Our seven-part workshop series is designed to help people working at arts and culture organizations question, challenge, and expand their knowledge on current trends in the online cultural space. Intended to be supportive and empowering, all workshops will be followed by 30-minute hack sessions, where participants will learn skills to enhance their work in the digital landscape.

To assess the needs of CultureSource members, we commissioned 8 Bridges Workshop to discover how organizations use technology in their work. This research provides insight into how organizations used digital tools to adapt their work for virtual presentation, and makes recommendations as to how arts organizations can build their digital capacity.

We complied a set of asynchronous resources to explore as you consider building your organization’s digital infrastructure, upgrading equipment, or infusing digital accessibility into a program. Beyond making routine investments in technology, these resources are designed to help you imagine possibilities, explore resources, and plan next steps.

From February through May 2021 and all of 2022, Technologist-in-Residence Jon Riley offered free consultations with DAAP participants and CultureSource members to provide individualized support in strategizing organization’s digital work. Jon synthesized common challenges and offered recommendations to combat them in a program report.

Recipe 1

Securing Passwords and Data

Step up your cybersecurity game and start using an end-to-end encrypted password manager in one day. This recipe offers a user-friendly password manager and instructions on how to get started on storing your passwords safely across all your devices.

Ingredients:

• Internet Access
• Computer
• Smart phone (iOS or Android)
• 1Password Subscription
• A list of your softwares and logins (at least 15)

Recipe 2

Creative Video with Artificial Intelligence

As an introduction to creative AI, this recipe will help you create video from a static image using generative video software. Generate short promo video for a music recording, make a Spotify Canvas, or artistic short video content in a few clicks.

Ingredients:

• Internet Access
• Music track OR 2D visual art OR a creative prompt concept
• Computer or tablet
• Runway.ai subscription
• Adobe Creative Suite subscription

Recipe 3

Social Media Images with Impact

Using an existing organization logo, create a new banner for social media using accessible graphic design software—and track its impact. This recipe supports both computer and iPad users to refresh their web presence in just a few hours.

Ingredients:

• Internet Access
• Instagram or Facebook Accounts
• Google Analytics
• iPad or computer
• Adobe Creative Suite or Procreate

Recipe 4

Modernized Office Productivity

Explore new productivity tools to manage your workload and use a weighted scorecard to keep track of which software meets your needs, enabling you to select the best one to implement into your existing practices.

Ingredients:

• Internet Access
• Mac or PC computer
• Free trials to five productivity and note-taking tools
• One productivity tool subscription
• Airtable account with scorecard template