Art Of Hustle 006: Producing Manager, Joan Osato

02/06/12 • 48 min

Art of Hustle: Where Art Meets Entrepreneurship

This ART OF HUSTLE episode features one of the best grants hustlers I've ever met. Joan Osato has played a pivotal role in local and national theater for well over a decade. She served as director of Asian American Theater Company from 1997 - 2000 and currently sits on its advisory board. She served as Youth Speaks' Managing Director from 2001-2007 and has been an Producer, Assistant Director, Stage Manager, Production Manager, and Lighting Designer with the Living Word Project. She has brought her multiplicity of production and design talents to Living Word Project Repertory works such as The Break/s, Word Becomes Flesh, Scourge, and Mirrors in Every Corner. She is the inaugural recipient of the San Francisco Arts Commission Artist and Communities Partnership Grant for a project she is conducting through Asian American Recovery Services of San Francisco. She is also a self-taught documentary photographer. Her photography has exhibited at SF Camerawork and Meridian Gallery, and has graced the album cover designs of iconic bands such as Faith No More. She has been considered for prestigious awards such as the Prix de la Photographie, and awarded an Exhibition in The Bay Area Currents 2009. Her work has been featured in publications: LA Weekly, Koream Magazine, and Artslant, Juried Exhibit Winner in Photography. Thank you for subscribing! Please rate the podcast and leave comments. I look forward to building with you. More information and tons of free tips on marketing and management at: ArtOfHustle.com.

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Art Of Hustle 005: Executive Director, Dave Archuletta

ART OF HUSTLE introduces you to the Executive Director of Joe Goode Performance Group, Dave Archuletta. Prior to joining Joe Goode Performance group Dave served as Program Director for Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, where he built the Company's first education and licensing programs from the ground up, increased earned income revenue by more than 60 percent, negotiated major commissioning agreements and oversaw the Company’s U.S. and international tours. Prior to joining the BTJ/AZ Dance Company, he was Managerial Associate in the Dance Division of IMG Artists, managing the touring and performance operations of major dance companies such as Twyla Tharp, Lyon Opera Ballet, Pilobolus, Miami City Ballet, and more. An honors graduate of UC Berkeley, Dave began his career in San Francisco as Curatorial Performing Arts Production Coordinator at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Dave is also an independent musician and producer. Dave "Daveytree" Archuletta has been producing music in the underground scene for over 10 years. He plays several instruments, including piano, bass and drums. Dave is a founding member of the Funk Force Collective, and the visionary SF band Run the Voodoo Down (one of the first live music acts to incorporate turntablism as a primary musical element, featuring DMC Wold Champion DJ Pash "Mackintosh" Kamber on the wheels of steel). He has produced albums for Nidecker Snowboards, LRG clothing, the Mission Burrito Project, the Funk Force Collective, and the independent release "Noah D & B.Ski Soon to Be." In 2009 "Breez Deez Treez" with rapper Breez Evahflowin, was released on Domination Recordings to wide critical acclaim. In October 2011 Dave's productions will be performed by Daniel Bernard Roumain at BAM's Next Wave Festival in New York. Thank you for subscribing! Please rate the podcast and leave comments. I look forward to building with you. More information and tons of free tips on marketing and management at: ArtOfHustle.com.

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Art Of Hustle 007: Grants Administrative Manager, Olivia Malabuyo Tablante

I am pleased to introduce you to Olivia Malabuyo Tablante, currently the Administrative Manager at the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation where she also manages the arts commissioning awards program in partnership with William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Prior to joining as Gerbode Foundation’s Program Assistant in 2006, Olivia had served as Los Cenzontles Mexican Art Center’s Administrative Manager and the Production Manager for its PBS series Cultures of Mexico in California, from 2004 to 2006. She was also a Managing Director of San Francisco’s black box theater, Bindlestiff Studio, and worked over five years with tenants and owners, development corporation in senior and affordable housing development. Olivia has also been a video instructor for San Francisco’s Oasis for Girls and China Town’s Beacon Center, and a performer with comedy troupe Tongue in a Mood. Thank you for subscribing! Please rate the podcast and leave comments. I look forward to building with you. More information and tons of free tips on marketing and management at: ArtOfHustle.com.