Business of Arts and Culture™

When you need to build a new web site, design an exhibit space, or even drive a capital campaign, you can turn to consultants to drive the project. But there are fundamental decisions — about your programming, audiences, financial plans, staff — that can never be handed off to an outsider. The team-centered seminars in the Business of Arts and Culture™ give your team the time and new tools to create these critical organizational answers.

Each team seminar is an intensive working session that helps your organization quickly make sense of challenges and find new ideas. The series brings the best management teaching in the country directly to the arts and cultural field.

A unique experience

Each event is led by top management faculty from the leading business and graduate programs in the country. Using real cases from the arts and the for-profit sector, framework-based analysis and discussion, and immediate applied exercises for your team, you build new organizational capabilities and jump-start your most important initiatives.

2009 Organization Fellowship

Through the support of our national network of funders, NAS is offering a full fellowship for all Business of Arts and Culture™ events this year. The 2009 Organization Fellowship covers the full tuition of $1250 for a team of up to five people and will be offered through a straight-forward application process. Organizations from across the United States will now be able to participate in these seminars at no cost.

Travel assistance

Travel assistance is a unique feature of the Business of Arts and Culture. For teams of three or more traveling to a seminar, we offer travel support of up to $600 per person to help cover your costs. Travel assistance is reimbursed against actual expenses and can be used for train or air transportation; hotel; rental car; gas, tolls and parking; food and taxis. 

Small class sizes

We limit attendance to 60 people per presentation to allow for more in-depth interaction with the faculty, and more time to network with your colleagues. These limits also mean that only a few organizations can participate in each presentation, so we encourage you to register early to ensure your entire team can attend.

Convenient locations

Seminar presentations are held in convenient travel destinations with exciting local cultural resources. Sites are selected across the country, and include New York, Chicago, Seattle and Miami.