Chamber Arts Board Member

About Chamber Arts

Chamber Arts, a project of Community Partners, is an artist support organization and arts intermediary based in northeast Los Angeles, CA. Established in 2023, we serve early to mid-career artists from marginalized communities through a set of redistributive projects. 

In our current fiscal year, Chamber Arts is focused on sustaining our core program (namely: Production Support Grant Program), expanding our Advisory Board, and implementing our first external communications plan. Through our Artistic Support Program, we gather a cohort of emerging to mid-career artists and offer support cohort artist in the development and production of a new work by providing: access to studio/rehearsal space, expert-led workshops, monthly group consulting, staff-led individual coaching, a healing-centered cohort retreat, and a project-based regrant award.

Our Mission, Vision, and Values

Chamber Arts exists to support the production, exhibition, documentation, and preservation of the work of California artists from marginalized communities. We work toward a cultural ecosystem of wellness, sustainability, and abundance for all.

We affirm that:

1. Art is essential to life.
2. All people have a right to bear cultural traditions.
3. All people, especially those from marginalized backgrounds and communities, deserve equal access and opportunity to make, engage with, and celebrate art & culture.
4. Artists from all backgrounds, upbringings, and communities should be included in every stage of artistic production and culture bearing, not just as audience.
5. Diversity within our cultural ecosystem is a necessity. Following, the engagement of trans and queer artists from within BIPOC community should be prioritized.

We are committed to ensuring that all our activities align with these affirmations.

About the Advisory Board

Chamber Arts is seeking dedicated, thoughtful people to serve on its Advisory Board. The Advisory Board serves a vital role in advancing the organization's mission, providing strategic guidance and oversight, supporting organizational sustainability, and serving as ambassadors for the organization within the community. This is a volunteer leadership position requiring a commitment to attend our quarterly Board meetings, participate in committee work as necessary, and contribute expertise, relationships, resources, and perspective to support the organization's continued impact. We welcome candidates who are enthusiastic about our mission and interested in contributing their skills 

Roles and Responsibilities

Because Chamber Arts is in a Model A fiscal sponsorship relationship with Community Partners, the Community Partners' Board of Directors assumes certain fiduciary duties and responsibilities. As such, the Advisory Board is relieved of certain duties that ordinarily fall on a nonprofit's board of directors. The Advisory Board is responsible for the following: 

1. Governance: Provide oversight, guidance, and strategic direction to ensure the organization fulfills its mission effectively and responsibly.
2. Accountability: Help monitor organizational performance and ensure programs and activities remain aligned with the organization's mission, values, goals, and commitments.
3. Resource Development: Support resource development efforts through introductions, relationship-building, advocacy, and other activities appropriate to the organization.
4. Financial Oversight: Review and approve annual budgets, quarterly financial reports, and significant financial decisions while supporting long-term fiscal sustainability.
5. Community Engagement: Serve as an ambassador for the organization, increasing awareness of its mission, programs, and impact within personal and professional networks.

Qualifications

Ideal Candidates will bring a combination of the following:

• Passion for in and commitment to the mission of Chamber Arts
• Professional, volunteer, community, or lived experience that can contribute meaningfully to the organization's workWillingness to contribute time, expertise, networks, and other resources in support of the organization.
• Willingness to represent and serve as a spokesperson for the organization to the community
• Integrity, accountability, and a commitment to responsible nonprofit governancePrior nonprofit Board experience is welcomed but is not required unless otherwise specified.

Needed Areas of Experience

Candidates with experience in one of or more of the following areas may be especially valuable:

• Major donor and institutional relationship management
• Philanthropy/grantmaking, esp. intermediaries
• External communications, esp. social media
• Community engagement
• Arts and cultural programming

Board Commitment

Advisory Board Members are generally expected to:

• Attend four Advisory Board meetings per year.
• Participate in at least one Advisory Board committee or working group.
• Prepare for meetings by reviewing materials in advance.Participate in Board and organizational events as appropriate.
• Support resource development and community engagement efforts.
• Serve an initial term of one year, with future terms of two years and a limit of five consecutive years.

How to Express Interest

We welcome anyone who is interested in learning more about serving on our Advisory Board. Please contact us at info@envisionllc.net.