My 50-State Tour
While there is certainly great variability in the intensity with which the recession has influenced each city, the issues faced by arts organizations are remarkably consistent.
While there is certainly great variability in the intensity with which the recession has influenced each city, the issues faced by arts organizations are remarkably consistent.
Michael Kaiser | Posted 05.25.2011
Most arts organizations must really only influence 100-200 selected people in their communities to have a life-changing effect.
Michael Kaiser | Posted 05.25.2011
How to fill the gap between rising expenses and fixed earned income has been the challenge to every arts manager for centuries.
Michael Kaiser | Posted 05.25.2011
My 50 state, 69 city tour is almost over; I will make my last presentation on July 16 in Boise, Idaho. The tour has been both inspiring and depressi...
Michael Kaiser | Posted 05.25.2011
The arts in Puerto Rico must survive; there's a tremendous love for music, dancing and the visual arts. But community leaders must create a new funding model to assure the vitality of the arts.
Michael Kaiser | Posted 05.25.2011
It was a joy to go back to New Orleans on my "Arts in Crisis" tour and to meet the many dedicated arts professionals who work there. I have been a st...
Michael Kaiser | Posted 05.25.2011
We ignore the power and potency of the arts if we assume that the only important work is happening in the big Northeast or West Coast cities.
Michael Kaiser | Posted 05.25.2011
The Kansas City Ballet is a classic example of an art-focused turnaround. The substantial community of arts sponsors came to think of the company differently.
Michael Kaiser | Posted 05.25.2011
At the beginning of this year, there were predictions that as many as 10,000 American not-for-profit arts organizations would go bankrupt as a result of this recession.
Michael Kaiser | Posted 05.25.2011
I will focus harder on my international arts management strategy. For six years, I have been working to train arts leaders across the globe.
Michael Kaiser | Posted 05.25.2011
At first blush, my Arts in Crisis tour stop in Grand Rapids seemed ill-timed. Yet I arrived at the first week of ArtPrize, an innovative new arts project that has electrified the city and the region.
Michael Kaiser | Posted 05.25.2011
Barney Simon was the founder and artistic director of the Market Theatre in Johannesburg, where for several decades, he produced and directed many of the most important works of indigenous South African theater.
Michael Kaiser | Posted 05.25.2011
Next time any government official in Washington or elsewhere says that the arts are elitist or that everyday people don't care about the arts, I am going to suggest they visit Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Brian Dickie | Posted 05.25.2011
Audiences are not behaving the way they used to and given that the whole model for American performing arts assumes a predictable pattern of behavior, this is making us think.
Michael Kaiser | Posted 05.25.2011