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A Wake-Up Call
Speakers: Deborah Cullinan, executive director, Intersection for the Arts; Naomi Iizuka, playwright; Jon Moscone, artistic director, California Shakespeare Company
Today's performing arts audience is mostly white, mostly older and mostly upper to middle-class. Demographics are telling us that today's society and tomorrow’s potential audience are heading the other way—non-white, young and polarized at the extreme ends of wealth and poverty. To flourish, the performing arts need to resonate with today's society. And tomorrow's. What can you do to make a wider representation of our communities welcome? Come hear how the California Shakespeare Theatre partnered with Intersection for the Arts and playwright Naomi Iizuka to create a new adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, called Hamlet: Blood in the Brain. They created community dialogues, interviews and writing workshops in several communities as part of the plan—and sold out an 8-week run. Along the way they uncovered a new audience for theatre, hungry for more interaction with an art form that touched their lives.
Of interest to Management, Development, Trustees
Topics:
Innovation and Sustainability
Absolutely Accessible Arts- Embracing Diverse Audiences and Artists
Expand your cultural opportunities as we explore the benefits of reaching across the footlights to engage the disabled community as potential patrons and performers. Come share your accessibility challenges and success stories in this interactive session. Learn from a panel of experts about assistive listening devices, shadow interpreting, how to create and market accessible programs, meet ADA standards, integrate disabled artists into your company, the challenges and rewards of training disabled artists and much more!
Of interest to All
Topics:
Nurturing and Supporting the Individual Artist
Critical Issues for the Non-profit Community
Moderator: Adrian Ellis, founder/executive director, AEA Consulting/Jazz@Lincoln Center
Speakers: Bobbie Lippman, senior officer, Culture and director, Cultural Data Project, The Pew Charitable Trust; Bill Wright, director of communications and marketing, Independent Sector
This session will allow delegates to gain some familiarity with three important new ideas/areas of work that have the potential for significant impact on our work, both locally and nationally. Hear presentations around the changing place of the 501(c)(3); the Independent Sector’s recent research on public perception of the nonprofit sector; and the Cultural Data Project, and explore what each may mean for you and the work you do.
Of interest to Management, Development, Funders, Trustees
Topics:
Performing Arts Ecosystem
Adventurous Programming: Making New Music the Main Course
Speakers: Ed Harsh, president, Meet the Composer; Dale Johnson; Jeffrey Kahane, music director, Colorado Symphony Orchestra
This session celebrates a variety of ensembles and institutions which have truly made a commitment to new music as a staple of their repertoire. Participants will capture the best innovative programming and commissioning models, which have succeeded in building audience investment, excitement, and enthusiasm for new music in the choral, operatic, and orchestral fields.
Opera companies with a passion for championing new work will be celebrated alongside choral and orchestral winners of ASCAP’s prestigious “Awards for Adventurous Programming”, honored for their commitment to programming contemporary American works written within the last 25 years.
Of interest to Artistic, Trustees
Topics:
Nurturing and Supporting the Individual Artist
Art and Activism: Making Art, Making a Difference
What is the social responsibility of the artist? Is art for art’s sake enough, or should art save lives? Join session leaders from across the arts spectrum for a look at the palette of experiences that embrace the art of social change, including a discussion of creative work being done in this arena and its effectiveness. You’ll see live and video presentations excerpted from art focused on changing communities and lives; you’ll hear terrific ideas, and may want to contribute your own thoughts, when you join the conversation between session leaders and participants.
Of interest to All
Topics:
Public Policy
The Art of Living or Living for Art: A Survival Guide for Artists
Moderator: Nicole Garneau, assistant director, community partnerships, Columbia College Center for Community Arts Partnerships
Speakers: Jim Brown, The Actors Fund; Sage Crump, Performing Arts Exchange for Southern Arts Federation; Nicole Garneau, assistant director, community partnerships, Columbia College Center for Community Arts Partnerships; Jordan Hirsch, Sweet Home New Orleans; Adam J. Natale, director of member services, Fractured Atlas
An artist's life can be complicated. Coping with one's personal life is hard enough, but add to it the need to find solutions about healthcare and insurance, space, funding, and growth opportunities and it can be daunting. This panel explores some of the resources and strategies that are available to individual artists and how they can be accessed.
