AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS 2012 ANNUAL CONVENTION
June 8–10, 2012 in San Antonio, TX
The 2012 Annual Convention focused on field-wide professional development. Attendees enjoyed more than 30 educational sessions, an Emerging Leaders Preconference, and a Public Art Network Preconference featuring the Public Art Network Year in Review.
Convention keynote speakers included:
- Luis Ubiñas, President of the Ford Foundation
- Randy Cohen, Vice President of Research and Policy at Americans for the Arts
- Convention Town Hall Panelists Henry Cisneros, Floyd Green III, Maria Rosario Jackson, John Michael Schert, Dennis Scholl, and Laura Zucker
- Closing Artist Keynote poet Naomi Shihab Nye