The Aspen Institute

Alliance @ Sante Fe

Briefing Materials

“Logic will get you from A to B.  Imagination will take you everywhere.”  -Albert Einstein

Logistics Information

• Logistics Memo & Venue Information
• Shuttle Service for Artisans

Meeting Materials

• Final Agenda 
• Cluster Conversation Descriptions
• Speaker & Faciliator Biographies

Participant Information

• Participant List
• Participant Biographical Information

Alliance for Artisan Enterprise Information

• Concept Paper
• Membership Brochure
• Founding Document

Session Materials 

• Exploring Values and Vision for our Work

  • Art, the Comfort Zone, and the Chance of a Lifetime, an excerpt from The Icarus Deception by Seth Godin

• Communicating the Value of the Artisan Sector

  • What’s Your Spiel? Worksheet

  • Artisan Sector Facts, Statistics and Stories

• Certification and Verification in the Artisan Sector: Programs and Proposals for Impact and Scale 

  • Session Overview

  • Certification: Best Practices and Pitfalls, Presented by Karen Gibbs

  • Exploring Certification Models, Presented by Abigail Jacobs and Doug Guiley

• Artisan Entrepreneur Dialogues: Exploring Business Models and Lifecycle of an Artisan Busines

  • Presentation

  • Background on Artisan Participants

Supplmental Reading

1. To Be Of Use, Marge Piercy

2. Launce of the Alliance for Artisan Enterprise, Remarks by Melanne Verveer, November 27, 2012

3. Remarks at Amherst College, President John. F. Kennedy, October 26, 1963

4. Crafting a Livelihood: Building Sustainability for Indian Artisans, Dasra and The Edmond de Rothschilds Foundations, January 2013

5. International Flows of Selected Goods and Services, 1994-2003, Defining and capturing the flows of global cultural trade, UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2005

6. The Economic Impact of Arts and Cultural Enterprises on Local Economies and the Role of the Cultural Entrepreneur, Presentation by Thomas Aageson

7. Cultural Entrepreneurship: At the Crossroads of People, Place, and Prosperity, Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship and W. K. Kellogg Foundation, 2010 

8. Federation Sahalandy, HAND/EYE Magazine

9. Dream Patterns, Weave Memories, HAND/EYE Magazine

10. Kandahar Treasure, HAND/EYE Magazine