Of interest to Individual Artists
Topics:
Nurturing and Supporting the Individual Artist
Artists from Abroad: Everything You Need to Know about Visa and Tax Issues
Moderator: Heather Noonan, vice president for advocacy, League of American Orchestras
Speakers: Jonathan Ginsburg, immigration attorney, Fettmann, Tolchin & Majors PC; Cecile Glunt, Central Withholding Agreement program manager, Internal Revenue Service; David Sage, supervisor center adjudicator officer, United States Citizen and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security; Albert Schibani, tax attorney, Schibani Law Associates
Learn from the experts how to overcome the challenges of the visa and tax process for foreign guest artists. This session will answer all your questions about the visa petition process and tax withholding requirements.
Of interest to Management, Artistic
Topics:
Public Policy
Arts Boards: Innovating for the Future
Speakers: Joseph R. Bankoff; Mary Ann de Barbieri, principal, de Barbieri and Associates; Catherine French; Lowell J. Noteboom; Jaan Whitehead, theatre trustee and co-editor, The Art of Governance
The most successful boards are increasingly those that are flexible and innovative in how they approach their work. Join our interdisciplinary discussion of ways boards can be more agile in how they navigate the stages of institutional growth, more strategic in how they deal with issues such as financial stability and leadership change, and more creative in their relationships with their art and artists. Hear about the many resources available to trustees today and talk with the panel participants.
Of interest to Management, Development, Trustees
Topics:
Performing Arts Ecosystem
Arts, Inc., How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights
Speaker: Bill Ivey, former chair, National Endowment for the Arts and director, Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University
Arts, Inc. is the first comprehensive look at the health of America’s cultural system at the turn of the 21st century. This important work, written by Bill Ivey, the former chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, assesses the current state of the arts in America and finds some cause for alarm. Even as he celebrates our ever-emerging culture and the way it enriches our lives here at home, while spreading the dream of democracy around the world, he points to a looming crisis. The expanding footprint of the copyright, an unconstrained arts industry marketplace and a government unwilling to engage culture as a serious arena for public policy, have come together to undermine art, artistry and cultural heritage—the expressive life of America.
Of interest to All
Topics:
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Best Practices in Developing a Diverse and Committed Audience
Moderator: Donna Walker-Kuhne, president, Walker International Communications Group
Speakers: Joan Desens, director of institutional advancement, Glimmerglass Opera and former general manager, Opera Omaha; Aaron Dworkin , founder/president , Sphinx Organization; Sharon Luckman, executive director, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
The diverse audience is an elusive one for many arts organizations. How do you know that you’re going about it the right way? To what extent should your hopes for a diverse audience dictate your programming? Learn how to make certain that you are talking to the right people, through the right people and about the right programming. Donna Walker-Kuhne, author of Invitation to the Party and an audience development consultant, moderates a session with arts organizations with proven audience development strategies.
Of interest to Audience/Community Engagement, Marketing and PR, Trustees
Topics:
Innovation and Sustainability
Building Arts Participation in Rural America
Speakers: Jim Copenhaver, senior partner, JC Enterprises; Arlynn Fishbaugh, executive director, Montana Arts Council; Cinda Holt, building arts participation director, Montana Arts Council; Patrick Overton , director, Front Porch Institute; Mary Trudel, senior communications officer, The Wallace Foundation
Rural arts organizations and rural communities face unique challenges and opportunities garnering arts participation. This session reports on the design, implementation and outcomes of the Montana Arts Council’s arts participation- building strategies, as part of an initiative funded by the Wallace Foundation. You’ll also hear results from two bodies of research, The RAND publication, A New Framework for Building Participation in the Arts and the Montana Arts’ Council’s, The Montana Study. Together these reports led to the development of the Montana Arts Council’s multi-year grant program and leadership institute.
Of interest to Audience/Community Engagement, Marketing and PR, Trustees
Topics:
Innovation and Sustainability
The Changing Volunteer Environment
Speaker: Vicki Clark, consultant, Building the Capacity of Organization and trainer, BoardSource
Patterns of volunteerism are changing dramatically; boomers are leaving the work force and Gen X, Gen Y and Millennials define volunteerism in very different ways than in the past. This presents a whole new set of challenges and opportunities for cultural non-profits. Institutional leaders and volunteers must learn to think differently in response to these changing trends. Come hear what the volunteer force may look like moving forward, and gain some insights into what can be done now to help grow a future volunteer force.
