Connecting the Dots for Outreach and Arts Audience Development

{Photo Source} Guest Post by: Shoshana Fanizza Founder, Audience Development Specialists Twitter // Blog Outreach planning is an important part of audience development. Outreach events and projects enable you to connect with your community and give you the opportunities to have conversations and start relationships with people that are not currently attending. There are many … Continue reading →

Emerging Arts Leaders Networks

By: GP McLeer, Executive Director of the Mauldin Cultural Center It started with this exchange: “How are you doing?” “Great!  … Have you noticed we’re the youngest ones here?” Four months later, myself and a colleague decided to start the South Carolina Young Professionals Arts Network. You see, Maggie (my colleague) and myself had just recently … Continue reading →

The Millennials’ Orchestra: Engaging Younger Symphony Audiences and Donors in the Classical Music Experience

Guest Post By: Catherine Starek, Graduate Arts Management Student at American University Learn more about Catherine in this emerging arts leader Q&A post (Photo Source) Millennial generation – “Generations, like people, have personalities, and Millennials – the American teens and twenty-somethings (ages 18-29) who are making the passage into adulthood at the start of a … Continue reading →

Social Media and Arts Advocacy

Guest Post By: Jason McCool, Classical Music Evangelist, Actor, Professor, Musicologist, and Public Speaker “It’s not only music that I feel compelled to share but sunsets and jokes and cracked crab. I mean whatever I enjoy I want others to enjoy – at least one other person, but preferably one thousand… or a million!” –Leonard … Continue reading →

Patron Loyalty 101

TRANSCRIPT NOW AVAILABLE Guest Post By: Amelia Northrup, Strategic Communications Specialist at TRG Arts Audience development. Usually when you hear this arts industry buzzword, it’s all about finding new audiences—everyone wants to develop a larger audience, right? However, audience development is not only about finding new audiences, but also retaining and deepening the commitment of … Continue reading →

Fundraising Strategies in the Arts

TRANSCRIPT NOW AVAILABLE Guest Post By: Professor Sherburne Laughlin, Director of the Arts Management Program at American University How has fundraising been going this year? Are your contributions falling, flat, or even better, increasing? Are there particular strategies that are working better than others in this stressed economy? Are there strategies that you have abandoned … Continue reading →

Emerging Arts Leader Spotlight: Catherine Starek

Each month, #artsmgtchat will feature an outstanding emerging arts leader and learn about their background, career, interests, and arts management aspirations. If you are interested in being featured or have someone in mind, email us. This month’s emerging arts leader spotlight is with Catherine Starek. Catherine is a second year graduate student in arts management at … Continue reading →