Richard Worley, who recently stepped down after a 10-year tenure as chairman of the Board of The Philadelphia Orchestra Association, spoke to League Board Member Marisa Eisemann at the March 2021 Trustee Constituency Meeting.
Identifying and capturing meaningful data for Education and Community Engagement (EdCE) programming has never been easy. The shift to digital over the last year opened up both challenges and possibilities. Rather than default to reporting the number of views and clicks on a website, orchestra staff have sought to find new and more compelling ways to convey the impact and quality of their programs. In this interactive session, evaluation experts from the highly-regarded consultancy WolfBrown challenge participants to rethink reporting based on their work with cultural organizations across the U.S. Community and education staff from three orchestras will answer this challenge by sharing new or evolving approaches to internal and external reporting.
Seven new board members have joined the Board of Directors of the League of American Orchestras. Additionally, seven ex-officio members will serve on the Board for the 2021-22 fiscal year.
Orchestras are at the epicenter of American artistic ingenuity. Our new series of periodic media briefings spotlights the stories and trends you might have missed, highlighting the spirit of innovation found at orchestras across the country.
An online repository of concert works by composers of the African Diaspora.
Unlike the traditional marketing funnel, the Flywheel factors in word of mouth and momentum. Capacity Interactive’s Erik Genlser contextualizes this model for arts administrators.
Centered on the question “What is, and what should be, the role of creative placemaking in communities undergoing change?” a new report from Slover Linett about a major placemaking project in Denver holds significant learning for orchestras about how to enter into community work with humility and build toward outcomes that create belonging and social cohesion.
A weekly series from the Wichita Symphony offers “a place to pause” and an exploration of how music can have a positive impact on mental health.
What will the future be like for nonprofit arts organizations? The Wallace Foundation’s free webinar series, “Reimagining the Future of the Arts,” brings together a diverse group of experts to facilitate conversations around some of the most pressing issues facing the arts sector today, grounded in research commissioned or supported by Wallace.
Artist/scholar Dr. Tanya Kalmanovitch, who led a panel discussion on artistic engagement with climate change, shares her opening provocation from the webinar and discusses her Tar Sands Songbook project.