I had a great visit to Austin, Texas, last week to talk with artists, arts managers, creatives, and other community members. Building on their cultural planning of the past years, they are working to forge a ''creative alliance'' to advance the creative life (not just cultural) of the region. Lots of great people doing extraordinary work. Lots of little mountains to climb to get where they hope to go. More on that later. But in the meanwhile, I've posted the slides and audio from my public presentation on ''Considering the Creative Ecology,'' … [Read more...]
Stuff I said in Dublin
December 1, 2008 By 3 Comments
I'm back from my fantastic conference experience in Dublin, full of new insights and fresh questions about cultural policy -- over there and over here. And spinning with possibilities to advance the hopes and goals of the Irish arts ecology, even in the devastating economy to come. But in the meanwhile, I wanted to share my main session presentation at the conference for others to see. It's the audio recording from the session itself, synchronized with the slide deck and posted to BLIP.TV. You might hear that I'm a bit glazed from jet-lag, and … [Read more...]
Three (short) detours back to public value
September 20, 2006 By 3 Comments
Download this speech in PDF format (requires free Acrobat reader) a keynote by Andrew Taylor, Director Bolz Center for Arts Administration University of Wisconsin-Madison delivered to the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies Leadership Institute Anchorage, Alaska September 19, 2006 NOTE: This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License, which means that you may copy it, print it, distribute it to colleagues, paper your wall with it, or republish it in your own newsletters or web sites … [Read more...]
Act like a business? Why aim so low?
July 31, 2006 By 10 Comments
I wrote this opinion piece for the July/August 2006 issue of Inside Arts, the magazine of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters [available on-line (registration required)]. I reprint it here with my permission. In his recent monograph, Good to Great and the Social Sectors, Jim Collins makes a rather bold statement: "We must reject the idea -- well-intentioned, but dead wrong -- that the primary path to greatness in the social sectors is to become 'more like a business.'" His point is that most businesses are poorly run, and … [Read more...]
Interview for Artsline
January 26, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Q&A: An interview with Andrew Taylor published in Artsline, the newsletter of the graduate Arts Administration program at Drexel University, Fall 2005. Reprinted with permission. According to marketingterms.com a blog or web log is defined as a frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and web links. People maintained blogs long before the term was coined, but the trend gained momentum with the introduction of automated publishing systems, most notably Blogger at blogger.com. Thousands of people use services such as Blogger … [Read more...]
Radical Restructure at the Fictitious Symphony
May 3, 2005 By Leave a Comment
A fictional 'think piece,' prepared for the Heinz Endowments April 7, 2005 by Andrew Taylor, Director Bolz Center for Arts Administration University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Business http://www.bolzcenter.org/ Document available online at: http://www.artsjournal.com/artfulmanager/thoughtbucket/ NOTE: This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License, which means that you may copy it, print it, distribute it to colleagues, paper your wall with it, or republish it in your own newsletters or web … [Read more...]
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