Of interest to Management, Artistic, Trustees
Topics:
Performing Arts Ecosystem
Creating a New Framework: the Future of Arts Leadership
Speakers: Edward Clapp, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Ann Gregory, Carnegie Hall
As baby boomers reach retirement age, many in the arts are wondering who tomorrow's leaders will be and what skills they will need to succeed? Developed out of a convening of young arts professionals at Harvard University’s Project Zero, this session gives voice to tomorrow's leaders and provides strategies to solving the impending leadership gap.
Of interest to Management, Artistic, Trustees
Topics:
Innovation and Sustainability
The Denver Model: Building Local Support for the Arts
Speakers: Jim Copenhaver, senior partner, JC Enterprises; Jane Hansberry, former district administrator, Scientific and Cultural Facilities District; Peg Long, district administrator, Scientific and Cultural Facilities District; Anthony Radich, executive director, Western States Arts Federation; Stephen W. Seifert, executive director, Newman Center for the Performing Arts - University of Denver
Will there be any public support for the arts in the future? How can public funding for the arts be increased despite growing national and state budget crunches? As federal and state government budgets are increasingly allocated to areas such as program shortfalls, interest on the national debt, and so on, all “discretionary” spending, the arts included, may be squeezed and run the risk of being eliminated.
The best and most stable source of funding for the arts just may be local government funding. Denver’s Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD) is one possible role model for local arts funding. The SCFD distributes about $40 million each year to over 300 artistic, cultural and scientific non-profits in the Denver Metro Region. (That’s over one-quarter of the NEA’s annual budget for the entire country.) The program is funded by a small percent of the local sales tax and Denver’s citizen’s have reauthorized that tax twice over 15 years.
Learn from Denver arts leaders how the Denver arts community built overwhelming support for the district; what the experience has taught them about special tax districts; and how collaboration within the arts community and with the business community has enhanced Denver as a whole.
Of interest to All
Topics:
Performing Arts Ecosystem
Developing a Research Agenda for the Sector
Moderator: Elizabeth Long Lingo, researcher, Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy, Vanderbilt University
Speakers: Bill Ivey, former chair, National Endowment for the Arts and director, Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University; Sunil Iyengar, director, office of research and analysis, National Endowment for the Arts; Atul Kanagat, vice president, research and development, League of American Orchestras; John Munger, director of research and information, Dance/USA
What are your burning questions? What do we need to know?
This panel brings together cutting-edge researchers and thinkers who are actively conducting research relevant to the performing arts sector. They need to hear your questions! What critical information and knowledge do you need? What questions are we afraid to ask? What data would help you make better decisions, use your scarce resources more effectively and advance the potential for the sector? Join the brainstorming around key areas of knowledge critical to our future.
Effective Partnership and Collaboration within Arts Education Ecosystems
Speakers: Gigi Antoni, executive director, Big Thought; Daniel Windham, arts program director, The Wallace Foundation
In a healthy community, children and youth encounter arts education both in and out of school. In a perhaps-as-of-yet-unrealized ideal community, the in-school and out-of-school arts education systems are coordinated and collaborative. Community-based arts organizations provide quality arts education experiences that support what children learn during the school day and carry them deeper into artistic experiences than is possible during school hours. And the two systems work together to enrich and diversify in-school and out-of-school arts instruction so that all students experience diverse forms of artistic and cultural expression. Discover effective partnership practices that yield positive results for schools, arts organizations and, most importantly, the students they serve, moving us ever closer to our ideals.
Of interest to Management, Education, Trustees
Topics:
Performing Arts Ecosystem
From Big Picture to Back Yard: Improving Support for Arts Education
Speakers: Sarah Cunningham, director of arts learning, National Endowment for the Arts; Richard Deasy, director, Arts Education Partnership; Sandra Ruppert, senior associate for research and policy, Arts Education Partnership
How can the performing arts sector act collectively to improve the presence of arts education in the schools? National collaboration is essential, but the real key is local action. Some states are doing robust work to advance arts education, while support in other states is being squeezed by the demands of NCLB. Meanwhile, local school districts are challenged to make room for the arts among the myriad school-day requirements. Find out the real status of arts education in your state and community, understand how the public thinks about the arts and tap into the changing shape of public education. You’ll also learn how performing arts organizations can advance the status of the arts in the schools by becoming well-informed and well-connected participants in local conversations about the quality of public education.
