User:Coldwarconcrete/Roberto Bedoya

Roberto Bedoya (born in Union City, California) is the Cultural Affairs Manager for the City of Oakland. Previously, he was the Executive Director of the Tucson Pima Arts Council (TPAC). He is on the board of the Grantmakers in the Arts and The Network of Ensemble Theaters.

Life and career
Bedoya has supported cultural practices and artistic initiatives in municipal programs. From 1996 to 2001, he directed the National Association of Artists Organizations (NAAO), an arts service organization for individual artists and artist-centered organizations, primarily visual and interdisciplinary.

In 1998, NAAO became a co-plaintiff in NEA v. Finley et al lawsuit. NAAO joined because the storytelling of the Culture Wars focused on Karen Finley and the other three artists named in the suit, Tim Miller, John Fleck, and Holly Hughes. Many of these organizations were members of NAAO, and some were also part of the National Performance Network.

In 2004 Bedoya wrote the paper U.S. Cultural Policy: Its Politics of Participation, Its Creative Potential, published by the National Performance Network. In 2014, he published a chapbook titled The Ballad of Cholo Dandy, published by Chax.

Bedoya was a Rockefeller Fellow at New York University and a Visiting Scholar at the Getty Research Institute.

In 2010, as executive director of TPAC, Bedoya was the author of the People, Land, Arts, Culture and Engagement (P.L.A.C.E.) initiative, a civic engagement and placemaking platform that engaged artists’ projects addressing local community issues. Between 2010 and 2014, TPAC funded 66 projects to advance civic engagement and community building.

Bedoya currently lives in Oakland, California.

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https://tucson.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/tucson-arts-council-shakes-up-its-funding-approach/article_0889d257-e07a-529a-910e-8113fe3edbc4.html

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/09/18/oakland-releases-first-cultural-plan-in-30-years/

http://creativetime.org/summit/author/roberto-bedoya/