A Year of Change
by Ken Ikeda, Executive Director of BAVC
It is always difficult to describe BAVC in a simple sentence. The back of our business cards say Art + Education + Technology, but those are merely starting points for a larger and more complex conversation about the range of services, programs and value that we bring to diverse communities. BAVC celebrated 30 years of service in 2007, and that milestone served as an internal awakening. We opted to pass on a one-night gala event so that we could invest in the tools that would allow us to better serve our community into the future: a new website (launching in early March), an internal database (by the summer), and a fiber network to support next generation applications and real-time remote collaborations. While they aren’t super sexy, we hope all of these resources will make it easier for our constituents to find classes, engage programs and staff at BAVC, and find value in our organization. These changes, however, are only the beginning. In the last year, we also launched our community Innovation Lab (and the Producers Institute for New Media Technologies), expanded our Advanced Digital Pathways media training program for low-income youth, saw significant changes in our staffing, completed the build-out of our preservation suite, improved the networking of our classrooms and desktops, and developed and implemented a plan to become a greener business. I’m proud to say that even with our challenges, BAVC made significant progress in 2007, and we will be sharing those program highlights with you all in a comprehensive annual report in a few months. (more…)
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