{"id":1000,"date":"2007-01-23T08:47:09","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T16:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2007\/01\/glazed_and_confused\/"},"modified":"2007-01-23T08:47:09","modified_gmt":"2007-01-23T16:47:09","slug":"glazed_and_confused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/glazed_and_confused.php","title":{"rendered":"Glazed and confused"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m finally back from four days in New York at the Association of Performing Arts Presenters conference<\/a>, and still a bit hazy from the experience. With over 4000 registrants wandering around a single hotel, so many old friends and colleagues to chat with, and so many ”virtual” connections finally made ”actual” (I met many readers of my weblog, as well as blogger Doug Fox<\/a> and AudienceBuzz<\/a> co-founder Rolf Olsen, among others), it was everything I’ve come to expect from the mega-convening of performing arts professionals…that is, exhalirating and exhausting.<\/p>\n

One of the highpoints of the event (admitting my bias) was the fabulous conference session researched, prepared, and presented by four of my MBA students in Arts Administration. They did an exceptional job exploring an emerging issue and challenge for professional performing arts presenting organizations, and teasing out the essential context and insights for those who want to take positive action.<\/p>\n

The subject, as I’ve mentioned before<\/a>, was the promise and challenge of building more meaningful connections between professional performing arts presenters and the amateur or non-professional creative artists that surround them in their communities.<\/p>\n

A briefing paper summarizing the project will be coming in a month or so. But in the meanwhile, we’ve posted updates to the project home page<\/a> with links to key literature on the subject, to organizations discussed during the session, and eventually to the session slides and the briefing paper itself.<\/p>\n

Kudos to Leigh Henderson, Joanne Jacobson, Jara Kern, and Maggie Marquardt for their hard work and successful presentation. And thanks also to my other students who were attending the conference — Angie Han, Derek Kwan, Jennifer Post Tyler, Andrea Albrecht, Eric Harris, and Isaac Walters — who provided evaluation and documentation support to the event, and professional connections for the arts institutions they work for here in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

Now it’s nap time.<\/p>\n

NOTE: Blogger Doug Fox offers an overview of the student’s conference session<\/a> on his website.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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