Join Celeste, David, and Florida State University’s MANCC program for a conversation centering arts, artist sustainability, and life. Making Money Work Together: Conversations for the field and for artists with Celeste Smith, a cultural thought-leader in philanthropy with a finger on the pulse of race and social discourse; this conversation will then spark a dialogue with the facilitators and participating artists. Given the radical changes ongoing in our field regarding funding and the precarity of artists’ circumstances, this conversation will center on what the future can look like. For MANCC and the lab’s facilitators, emerging artists are critical drivers for re-imagining how our field can and will best function.

Each iteration of the MFD program has been designed to identify, support and catalyse the ideas of emergent movement-based artists by providing access to a stimulating environment that encourages experimentation and exploration in a facilitated, process-oriented laboratory setting. Unlike a more typical MANCC residency that encourages artists at all stages of a project to work independently, including just before a premiere, the MFD program is devised for robust collaborative exchange and dialogue among participants. The program also aids MANCC in developing relationships with the next generation of dance makers by learning about and supporting their evolving artistic practices.