master Plan. Goals and
success in your priorities of this plan have created an explicit focus through DEI
jurisdiction? trainings and reporting required of arts and culture grant recipients,
shifting of the rubric of our Special Projects grants to prioritize DEI
activities, and the creation of a Master Plan working group dedicated
to DEI efforts. Throughout the City, additional successes can be
found through the development and funding of Inclusive Dubuque
with the Greater Dubuque Community Foundation, funding and
partnership with the Dream Center and the Fountain of Youth, the
establishment of the Multicultural Family Center through the City's
Leisure Services Department, and countless other programs and
initiatives. In recent weeks, Dubuque also experienced the creation of
Solidarity, a 105' by 28' mural depicted a row of raised clinched fists
in varying skin tones featuring letters and symbols spelling out
`solidarity'. This mural is the first to be painted on a public building
and was realized through a collaboration with a local artist, a local
non-profit, the City of Dubuque, and 75+ community members who
volunteered to paint.
Based on your own Somewhat ready staff and leadership
best understanding,
please rate the
jurisdiction's
readiness to take on
race-explicit
strategies for equity
in the arts.
Primary Applicant www.cityofdubuque.org/artsandculture
Website Link
All Applicants are Below, please list at least one representative from your team and an
required to commit alternate in case someone becomes unavailable.
AT LEAST ONE team
member with some
positional power and
organizational
authority to execute
all project
components.
Team Member Lead: Jenni Petersen-Brant
Name
Team Member Lead: Arts & Cultural Affairs Coordinator
Title
Team Member Lead: Caucasian
Racial Identity
Team Member Lead: jbrant@cityofdubuque.org
Email
Team Member Lead: 563-690-6059
Phone Number
Alternate Team Alanda Gregory
Member: Name
Alternate Team DRP Steering Committee Co-Chair
Member: Title
Alternate Team Black
Member: Racial
Identity
Alternate Team alandagregory11@gmail.com
Member: Email
Alternate Team 563-663-3342
Member: Phone
Number
Is there a co- No
applicant?
Which of the
following options best
describes the co-
applicant?
Please provide the
following information
if the co-applicant is
a government
jurisdiction.
Name of Co-
applicant Jurisdiction
Co-Applicant Level of
Government
Co-Applicant Number
of Employees
In your opinion, what
are the biggest
challenges or most
significant tensions
around racial inequity
in the jurisdiction?
Please be as
courageously honest
as possible in
answering this
question.
Which past efforts or
initiatives to address
racial inequity have
worked or had some
success in your
jurisdiction?
Based on your own Somewhat ready staff and leadership
best understanding,
please rate the
jurisdiction's
readiness to take on
race-explicit
strategies for equity
in the arts.
Co-Applicant
Website Link
All Applicants are Below, please list at least one representative from the co-applicant's
required to commit team and an alternate in case someone becomes unavailable.
AT LEAST ONE team
member with some
positional power and
organizational
authority to execute
all project
components.
Co-Applicant Team
Lead: Name
Co-Applicant Team
Lead: Title
Co-Applicant Team
Lead: Email
Co-Applicant Team
Lead: Racial Identity
Co-Applicant Team
Lead: Phone Number
Co-Applicant Team
Alternate: Name
Co-Applicant Team
Alternate: Title
Co-Applicant Team
Alternate: Racial
Identity
Co-Applicant Team
Alternate: Email
Co-Applicant Team
Alternate: Phone
Number
Please provide the
following information
if the co-applicant is
an arts and culture
organization.
Name of Co-
Applicant
Organization
What is the
organization's
mission and 2-3
programmatic
priorities?
Briefly, how does
racial justice relate to
the organization's
mission and
operations?
What disciplines,
genres or areas
does the organization
work in? Select all
that apply.
Which of the
following categories
best describes the
organization's work?
Select all that apply.
How long has the
organization been
established for?
What are the the
racial demographics
of the organization's
staff and board?
What are the gender
demographics of the
organization's staff
and board?
How many total staff
members does the
organization have?
Please select the
organization's annual
budget.
Please provide up to
two examples of
what the organization
is currently doing to
advance racial equity
in its programs or
services.
What is the
organization's
understanding of
cultural equity?
In your opinion, what
are the biggest
challenges or most
significant tensions
around racial inequity
in the organization?
Please be as
courageously honest
as possible in
answering this
question.
