About Andrew Taylor

Andrew Taylor is Director of the Bolz Center for Arts Administration, an MBA degree program and research center in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business. An author, lecturer, and researcher on a broad range of arts management issues, Andrew specializes in business model development for cultural initiatives and the impact of communications technology on the arts.

As founder and president of arts/axis consulting--a communications and management consultancy--he has worked with the International Society for the Performing Arts, American Ballet Theatre, StreamingCulture, the Center for Arts and Culture, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the League of Historic American Theatres, among others. He helped develop the pro forma and operating plan for Madison, Wisconsin's $205-million downtown arts district, and led the business model development team for a proposed Digital Dance Library initiative.

Andrew is currently the president of the Association of Arts Administration Educators (an international association of degree-granting programs in arts and cultural management, research, and policy), and is a consulting editor for The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society. He received his master's in Arts Administration from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Like a good Wisconsin citizen, he enjoys cheese.

You can find out more about Andrew, and download some of his longer writing, on his Bolz Center home page.