Nancy Denholm, MFA

For many summers I managed a summer theatre camp for teens. Every year one or more of the parents would come to me with grave concerns...

As an arts administrator you will spend many hours managing your staff, both artistic and administrative. In order to be a successful...

Community partnerships are something that we hear about all the time in the arts. While a community partnership is often with another...

Collaborative communication across the entire organization is the one thing that all arts organizations must practice every day. The...

I am in the process of developing a new online course entitled Creating and Evaluating Arts Programs. After spending several decades as...

For 35 years as an arts administrator I managed theatres of all sizes, both public and private, but what I really did all those years was...

Each semester in Lesson 1 of my online Theatre Appreciation course we discuss how the experience of watching a film differs from...

I contend that arts managers should be focused on selling their venue - not their shows! Every season arts managers create elaborate...

What is the difference between facilitating and managing? Why should arts leaders be facilitators and not managers? It's time we changed...