Ditching Demographics: A Holistic Approach to Arts Engagement
This post is the second in a three-part Blogging Fellows series on equity, diversity, and inclusion. Read the full series.
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The Arts Organization’s Role in Addressing Gentrification
This post is the third in a three-part Blogging Fellows series on equity, diversity, and inclusion. Read the full series.
Active Arts
A programming series that offers diverse participatory art-making experiences transforms an arts center.
Curator, Catalyst, and Caretaker of Curiosity
Hoping to expand the ways in which audiences connect to the organization outside the performance experience, GroundWorks embarked on two experiments.
Dance Advance Team
A dedicated group of ambassadors engage their personal networks to bring in new audiences and promote learning about dance.
Cultural Organizing
In this podcast, Richard Evans, Caron Atlas, and Frances Lucerna explore how to strengthen communities through cultural initiatives.
Artist Residencies
In this podcast, Richard Evans, Jean Davidson, and Marlène Ramírez-Cancio share stories about artist residencies that are highly rewarding for the artist, the presenter, and the public.
“Yes, And…”: Audiences Building a Sustainable Arts Community
At The New Movement in Austin and New Orleans, collaboration thrives, the audience-artist line is blurred, and community is built-in.
Accountability Through Experimentation
What if funders viewed experimentation as mandatory, and organizations were held accountable for being actively engaged in exploratory practices?
Off-Center at the Jones Looks Towards Season 3
The Denver Center Theatre Company’s prototyping test kitchen reflects on Season 2 and prepares to apply their learning to a mainstage production.
Watch all 27 Summit Talks!
Did you miss the livestream? Replay all 27 Talks from the National Innovation Summit for Arts & Culture.
Announcing the Innovation Lab for Arts Development Agencies
Welcoming three grantees to EmcArts’s new pilot Lab: Alternate ROOTS, Dance/USA, and Theatre Communications Group.
A New World
Shakespeare Festival St. Louis gave the entire canon to its residents with only one rule: make the play happen any way you see fit.
Transformation and Capitalization
Opera Philadelphia used venture capital modeling to fuel artistic innovation and create financial stability.
How I Learned to Leap Without a Destination
Berkeley Rep approaches change with a focus on grasping opportunity, ignoring criteria, and avoiding expectations for outcomes and deliverables.