Executive Director’s Column

In June, I had the unique privilege and challenge of facilitating the first CEO Seminar for the International Federation of Arts Councils and Cultural Agencies. This session was offered as a pre-conference to that five-year-old association’s third World Summit, attended by 500 participants from 80 nations. I have been advising the IFACCA board on organizational […]

Executive Director’s Column

Americans have much at stake when it comes to the success of our democratic principles and processes. Our challenges are increasingly complex as we grapple with foreign and homegrown terrorism within our national boundaries; rapid demographic and economic changes wrought by global forces; superpowers in the wake of the Soviet demise; environmental issues, privacy concerns […]

Executive Director’s Column

I look forward to seeing many of you at the Leadership Institute in Anchorage. In addition to the learning and networking opportunities, we’ll be provided a wonderful cultural experience by our hosts, the Alaska State Council on the Arts. There has been strong member support for NASAA continuing to present these smaller Leadership Institutes. Past […]

Executive Director’s Column

I hope you have had a chance to review the results of the legislative research NASAA recently conducted with the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL). Thanks to our partnership with NCSL and to sponsorship from the Altria corporation, NASAA had a unique opportunity to study what matters most to a national sample of state […]

Executive Director’s Column

I sense in many of the states I visit a readiness to consider a future agenda for arts support that is significantly different from past and current agendas. Readiness to consider change can derive from an obvious shift or reconfiguration of environmental forces, from the occasion of new leadership, from a painful event, or from […]