Arts Management encompasses an array of professional practices that support, connect, and sustain artistic expression and experience. These practices can be explored and understood as “functions” – bundles of sense-making and action-taking. The ArtsManaged Field Guide identifies ten such functions, clustered by their dominant focus: inward to the organization, outward to the world, or at the boundary between the two.
See the list below to find direct links to the ArtsManaged Field Guide and function-related posts in ArtsManaged Field Notes.
Inward-Facing Functions
People Operations ( guide | notes )
Designing and driving systems and practices that attract, engage, retain, and develop people within the enterprise.Finance ( guide | notes )
Structuring, maintaining, and sustaining systems of money and stuff.Spaces & Systems ( guide | notes )
Selecting, securing, stewarding, and harnessing the built environment and technological infrastructure.
Boundary Functions
Program & Production ( guide | notes )
Developing, assembling, presenting, and preserving coherent services or experiences.Accounting ( guide | notes )
Recording, summarizing, analyzing, and reporting financial states and actions.Governance ( guide | notes )
Structuring, sustaining, and overseeing the organization’s purposes, resources, and goals.
Outward-Facing Functions
Sales ( guide | notes )
Designing, deriving, and capturing inbound revenue from goods, services, or access.Gifts & Grants ( guide | notes )
Attracting, securing, aligning, and retaining contributed resources.Hosting & Guesting ( guide | notes )
Inviting and supporting people who enter your circle; honoring and listening in circles where you are a guest.Marketing ( guide | notes )
Creating, communicating, and reinforcing expected or experienced value.