Category Archives for Annual Reporting
Mid-Life Self-Evaluation: okay / sorry / not sorry
I’m turning 34, and reflecting on my path through the world so far. The work I’ve chosen is not getting easier, and one of the few things I miss about having actual jobs is the structure for constructive feedback from colleagues … Continue reading
Annual Reporting (2012-2013): the Arts and Craft of Facilitation
Upon checking out my LinkedIn profile from last year, someone recently told me candidly that I scan as ‘high risk.’ I LOL’d. On one hand, yeah: even in the midst of unemployment, I’d been cavalier with my engagement of this … Continue reading
Annual Reporting: (2013) Other Elsewheres
Throughout 2013 I rarely spent more than a couple of months in one place, as I hopped around on a semi-intentional loop between DC, Wisconsin, and North Carolina — where I had formal and semi-formal residencies — and New York … Continue reading
Annual Reporting: (2013) Elsewhere, Greensboro NC
My most delightful residency of 2013 was at Elsewhere, a “living museum” in Greensboro, NC. The phrase “living museum” does sum up Elsewhere’s relationship to art. Elsewhere is a place containing a lot of stuff — the voluminous and multifarious … Continue reading
Annual Reporting: (2012-2013) Madison, Wisconsin
I visited Madison, Wisconsin three times over the past year, with two different purposes: to train as a “cooperative developer,” and to study the practice of “coproduction.” Cooperatives The first purpose for my visit to Madison was the CooperationWorks! Cooperative Business Development … Continue reading
Annual Reporting: (2013) Residency in DC
For much of 2013, I traveled to sites where I could learn firsthand about cooperative organization, co-productive labor, and the commons. Some of this work was through formal ‘residency’ programming designed to support social research and creative practice. Some of … Continue reading
Annual Reporting: (2012) Digital Justice in the District
Throughout most of 2012, I worked on a couple of projects that I’d started while at Bread for the City. (I left Bread in March of 2012, but in both of these projects I saw the promise of opportunity to … Continue reading
Annual Reporting: Two Years of Useful Unemployment
In my professional life, I wrote Annual Reports. It was one of my primary responsibilities.