Building Community Through Innovation in the Arts
Submitted by Steve on April 27, 2015
An extraordinary new report Building Community Through Innovation in the Arts, written by Brett Sokol and creative directed by Gavin Strumpman, has come from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation:
[U]sing initiatives like the Knight Arts Challenge to identify and empower new groups of entrepreneurially spirited artists and creative leaders has been key to transforming communities through the arts. True, some of those fresh faces will hardly fit the mold of traditional nonprofit administrators. This is exactly the point, given that much of the traditional arts establishment remains in crisis with its audience share waning.
“You’ve got to take risks,” Scholl insists. Not every idea will catch fire, but when one does prove scalable to other communities, “you have to double down, and then double down again.”