Executive director Colette LaBouff and associate director of programs Charlotte Wyatt (both Black Mountain Institute) recently presented an interactive workshop at the national conference of the Artist Communities Alliance ("Building Our Futures Together") in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The workshop, "Parachutes and Grassroots: Supporting Local Arts and Culture Ecosystems Through Resident Artists," invited art administrators from across the country and around the world to reflect on methods for centering visiting artists as co-curators in community programming. The workshop featured BMI's own approaches to community engagement, methods developed at the Institute over the last several years to serve audiences from UNLV and across Las Vegas.