I’ve been working, talking, and thinking a lot about business models in arts and culture, as have many others in the field. And while many seem to believe we need new, better, or more flexible business models in advancing arts and culture, there doesn’t seem to be a structured and focused way of discussing the options.
To help frame that conversation, I’ve invited two colleagues to talk about it online in a Vokle video panel discussion.
Monday, April 25
4:00 pm Eastern Time
Joining me for this one-hour discussion, and responding to your comments and questions, will be James Undercofler, Professor of Arts Administration in Drexel University’s Westphal College of Media Arts and Design, former President and CEO of the Philadelphia Orchestra, former Dean of the Eastman School of Music, and current ArtsJournal blogger; and Nina Simon, blogger at Museum 2.0, author of The Participatory Museum, consultant and researcher to the museum field, and recently appointed Executive Director of the Museum of Art & History at McPherson Center in Santa Cruz, CA.
We’ll plan to open the hour with some brief background and reflections from each of the panelists, and then open the session to your questions and comments.
Hope you can join us!
Looking forward to this. Thanks, Andrew.
I’ll be interested in discussing Google Foundation, B Corporations, and LC3’s if we are able.
It was interesting to read the comments below the Philadelphia story. Almost universally they refer to European arts support as signifying that for Europeans and EVERY other non=USA nation, the arts are a common good, a cultural “infrastructure”, a universal right and need. (Very much like good health care…) For that reason and for others, wouldn’t it be good to have a representative on hand during the discussions, of the European non-elitist, system of arts funding?
I’ve been very interested in conversations like these about the Arts and business models. I appreciated participating in your chat last week. In relation to that conversation I read in the May 2011 issue of Inc. magazine about an arts organization, Story Pirates (storypirates.org), that takes a hybrid approach to the nonprofit model. They provide after-school writing and drama programs and then a for-profit arm that links the two together through licensing agreements. Thought that this issue in particular of Inc. would be of much interest to you based on last weeks online chat on Vokle.