{"id":910,"date":"2006-06-20T08:29:39","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T15:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2006\/06\/two_questions_worth_asking\/"},"modified":"2006-06-20T08:29:39","modified_gmt":"2006-06-20T15:29:39","slug":"two_questions_worth_asking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/two_questions_worth_asking.php","title":{"rendered":"Two questions worth asking"},"content":{"rendered":"

The job posting now on-line for the President & CEO of Madison’s $205-million Overture Center for the Arts<\/a> includes multiple essay questions along with the resume and reference requirements. Two questions, in particular, are worth a moment for any<\/i> manager of a large, professional-grade cultural facility:<\/p>\n

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Describe what you believe to be the central role of a major, multi-venue performing and visual arts center in a city the size of Madison. What should be such a facility’s top three measures of success and sustainability? And what would be your top three priorities for the Center in your first year as director?<\/p>\n

How could Overture Center, and you as its leader, promote, advance, and support the vitality of the larger cultural ecology of Madison and Dane County? What would be your responsibility to resident companies of the facility, and to other cultural organizations in the community?<\/p>\n

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The first question goes to the purpose and function of a huge cultural capital investment — is it about dominating the market? Filling in the cultural gaps in the market? Fostering resident companies and local organizations? Refocusing the community’s economic activity?<\/p>\n

The second question goes to the inherent tension between any significant cultural facility and its resident arts organizations and cultural neighbors. As shown in Broward County<\/a> and at large performing arts centers across North America, the balance between serving the needs of the facility and the needs of the cultural ecology is often a delicate and highly political one.<\/p>\n

Feel free to answer either or both of the questions above in comments to this weblog. I’d love to read what people have to say…whether or not they’re applying for the Overture job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The job posting now on-line for the President & CEO of Madison’s $205-million Overture Center for the Arts includes multiple essay questions along with the resume and reference requirements. Two questions, in particular, are worth a moment for any manager of a large, professional-grade cultural facility: Describe what you believe to be the central role […]<\/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-910","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\/910","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=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}