The AC Pulse — Season 2, Episode 10

RedLine Reframed: Artist Harm, Repackaged

How do nonprofit arts institutions reframe artist harm as growth — and why do funders reward it?

In this episode of The AC Pulse, host Amanda Corrales breaks down how institutional harm is often repackaged through PR, DEI programming, and “learning narratives” instead of being addressed with accountability, repair, or restitution.

This is not a general critique.
It is a documented pattern.

Episode 10 examines how artist exploitation, uncredited intellectual property use, and exclusion are routinely reframed as organizational resilience — while the artists who were harmed are erased from the conversation entirely.

• How nonprofit arts organizations reframe artist harm as institutional growth
• The “DEI-as-PR” cycle used to launder accountability failures
• Why harmed artists are excluded from so-called healing processes
• How silence, rebranding, and leadership continuity protect institutions — not communities
• Why funders often reward reframing instead of repair

Amanda walks through how RedLine responded after being publicly called out — not with accountability, but with a pivot. A shift in optics. A reframing of harm as “learning.” And how that reframing was rewarded.

This episode is about institutional gaslighting in the arts, creative labor exploitation, and the systems that protect brands while discarding people.

A parody of institutional damage-control culture — because nothing says equity like a glossy recap with no accountability.

Amanda has just released The Artist Code: Power, a guided companion for artists reclaiming creative authority, boundaries, and stability after institutional harm.

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Have you seen your harm reframed as an organization’s progress?

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• Email your story: amanda@ajcorrales.com

Because we remember what they tried to rewrite.

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🔍 What this episode covers:🛑 Satirical Ad Break: RePutation™📘 New Release — For Artists📣 Community Call

Receipts & Red Flags: Part 2 — The Promo Language Theft

In this episode of The AC Pulse, Amanda Corrales documents what happens when an artist’s original concept doesn’t just get “borrowed”—it gets rebranded.

You’ll hear Amanda read directly from her original submission, Artist Through the Prism, followed by the promotional language used by RedLine for its 2024 programming. The similarities aren’t abstract. They’re structural, tonal, and—at points—word for word.

This episode explores:

• How artistic ideas are institutionally laundered

• Why lack of credit is a systemic issue in nonprofit arts spaces

• The difference between recognition and replication

• How appropriation often hides behind equity language

This isn’t a copyright case.
It’s a pattern.

And once you hear it, you can’t unhear it.

🧺 Featuring a satirical ad break: The Language Laundromat™
Because “credit” is optional—but your gala speech is mandatory.

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Episode 8: Receipts & Red Flags (Part 1 — The Inquiry Trail)

What happens when artists document everything — and institutions rely on silence?

In Episode 8 of The AC Pulse, Amanda Corrales examines a real, documented paper trail involving a nonprofit arts organization, an event inquiry submission, internal acknowledgment, and the later reuse of artist ideas without credit.

This episode focuses on artist intellectual property, creative labor, and power dynamics in arts institutions — and how documentation disrupts institutional gaslighting.

This is not speculation.
It is a paper trail.

Episode 8 begins a multi-part investigative series on:
• artist idea theft and uncredited creative labor
• nonprofit arts organizations and accountability
• how “misunderstandings” are manufactured through delay
• why artists are dismissed without documentation

If you are an artist navigating institutions, grants, residencies, or nonprofit partnerships, this episode explains why paper trails matter — and how silence is often strategic.

📘 New Release
Amanda has just released The Artist Code: Power — a guided companion for artists navigating boundaries, documentation, and stability inside creative systems.
Access it here:
https://tr.ee/f8xV7YmmKQ

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