New Pathways for the Arts
New Pathways is a training and immersion program for arts organizations in a local arts community to advance and accelerate the development of innovative strategies and to strengthen adaptive leadership.
Designed in partnership with a local host agency, this program consists of Community Convenings, hands-on work sessions introducing and exploring the topic of organizational innovation for leadership teams from up to 20 arts organizations, and the Core Program, a concentrated eight-month framework for select organizations to incubate and prototype a specific innovation project.
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The Innovation Lab for Museums
The American Association of Museums’s (AAM) Center for the Future of Museums, EmcArts and MetLife Foundation announce the launch of a major new initiative designed to enable selected museums to design, research and prototype innovations, testing novel approaches to field-wide challenges in a laboratory-like setting. The initiative is entitled the Innovation Lab for Museums, and is now accepting proposals.
The Innovation Lab for Museums will be an 18 to 24-month program for each of the participating institutions, utilizing the expertise of CFM and the proven experience of EmcArts in incubating organizational innovations in the arts field. In this inaugural round of the Lab, three proposals will be accepted and preference will be given to projects focusing on innovation in the realms of Youth Education, Demographic Transformation, and Participatory Experiences.
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The Innovation Lab for the Performing Arts
The Innovation Lab helps arts organizations challenge core operating assumptions, engage in intense planning on a practical innovation project, create a sense of organization-wide investment in change, and test innovative strategies with grants that help organizations prototype new practices. The three-phase Innovation Lab provides a strong framework within which new strategies can be explored and prototyped in relatively low-stakes environments before a full launch.
Program participants receive 30 days facilitation and guidance from EmcArts, including a week-long retreat for up to 10 team members at the Airlie Retreat Center, as well as $3,000 to work with a content expert of their choice, and a grant of $30,000 to support repreated prototyping of a new strategy.
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