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hosting-guesting

Your venue is not a backdrop, it's a character
The built environment carries lots of baggage. Arts managers need to unpack it.
Hosting, guesting, and ghosting
Arts managers strive to be gracious hosts. But we are just as often, or even mostly, guests.
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E. Andrew Taylor
Auditing the visitor experience
Arts organizations are led and staffed by passionate insiders, which can leave them blind or blurry about everyone else.
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E. Andrew Taylor
Contracts and covenants
Nonprofit arts managers are bound not only by practical/tactical agreements, but also by durable, often unspoken commitments.
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E. Andrew Taylor
Navigating high-conflict personalities
The challenge and benefit of the BIFF response: brief, informative, friendly, and firm.
Your venue is not a backdrop, it's a character
The built environment carries lots of baggage into any social experience. It's useful for arts managers to unpack it.
Hosting, guesting, and ghosting in Arts Management
Arts managers tend to focus on our role as host. But we are just as often, or even mostly, visitors in the worlds in which we work
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E. Andrew Taylor
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