These items should help add to the conversation about what’s going on in arts management.
- The Fractured Atlas link will take you to four interesting projects recognizing entrepreneurship in the arts.
- The Crain’s Business article on small opera companies flourishing in NYC demonstrates budget and programming alignment can really pay off.
- The NPQ article about boards and CEO compensation shows how perceived inequities disrupted an effort at transparency.
2015 Arts Entrepreneurship Awards Honorees
We are thrilled to honor these innovators and risk-takers who embody the spirit of entrepreneurship and bring the same extraordinary creativity to the office as they do to the studio. By experimenting and challenging conventional wisdom, these five winners have developed new approaches to age-old challenges in the arts field that can serve as models and inspiration for artists everywhere.
http://awards.fracturedatlas.org/
While large operas flounder, small companies flourish
LoftOpera, Gotham Chamber Opera and other groups are prospering and expanding even as bigger institutions are struggling or failing.
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20150213/ARTS/150219910/while-large-operas-flounder-small-companies-flourish
Nonprofit Boards Can and Should Avoid this Problem with CEO Compensation
This story is not new. A CEO spends decades providing measurably great leadership for a nonprofit, but no one ever considers ensuring that she is able to retire at the end of all that. So the board plays a little catch-up and makes a lump sum payment, causing a media storm in which scrutiny is focused unkindly on the organization.
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/governancevoice/25628-nonprofit-boards-can-and-should-avoid-this-problem-with-ceo-compensation.html