ian winters

"So looking at how do we build an ecology where affordable housing isn't just a place you stay, it's a place you stay and work and build a business and raise a family and, you know, build the economic resources,for the next step. " - Josh Simon

This episode is part of our special series on how the arts and culture sector is coming back from the Covid 19 pandemic and features voices from our co-production of Arts For a Better Bay Area’s State Of The Arts Summit on June 28th 2023. The focus of the summit was how artists and arts organizations are adapting in a post pandemic marketplace along with the economic developmental power of our arts and culture economy in rebuilding our communities. 

This episode features our panelists from our breakout session “Housing for the Artist Workforce: Revisiting Artists’ Housing Solutions” Kathryn Reasoner, Executive Consultant with Vital Arts, Mark Morrisette, the Facilities Director at Berkeley Repertory Theater, Joshua Simon, a Senior Advisor at the Community Arts Stabilization Trust, Ian Winters, the Director of Incubation and Special Projects at the Northern California Land Trust, and Meg Shiffler, the Director of Artists Space Trust, along with Julie Baker, the CEO of Californians for the Arts and California Arts Advocates.

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We hope that you enjoyed episode four of our new seven-part series highlighting the issues and solutions of our arts and culture organizations and their workforce as they innovate to come back from the pandemic along with addressing the systemic racism in our performing arts ecosystem.,

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"When the private equity money comes in, that's when unfortunately you see the human equity and the cultural equity and the racial equity tends to disappear. Suddenly it's equitable only for the people that have brought the billions of dollars to play." - Ian Winters

With the health and financial impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic and a low inventory of housing, especially live work and warehouse space, the focus of this week’s episode is on housing for our artists community members. Our featured voices are the executive consultant for Vital Arts, Kathryn Reasoner and the Executive Director of the Northern California Land Trust Ian Winters who share about their work with our artists community to develop solutions to deal with the pandemic’s ongoing impact on their housing.

To find out more about Vital Arts and to participate in the Opportunity Loan Fund go to vital arts dot org. To find out more about the Northern California Land Trust’s affordable housing, community facilities, current housing opportunities, the community co-ownership initiative and SB91 Housing Assistance senate bill please go to n c l t dot org  

To hear other voices working with our artists community on a local level please listen to our interview with Justin and Karim at Project Artivism in episode 49 and our one hour special interview with Joaquin on the San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development’s work to support our arts economy in episode 57. On a state level we hear from Julie of Californians for the Arts in episode 66 about their efforts to secure both funding and political will to help our arts community

Dive Into More Information on Each Episode, Speakers, Organizations and Resources at our Voices of the Community’s Special Arts & Culture Series Web Landing Page