Introducing The Lost Arts Collaborative

www.LostArtsNA.org

E-Mail: [email protected]

Telephone: 1(978)707-5001

Introduction to

The Lost Arts Collaborative;

The Networked Community for Lost Art Leadersand their Customer Constituencies

Speaker: Phil Wilson,

Executive Director

Come for our rich content; Stay for our awesome communities!

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A country can be judged by

how it remembers (and respects) it's past.

Agricultural, domestic, artisanal, craft, culinary, performing arts,

other cultural activities, livelihoods and businesses

Traditions and Traditional Practices

From a former time or culture

That may have fallen “out of use” and / or “out of mind”

The “collective knowledge” was not documented, cultivated, nor

passed on to future generations in a usable form…

◦ Ways-of-Working / Ways-of-Living

◦ Methodologies, Methods, Approaches, Processes, etc.

◦ The application of specific Tools, Training & Skills

◦ On-The-Job and Life Experience

◦ Understanding the broad range of Requirements

◦ Knowledge & Know-How

Or, instructors weren’t able to pass along the “collective knowledge”3

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The Lost Arts Collaborative of North America, Inc. is a non-profit

organization with a focus on farm, ranch, and lost arts-related education.

Our mission centers on the protection and preservation of “the lost arts”;

those traditional farming, artisanal, and craft-driven practices that produce

sustainable ecosystems of soils, plants, animals, and people.

The continuance and growth of lost arts benefit the local community and

society in general. To carry out our mission, we develop and deliver farm

education and training in a variety of forms; e.g. structured multi-year course

curricula, seminars, workshops, demonstrations, and hands-on training.

Our G-T-M strategy leverages Google Earth and these 3 core

approaches:

1. Crowd-Funding

2. Crowd-Sourcing

3. Gamification

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Community-of-Practice

Master

Practitioner

Journey

PersonApprentice

Community-of-Interest

The General

Public

Patron

School

Groups

The

Media

Benefactor

Lost Art

Leader

Web Technology

Specialist

Lost Art

Business

AggregatorLost Arts Business

Incubator Sphere

Community

Collaboration

Specialist

Documented

Knowledge

“Pathfinder”

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Community-of-InterestCommunity-of-Practice

“Practitioners”

Benefactors

Prospective Students

Patrons

Apprentices

Journeymen

Masters

“The General Public”

A Vibrant

Lost Arts

Ecosystem

Lost Arts Leaders

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• Awareness & education

• Understanding of a culture’s heritage / history

• Structured educational opportunities (i.e. guilds)

• Vibrant ecosystems Job creation

• Business Continuity Career Sustainability

• Cultural resource preservation

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• Acquaponics

• Blacksmithing

• Draft Animal Power

• Glass Arts

• Herbal Arts

• Homesteading

• Backwoods Homesteading

• Homesteading Infrastructure

• Integrated Back-yard Food Production

• Indian Skills

• Luthier

• Market Gardening (Small Plot INtensive)

• Needle Arts

• Stone Carving

• Restoration Masonry

• Timber Framing

• Woodlore

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• Cultivating an appreciation of valuing what came before us

• Following a "simplicity of living" philosophy

• Invigorating our relationships

• Valuing the world around us and "the small things in life“

• Giving back to our local community

• Giving back to lost art Communities-of-Practice

• Carrying on the lost arts educational mission which extols the

importance of regenerative agriculture

• Buy American / Build Jobs at Home

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Web: www.LostArtsNA.org

E-Mail: [email protected]

Telephone: 1(978)456-8253

Contact Person: Phil Wilson, Executive Director

The Lost Arts Collaborative of North America, Inc.

PO Box 152

Still River, MA 01467-0152

USA

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