Which past efforts or
initiatives to address
racial inequity have
worked or had some
success in your
organization?
Based on your own
best understanding,
please rate the
organization's
readiness to take on
race-explicit
strategies for equity
in the arts.
Co-Applicant
Website Link
All Applicants are Below, please list at least one representative from the co-applicant's
required to commit team and an alternate in case someone becomes unavailable.
AT LEAST ONE team
member with some
positional power and
organizational
authority to execute
all project
components.
Co-Applicant Team
Lead: Name
Co-Applicant Team
Lead: Organizational
Title
Co-Applicant Team
Lead: Racial Identity
Co-Applicant Team
Lead: Contact Email
Co-Applicant Team
Lead: Phone Number
Co-Applicant Team
Alternate: Name
Co-Applicant Team
Alternate:
Organizational Title
Co-Applicant Team
Alternate: Racial
Identity
Co-Applicant Team
Alternate: Contact
Email
Co-Applicant Team
Alternate: Phone
Number
Project Proposals Multi jurisdictional and/or multi-agency co-applicants should submit
answers to the following questions together.
Provide a description The purpose of the Dubuque Renaissance Project (DRP) is to
of the project that empower and elevate the voices of Dubuque's African American
details a prominent artists and culture makers by facilitating the development of
and explicit focus on collaborations and programs among arts organizations, educational
cultural equity and institutions, and nonprofits for inclusion in their 2021-22 academic
justice, including the year offerings. DRP will do this by serving as an umbrella project
anticipated name, with central outreach, marketing, and logistical support
outcomes, results, coming from the City of Dubuque, Travel Dubuque, the Community
and an explanation of Foundation of Greater Dubuque, and a volunteer steering committee;
which priorities the individual organizations and venues throughout the community will
project meets. plan and host individual programs that highlight Black artists and
their stories under the collective Dubuque Renaissance Project. Our
goal is to collaborate efforts throughout our community to best 1)
increase representation of and build stronger relationships with our
artists of color, 2) offer greater opportunities for our communities of
color to see themselves on the walls and on the stage of our
established cultural institutions to foster deeper and ongoing
involvement, 3) inspire new organizations and venues with a mission
to provide ongoing representation of artists of color and under
served artists to grow, and 4) cultivate an environment and brand
that establishes Dubuque as a community welcoming to artists of
color. Through a comprehensive, singular marketing effort in
collaboration with Travel Dubuque, we also intend to continuing aid in
changing Dubuque's narrative. We seek to employ an artist of color
(TBD) to serve as a project coordinator as an artist-in-residence who
will live and work in our community for 8-12 months in lead up to the
launch and initial implementation of DRP programs in August 2021.
A description of how DRP intends to mirror the historical Harlem Renaissance, a
the project is blossoming (c. 1918-37) of African American culture in the United
anticipated to use States, particularly in the creative arts, and the most influential
cultural and narrative movement in African American literary history. DRP is intentionally
strategies to race-conscious, and focuses on intentional networking among
advance racial leaders of Dubuque's arts and cultural organizations, majority of
equity. whom are White, with leaders in Dubuque's Black community.
Networking efforts will be initially facilitated by a steering committee
made up primarily of Black community members. Dubuque has
developed a culture of innovative collaboration in the arts rooted in
equity, but we struggle to find leaders and artists of color who trust
the process enough to contribute their talents. Dubuque's small but
growing minority population is often overlooked. We will embed an
artist-in-residence within under-served neighborhoods to build
community development skills and inspire artists to take leadership
roles in the existing creative infrastructure. The artist will also
connect with city initiatives around housing, self-sufficiency, and
public health to demonstrate the potential of creative place making
practices in small cities, like ours, and to make those efforts more
culturally relevant and engaging for residents of color. The artist-in-
residence will work with presenting organizations and venues to
provide ongoing perspective from an artist of color regarding
outreach and program planning while helping those organizations
connect with local artists of color.
Provide a description The leadership team is a majority people of color and explicitly race-
of how the project conscious. The team is aligned with the City of Dubuque and
resources and Inclusive Dubuque's Inclusion in the Arts working group. Over the
centers the needs of next 2 years, we will establish an annual multicultural celebration to
communities of color, inspire arts institutions and local artists to produce programs that
artists of color and connect with the theme; establish an artist-in-residence program to
organizations led by enhance cross-sector initiatives; and train artists and residents of
and serving people of color to do place making work in that connects their work to broader
color. social change. Our community of majority white residents and
patrons of arts organizations will experience unexpected programs
and find common ground with people of color, contributing to social
cohesion. We see this project as an opportunity to partner our white-
lead arts and culture organizations with Black-lead social service
organizations in deep in meaningful ways. We hope that DRP will
serve as an opportunity for trust-building and relationship-
development that will eventually provide new opportunities for our
communities of color to serve on boards, volunteer, and seek
employment with our arts and culture institutions.
