This will be a conference like no other. This year we will put aside keynote speakers, panels, roundtables, and pre-conferences and embark on a journey of a different sort. Roll up your sleeves with colleagues and tackle the tough day-to-day questions that inform your work. Break away from your daily practice, and explore expansive ideas that inform arts philanthropy with a host of thinkers from different disciplines. The inspiring landscape and layered cultures of the Southwest will offer new vantage point for examining our work, our assumptions, and ourselves. You will write the agenda. Participants will be polled when they register to identify questions facing art grantmakers and topics for further exploration during the conference. You will draw the map, as every participant will have a role in providing content and interacting with colleagues as part of the program. Each registrant will be asked to contribute their expertise at one or more opportunities during the retreat. Your journey will have guides. A group of key thinkers and provocateurs from across the arts landscape and from other disciplines will anchor the proceedings, providing essays in advance of the conference and leading discussions on these and other topics during the retreat. We will erase the line between the presenter and the audience, and online discussions will include those who are not there in person. For more information, CLICK HERE