Of interest to Management, Education, Trustees
Topics:
Education
Fun with Critics
Moderator: Tim Smith , music critic, Baltimore Sun and president, Music Critics Association
Speakers: Misha Berson, theatre critic, Seattle Times; Lisa Kennedy , film and theatre critic, The Denver Post; John Rockwell, former critic at large, The New York Times; Marc Shulgold, classical music and dance critic, Rocky Mountain News
This event is intended to be a productive, constructive face-off between art makers and those who can make or break their careers. Our panelists will address questions like “Is it the critic’s job to support the art form? Is a critic an advocate for the art or for the audience? What is relevant in a review -- behind the scenes information or reactions from the audience?”
Of interest to Individual Artists
Topics:
NONE
The Future of Private Giving to the Arts
Twenty-nine leaders from the public and private sectors convened at Sundance Preserve for the Americans for the Arts National Arts Policy Roundtable in October 2006. They addressed the serious decline of market share in philanthropy in the arts and The Future of Private Sector Giving to the Arts in America. The meeting was the culmination of a year-long investigation of this topic, involving commissioned research, 40 professional forums and the participation of 100 philanthropy, research and arts groups and more than 3,500 individuals across the country.
Participants from that roundtable will come together in Denver, a year and a half later, to discuss their thoughts then and now on the future of private giving. You’ll hear what they think has changed since their last conversation—and you’ll find out what you, and the other participants in our session, can bring to bear on the next chapter of this important funding conversation.
Of interest to Trustees
Topics:
Innovation and Sustainability
If Only I Didn't Have to Work with (fill in the blank)! Human resource conversations among peers and HR experts
Moderator: Nancy Mims
Speakers: Ronald Lawson ; Mary-Ann Spencer Cogan; Patricia Walker
Working in the arts, racing against the clock, and trying to do the "right thing", but.... people always complicate things! Do you ever say to yourself, "If only I didn't have to work with (fill in the blank)"? If you work for a small, medium or large organization and can relate to the challenge of how to do a better job of utilizing people's talents, working together, and getting more bang for your buck, then this session is for you. Designed for managers and leaders - not just HR directors-we'll focus on the human side of Human Resources, not the paper-work. For example, imagine you're brainstorming around the office water cooler with your colleagues - other artists and arts administrators-focusing on the problems that concern you the most. You talk about how we could change the fact that artists must have day jobs to support their careers as artists and how we could change the fact that we have so much turnover among those who love the organization, and leave anyway. Better yet, bring your own, current and pressing concerns to this session to discuss. Informal conversations with peers and HR experts from theater, symphony, and dance will divulge lessons learned, experiments that have worked and how we can all do our part to make positive changes. You will leave this session with examples that both worked and failed, resources and referrals - especially for organizations with little HR budget or staff, and useful insights that you can discuss and implement in your organization with your current existing resources.
Of interest to All
Topics:
Innovation and Sustainability
Creative Aging/Life-Long Learning in the Arts
Speakers: Donna Bost-White, director of arts education, New Jersey Performing Arts Center; Kenneth T. Cole, associate director, National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts; Susan Perlstein, director of training, National Center for Creative Aging
As life expectancy increases and the baby boomers inch toward retirement, Americans increasingly expect to live active lives well into their golden years. New research indicates that sustained participation in professionally-led, participatory performing arts programs promotes health and prevents disease in older adults—and that each of us can continue to learn throughout our lives. Performing arts organizations have a role to play in serving older adults across the well-to-frail continuum. To be successful, however, we must understand the unique needs of the older learner. This session covers the growth of participatory arts education programs for older adults, providing information and guidance on:
•The benefits of arts education programs for older adults
•Research findings related to these benefits
•The elder services infrastructure as it relates to the intersection between arts & aging
•Best practices in designing, implementing, evaluating and sustaining arts education programs for older adults alone or in partnership with other organizations; and
•Information and support resources, including the newly-released Creativity Matters: The Arts and Aging Toolkit
Of interest to Education, Audience/Community Engagement
Topics:
Education
Inside the NEA Grantmaking Process
Moderator: Jan Stunkard, division coordinator for music/opera/presenting, National Endowment for the Arts
Speakers: Wayne S. Brown, director of music & opera, National Endowment for the Arts; Sarah Cunningham, director of arts learning, National Endowment for the Arts; Bill O'Brien, director of theater & musical theater, National Endowment for the Arts; Douglas Sonntag, director of dance, National Endowment for the Arts
What are the newest opportunities from the largest annual funder of the arts in America? Funding from the National Endowment for the Arts is a critical form of public support for the performing arts throughout the country. Learn about the latest developments in the funding areas supported by the NEA and hear tips for preparing a strong grant application.
