Lots of juicy conversation is now going on in a special weblog on ArtsJournal called Engaging Art. The blog is a pre-conference conversation leading up to the American Symphony Orchestra League’s convening in Nashville next week.
The conversation circles around a new book on the past, present, and future of cultural audiences, and the challenges of ”engaging art” in every meaning of the phrase. And, true to its topic, the conversation will try to engage its audience in new ways during the live session in Nashville, with the audience blogging questions and comments even as the panelists speak.
One intriguing thread running through these chapters and these conversations is that creation and expression matter more to people now than ever before, but that our particular part of the system intended to deliver that expression (the nonprofit arts in general) matters less.
