In Search of Radical Openness
STREB, founded in 1979 by choreographer Elizabeth Streb, is an organization dedicated to bringing audiences and communities into the artistic … Continue reading
Posts Tagged: Innovation Lab for the Performing Arts
New Resources on Audience and Community Engagement
Over the course of ten years, the EmcArts Innovation Labs for the Performing Arts and Innovation Labs for Arts Development Agencies created spaces … Continue reading
From Founder-led to Artist-led: shared leadership at ICE
International Contemporary Ensemble, also known as ICE, presented an incredible 50 world premieres at the Mostly Mozart festival in 2016 … 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
Working Open: Center Stage’s Transparency Project
This is the last of a series of three Working Open posts about Center Stage’s learning journey through EmcArts’ Innovation Lab for Performing Arts Organizations.
Working Open Community Call 3: Learning through Transitions
EmcArts is continuing it’s series of community calls as part of the “Working Open” initiative to share strategies and learning about innovation in real-time.
Working Open: Navigating Theatrical and Organizational Prototypes at Center Stage Theater
My 2nd Working Open post documents our unfolding prototype at Center Stage Theater, which involves experiments with new technology as well as flattened team hierarchies and decision-making structures.
Artist-Partners: New Directions in Artist-Driven Institutional Models
With the goal of redefining roles and division of labor in arts organizations, ICE created a new organizational structure in which ensemble members act as “Artist Partners” who lead and manage the organization. This new structure eliminates traditional silos between artistic and management functions, strengthens curatorial capacity, gives ensemble members more decision-making power, and supports creativity.
Lessons from the Field: Case Study on COCABiz
An in-depth case study documenting the successes of COCABiz, a program of the Center for Creative Arts that supports the business community in St. Louis, Missouri with integration of artistic practices.
Community Call 1: Beginning to Work Open
EmcArts is committing to a “working open” approach and sharing learning about innovation projects in real-time. Last week, we held our first Community Call with a group of arts leaders interested in exploring these ideas together.
Working Open at EmcArts: An Introduction
How can the arts and culture field learn from the values of the Open Web movement? We’re committing to a “working open” approach and sharing learning about innovation projects in real-time.
The Patron/Playwright Experiment
Geva Theatre Center embarked on a Patron/Playwright Experiment to catalyze direct, personal relationships between their patrons, playwrights, and staff.
8 New Grantees Announced in EmcArts’ National Innovation Labs
Participating organizations will design and prototype innovation initiatives and tackle field-wide challenges in the Innovation Labs for the Performing Arts and Arts Development Agencies.
Off-Center @ The Jones
An underutilized theater, The Jones, becomes the testing ground for new nontraditional ways of using technology and engaging audiences for Denver’s largest professional theatre company.
Now Accepting Proposals for the Innovation Lab
Are you a performing arts or arts service organization seeking a new, strategic response to a complex challenge? Apply to the Innovation Lab by May 30.