Of interest to Development, Artistic, Trustees
Topics:
Performing Arts Ecosystem
International Cultural Diplomacy: Engaging Communities Abroad
Speakers: Colombia Barosse, cultural programs division chief, Office of Citizen Exchanges, Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, State Department; Carolinda Dickey, Performing Arts Strategies; Roberta Levitow, co-founder, Theatre Without Borders; Pennie Ojeda, director, international activities, National Endowment for the Arts
US performing arts organizations of all disciplines and sizes are active on the international stage and are increasingly adding community-based engagements to their touring engagements while abroad. How is this work being embraced internationally, how is it effectively carried out, how might we collectively measure the impact of this international work and how can we re-build the federal commitment to support international cultural diplomacy?
Of interest to Management, Artistic, Individual Artists
Topics:
Public Policy
It’s Great to be Green!
Moderator: Marda Kirn, executive director, EcoArts, Boulder, CO
Speakers: Patrick Dooley, artistic director, Shotgun Players; Terrence D. Jones, president and CEO, Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts; Susie Medak, managing director, Berkeley Repertory Theatre; Paul Schmiechen, EMS program manager, Department of Environmental Health, Environmental Quality Division; Michelle Weingarden, director, Greenprint Denver
In order to produce our art we freely consume what nature freely offers. Every action we take to prolong our artistic and cultural influence impacts the planet's ecosystems. Are we taking more than we have to? This session will explore what performing arts organizations can do to reduce our environmental footprint now. You’ll also look at creative strategies for achieving sustainability over the next 20 years. By 2028, can the performing arts sector become a model of environmental responsibility, working collectively to support a world where humanity lives within the means of one planet?
Of interest to All
Topics:
Innovation and Sustainability
Negotiating Between Innovation and Sustainability
Speaker: Ann Daly , consultant, Ann Daly Consulting
This interactive session will address the organizational tensions between the drive toward innovation and the desire for sustainability. How can we negotiate a balance between sustainable and innovative practices? In this session you will learn a strategic matrix, based on real-life case studies, for assessing your organization’s need, risk and projected outcomes. This workshop will also suggest effective techniques for rethinking innovation and sustainability as a partner in the organizational system, rather than as a competing interest.
Of interest to Management, Development, Funders, Artistic, Trustees
Topics:
Innovation and Sustainability
New Models for Incubation and Fiscal Sponsorship
Speakers: Arwen Lowbridge, managing director, Fractured Atlas; Victoria Meek , South Dallas Cultural Center; Yesenia Sanchez, program director, Intersection for the Arts ; Laura Zabel, executive director, Springboard for the Arts
Many performing artists and collectives are working with the notion that to get their work seen, they need to self-produce. To fund the work, they believe they need to start their own 501(c) (3) non-profit organization. The process of obtaining that status is time-consuming, complicated and frustrating.
There is a way artists and emerging small organizations can use the current model to their advantage – through the fundraising tool known as fiscal sponsorship. What is fiscal sponsorship? What is the process like? What arts organizations serve as fiscal sponsors? How can this help me as an artist? All of these questions will be addressed in this informative panel. Discussion will also touch upon artists who have created their own model as well as larger institutions that have created unique and exciting incubation spaces to foster new work.
