Teaching + Workshops
With 20 years of professional experience as a practitioner and leader in the arts and culture field, Julie is available to teach and speak on topics of performance, public practice, curatorial strategies and art criticism for classes of varying lengths. She works with students at different levels of experience, including adults, university students, as well as youth and teens.
As a lecturer, Julie taught in the experiential learning course The Arts In Context at Stanford University weaving theory and practice. She also teaches Dance Thinking, a workshop created at ODC, which provides interpretive tools for thinking critically about performance. Julie graduated from Wesleyan University’s Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance with an MA in 2016, and from Butler University with a BS in Dance and Arts Administration with a Journalism minor in 2005.
She has been a speaker and moderator for a variety of public arts and culture conversations and is available for guest lectures and workshops; if interested, please get in touch.
Contact:
Julie Potter
potter.julie@gmail.com
Projects
Arts in Context: The Process of Cultural Production | Stanford University
The blues project, March 18, 2017
A combination of practical skill-building and real world experience, this course provides students with the foundational skills necessary to work in the arts. Throughout the course, students work in small groups with professional mentors to plan and produce an arts program in a public institution. This experiential learning is interspersed with lectures on best practices in the knowledge areas they are working through including curatorial practice and programming for visual and performing arts as well as community engagement; grant writing and other fundraising methodology; budgeting and financial management; contracts and other legal considerations; and public relations and marketing. Created and led by Ellen Oh.
Dance Thinking | ODC Theater
Rachael Lincoln and Leslie Seiters in “People Like You”
A workshop providing tools for thinking critically about performance. Developed and delivered as the ODC Writer in Residence.
The time you spend on art is the time it spends with you; there are no shortcuts, no crash courses, no fast tracks. There is only the experience. What art can do is prompt in us authentic desire. By that I mean it can waken us to truths about ourselves and our lives; truths that normally lie suffocated under the pressure of the twenty-four hour emergency zone called real life. Art can bring us back to consciousness, sometimes quiet, sometimes dramatically, but the responsibility to act on what we find, is ours. - Jeanette Winterson
Creative Development Plans + Individualized Curricula | YBCA
the intersection of arts and wellness
Like having a coach, concierge or creative case manager for one’s art life, I have worked as an arts educator and guide for those who wish to deepen cultural participation. The incorporation of individualized curricula or “Creative Development Plans”, originally designed at YBCA, reflects values of customized learning to enhance creative agency and meaning-making for broad and diverse constituencies, with a goal of moving individuals toward self-directed participation.
Sessions identify creative goals and resources resulting in tailored referrals to cultural experiences and organizations. The interaction draws loosely from the case management model used in social work, as well as Rogerian human-centered therapy communication approaches.
Commoning Arts and Culture Open Society University Network Summer School participant, 2021
Adapting to Artist Practice: Supporting Vision, Considering Site organizer and moderator, co-presented by the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance at Wesleyan University, October 18, 2019
Cultivating a Commons of Aesthetic and Affective Potency (or What I Learned Watching the Audience Watch the Show) paper presentation, Dance Studies Association conference: Dancing in Common, August 11, 2019
Exploring Diverse Perspectives in Curatorial Practice panelist, APAP, January 6, 2017
Collective Approaches: State of the Arts and Society panelist, Emergence, May 30, 2015
Making Art a Habit with YBCA:You – A Math Teacher and an Accountant Walk Into an Art Center… presenter, NAMP, November 9 2013; Arts Reach, October 25 2013; DER Panel, October 11, 2013; Western Museums Association, November 7, 2014
The Emerging Role of the Citizen Critic | Panelist, APAP, January 11, 2014
Re-imagining the Box: R&D, Innovation and Future Thinkers in the Arts and Culture Sector panelist, SOMArts, May 13, 2013
Deborah Hay Solo Adaptations | Moderator, Noh Space, December 13, 2013
Trends in Curatorial Practice: The Value and Values of Performing Arts Curators panelist, ODC Theater, October 29, 2012
Collaborators in Situ moderator at Emergence, presented by Emerging Arts Professionals in partnership with YBCA, June 4, 2012
The Artist/Administrator Balancing Act project organizer, presented by Emerging Arts Professionals in partnership with the San Francisco Foundation, May 23, 2012
Artist As Citizen and Public Art Partnerships project organizer, presented by Emerging Arts Professionals at Intersection for the Arts, April 24, 2012
Dance/NYC Junior Advisory Committee member, Bridging the Generation Gap panelist, 2008-09
Leadership Through Governance executive director panel moderator, 2008
