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.

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🎙 The AC Pulse — Season 2, Episode 6
“They Lawyered Up, We Logged On”

When accountability knocks, institutions don’t always respond with integrity — they respond with attorneys.

In Episode 6 of The AC Pulse: Season 2 — Behind the Red Line, host Amanda Corrales breaks down what happened after she formally invoiced RedLine for copyright infringement. Instead of dialogue, repair, or acknowledgment, the organization escalated to legal dismissal — attempting to erase authorship, deny ownership, and rewrite the record entirely.

This episode exposes how nonprofit power operates once an artist stops asking politely and starts documenting professionally. Using real emails, legal language, and firsthand receipts, Amanda walks listeners through the familiar institutional playbook: deny protectability, minimize contribution, recast the artist as the aggressor, and close ranks behind legalese.

With razor-sharp analysis and biting satire — including a mock ad for Silence Shield™ by Legalese® — Episode 6 unpacks how artists are embraced as “community” until they assert ownership, credit, or compensation. Then suddenly, they’re a liability.

This isn’t just about RedLine.
It’s about how systems protect themselves — and how artists protect the record.

In this episode:

• When silence becomes institutional strategy

• How nonprofits use lawyers to deflect accountability

• Why copyright exists the moment you create

• How gaslighting collapses when receipts are logged

• A satirical ad break that hits a little too close to home

Coming next: the funders — and the quiet complicity that keeps this cycle alive.

The AC Pulse is where the gaslighting stops — and the public record begins.

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📩 Got receipts? Send them to amanda@ajcorrales.com

S2 E5 Stories_UnderScored ≠ Original: The Art of Institutional Plagiarism

What happens when your original idea for amplifying underrepresented artists doesn’t just get ignored—it gets absorbed? In this episode of The AC Pulse, Amanda Corrales unpacks how RedLine took her event proposal and repackaged it as their own summit theme, “Stories_UnderScored.”

🎧 Inside this episode:

• The pitch: Artist Through the Prism—a storytelling platform for underrepresented and under-resourced artists.

• The “coincidence”: RedLine’s summit theme, Stories_UnderScored.

• The receipts: calls, emails, and side-by-side comparisons that show how institutional plagiarism hides behind equity language.

• Satirical commercial breaks that cut straight to the heart of nonprofit gaslighting.

🔥 Why it matters:
When institutions steal framing, they don’t just borrow words—they dilute intent, erase creators, and rewrite community history with prettier press releases.

🎙️ Listen in if you’ve ever had your pitch lifted, your work diluted, or your story “borrowed” by organizations claiming to center equity.

📣 Join the conversation:

• Tag us @theacpulse

• Use #SubmissionDoesNotEqualConsent

• Or email Amanda at amanda@ajcorrales.com

Because your story matters—and this platform is for us.

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🎙️ The AC Pulse — Season 2, Episode 4
Title: Sht Funders Actually Say: The Lies, Red Tape & Excuses That Keep Artists Broke*
Subtitle: When funders say "we believe in equity" — what they really mean is "on our terms."

Episode Description:

In this episode of The AC Pulse, host Amanda Corrales exposes the shocking truth behind nonprofit funders and the carefully scripted language they use to keep artists broke, dependent, and silent.

🎯 Topics covered:

• The real-life story of how a nonprofit praised for "artist equity" stole a full proposal from Avante Garde and tried to bury it behind legal red tape

• The exact gaslighting language used by attorneys and funders when caught exploiting artists

• How institutions use phrases like “diverse voices” and “innovative models” to extract unpaid labor and avoid accountability

• Why intent is not impact, and how equity becomes a branding tool instead of a practice

📢 You’ll learn:

• How to recognize red flags in grant relationships and nonprofit partnerships

• What funders actually mean when they say your work "isn't competitive"

• The cost of silence — and why speaking up is a radical act of preservation for Black, Brown, and under-resourced artists

🎓 About your host:
Amanda Corrales is an Art Institute graduate, public sector founder, real estate investor, and former PBS marketing manager. She’s worked behind the scenes with elite nonprofits and knows exactly how the system operates — and who it’s built to exclude.

🎧 The AC Pulse is your unapologetic guide to naming names, exposing power plays, and rewriting the rules of the arts world — by and for the artists it tried to break.

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#ArtistExploitation #GrantGatekeeping #NonprofitAccountability #ProposalTheft #CulturalEquity #ArtJustice #DEIWashing #CreativeEconomy #TheACPulse

The AC Pulse — Season 2, Episode 3
Title: The Nonprofit Industrial Complex & Artist Exploitation

What happens when the people claiming to “support artists” are actually built on extracting them?

In this episode, host Amanda Corrales unpacks how nonprofits — including Colorado’s poster-child RedLine — profit off BIPOC artists’ identities, labor, and lived experiences… while keeping real power and resources behind closed doors.

This isn’t just bad management. It’s a system.

👉🏽 Unpaid emotional labor
👉🏽 Lifted ideas and ghosted creators
👉🏽 Legal intimidation instead of accountability

If your pain ever became someone else’s panel talking point… you’ll feel this one.

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#TheACPulse #NonprofitIndustrialComplex #RedLineExposed #ArtistExploitation #EquityForWho #ArtistAdvocacy #RedLineDenver #NonprofitIndustrialComplex #EquityAudit #BIPOCArtists #CreativeJustice #ArtExploitation #Podcast #Season2

Episode 2: “Submission ≠ Consent: What RedLine Took From Me”

Welcome to Episode 2 of The AC Pulse — where we expose the truth behind polished mission statements and the exploitation buried beneath them. In this episode, host Amanda Corrales shares how her original event proposal, Artist Through the Prism, was quietly lifted, repackaged, and used without credit by RedLine Contemporary Art Center.

📌 KEYWORDS:
nonprofit exploitation, copyright infringement, artist rights, nonprofit industrial complex, art community gaslighting, RedLine Denver, intellectual property theft, stolen ideas, nonprofit accountability, arts equity, creative labor abuse, artist exploitation, equity in the arts, grant misuse

🎧 What you’ll hear in this episode:

• How Amanda submitted a detailed program concept — only to see it repurposed in RedLine’s programming

• The real story behind the eerily similar 48 Hours Summit theme “Stories_UnderScored”

• A behind-the-scenes look at how institutions use “legacy programs” to erase artistic credit

• A satirical break that roasts the nonprofit machine with IdeaVac™

• A call to action for every artist who’s ever had their work taken without recognition

💥 If you’ve ever been gaslit by an arts organization, dismissed by a funder, or seen your vision show up on someone else's stage — this episode is for you.

🔗 Share your story: Email us at amanda@ajcorrales.com or tag us @theacpulse
📢 Hashtag your truth with #SubmissionDoesNotEqualConsent

Welcome to Season 2 of The AC Pulse — where we don’t just call out broken systems, we build receipts-heavy resistance.

In this explosive premiere, host Amanda Corrales breaks down the nonprofit Colorado funders can’t stop praising: RedLine.
The name alone should’ve been a warning.

This episode uncovers:

• The historical weight of “redlining” — and why naming an arts org after it is wild

• How Amanda’s program proposal was ghosted, then repackaged without credit

• Why RedLine’s reputation as a “model for equity” is more performance than practice

🎧 Whether you’re an artist, a funder, or someone trying to make sense of how power moves in the nonprofit arts world — this episode is a must-listen.

📌 New to the show? Amanda is an Art Institute grad, artist advocate, global program strategist, ex-PBS marketing manager, and founder of multiple initiatives designed to serve artists without exploiting them.

She’s been inside the system. Now she’s exposing it.

🎧 Listen now.
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