Area Meeting: Community Arts Residency Panel Discussion

Area Meeting, the dynamic gathering of artists, creators, and community members, will meet again on Tuesday, September 8th at the Community Arts Workshop. Area Meeting is designed as a rallying point for local creatives offering an invigorating evening of artistic presentations, lively discussions, and thoughtful feedback—plus a table of curated snacks that bring people together in the spirit of collaboration and inspiration.

September’s Area Meeting will host a panel discussion between the Community Arts Residency Selected Artists for 2025-26, Patrick Melroy, Tayllor Oyewole-Davis, Ademola Oyewole-Davis and the Arts Collaborative’s Executive Director, Casey Caldwell. Meet the artists who took on this challenge and hear their experiences and process of executing this program.  The panel will be guest moderated by Alex Lucas, Associate Professor of Print and Publication at UCSB. 

The projects in discussion are Transmission Station and Storytelling is the Revolution both using poetry, social engagement, analog technology, and storytelling as a means for building community, fostering genuine conversation, reckoning with social disconnection, and feeding relationships between disparate people and groups.