Turning Northrop Inside-Out
ArtsFwd asks the Innovation Lab grantees: What is the biggest question you and your team are wrestling with as you head into the intensive retreat?
Culturebot – Challenge Semi-Finalist
We will extend our reach beyond the web into live space with events that model nonhierarchical conversations and seamlessly integrate with our online network.
HowlRound – Challenge Semi-Finalist
We will steward a peer-to-peer digital currency that matches artists’ needs to the community’s available resources.
Kennedy Heights Arts Center – Challenge Semi-Finalist
We will create new, sustainable ways of earning revenue through social enterprise.
WaterFire Providence – Challenge Semi-Finalist
We will develop a new revenue model that will engage a wider group of government and industry stakeholders and beneficiaries.
ZERO1 – Challenge Semi-Finalist
We will establish our physical, multipurpose space as an interface to engage the nonprofit and for-profit sectors in Silicon Valley.
What’s the Value of Transmedia Storytelling for Organizations?
Transmedia storytelling is exploding across the media community. One of our new Blogging Fellows explores some of the implications for arts organizations.
Introducing the Grantees: The Innovation Lab for the Performing Arts Round 8
Announcing the four grantees for the EmcArts Innovation Lab for the Performing Arts, Round 8.
Seedlings
Approached by other cities to replicate their Minneapolis-based programs, Springboard developed Seedlings, a community organizing model for establishing new locally-driven resource programs for artists.
Immersive Visitor Experience
Frustrated with the conventional “come, look, leave” experience of their visitors, YBCA set out to re-imagine the relationship as deeply immersive.
COCAbiz
A large multidisciplinary arts organization uses its knowledge and skills to develop a new program meant to train the business community by using the arts as a vehicle to stimulate leadership, creativity and innovation.
What is Organizational Innovation?
Innovation may be essential these days, but what does that mean in the not-for-profit sector?
The Lobby Project
Discover how a multi-arts presenting organization on a major academic campus developed a new comprehensive approach to linking live and virtual spaces, engaging patrons and providing multiple entry points for the public.
HERE: On Demand
A cutting-edged organization develops a robust interactive media platform to promote interaction among artists and audiences and involve artists more effectively in communicating about their work.
The Cultural Investor Program (CIP)
A producing organization develops a system of patronage through a combination of online and live events and drives patrons to engage with the artists’ creative processes.