The Artful ManagerAndrew Taylor on the business of arts and culture.Changing the players, and the game- June 17, 2008 Last week's National Performing Arts Convention ended with a massive gathering of about 1300 performing arts professionals, all in one room, to review and select a collective agenda for action to advance the field. The big three bullets were about increasing resonance and value of the performing arts among citizens and communities, reforming and reframing arts education and lifelong learning, and building a more inclusive and diverse voice for the arts and in the arts. Full details of the final.http://www.artsjournal.com/artfulmanager/main/084504.php Who's in, who's out- June 13, 2008 One of the fascinating series of discussions at the National Performing Arts Convention have hovered around what constitutes a ''national performing arts community.'' Given the convening of this event by national service organizations for formally organized, primarily nonprofit cultural organizations, the bias in the perspectives is probably obvious: the ''performing arts community'' includes nonprofit and public institutions, artists, audiences, and supporters in artistic disciplines we...http://www.artsjournal.com/artfulmanager/main/084420.php Other than the large, blue, geodesic bear- June 11, 2008 As it turns out, I'm far too consumed in attending the National Performing Arts Convention to write about its content yet. But I hope to do so over the coming days. In the meanwhile, I've been struck by the curious contradictions in the particular part of Denver we're in. The Colorado Convention Center is a monster of a venue, constructed, no doubt, to increase tourism, convention business, and re-focus investment and activity in this part of town. Surrounding the massive investment, of...http://www.artsjournal.com/artfulmanager/main/084349.php Fixed seating vs. flexible space- June 10, 2008 As I begin my week at the National Performing Arts Convention in Denver (convention posts likely to start tomorrow), I'm eager to find individuals and organizations rethinking how the performing arts work -- how they engage, how they operationalize their vision, how they escape common knowledge and professional habit to find a more sustainable and dynamic voice. As I find them, I'll let you know. In the meanwhile, I was intrigued by this proposed theater design for London's West End. It...http://www.artsjournal.com/artfulmanager/main/084308.php Prepping for Denver- June 4, 2008 Sorry to be incommunicado this week, but I'm co-leading a major research project surrounding the National Performing Arts Convention in Denver next week (see my previous post). I hope to be blogging from the convention, if the universe does not conspire against me. If you're starving for blog content, there are plenty of other bloggers in the sea. Go fish.http://www.artsjournal.com/artfulmanager/main/084122.php Is the performing arts industry designed to learn- June 2, 2008 That's the question I explore in my guest post over in the National Performing Arts Convention blog. I'll be attending the upcoming convention in Denver, along with a research team, to inform that very question, and analyze our field's capacity for collective action. If you're planning to be in Denver at the NPAC, I look forward to meeting some of you in person. And if you're going to be at the Americans for the Arts conference in Philadelphia the following week, look for me there, as well.http://www.artsjournal.com/artfulmanager/main/084048.php |