Management and the Arts 5e – December 2021

Orchestra and Theatre Reports. Recap of Fall 2021 posts. As we wrap up 2021, I found two reports that I thought you might find interesting on the impact of COVID-19 on performing arts organizations. The first focuses on orchestras in the U.S. between November 2020 to...

Management and the Arts 5e – November 2021

Audience Building. Cultural Democracy. For the last three weeks I have been working on a presentation I am giving later this month about audience development and engagement. I thought it might be of value to share three of the many resources I have been using on...

Management and the Arts 5e – October 2021

Psychological Safety. Toxic Cultures. Accessibility Support. This month I thought it would be valuable to share links to two very different articles that focus on psychological safety or the lack thereof. The first offers a roadmap for creating a psychologically safe...

Management and the Arts 5e – September 2021

Hiring Process.Cognitive Bias.Over-Optimistic? This month, I thought these three sources were nicely linked together around the theme of successfully challenging assumptions and being overly optimistic. Creating a more diverse workforce in arts organizations requires...

Management and the Arts 5e – August 2021

Update on the sixth edition. Mental Models. Agency. I hope your summer is going well, despite the COVID variant complicating attempts to resume some kind of normalcy in our lives. The variant certainly is making the job of arts managers trying to reconnect their...