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Business & Arts Partnership Awards
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The Business & Arts Partnership Awards recognize successful partnerships between business and arts or cultural organizations. Awards are presented in two categories:
Business & Arts Partnership Award: Large Business with an Arts and Cultural Organization
IBM Corporation & City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program
Jane Golden - Mural Arts & Diane Melley - IBM
IBM Corporation and the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program are showing the power of the arts to affect social change.
Through Mural Arts’ Restorative Justice Program, this business-arts partnership is giving inmates, ex-offenders and youth in juvenile placement facilities the opportunity to learn new skills and make positive contributions to their communities.
IBM’s Reading Companion program, introduced directly into the region’s prison system, is using innovative voice recognition technology to improve literacy and pronunciation. Additionally, the program’s Book Builder component is providing opportunities for inmates and ex-inmates at Mural Arts’ media lab to author, illustrate and publish e-books that become part of the library for all Reading Companion learners – here and around the world.
A longtime supporter of Mural Arts, IBM also has donated laptops and computers for the Reading Companion Program and increased capacity of Mural Arts’ media lab, where participants receive arts training, build workforce readiness skills, and research and pursue employment opportunities.
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Business & Arts Partnership Award: Small Business with an Arts and Cultural Organization
Crane Arts LLC with InLiquid
[Back: David Gleeson, Nicholas Kripal, & Richard Hricko - Crane Arts,
At Podium: Rachel Zimmerman - InLiquid]
In an underserved Philadelphia neighborhood, the partnership between two visionary groups, InLiquid and Crane Arts, is igniting an arts community.
The partnership is also laying the foundation for community redevelopment. It’s all happening in Kensington South, where Crane Arts, a 110,000-square-foot artists’ complex, has collaborated with InLiquid, a nonprofit membership arts organization.
Throughout the collaboration, InLiquid’s 38 exhibits and events over the past five years have brought art and energy to the Crane Arts Complex. Additionally, InLiquid’s website, which draws 55,000 unique visits/month, has increased awareness of a vibrant new arts district. In return, Crane Arts has provided InLiquid with generous in-kind donations of event and exhibition space/services valued at $23,000 – as well as event consultation, facilitation of community collaborations and promotion of activities and exhibitions to spur program expansion.
Together, they have developed new initiatives, such as Second Thursday gallery receptions and the CAFé community arts festival that enrich the cultural life of the neighborhood.
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Business & Arts Partnership Awards Selection Criteria
These two awards recognize a successful partnership between a business and an arts or cultural organization in each of two categories:
- Small business (annual revenues less than $10 million) with an arts or cultural organization
- Large business (annual revenues exceeding $10 million) with an arts or cultural organization
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Photographs by Flynn Photography |