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font-family:Arial'>My name is Bill Cleveland<font color=red><span
style='color:red'>.</span></font> I have been using OST as a part of my work at
the Center for the Study of Art and Community. Much of this involves
cross sector program design, planning, and network building among artists, arts
organizations and other community sectors such as human services, public
safety, education, and community development. The major focus of this
work has been to address the question. </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'>How can those
involved in the arts and community development work together to create caring
and capable communities? </span></font></i></b></strong></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>As you can imagine this has been fertile ground for
OST. I do 10-15 OST events a year. One interesting aspect has
been the increasing space that has emerged within the OST process for the
use of the arts themselves as tools for communication and making
meaning. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>One event that I have facilitated for the past eight
years is a gathering of 150-200 artists and educators called the Minnesota
Artist/Educator Institute. This gathering has a rotating cast of
returnees and newcomers who come prepared not only to discuss and debate
the best practices in arts education, but also to MAKE ART using
OST. We hold this event, which has been dubbed the
"Woodstock of Arts Education", at </span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Bemidji</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>State</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>University</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> about 160
miles north of </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Minneapolis</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>. We take over all the arts
facilities on campus. Theaters, dance studios, print making studios,
welding studios, clay studios, computer graphics suites .... for FIVE DAYS of
24 hour, OST driven creative insanity. </span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'>Another interesting creative OST application has resulted in
the creation of three theater works produced by Pangea World Theater this past
year. This OST-based theater making process (called the Bridges
Project) began with a two day design retreat was convened to produce the
creative concepts and preliminary designs for three Bridges productions. The
threshold</span></font><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>question
that framed the weekend’s efforts was</span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>What stories can we tell together that will
provoke new ways of telling?</span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>To accelerate the sharing and growth of these emerging
artistic ideas, we employed a slightly modified OST format. For Bridges,
the path from concepts to production design unfolded in three distinct phases,
each of which was “bridged” by presentations by teams of artists
summarizing the evolution and outcome of their cumulative work in the sessions.
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Each of the three phases began with a standard OST agenda
setting exercise. Through this process each artist was given an opportunity to
convene a discussion on a creative idea, issue or opportunity related to the
framing question. For Phase one, seven such discussions were convened on the
first morning of the retreat. This was followed by short reports from
each session to the whole group. After lunch, five more idea sessions
were held. But because the retreat’s overall goal was to narrow many
creative concepts to three, these sessions necessarily precipitated the
cross-fertilization and eventual merging of a number of ideas. Following a
second round of summary reports the full group identified what they felt were
the three most promising ideas. It is interesting to note that the emerging
concepts emphasized both new approaches to creative collaboration <u>and</u>
artistic content or storyline. After committing to one of the three, the
artists then devoted their final sessions to continued conceptual development
and production specifics such as roles, responsibilities, budget and schedule. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>All three theater have now been produced to critical acclaim
in </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Minneapolis</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> and </span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>St. Paul</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>So, the process you shared a decade ago has taken some
interesting twists and turns. Thanks for the
inspiration. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I am thinking that these arts-infused OST practices
might be an interesting addition to your evolving peace program. Give it
a thought and let me know. </span></font></p>
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