The focus of the book is on the process of managing an arts organization through integrating many different disciplines. After covering a brief historical perspective, we will examine all of the functional and operational areas involved in operating an arts organization. Our study will focus on performing arts organizations in theatre, dance, music, and opera, and on museums.

Singing Our Praises is designed to demystify evaluation by highlighting glowing examples of arts presenters who have used it to learn about their success. Through real-life stories, concrete tools and techniques adapted from other fields, arts practitioners are trained to design their own evaluations in order to reveal the value of their arts programs.

<p>The Kennedy Center Arts Education Leadership Kit provides a framework for supporting the arts education leadership development needs of cultural organizations, school district leaders, teaching artists, arts management students, and other individuals interested in their own continued professional development.</p>

The author examines the training of arts managers and emphasis the need in arts management training for managers to develop a democratic perspective and managers who are opened to a plurality of views on arts and culture. The author focuses on the Cultural Services, now Arts and Administration Program, at the University of Oregon, which has a culturally democratic perspective in its program.

The author discusses the relationship between professionalism and nonprofit organizations. The author concludes this paper by pointing out that a significant, if often forgotten, social benefit generated by the nonprofits is expansion of the range of organizational alternatives among which professionals with different work attitudes can appropriately allocate themselves.

The author discusses several reasons for considering the future of higher education based arts administration training.