Of interest to Individual Artists, Small Organizations
Topics:
Nurturing and Supporting the Individual Artist
New Technologies/New Opportunities
Moderator: Alex Shapiro, composer
Speakers: Rob Capili, www.VoiceofDance.com; Johannes Goebel, founding director, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Hollis Headrick, consultant; Erin West
How do performing arts organizations stay abreast of the rapid changes and remain relevant to the next generation of artists and audiences? New delivery systems (from iPod/cellphone downloads to HD transmissions and beyond) are transforming the way artists interact with the world. This charged session looks at our changing technological universe and its potential for the arts sector. A panel of experts will speak about the implications of new technology for the performing arts in areas ranging from marketing to education. Learn how delivery systems change our role in the ecosystem; explore some new technological opportunities for 21st century artists and discover the ways in which children and youth are now accessing the arts, creating and performing in ways unimaginable just a few years ago.
Of interest to Management, Individual Artists
Topics:
Innovation and Sustainability
The Online Salon Movement
Moderator: Monica Reinagel, artist and blogger-in-chief, Nutritiondata.com and nutrition guru, Epicurious.com
Speakers: Lindsay Dreyer, dancer, blogger, DancerUniverse.com; Joshua Kosman, classical music critic, San Francisco Chronicle and blogger, pacificaisle.blogspot.com; Drew McManus, arts consultant, Adaptistration.com; Dave Urlakis, digital assets director, Steppenwolf Theatre Company
The "blogosphere" continues to transform the way arts organizations interact with the media and the public at large. At a time when more traditional media outlets continue to shrink arts coverage, a wide variety of passionate bloggers writing about all of the performing arts have developed an audience of millions of readers and have challenged the critical paradigm by building a new dialogue about the arts. A panel of bloggers will offer a wide ranging commentary on the arts ecosystem and the continuing evolution of the technosphere.
Of interest to All
Topics:
Innovation and Sustainability
Parents as Learners, Advocates and Audience Members
Speakers: Gigi Antoni, executive director, Big Thought; Cyrus Driver, Deputy Director Education, Sexuality, Religion, Ford Foundation; Richard Kessler, executive director, The Center for Arts Education; Teresa Williams, chair, National PTA Reflections Program
Involving parents is a key to strengthening arts education for children and growing future audiences. Inviting parents to participate alongside their children can improve the learning experience and lead to an appreciation of what the performing arts have to offer young and old(er) alike. Engaging parents as advocates for arts education can lead to a sea-change in community support for arts learning. Find out how local communities are effectively engaging parents as advocates for community- and school-based arts education and inviting parents to be active learners.
Perspectives on Leadership Training
Moderator: John McCann, director, Institute for Cultural Policy and Practice
Speakers: MiJin Hong, senior program specialist, The Getty Leadership Institute ; Polly Kahn, vice president for learning and leadership development, League of American Orchestras; Dallas Shelby, director communications, National Arts Strategies
Research for the non-profit sector overall confirms that there is a high turnover in leadership roles. This is compounded by an insufficient pool of qualified candidates to fill needed positions who have the enhanced portfolio of skills necessary to maximize effectiveness in our complex environments. Performing arts administrators are keenly aware of the need to identify and grow the next generation of staff, board and executive leadership.
The League of American Orchestras, National Arts Strategies and the Getty Foundation are three organizations that have devoted major resources to building the enhanced skills of leaders for the cultural sector. This session will focus on lessons learned and key areas of challenge going forward, and should be of interest both to those who shape professional development opportunities for their constituencies, and those eager to learn about available resources.
Of interest to Management, Education, Trustees
Topics:
Performing Arts Ecosystem
Stop Taking Attendance and Start Measuring the Intrinsic Impact of Your Programs
Speakers: Alan Brown, principal, WolfBrown; Susie Farr, Clarice Smith Center for the Performing Arts; Brian Jose, Clarice Smith Center for the Performing Arts
What really happens when the lights go down and the curtain rises? Most arts groups do a great job of tracking attendance and revenues, but these are poor indicators of impact. Aside from the buzz in the lobby, is it possible to define – and even measure – how audiences are transformed? If you had this information, what would you do with it? Results of a groundbreaking new study commissioned by the Major University Presenters consortium in the U.S. suggests that intrinsic impacts can, in fact, be assessed using a simple questionnaire. Alan Brown, who directed the study, will discuss the results of the research, which involved pre- and post-performance surveys at 19 performances by a wide range of music, theater and dance artists.
