Overview

POSITION & CONTEXT

Advance artmaking via a curated CC-BY 4.0 collection — free, forever.
2026 focus: dexDRONES, JHU/Peabody residencies, Season 3.
Hybrid board: founders + director of video + governing directors.

PRIORITY SEATS

Legal / IP (Creative Commons & open culture)
Finance / FP&A (Treasurer track)
Development (major gifts · university · corporate)
Community / Arts-Tech (LA · FL · DC · Baltimore)
Director of Video (cinematic capture)

ELIGIBILITY & FIT

Aligned with open-access / library ethos (CC-BY).
No conflicts: not employed by PROs, major labels, streaming, or ad-tech.
Reliable (~6 hrs/mo); geography balance; remote welcome.

Nominations soft deadline—

Briefings window—

Appointments—

Invitation (PDF) Nominate / Self-Nominate

Process

Process & timeline

Intake & quick screen (1–2 weeks) — COI check; 10–15 min pre-brief call; confirm seat fit, availability, geography.
Closed-door briefing (1 week window) — mission, ops, CC-BY constraints; candidate selects path (Observer · Named Advisor · Committee preview).
Preview / trial (30–60 days) — path task (FP&A slice · CC memo · major gifts list · arts-tech community plan · director-of-video brief). Two references; chair sign-off.
Committee recommendation — dossier (seat, class, term) to board; conflicts cleared; D&O confirmed.
Board vote & onboarding — agreement, COI, welcome kit; observer debrief if any.

What we assess

Mission alignment — open-access, library-first; comfort with CC-BY 4.0.
Governance — judgment, reliability (~6 hrs/mo), fiduciary awareness, confidentiality.
Seat skills — Legal/IP (CC), Finance/FP&A, Development (major gifts/university), Community/Arts-Tech, Director of Video.
Network leverage — major gifts, university gateways, arts/tech partners.
Geography — LA/FL/DC/Baltimore priority; remote welcome.

What to expect

Quarterly board meetings; targeted committee work between sessions.
Observer: one-meeting preview. Advisor: one-year scope with deliverable.
Documents: short bio/CV link, conflicts/affiliations, two references.

Invitation (PDF) Nominate / Self-Nominate

For nominators

You know who makes rooms smarter. If someone in your orbit lives the open-access ethos and can move an arts/tech nonprofit forward, we want to learn their work. Dex exists to advance artmaking by putting high-quality performance media in the commons (CC-BY 4.0) — free, forever. This season we’re building dexDRONES, hosting JHU/Peabody residencies, and producing Season 3 commissions and events.

Fit at a glance

Ethos: library-first, comfortable with Creative Commons / CC-BY 4.0.
Conflicts: COI applies — not employed by PROs (ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, GMR), major labels, streaming, or ad-tech.
Time: ~6 hours/month; board meets quarterly with focused work between.
Geography: LA / FL / DC / Baltimore preferred; remote welcome.

How it works

Search/Governance handles intake and briefings; the board appoints. Full process, timing, and paths (Director, Named Advisor, Observer) live in the Overview and Process tiles. If you’re weighing a nomination, start there to see expectations and boundaries. Then think about the person who will actually ship something meaningful for artists — that’s the person we hope you’ll put forward.