{"id":1727,"date":"2012-05-07T09:03:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T14:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2012-05-07T12:30:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T17:30:35","slug":"the-inside-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/the-inside-track.php","title":{"rendered":"The inside track"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Flickr: HKmPUA<\/p><\/div>\n

I’ve been skimming through Anthony Weston’s 2007 manifesto, How to Re-imagine the World<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(highly skim-worthy, since it has fabulous ideas and states them quickly), and actually stopped skimming and began to read when I reached the opening to chapter 9:<\/p>\n

Naturally we look to the sticking-points, the places where change is most visibly and powerfully resisted. At the same time, though we may miss the places and ways in which change — complex and radical change — is happening now already, anyway. What if we joined in?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I stopped there, because I do that all the time. I rage against the machine of professional nonprofit cultural organizations and infrastructure. I whine about large organizations in major markets that seem bent on isolating themselves from their core value and their connections to the world. And in my Arts Administration classes, I teach by sharing the large, catastrophic failures in cultural facilities and clueless board governance, and thinking with students about how such\u00a0catastrophes\u00a0might be avoided.<\/p>\n

But they’ll always be there. And they’ll always be resistant to change (which is how they built up over time into catastrophes).<\/p>\n

So, now I’m shifting focus (if I can) toward the “inside track,” toward the individuals and organizations who are changing things already, even if only in little ways.\u00a0And it’s not just a matter of finding ‘bright spots’ to copy them<\/a> (although that’s cool, too). It’s about celebrating them, teaching through them, learning from them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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