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	<title>Lead or Follow</title>
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	<description>An ArtsJournal Discussion &#124; Jan. 23-27, 2012</description>
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		<title>Follow? No &#8211; Informed (Let&#8217;s Go To The Data)</title>
		<link>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/follow-no-informed-lets-go-to-the-data/</link>
		<comments>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/follow-no-informed-lets-go-to-the-data/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas McLennan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Follow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friday]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll admit I am surprised. When I started putting this conversation together, I thought it would be easier finding people to take the &#8220;follow&#8221; side. There is so much attention being paid right now to social media and starting conversations and finding ways to let the audience express itself, I thought the preponderance of arguments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Leadership Can Do</title>
		<link>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/what-leadership-can-do/</link>
		<comments>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/what-leadership-can-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MiJin Hong</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/?p=579</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By leadership and leading, I mean influencing. # As I suggest in my first post, it begins with understanding and respecting your various stakeholders—an audience being one of many important constituency groups. Observe and learn from them, inquire and engage them. Take the time to create trust and fortify the relationship. Also, learn to take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Red Pill, Blue Pill &#8211; Is Engagement An Either/Or Thing?</title>
		<link>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/red-pill-blue-pill-is-engagement-an-eitheror-thing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/red-pill-blue-pill-is-engagement-an-eitheror-thing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Ragsdale</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Follow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friday]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/?p=571</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What if our audiences are confined by our predetermined ideas about what they are? A professor who began to get hundreds of thousands of views online wonders why he confines himself to a classroom with only a few dozen students&#8230;Watch the video. #]]></description>
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		<title>CONTINUED: Institutions can learn by following…and following they must, for now</title>
		<link>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/institutions-can-learn-by-followingand-following-they-must-for-now-continued/</link>
		<comments>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/institutions-can-learn-by-followingand-following-they-must-for-now-continued/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MiJin Hong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Follow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thursday]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/?p=537</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi Adrienne, I appreciate your comments to my earlier post. Truly, it furthered my thinking and I hope it furthers this debate. A little call and answer below. # Adrienne: “I appreciate the larger debate here about the balance between leading and serving the cultural audiences we work with in the visual and performing arts. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Critic&#8217;s Perspective</title>
		<link>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/a-critics-perspective/</link>
		<comments>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/a-critics-perspective/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Phillips</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lead]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thursday]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/?p=541</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Artists and arts institutions aren&#8217;t the only ones who have to worry about engaging their community. Critics, used to leading with their opinions suddenly find that the vast audience wants to engage&#8230; # #]]></description>
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		<title>Empty Forest. Tree Falls. Was It Heard Or Felt?</title>
		<link>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/treefalls/</link>
		<comments>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/treefalls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stanford Thompson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lead]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/?p=519</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?&#8221; # How would the City of ______ be damaged if the ______ Symphony Orchestra / Opera Company / Ballet Company / Theater Troop / Art Museum were to disappear tomorrow? # How would the City of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Institutions can learn by following…and following they must, for now</title>
		<link>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/institutions-can-learn-by-followingand-following-they-must-for-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/institutions-can-learn-by-followingand-following-they-must-for-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MiJin Hong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Follow]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/?p=523</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By following, I mean observing. # Institutions are not static.  In fact, the best of them are living, breathing places from which there is a great deal of interactivity.  Key to assessing one’s impact is to understand the nature of this interactivity at every level.  By keen observation, one only begins the process of trying [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Leading From Behind &#8211; We Need a Better Definition</title>
		<link>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/leading-from-behind-we-need-a-better-definition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/leading-from-behind-we-need-a-better-definition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas McLennan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Follow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wednesday]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/?p=488</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m wondering about what has brought about this frenzy of attention to engagement in the last few years. Facebook pages and Twitter feeds. Artists making video of their work. Online chats. Endless behind-the-scenes interviews and making-of opportunities. Contests. Prizes. Parties. Games&#8230; # Sure technology has made it easier to communicate with one another, and now [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Who Foots the Bill?</title>
		<link>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/who-foots-the-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/who-foots-the-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie Barron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lead]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wednesday]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/?p=502</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are literally hundreds of new museums nationwide that didn’t exist forty years ago.  Museums have never attracted greater crowds nor have they held more flexible hours to accommodate an increasingly dynamic public. They’ve made themselves places of social gathering with the introduction of music, film, and fine dining. # So what’s the problem? # [...]]]></description>
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		<title>…. It is more about the courage of imagination and the plural</title>
		<link>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/it-is-more-about-the-courage-of-imagination-and-the-plural-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/it-is-more-about-the-courage-of-imagination-and-the-plural-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roberto Bedoya</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lead]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tuesday]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/?p=434</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In regards to “Lead or Follow?” and its relationship to audiences,  I say yes to lead, yes to follow and yes to question. Leadership is not a black/white, lead/follow proposition, life is and audiences are more complicated and slippery than this binary set-up. # As a director of The Tucson Pima Arts Council (TPAC) a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Messengers of the Gods</title>
