Learning to Start Small: An update from the Usdan Summer Camp for the Performing Arts
Usdan Summer Camp for the Arts sounds just a little bit like paradise for artistic kids. For fifty years, the … Continue reading
Announcing a New Webinar Series from EmcArts!
For over ten years, our programs have equipped participants with rigorous frameworks and practical tools for innovation. We’ve heard from … Continue reading
LearnFwd: An opening move
I walk into a conference room. It’s a little stuffed with furniture, but that can be moved. I’ve just met … Continue reading
Making Innovation “Stick” with an Adaptive Leadership Circle
“How do we get this work to stick?” This is one of the questions that EmcArts facilitators get most often … Continue reading
More than a Great Date: Sustaining Innovation at the Alutiiq Museum
In February 2017, we profiled the efforts of Alaska’s Alutiiq Museum as it worked to reach beyond its core group … Continue reading
How to Embed Developmental Evaluation in Your Work
This post builds on other resources available on ArtsFwd. First, my post from earlier this month explores why developmental evaluation … Continue reading
Learning in Complex Contexts: Why Developmental Evaluation is a Promising Approach
At its core, evaluation is about learning. Learning can be defined as knowledge that supports one’s capacity to address emerging … Continue reading
The Artistry of Systemic Change
EmcArts is pleased to share our newest article, which has just been published in the GIA Reader, Vol 28. No … Continue reading
Building a Developmental Evaluation Framework for the Community Innovation Labs
Developmental evaluation mixes the critical thinking typical of evaluation with the creative thinking necessary for innovation. Previously, Jamie Gamble of … Continue reading
Flipping the Script: We’re Not the Experts, They Are!
Having recently completed EmcArts’ Arts Leaders as Cultural Innovators (ALACI) Fellowship, I jumped at the chance to reflect on my … Continue reading
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Adaptive Change is the Future of the Arts
To our ArtsFwd readers: I am delighted to present to you Somewhere Becoming Rain: Adaptive Change is the Future of … Continue reading
EmcArts presents: How do we lead, now? A four-part webinar series on Adaptive Leadership within Organizational Change
EmcArts is proud to present our next series of public webinars: How do we lead, now? A four-part webinar series on … Continue reading
Questioning Assumptions: A Story from Alternate ROOTS
Our newest animated video explains how Alternate ROOTS went about re-assessing some of their long-held beliefs about membership.
Learning from Innovation: Woolly Mammoth and Denver Center Theatre Company
Our new publication presents two in-depth case studies on the productive messiness of adaptive change in practice.
Fueling Adaptive Capacity: A Mosaic of Learning from the 2013 National Innovation Summit
What does adaptive capacity really mean? What does it look like in practice? Summit attendees share their learning in a downloadable document.