From Expert to Collaborator
Moving from the traditional stance of ‘the expert with important stories to tell’ to ‘building stories with community’ requires an openness and humility that is often not easy for museums.
Creating Performances That Cannot Exist Without an Audience
Off-Center @ The Jones’s programming takes into account the full audience experience and puts it at the center of the artistic process.
Unlikely Pairing, Lasting Implications
What seemed like a mismatched pairing with The Second City turned out to be Lyric Opera of Chicago’s surprise hit of the season with traditional and new audiences alike.
Beyond Scarcity
What happens when we shift the focus from “How can artists get more money?” to the deeper question of, “How can artists get more resources?”
So You Think You Can Dance?
Carlton Turner speaks about success and failures in collaborative endeavors from the perspective of an artist, organizer, and leader in the field of arts and social justice.
Dance, Paintball, and Casinos: What’s DAT Got to Do With It?
By mobilizing community stakeholders, exploring and implementing innovative practices, DANCECleveland’s Dance Advance Team (DAT) works toward creating an affinity for dance.
Shhh!
Do you want to develop sustainable relationships with new audiences? Do you want to build community? Shhh! Be quiet and listen.
Museum as Platform
Using a major exhibition, a museum can activate the community to provide a collective platform for: dialogue, diverse interpretation, and wide-ranging authentic arts experiences with broader audiences.
Video: Behind the Scenes at the Innovation Lab for Museums Round 2 Retreat
A five-day intensive retreat allows for museum staff, board members, community members, and experts to accelerate innovation projects by getting away from daily stresses.
Video Dailies Blog
The Group transformed its website into a blog of daily video shorts in their signature style to enable them to create artistic work in a new medium and engage audiences during their lengthy absences from New York.
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.
How Visitors Changed Our Museum
A traditional art gallery is transformed by a unique team that puts the visitor experience at the heart of an effort to create a 21st century museum.
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?