Description

Artists Thrive is a national tool that helps us imagine the world we want - and then supports us to align our goals and improve our performance so artists thrive. Through shared language, standards, points of excellence and challenge points, individuals and organizations are utilizing Artists Thrive to change conditions in which artists live and operate.  The Summit is an annual experience that pushes boundaries on what it means to thrive as an artist.  

Building off our first three Summit and shifting to a virtual format, the Artists Thrive Summit features three days of networking, conversation, learning, and growing together in an interactive online experience.

"Being around so many passionate supporters and caretakers of the arts has energized me and has placed new winds behind my sails."

-  2019 Summit Attendee

Summit National Steering Committee

• J. Cottle, Dunamis, Massachusetts 
• Robert Donnan, Independent Consultant, Kentucky
• Beth Flowers, AIR Institute, Maryland
• Luann Jennings, Creative Waco, Texas
• Michelle Knapik, Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, Connecticut
• Hoong Yee Lee Krakauer, Queens Arts Council, New York
• Heather Pontonio, Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, Connecticut
• Mitzi Sinnott, All Here Together Productions, Kentucky
• Azucena Trejo Williams, Campbellsville University, Kentucky

Winston-Salem Local Host Committee

• Larry Barron, Poet
• Rebecca Byer, The Olio
• Cheryl Harry, Triad Cultural Arts
• Lynda Lotich, Kenan Institute
• Jordan Medley, The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County
• Rosa Otero, Salem College
• Andy Paris, UNCSA Theatre professor
• Dara Silver, The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County
• Leigh Ann Wilder, North Carolina Arts Council