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April 2025

What is Arts Management?
The practice of aggregating and animating people, stuff, and money toward expressive ends.
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E. Andrew Taylor
Outsourcing expertise
Sometimes, it's smart to hire outsiders. Sometimes, it's not.
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E. Andrew Taylor
Minimum viable process
As a nonprofit arts organization, your business systems need to be as simple as possible…but not simpler.
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E. Andrew Taylor
Do what you say you will do
Commitments are easier made than met. So do the math.
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E. Andrew Taylor
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Selling the unknowable
How do you "sell" an arts experience when its value cannot be known in advance?

March 2025

Make things, tell people
The core of any creative practice is also the center of Arts Management practice.
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E. Andrew Taylor
Mission calisthenics
It's time to strengthen your nonprofit's readiness as well as your resolve.
Why boards get bored
How can the work of a nonprofit board be complex, consequential, and tedious all at the same time?
The sneaky curse of coordination costs
Teamwork makes the dream work, but it's expensive.

February 2025

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