{"id":886,"date":"2012-04-26T17:28:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T17:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artstrategies.org\/leadership_tools\/readinglist\/?p=886"},"modified":"2014-02-12T11:49:38","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T16:49:38","slug":"guthrie-theaters-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/2012\/04\/guthrie-theaters-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"Guthrie Theater&#8217;s debt to women and diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Do nonprofit cultural organizations have a particular responsibility to reach into and represent all parts of the community?\u00a0 Does the benefit of nonprofit status require us to take more risks than commercial theatre?\u00a0 A recent article explores the Minneapolis community\u2019s reaction to the lack of diversity in a local theatre\u2019s upcoming season.\u00a0 While this piece focuses on the choices of one artistic director, <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 10pt;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/michael-kaiser\/questions-on-diversity_b_333470.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: black;\">other leaders in the field<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"> have also argued that not all organizations should feel obligated to be diverse.\u00a0 On the other hand, leadership from theatre companies such as <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 10pt;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tenthousandthings.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: black;\">Ten Thousand Things<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"> and <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 10pt;\" href=\"http:\/\/actorstheatre.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: black;\">Actors\u2019 Theatre of Louisville<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"> argue that ensuring inclusivity is not only the responsibility of an arts leader, it also just makes good business sense.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black;\">I am interested to hear your thoughts on questions about representation, community, and diversity raised here.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black;\"><a title=\"Guthrie Theater's debt to women and diversity\" href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/collections\/special\/columns\/state-of-the-arts\/archive\/2012\/04\/guthries-debt-to-women-and-diversity.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Read &#8220;Guthrie Theater&#8217;s debt to women and diversity&#8221;\u00a0at MPR.org \u00bb<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do nonprofit cultural organizations have a particular responsibility to reach into and represent all parts of the community?\u00a0 Does the benefit of nonprofit status require us to take more risks than commercial theatre?\u00a0 A recent article explores the Minneapolis community\u2019s reaction to the lack of diversity in a local theatre\u2019s upcoming season.\u00a0 While this piece [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[136],"tags":[238,296,114,93,370],"coauthors":[22],"class_list":{"0":"post-886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-reading-list","7":"tag-arts-and-culture-organizations","8":"tag-decision-making","9":"tag-diversity","10":"tag-leadership","11":"tag-nonprofit","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}