		<link>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/messengers-of-the-gods/</link>
		<comments>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/messengers-of-the-gods/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynne Conner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Follow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tuesday]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/?p=430</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When Hermes, the messenger god, discovered language and writing and gave it to humans, he invited us to engage in the process of translating our experience and perception into words; in short, he gave us the gift of interpretation. In homage to Hermes, the Greek word for interpret (hermeneuō) focuses on the role of language: [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Leaders Build Lasting Relationships</title>
		<link>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/leaders-build-lasting-relationships/</link>
		<comments>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/leaders-build-lasting-relationships/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Harlow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lead]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tuesday]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/?p=411</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone can be a follower. To borrow from Tolstoy, followers are all alike; leaders are leaders in their own way. Organizations that lead set themselves apart from the rest and provide unique experiences. # If we are to build organizations that survive—organizations that people want to make time to visit—then we need to lead, at [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>What Does Audience Engagement Really Mean?</title>
		<link>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/what-does-audience-engagement-really-mean/</link>
		<comments>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/what-does-audience-engagement-really-mean/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Tweeddale</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Follow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Debate]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/?p=369</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I think arts organizations and the arts sector at large throw around the term “audience engagement” quite irresponsibly, using it as the new buzz word that makes us feel like we are doing something. It is no longer apropos to just focus on putting “butts in seats” or the more delicate euphemism “derrieres in chairs” [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>42</slash:comments>
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		<title>Change We Must (As We Lead)</title>
		<link>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/change-we-must-as-we-lead/</link>
		<comments>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/change-we-must-as-we-lead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josephine Ramirez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lead]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monday]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/?p=403</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For a very long time the arts field resembled the companion on a road trip who said &#8220;I know the way, I&#8217;ll drive.&#8221; Our systems in the nonprofit part of the sector are set up so that arts organizations lead with authority and with the power to dictate much of what is consumed as art. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>We are the Movers and Shakers of the World Forever, It Seems</title>
		<link>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/we-are-the-movers-and-shakers-of-the-world-forever-it-seems/</link>
		<comments>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/we-are-the-movers-and-shakers-of-the-world-forever-it-seems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trisha Mead</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lead]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monday]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/?p=376</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My position in this debate was stated most eloquently by a man who studied frogs for a living, as quoted by a Welsh fighter pilot and re-purposed by an Oatmeal company hoping to launch a new candy bar. His name was William O&#8217;Shaughnessy. And he said, # We are the music-makers, And we are the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Selective and Sophisticated Followership</title>
		<link>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/follow-with-leadership/</link>
		<comments>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/follow-with-leadership/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenny Byrd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Follow]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/?p=377</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Do our artists and arts organizations need to lead more or learn to follow their communities more?&#8221; These are two questions. The charge of an individual artist or artist collective is not the same as that of an institution or organization. # I believe that artists ought to follow their own inspirations and motivation. I do [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Art with a Point of View</title>
		<link>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/art-with-a-point-of-view/</link>
		<comments>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/art-with-a-point-of-view/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Tweeddale</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lead]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[art with a point of view]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[curating the art experience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how to lead in the arts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/?p=367</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Think about it. Great art in any genre succeeds because it has a unique point of view and has been elevated from obscurity to accessibility by virtue of advocates, be they organizations, cultural taste makers, or the public. Who would want to read a piece of literature where there is no clear point of view [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If this is leading, what is following?</title>
		<link>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/if-this-is-leading-what-is-following/</link>
		<comments>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/if-this-is-leading-what-is-following/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Ragsdale</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Follow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monday]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/?p=355</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In his influential book, Art Worlds, published in 1982, Howard S. Becker writes: # Though audiences are among the most fleeting participants in art worlds, devoting less time to any particular work or to works of a kind than more professionalized participants, they probably contribute most to the reconstitution of the work on a daily [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Problem of Taste</title>
		<link>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/the-problem-of-taste/</link>
		<comments>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/the-problem-of-taste/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynne Conner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lead]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monday]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/?p=350</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As Michael frames it, the question on the table is whether arts workers (my term for artists, presenters, producers, educators, funder and commentators) should lead “taste” rather than follow it.  But there’s a fundamental problem here, one that needs to be explored before I can take a side.  What exactly do we mean when we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art or Audience; Chicken or Egg?</title>
		<link>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/art-or-audience-chicken-or-egg/</link>
		<comments>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/art-or-audience-chicken-or-egg/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Bauman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Follow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lead]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/wp/?p=209</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week we examine the nature of leadership in the context of developing the most fruitful relationships with our audiences. Good relationships often strike a healthy balance between competing interests, and frequently this balance is forged over the course of many years. Arts organizations have relationships with their patrons, donors and communities, and those relationships [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trisha Mead</title>
