{"id":1161,"date":"2008-04-17T10:17:42","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T17:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2008\/04\/in_thanks_and_praise_to_fan_ta\/"},"modified":"2008-04-17T10:17:42","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T17:17:42","slug":"in_thanks_and_praise_to_fan_ta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/in_thanks_and_praise_to_fan_ta.php","title":{"rendered":"In thanks and praise to Fan Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"fan_taylor.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/fan_taylor.jpg\" width=\"144\" height=\"176\" alt=\"Fan Taylor\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" \/>The field of arts and cultural management lost a glorious voice this week with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madison.com\/wsj\/home\/local\/index.php?ntid=281937\">the passing of Fan Taylor<\/a> at the age of 94. I am a direct beneficiary of Fan&#8217;s extraordinary and field-defining work in managing and advancing the arts. And I had the great pleasure of a continuing conversation with her over the past many years.<\/p>\n<p>Those who don&#8217;t know Fan&#8217;s work can find her professional history in the article online. But the core of that opus, and the passion behind it, will long endure in the hundreds she mentored, advised, haggled with, and cajoled while getting eager audiences and great artists into a shared performance space.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the 1950s, when only a few considered the management, marketing, and advancement of the arts a professional endeavor, Fan was teaching UW-Madison students on the subject, and gathering a national coalition of her peers to learn from each other. She fostered countless networks of professionals, encouraging all of them to find and mentor others in turn. During one of our last lunches together here in Madison, she was still curious about my students, insistent on their curriculum, and bubbling with stories of her performing arts past.<\/p>\n<p>Fan was also dissatisfied with the performing arts series presented in her retirement community, and plotting ways to improve the caliber, quality, connection, and audience turn-out of these events. This at 94.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Book to your audience, only better,&#8221; was Fan&#8217;s programming philosophy. On-stage and off, she continually nudged everyone around her to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>And for the record, although our last names are the same, Fan and I are <i>not<\/i> related &#8212; except in our chosen profession and our interest in making it stronger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The field of arts and cultural management lost a glorious voice this week with the passing of Fan Taylor at the age of 94. I am a direct beneficiary of Fan&#8217;s extraordinary and field-defining work in managing and advancing the arts. And I had the great pleasure of a continuing conversation with her over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}