Emerging Arts Leaders 10 Years Later…Now What?
I’ve been in arts marketing for 14 years now. I started my arts marketing career at age 28 at a 2000-seat auditorium that mostly acted as a rental house, but also presented some music and theatre acts. I spent four years there learning the ins and outs of the entertainment and arts fields. Soon after, I joined the orchestra field and am now working for my third orchestra. I know I am no longer that ...
Arts Triage
A career in arts admin presupposes a strong work ethic and an insatiable appetite for challenge. There’s always more to be done than hours in which to do it. That’s when 21st-century productivity apps take a back seat to this 200-year-old strategy from the Napoleonic Wars. I’m sure many of you are familiar with triage: sorting the work that lies before you based on how much your effort will reap. It involves zeroing in on ...
How Are We Celebrating Women’s History Month?
March is Women’s History Month and on March 8, many celebrated International Women’s Day by lauding the accomplishments of women and by pointing out the many issues that still affect women. The Chattanooga Symphony & Opera is doing it’s part to celebrate Women’s History Month with a performance this Thursday of Jennifer Higdon’s Violin Concerto. Not only is the concert featuring a piece by a female composer, the soloist is a female, CSO concertmaster ...
Thank you for the authoritative read on this issue. To me, being able to actually see the icon in the…