Defining characteristics of DRP are:
Interdisciplinary quality - we intend to include programming from all
the arts.
It focuses on African American artists, African American
involvement, and African American lives. Dubuque unquestionably
needs more gender, class, age, sexuality, ability, and racial diversity,
and we believe that focusing on Black/White elements of racial
diversity will improve our chances of actually moving the needle.
Its efforts to keep working to reconceptualize White stereotypes that
continue to influence Black people's relationships to their heritage,
each other, and White neighbors.
Openness to multiple interpretations of what constitutes African
American artistic expressions of all levels.
Inter-generational efforts.
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A total budget for the project, including identification of items to be funded by the Implementation
and Innovation resource.
GARE_Budget_-_City_of Dubuque.pdf
Please provide No contracted artists identified at this time.
information for all
contracted artists, as DRP Steering Committee
well as any additional Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque - Jason Neises (White)
team members who Independent Artist - Peggy Jackson (Black), Co-chair
will contribute to this iPhoenix Marketing — Alanda Gregory (Black), Co-chair
project and their Dubuque Community School District - Claudette Carter-Thomas
roles. (Black)
Retired, Arts Master Plan Volunteer— Geri Shafer (White)
Travel Dubuque — Taylor Cummings (White)
City of Dubuque - Jenni Petersen-Brant (White)
Retired, University of Dubuque - John Stewart (White)
Anticipated Presenting Organizations to Date
Dubuque County Fine Arts Society
Fly-by-Night Productions, Inc.
Dubuque Chorale
Dubuque Arts Council
Rising Star Theatre Company
Dubuque Main Street
Julien Dubuque International Film Festival
Dubuque Arboretum
Northeast lowa School of Music
Bell Tower Productions
Dubuque Museum of Art
The Grand Opera House
Dubuque Symphony Orchestra
Dubuque County Historical Society/National Mississippi River
Museum and Aquarium
Colts Youth Organization
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If there is background information you would like reviewers to have access to, please use the
upload feature of the Submittable form. Reviewers will read this additional background information
as time allows, so make sure all critical information in.
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GARE Innovation Selected projects will participate in a community of practitioners
and Implementation committed to racially and culturally-equitable and anti-oppressive
Fund Activities and practices within the group and in government work; these include
Commitments: practices that foster belonging, accountability, awareness of power,
transparency and resilient relationships. To this end, we require all
key representatives from the projects to:
- participate in a convening, anticipated to be in early 2021
- Share their projects via blogs and an issue paper
Our Application Understands these requirements for Fund participation, and can
Team: commit our time to this work.
Is there anything
you'd like to share
with us in terms of
the commitments to
the fund
requi rements?
Do you have any
questions or
concerns about the
GARE Innovation
and Implementation
Fund, Summer 2020
Arts and Culture
Cycle?
PROJECTED DESCRIPTION OF EXPENSES AND FUNDING
EXPENSES/FUNDING SOURCES
SOURCES
Resident Artist Stipends
$30,000 8-12 month independent contractor, no benefits
Lodging/Transportation
$6,000 Living/transportation stipend
Materials (Resident Artist) $5,000 Materials for AIR to use in their own personal work
Dedicated to purchasing the supplies/materials for
Materials (Community Partners) $4,000 community programs
Available to be granted to organizations for new
programs that want to work with/engage the resident
Program Fees (Grants to Community Orgs) $12,000 artist
Available for other consultants/teachers to lead
creative placemaking and community engagement
Program Fees (Community Engagement Trainings) $10,000 training for broader community
To be used to market the residence program and/or
events that highlight the personal practice of the
resident artist
Marketing (Resident Artist Program) $2,500
For comprehensive marketing of participating
Marketing (Community Engagement Events) $4,000 organizations programs or training sessions
TOTAL ANTICIPATED YEAR#1 PROGRAM COSTS $73,500
TOTAL GARE REQUEST $18,500 Covering items highlighted in yellow