Fiscal Sponsorship vs. Nonprofit Seminar at Chamber Music America
Chamber Music America offers a wide range of seminars and workshops for chamber music professionals. Whether at the CMA National Conference every January, the Education and Residency Institute or at conferences taking place around the country, CMA provides a presence on behalf of and for its membership. Activities range from professional development consultations to interactive skill development workshops for individual artists, ensembles, and presenters. First Tuesdays, a Chamber Music America CMA Plus program, is presented in collaboration with Midtown Arts Common and Saint Peter’s

NEA Cultural Workforce Forum
On Friday, I had the privilege to attend the NEA’s Cultural Workforce Forum, a convening of researchers who have recently led efforts to measure and understand the work habits and economic condition of individual artists in the United States. The event, though not open to the public, was simulcast on the Internet so that anyone could view it (the broadcast will be archived on arts.gov this week). Both the convening itself and the public broadcast of it are, I believe, firsts for the NEA. The format was more academic research conference than in

Water, Water (Not) Everywhere: Christine Destrempes
Featured Member Profile This Thanksgiving, will clean drinking water be one of the things you give thanks for? Perhaps you wouldn’t think of it, but visual artist Christine Destrempes would. She’s created a delicate, even shimmering, installation piece that drives home a devastating truth. Part of her “Art for Water” series, the piece, entitled 13,699, represents the number of people who die every day from lack of access to clean water. Christine, please tell us about how your installation 13,699 came to be. About seven years ago I read an article in The

Meeting the Leaders of Tomorrow
This week I was fortunate to have the opportunity to spend a couple of days in Madison, WI at the Bolz Center for Arts Administration. The center’s director, Andrew Taylor, invited me to meet with his MBA seminar students to discuss the state of the arts, Fractured Atlas’s business model, and other exciting things. This was the second time I’ve been invited to speak to MBA students with a non-profitty/artsy orientation, and I have to say it’s among my favorite audiences. I know the MBA as a degree has a somewhat dubious reputation, but these students are dedicat

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