Following the presentation, Susie Farr and Brian Jose will reflect on the implications of the study, and Jerry Yoshitomi will moderate a discussion of the findings. Should we try to measure intrinsic impacts? What does such measure imply for the artist? What are the implications for marketing and programming?
Of interest to Management, Development, Artistic, Audience/Community Engagement, Marketing and PR, Trustees
Topics:
Innovation and Sustainability
Treasure Hunting: Finding Non-Traditional Sources of Government Support
Speakers: Julia B. Klaiber, market analyst & brand manager, JAIR LYNCH Development Partners; Narrie Rome, director of federal relations, Americans for the Arts; Speakers TBA
There are hidden funding sources to be mined at all levels of government. Are you tapping into transportation, housing, education and other funding pools available to support your ongoing programs? Discover ways to make the most out of local and state tax advantages and to mine seemingly unconventional sources of governmental support for the arts.
Of interest to Management, Development
Topics:
Performing Arts Ecosystem
What’s new in funding, research, and support for individual artists?
Moderator: Sunil Iyengar, director, office of research and analysis, National Endowment for the Arts
Speakers: Moira Brennan, program coordinator, Multi-Arts Production Fund; Florence Kabwasa-Green; Kathleen Richards, program manager, Princess Grace Foundation, USA
Learn about the National Endowment for the arts brand new study “Artist Workforce” which draws on census data to give a comprehensive look at artists, including geographical and income data. This study on artist employment is of particular interest for service organizations, funders and arts organizations. Representatives from Creative Capital and the Princess Grace Foundation will be on hand to discuss their groundbreaking programs. Creative Capital will discuss artist led and artist driven programs – often described as entrepreneurial and venture capitalist oriented. National in scope, the Princess Grace Foundation-USA is dedicated to identifying and assisting emerging talent in theater, dance, and film by awarding grants in the form of scholarships, apprenticeships, and fellowships.
Of interest to Individual Artists
Topics:
Nurturing and Supporting the Individual Artist
When Women Lead: Advancing the equality, innovation and excellence of arts organizations through diversity
Moderator: Susan Sturm
Speaker: Alicia Anstead
Women make up a substantial segment of the performing arts work force. Current research indicates that expanding diversity at the top levels of an organization can improve capacity for excellence, as well as enhance leadership potential for others. Yet women’s progress has yet to percolate proportionately into leadership positions. How do women garner leadership roles? What frameworks support their advancement? What practices continue to squander or squelch women’s leadership skills? And what are the advantages to appointing women as leaders?
In a 90-minute workshop, session moderators will point out roadblocks to women and those traditionally overlooked for high-level leadership positions, compare the track record of other industries to the arts, and offer innovative ways in which organizations can understand, encourage and benefit from inclusive practices. Half the session will be devoted to a large group discussion geared toward the performing arts. Session moderators will equip participants to identify barriers, and will offer concrete ideas for innovative strategies to advance leadership roles for women in arts organizations and communities.
Of interest to All
Topics:
Performing Arts Ecosystem
Yes, You Can Lobby!
Speaker: Tom Birch, legislative counsel, National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
Never met with a policymaker? Worried about what to say and if you can even talk to this person? This session will debunk lobbying and advocacy myths and suggest strategies for engaging individuals and arts organizations in lobbying for legislation that will help support the arts sector.
Of interest to All
Topics:
Public Policy
Consultants’ Roundtable
Speaker: Lisa Mount, director, Artistic Logistics
Join the consultants’ roundtable, to discuss the joys and challenges of advising performing arts organizations. At this facilitated session, we will meet one another, share areas of expertise, discuss strategies for meeting the widely varying needs of clients in a constantly changing environment, and explore (briefly) the size and impact of the consulting sector in the performing arts. All types of consultants are welcome, including those who work in organizational development, fundraising, marketing, booking, and other areas.
Creatives As Leaders
Speaker: Tom Tresser, educator, organizer
Are you a leader? Not sure? Then attend this interactive, hands-on workshop that will make the case for creativity as the basis for a positive and winning politics and creatives as much-needed leaders in the public sector. We’ll look at the role of creativity in our national heritage and the economy and review a number of attributes you might not know you have that make you a strong candidate for public sector leadership—including local elective office! We’ll meet a few cultural workers who hold elective offices, and we’ll engage in creative group work. This session is for anyone interested in the health and well-being of creativity in America.