At the Crossroads: A Community Arts and Development Convening – Standards, Schmanders, Who Needs Standards? from Regional Arts Commission on Vimeo.

William Cleveland is an author and the director of the Center for the Study of Art & Community (CSA&C) in Minneapolis, which he co-founded in 1991. This video is a clip from a workshop he led titled “Standards, Schmanders, Who Needs Standards?” At the Crossroads Convening on March 26, 2010. The workshop discussed ways community artists can be more assertive about what they need in order for their programs to be successful.

The Community Arts Training Institute (CAT) and the Regional Arts Commission (RAC) hosted the inaugural “At the Crossroads: A Community Arts & Development Convening” from March 25 – 27, 2010 in St. Louis.
Over 150 practitioners and their partners in arts based community development programs and collaborations convened for hands-on workshops, panels, presentations and provocative thinking. For more information, visit crossroadsconvening.com/ .

At the Crossroads was funded by a grant from The Nathan Cummings Foundation and with support from the Whitaker Foundation, National City-Now part of PNC, and Incarnate Word Foundation.