Arts Partners Standards of Practice Community Gathering

Join arts partners from across Chicago for an interactive, workshop-style gathering focused on shaping the next phase of the Arts Partner Standards of Practice (APSP). Come ready to roll up your sleeves and help refine and strengthen APSP, working in small groups to share feedback, mark up ideas, and offer real-time insights grounded in your practitioner experience.

Whether APSP is new to you or something you’ve engaged with before, you’re invited to bring your practitioner lens as we explore what stays, what shifts, and what’s next. Community input from this session will directly inform forthcoming APSP updates and alignment with the emerging Partner Designation Criteria in the CPS Arts Education Plan 2.0.

✨ Teaching Artist Honoraria – Click here to apply

Ingenuity offers $150 honoraria for teaching artists attending this session.

Event Objectives

Explore: Engage with peers to examine partnership practice across diverse contexts and organizational approaches.

Exchange: Share perspectives, questions, and insights that illuminate opportunities and challenges within Chicago’s arts education ecosystem.

Co-create: Identify ideas, themes, and emerging priorities that can strengthen collaboration across the field and inform future APSP conversations and designation criteria.

Audience

Arts Partner Administrators • Directors • Teaching Artists • Program Managers

🍽️ Snacks and refreshments will be provided.