CounterPulse

Jessica Robinson Love. Jessica Robinson Love has served CounterPULSE for twelve years. During that time, she has ushered CounterPULSE through a merger and relocation, expanding the organization’s budget ten-fold during her tenure as director. She designed and implemented CounterPULSE’s successful Artist in Residence program, and has curated dozens of performances and workshops. She has also served as guest curator for organizations such as… See full bio.

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Story: “CounterPULSE is plugged into current events, community history, and innovative art ranging from dance to video to theater to clown to queer performance art to various hybrids of all of that and more. This is an ambitious organization … Their finger is truly on the pulse.” - Maya G.

“An absolutely necessary and needed space for emerging artists and alternative and experimental art.” - Dudley F.

Evidence of Impact Summary:

Located in the South of Market neighborhood of San Francisco, CounterPULSE is dedicated to supporting local artists and activists through programming and the renting of its theater, performance space, community center, and gallery for the creation of socially relevant, community-based art and culture. They are known for their innovative programming, and creative marketing and fundraising strategies. They are an LGBT advocate and are very successful in effectively collaborating with other community-based organizations. Their mission is to create a forum for the open exchange of art and ideas, catalyzing transformation within San Francisco communities and society as whole.
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Organization Strengths Summary:

CounterPulse has been successful in creating sustainable and accountable relationships with the many artists they support and work with. They have excellent marketing strategies and use of social media. CounterPulse’s tireless staff and leadership work hand-in-hand to provide artist communities with the best support possible. They do an excellent job of using their resources, however limited, to the largest capacity. They are well connected with grassroots activists, which has positive consequences for their productivity.
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Areas for Improvement Summary:

The consideration of off-site presenting may be beneficial when performances demand an audience that larger than their capacity.
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Jessica Robinson Love has served CounterPULSE for twelve years. During that time, she has ushered CounterPULSE through a merger and relocation, expanding the organization’s budget ten-fold during her tenure as director. She designed and implemented CounterPULSE’s successful Artist in Residence program, and has curated dozens of performances and workshops. She has also served as guest curator for organizations such as Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the San Francisco International Arts Festival. Jessica is a writer, performer and political activist and her dance writing has been published in In Dance and on CriticalDance.com. She has worked in administration, production, and publicity for artists and arts organizations including Jess Curtis, Keith Hennessy / Circo Zero, Dance Through Time, and the Erika Shuch Performance (ESP) Project. Jessica served as adjunct faculty member at the New College of California where she has designed and implemented courses including “Activist Arts Synthesis”, “Arts Administration and Cultural Organizing” and “20th Century US History through the Arts.” During her tenure on the Isadora Duncan Dance Awards Committee she was responsible for curating and co-producing the annual Bay Area Dance Awards. She has served on the steering committee for San Francisco Arts Forum, the Theatre Bay Area Theatre Services Committee, the Dance/USA Emerging Leader Task Force, and the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of Alternate ROOTS, a service and granting organization for community-based artists in the Southeastern United States. She has been the recipient of awards and scholarships from Dance/USA and the Bill T. Shannon Leadership Institute, and was the inaugural recipient of the Bay Area Dancers’ Choice Award for her service to the dance community, and she recently served as part of the US delegation to the International Tanzmesse in Germany.

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