I’ll be offline next week (and have been much of this week as some might have noticed) preparing for the 40th anniversary alumni conference of the MBA program I direct. Should be a great gathering of smart and fun folks, among them will be our Friday keynoter Doug McLennan, founder and editor of ArtsJournal.
The theme of the conversation is: “All In: Redrawing the boundaries of Arts Administration.” And our plan is to nudge the nonprofit and public frames we tend to use when defining cultural administration. From the event description:
Today, what we call ”the arts” (when we bother to define our terms)
is developed and delivered in a thousand different ways — nonprofit and
commercial, public and private, formal and informal, permanent and
temporary, in person and online. As a result, the palette available for
Arts Administration is both more expansive and more complex than ever
before. And boundary-crossing has become a daily part of the cultural
manager’s job. What does this evolution mean in the life and work of
cultural professionals? And how might it inform the training of
tomorrow’s cultural leadership?
I’ll let you know what insights arise. But for now, I’m off to do all the tedium and administrivia required of these pesky, real-world events.
