ARTIST COMMUNITIES ALLIANCE

Equitable capacity workshop: grounded in the aac's five pillars of a healthy residency framework, these trainings engaged programs across five key areas of organizational health: identity, program design, stewardship, fund development, and operational excellence. This initiative provided tactical strategies for consistent program evaluation, equitable jury and selection models, staffing protocols and other key areas of residency operations. Artists' experience continued to be centered and artists served as lead presenters. Workshops, running in tandem with continued meta- network and field conversations, modeled a culture of reflection, transparency, and change. Cohorts of leaders created within these sessions buoyed a constellation of support and exchange across the field.

Aca is an international network of artist communities and residency programs. Aca includes more than 400 members a diverse field of artist communities, residency programs, individuals and institutions that support living artists in the creation of new work in more than 20 countries worldwide and in all 50 u.s. States, with budgets ranging from 8,000 to 4 million. Aca members have access to a range of services and programs including knowledge sharing and advocacy.