Winston-Salem Team Update
The organizational move to Winston-Salem has brought with it exciting opportunities and talented new team members! In January of this … Continue reading
Winston-Salem Team Update
The organizational move to Winston-Salem has brought with it exciting opportunities and talented new team members! In January of this … Continue reading
EmcArts & The Foraker Group – Learning Together
EmcArts has been fortunate to work alongside The Foraker Group in our New Pathways | Alaska program, and the connection has been … Continue reading
Meet Jonathan Halsey!
Jonathan Halsey is the new Managing Director of EmcArts, and will be leading the organization as it enters into a … Continue reading
Podcasts , Typewriters & Happy Hours: An Interview with Krupa Parikh of Inprint (Part 2)
In Part 1 of my interview with Krupa Parikh of Inprint, we discussed the organization’s participation in the New Pathways … Continue reading
Podcasts , Typewriters & Happy Hours: An Interview with Krupa Parikh of Inprint (Part 1)
Inprint, a literary arts nonprofit based in Houston, Texas, operates a number of programs to promote creative writing and reading. … Continue reading
Adventures in Community Connectedness: An Interview with Becky Kendall of the Anchorage Concert Association
The Anchorage Concert Association (ACA) is the largest nonprofit presenting organization in Alaska, presenting everything from Broadway shows to Americana to spoken word. In 2014, ACA … Continue reading
Richard Evans Speaks on New Toronto Program
When Richard Evans co-founded EmcArts 20 years ago, he recognized that, though many arts organizations wanted to adapt and innovate … Continue reading
Innovation as a Way of Working: A case study of 3 organizations (Part Two)
Part 2: Implications & Connections What are the adaptive muscles needed to respond nimbly and efficiently to complex challenges? Instilling … Continue reading
Innovation as a Way of Working: A case study of 3 organizations (Part One)
Context In 2014, I was working at Pillsbury House + Theatre in Minneapolis, MN, when we were selected to participate … Continue reading
Eric Booth on the Global El Sistema Movement
In this interview, Lee Ann Norman and Eric Booth discuss the global El Sistema movement, which is the basis of his new book Playing for Their Lives: The Global El Sistema Movement for Social Change Through Music (W.W. Norton & Company, 2016).
Navigating Challenges as Arts Service Organizations
In this podcast, Jeffrey Lependorf and Monica Valenzuela explore the unique challenges facing arts development organizations, especially as they navigate the responsibility of serving other organizations and constituents while making their own work visible.
Rebecca Thomas on Change Capital, Risk-Taking, and Creative Freedom
In this interview, Rebecca and I discuss the evolving definition of change capital, the capacities needed to leverage it, and how organizations can access it.
Holly Sidford on Capitalization, Courage, and Changing a Broken System
In this interview, Holly Sidford of Helicon Collaborative and I talk about how our field’s approach to change capital needs a system-oriented response, and what we need to do about it.
Global Action Project: How Change Capital Helped a Small Organization Move From Survival Mode to Sustainability
In this interview, Jesse Ehrensaft-Hawley and I talk about how GAP reframed their revenue strategy and invested in change capital to help them stay sustainable in the long-term.
How Should We Talk About Failing Arts Organizations?
In this conversation, Richard Evans and Karina Mangu-Ward of EmcArts discuss some of the key issues stemming from the ongoing conversation about whether or not “we should allow failing arts organizations to die.”