		<link>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/trisha-mead/</link>
		<comments>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/trisha-mead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trisha Mead</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trisha Mead works to develop new audiences for the arts through a variety of channels in Portland Oregon. As President of the Portland Area Theatre Alliance she founded the Fertile Ground Festival of New Work, a citywide festival or world premiere performance that takes place the last week of January each year and ranges from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stephanie Barron</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephanie Barron is senior curator and head of modern art at LACMA. Among the many groundbreaking and award winning exhibitions she has curated are “Degenerate Art “: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany (1991); Exiles and Émigrés- The Flight of European Artists from Hitler (1997); Made in California 1900-2000: Art, Image and Identity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stanford Thompson</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stanford Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stanford Thompson is a musician and educator who is passionate about using music for social innovation and serves as the Executive Director for the El Sistema-inspired program, Play On, Philly! As a trumpeter, Mr. Thompson has performed and soloed with major orchestras around the world while actively performing chamber music and jazz. As a conductor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roberto Bedoya</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roberto Bedoya has served as the Executive Director of the Tucson Pima Arts Council since November of 2006. He is also a writer and arts consultant who works in the area of support systems for artists. As an arts consultant he has worked on projects for the Creative Capital Foundation; The Ford Foundation; The Rockefeller [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Phillips</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Phillips</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Phillips is the film critic of the Chicago Tribune. Previously he was the Tribune&#8217;s drama critic, a post he also held at the Los Angeles Times, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the San Diego Union-Tribune and the Dallas Times-Herald. At the beginning of his career he was arts editor of the Twin Cities weekly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Douglas McLennan</title>
		<link>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/douglas-mclennan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas McLennan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Douglas McLennan is the founder and editor of ArtsJournal. This year he is a Visiting Professor at Claremont Graduate University. #]]></description>
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		<title>Lynne Conner</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynne Conner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lynne Conner is a cultural historian and playwright/director currently serving as Chair of the Theater and Dance Department at Colby College. Her research interests and consulting projects are focused on studying the history and contemporary status of audience behavior and psychology, with a special interest in how audiences engage in the interpretive process. She has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kelly Tweeddale</title>
		<link>http://www.artsjournal.com/leadorfollow/2012/01/kelly-tweeddale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Tweeddale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kelly Tweeddale is Seattle Opera’s Executive Director. She plays a key role in organizing and supervising the Opera’s daily operations, in generating and overseeing the company’s budgets, and in developing and implementing the Opera’s strategic long-range plan. She is overseeing Seattle Opera’s future development project—consolidating the company’s operations including administrative, rehearsal, production, educational, technical support, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Kaiser</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kaiser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael M. Kaiser is President of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He has expanded the educational and artistic programming for the nation&#8217;s center for the performing arts and has overseen a major renovation effort of most of the Center’s theaters. As Kennedy Center President, Mr. Kaiser is responsible for the artistic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Josephine Ramirez</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:41:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josephine Ramirez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Josephine Ramirez is Program Director at the James Irvine Foundation with overall responsibility for the Foundation’s Arts program. Last year under her leadership the Foundation launched a new arts strategy, refining and strengthening Irvine’s focus on arts engagement. Before joining Irvine, Josephine was Vice President of Programming and Planning for the Performing Arts Center of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jenny Byrd</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenny Byrd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jenny Byrd is the Executive Director of Brimmer Street Theatre Company, an Event Manager at UCLA, and an Executive Arts Management student at Claremont Graduate University. Her spare time is spent wedding-planning with her new fiance. #]]></description>
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		<title>Diane Ragsdale</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Ragsdale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Diane is currently working as at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, where she is lecturing, researching the impact of social and economic forces on US nonprofit regional theaters since the early 80&#8242;s, and pursuing a PhD. For the six years prior to moving to Europe, Diane worked in the Performing Arts program at The Andrew W. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chad Bauman</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Bauman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chad M. Bauman is the Director of Communications for Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater, where he supervises the marketing, media relations, publications, sales and front of house departments. He was recruited to join the company in 2007 in order to develop strategies to guide the company through a 2.5 year transition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bob Harlow</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Harlow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bob Harlow, PhD, develops custom research programs that help organizations identify how to engage key audiences. He has held senior and management positions at IBM and at the market research consulting groups Yankelovich Partners, RONIN, and KRC Research. # He currently leads his namesake market research consulting organization, and has partnered with marketing managers and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lead we Must</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kaiser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not-for-profit arts must lead audience taste rather than follow it. Just read the mission statements of not-for-profit arts organizations. Their missions are proactive and reflect a desire to bring a specific aesthetic, or a range of aesthetics, to their audiences. I know of no arts organization with a mission to do simply what the audience [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cultural World Has Fundamentally Changed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Holden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The question hangs on the meaning of the word ‘lead’. There are many styles of leadership: at one end the Scottish model, where the chieftain runs in front of his clan as they charge into battle; at the other the English, where an aristocrat sits on a horse and attempts to direct the fighting from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lead or Follow? A debate about leadership</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 03:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas McLennan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Increasingly, audiences have more visibility for their opinions about the culture they see. Cultural institutions know more and more about their audiences and their wants. Some suggest this new transparency argues for a different relationship between artists and audience.  So the question: In this age of self expression and information overload, do our artists and [...]]]></description>
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