Performing Arts Administration   Tags: arts_administration, performing_arts, performing_arts_administration  

Welcome! Looking for information on management, marketing, development, programming, long-range planning, board and volunteer development and organizational goal formation? Let us help you find what you seek.  If you have any problems, just click on the Chat with me link, email me or just stop by my office. I'm here to help!

Other guides of interest:

http://nyu.libguides.com/Theatre

http://nyu.libguides.com/EducationalTheatre

http://nyu.libguides.com/education

http://nyu.libguides.com/policy

http://nyu.libguides.com/busdocs

Brann Wry, Program Director, Performing Arts Administration NYU Steinhardt's Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions, June 2011 Following photos used under Creative Commons: Carnegie Hall 1: veganette, Carnegie Hall with flags: wallyg, Rockefeller Center with flags: dave hamster, Rockefeller Center Atlas statue: Rob Young

Occupy Wall Street demonstrator (Flickr/kenstein)

As Occupy Wall Street protests spread over the perceived inequities between the very wealthy and the "other 99 percent" a new study on American arts funding makes a similar point. Its finds that billions of dollars in arts funding serve a mostly wealthy, white and shrinking audience. Meanwhile, only a small chunk of money goes to emerging arts groups that serve poorer communities that are more ethnically diverse. But is this the full picture? And if so, what – if anything – should be done about it?

Miriam and Harold Steinberg Reading Room

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

After you've checked the Bobst Library materials be sure to stop by this reading room.  Though quite small, the Arts Administration Collection contains comprehensive information on all aspects of the administration and management of performing arts organizations. Special emphasis is placed on financial management, particularly funding and grant-seeking at an individual and institutional level. Other areas of interest include arts services organizations, forming and running nonprofit organizations publicity, special tax considerations, arts centers and arts councils, general entertainment law and copyright.

Flooding in Red Hook, Brooklyn after Sandy (Flickr/gunnicool)

Arts Participation 2008: Highlights from a National Survey features top findings from the 2008 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts, the nation's largest and most representative periodic study of adult participation in arts events and activities, conducted by the NEA in partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau.

examines developments in the growth, distribution, and finances of America’s nonprofit theater system since 1990.

1990-2005 is the first nationwide look at artists' demographic and employment patterns in the 21st century. Artists in the Workforce analyzes working artist trends, gathering new statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau to provide a comprehensive overview of this workforce segment and its maturation over the past 30 years, along with detailed information on specific artist occupations.