Describes and assesses data resources on arts organizations that inform policy makers, arts managers, and researchers working in the arts fields
Cultural Council Victoria, TX provides a sample evaluation form, Performance Appraisal.
Corporate recruiters have begun visiting top arts grad schools. This approach has often come at the expense of traditional business graduates.
By matching educational needs and graduate program offerings, this study was designed to produce a guide to individuals committed to professional arts management, and in particular for use by three separate groups: directors of arts administration graduate training programs, their potential students, and individuals with the authority and responsibility to hire graduates of such programs.
Based on thirty interviews with leaders in both the nonprofit and for-profit arts sectors, this essay concludes that although most cross-sector activity exists, significant new initiatives are possible in areas including philanthropy, joint ventures to create and disseminate new products, community redevelopment, technology, cultural preservation, and career development. The authors also warn of missteps and the importance of binding but not blurring the goals of the for-profit and non-for-profit arts organizations.
Attendees at Open Dialogue IX began the process of crafting future arts policy for people of color in the arts.
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