Falling behind….
falling leaves
Recently, this blog has been woefully neglected. My days have been filled with violin teaching, job hunting and arts consulting. My brain reels with arts administration ideas that never quite make it into a coherent form.
I am now armed with a fresh approach and will once again use this blog space as a platform for current ideas and resources in the field of performing arts management.
To begin with, I’m thinking about how the role of individual artists intersects with professional nonprofit arts organizations. As an artist, I must evaluate my role within the community and possibly what larger impact I have on the arts.
A graduate course co-taught by Andrew Taylor and Stephanie Jutt at UW-Madison’s Bolz Center for Arts Administration explores the dynamic interplay between artistic life and business. The course is titled Arts Enterprise: Art as Business as Art. On his blog, Andrew Taylor shares his discussion with Bill Ivey who was a recent guest lecturer regarding cultural policy and the arts.
Ivey is the director of the Curb Center for Art Enterprise and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University, former chairman of the National Endowment of the Arts, and a team leader for the Obama administration and their transition overseeing arts and humanities policy decisions. His background provides opportunity for a systemic view of the arts and culture in the United States.
The 20-minute clip should entice a variety of audiences interested in the arts and cultural policy. Many of the ideas presented during the interview will be adressed here in subsequent posts.
Looking at how the arts function throgh an individualist as well as an overarching policy lense gives deep insight into the value of the arts in the U.S. Join me as we look at some key challenges facing artists and arts organizations to maintain legitimacy and sustain a creative economy. Exciting opportunities are possible with creative thinking and motivation to greatly impact the arts in society.
