Munch Club #3: What is Lateral Thinking?
At our monthly Munch Club, the EmcArts staff gathers together at lunchtime to test out the tools used in our programs.
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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.
How Can Tweet Seats Provide New Opportunities for Audience Engagement?
In this project update from the University Musical Society (UMS)’s Lobby Project, Anna Prushinskaya shares outcomes from a recently launched program that enables participants to use technology during performances to connect among and beyond the theater space.
12 Stories of Innovation in Practice
We’re excited to release 12 new stories of innovation into our permanent collection.
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.
Cultivating Social Ambassadors at DANCECleveland
How do you utilize personal networks to engage younger and more culturally diverse audiences?
Do It Yourself Activities
Try out these exercises to advance your innovative projects and build your adaptive muscles.
What is Organizational Innovation?
Innovation may be essential these days, but what does that mean in the not-for-profit sector?
John Killacky on Holding the Reins
Elissa Perry interviews John Killacky of the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts about the parallels between art-making and leadership.
Are All Organizational Challenges the Same?
There are two fundamentally different types of challenge that organizations face—‘technical’ problems and ‘adaptive’ challenges. This distinction is crucial to understanding innovation.
Live Blog: Inside Day 3 of the Continuing Innovation Convening
The ArtsFwd team is at Norwood Club today to cover Day 3 of the gathering. Live updates from the meeting will be below.