"Artist > Activist > Leader": an interview with Allison Wyper

photo: Jon Endow

photo: Jon Endow

The Center for Cultural Innovation recently published an interview where I talk about my work as part of the Creative Industries Incentive Network (CIIN). I talk about my perspective as an artist coming to Los Angeles from San Francisco, and how the community-centered energy I found here in the experimental performance scene led me to build a career around exchange and collaboration.

The L.A. arts community is very intersectional. The folks who are creating this particular community […] are very active in community campaigns like anti-gentrification campaigns, LGBTQ work, and feminist communities. It’s such a massive city that you have to have your smaller network to survive. You rely on your community for gigs and to find a place to live. My first impression early on when I moved here was that people were very eager to give me opportunities to perform or to curate shows for each other and bring each other in.
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Allison Wyper
I am an interdisciplinary artist with over a decade of experience providing administrative, marketing, and production support for artists and creative professionals nationwide. I founded Rhizomatic Arts to provide affordable professional consulting, training, and services to independent creatives and small companies. Rhizomatic Arts takes a holistic approach to creative sustainability, supporting the cultural eco-system on a grassroots, person-to-person level, empowering artists to take charge of their own careers within a supportive network of peers. Our Sustainability Network connects creatives with skills and resources to share, via a mutually-supportive gift economy. Our motto: "work independently, not alone."
http://rhizomaticarts.com
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