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Administration Business Analyst 
Data Management

Is your nonprofit 
organization tracking data?

Welcome.
I am Adam Rakestraw,
Admin & Data Specialist.

"Let's do data, creatively" 

The arts and cultural sector is rapidly changing toward including big data as a functional, organizational need. Tracking data within an organization can go way beyond simple Excel-based donor management.

 

Services

Data Management 

  • CRM Installment & Management 

  • Donor Tracking

  • Google Analytics

  • Excel Data Sheets 

  • Geolocational Mapping

  • Project Evaluations
     

Policy Development 

  • City Proposals & Planning

  • Organizational Audits

  • Economic Impact Studies

  • QoL Planning & Development

  • DEI and Anti-Gentrification Planning

Community Outreach 

  • Public Arts & Placemaking Programming

  • Social Media Management 

  • Public Surveying

  • Workshops  

Partnerships

North Suburban Center for the Arts (NSCA)/Outdoor Evolution / EUrArt Think Tank / Monnik Future Studio / Blackstrap Media / Patchwork Central /Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana

P o r t f o l i o
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Creative Projects

The Lockerbie Storytelling Project 
Creative Placemaking
Indianapolis, IN
The Lockerbie Story Project is a continuous fictional story made from the imagination of individuals and a Royal Epoch typewriter in public space. The project seeks to reanimate the art of storytelling by asking participants to imagine, world-build, and write! Rather it is only a line or a paragraph, each participant sets the next scenario, describes the situations, or just rambles on by reading the previous lines of a total stranger. 

Generation Leftovers
Creative Producer 
Evansville, IN
Partnered with Blackstrap Media, I hosted, wrote, and directed the production of our collaboration, Generation Leftovers. The project was a community-based YouTube docu-series which highlighted creative people and companies that have made a cultural impact on the area. The series included various reviews, interviews, and highlights of local businesses, community leaders, music, and art.

Garfield Park Social Engagement Survey 
Research and Production
Indianapolis, IN
This research survey analyzed social markers in the Garfield Park neighborhood, Indianapolis. The purpose of this research project was to better understand the overall social connectivity within the neighborhood. The survey analyzed the social bonds - connection and recognition between neighbor's perception of the neighborhood’s infrastructure, safety, sociability and engagement to the Arts and parks. The survey initially tested for community social bonds, access, and attachment.

Day of Arts Philanthropy 
Production 
Utrecht, NLs
This project was in collaboration with Renée Steenbergen, research fellow Mecenaat at Universiteit Utrecht and the Dutch foundation Geef om Nederlands Cultuur organise. The symposium was a dialogue on public and private roles in arts funding, pioneering research, and motives of arts philanthropy. The event was organized with the cooperation of the Musée du Louvre and the Dutch National Opera & Ballet.
 

SculptEVV
3D Artist 
Evansville, IN
The Art House focused on revamping a blighted home into an art installation on Evansville''s southside. The aim of the project was to involve the community to participate in and connect with integrating art within society.

Sculpture Intructor 
Resident Artist  
Evansville, IN
During my time at Patchwork in downtown area of Evansville, I taught a two week course emphasizing techniques in alternative education, arts and cultural engagement, and creative development. The outcome of the residency was creating two unique outdoor sculptures for the Haynie's Corner Art District.

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