Partnership

Novatopia - African American Innovators, LLC - Hesteria Records and Publishing Co.

Rebuilding Global Community through the Arts

1. African American Innovators, LLC

2. Interdisciplinary Artists Aggregation, Inc.

3. Hesteria Records & Publishing Co.

WEB SECTOR 4 :Communal Exchange and Outreach

Interdisciplinary Artists Aggregation, Inc. ID# 31-08655

After our initial advanced ruling period, Interdisciplinary Artists Aggregation, Inc. was established as a tax exempt organization (501 (c) (3) on February 19, 1995. When Interdisciplinary Artists Aggregation, Inc. moved from Ithaca, New York to Santa Cruz, California (2000) we decided to rebuild and refocus our activity towards online learning and a virtual community of artist support. Dr. Hester (president) gained support budgets for the organization's former physical activity (festivals, concerts, symposia, workshops, etc.) through projects presented and funded by the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) while IAA spent the next seven years building a strong web infrastructure and enormous quantities of online educational content for its Living Encyclopedia, assorted courses, and theory components. We generated little income during that period of restructuring - to avoid conflict of interest with UCSC activities - and, due to our financial inactivity, the IRS reclassified IAA as a Private Foundation and scheduled a new advance ruling period (beginning 2008).

Creative Production Synergy (CPS) is the primary division of the Interdisciplinary Artists Aggregation, Inc. IAA CPS creates exciting spaces for creative experimentation, where collaboration between art forms, technology, and cultural diversity are the dominant themes. Our mission is to foster, present, and nurture new forms of theatre, dance, music, digital media, visual arts, film, and spoken word. CPS online production and professional coaching involves music, film, choreography, creative writing, drawing, storytelling, memoir, and oral history. Our unique environment and residencies supports and develops artists and creative managers through professional online resources, development coaching, programs, residencies, learning opportunities, scholarships, and commissions.

INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTISTS AGGREGATION

Although our organization is open to all art forms one of the main strengths is music. In addition to visual and kinetic arts Interdisciplinary Artists Aggregation, Inc. seeks to expand community awareness of contemporary creative arts. African American and other contemporary art forms, spontaneous creations, improvisation and other interdisciplinary concepts have long been misunderstood and therefore sparsely supported by the public. One primary goal of IAA is to create proper environments for the presentation of creative works where the artists involved have a vehicle to communicate with audiences directly. This type of direct communication frees artists from the dictates of stylized commercial formulas and attitudes used to control the public's taste.

IAA concerts and productions are presented in facilities of exceptional acoustics and technological appropriateness. In this way the listener experiences all facets of the performance equally without the usual distractions inherent in the casual venues into which performers were historically forced. IAA concerts are presented as single presentations and as parts of lecture series and workshop/clinics.

Another primary goal is education. The IAA will present workshop/clinics to the community, young and old. Areas of discussion are an introduction to African rhythms, visual and kinetic presentations, and demonstrations of spontaneous composition, choreography and improvisation. IAA sponsors lecture and performance series featuring guest artists from a diverse artistic spectrum. An important aspect of our approach is the incorporation of information about the creative process into our video performances prepared for local cable access and educational networks.

Interdisciplinary Artists Aggregation has organized its goals, production line, and pedagogy between and among the fine and liberal arts, arts and technology, and arts and social action. IAA's three pillars reflect the interests and the range of work of our artists and faculty providing our students and faculty opportunities to work across, as well as within, the boundaries of such art forms as composition, filmmaking, dance, visual arts, photography, theatre, sculpture, drawing, design, animation, creative writing, non-fiction writing and technology. IAA is committed to exploring, "cross-, inter-, intra-, trans-, and post-disciplinarity," as the world of the 21st century shifts the form and context of art making and approaches to creativity. The nature and conditions of the contemporary arts are increasingly expanded and challenged by new technologies. The investigation of art, art making, and new technologies constitutes the basic infrastructure of our production company and our curricular foundation. CPS resources, guidance, and templates provide a way to explore those strategies between art making and new technologies. Professional artists and students can apply their interests in a wide range of areas including the art of improvisation, applied design, universal design, invention, and entrepreneurship. Other areas of intersection between arts and technology are explored continually as new emerging forms allow artists and students to engage questions of social responsibility and activism. Creative drama, prison literature, universal design, teaching multi-cultural art curricula, and dramatizing socio-cultural issues for new audiences are five current areas of investigation that embody our aspirations and pedagogical principle.
 
 Approach, through the practice of art making, the critical issues central to each art form

Address issues of social awareness and justice through the practice of reading and art making Develop unique methods of critical thinking and problem solving

Explore relationships among art, design, and technology, and realize the potential for three-dimensional imagining in each area of the school

Discover points of intersection among different art forms and learn to work across the boundaries of each other's expertise

Study the sensory, verbal, and historical contexts that inform creativity

$500 off for summer participants taking the workshop for the third or more times.

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