Arts & Cultural Trailblazers Selected for UK Creative Community Fellows
24th Apr 2024
United Kingdom – Derby Museums, The Bowes Museum, and NAS are thrilled to announce the…
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24th Apr 2024
NAS Announces Cohort for “The Project” Working Towards System Change in Arts & Culture
16th Apr 2024
Alexandria, VA – April 16, 2024 – NAS is thrilled to share the names of…
VIEW MORE12 South Dakotans Selected to Change Network Learning Experience
13th Sep 2023
Martin, SD – Twelve South Dakotan change makers from across the state have been selected…
VIEW MORE22 North Dakotans Selected to Change Network Learning Experience
13th Sep 2023
Minot, ND – Twenty-two North Dakotan change makers from across the state have been selected…
VIEW MORENAS Announces 2023-2024 Creative Community Fellows: New England Cohort
23rd May 2023
Alexandria, VA – NAS is delighted to announce the 20 fellows participating in the 2023-2024…
VIEW MOREThe LACNA Foundation Announces New Cohort of Fellows For BIPOC Executive Leadership in the Arts Program
28th Apr 2023
—Program Seeks to Increase BIPOC Representation to 30% By 2030 in the C-Suites of Major…
VIEW MORETwenty-five Arts and Culture Entrepreneurs Selected for 2021 UK Creative Community Fellows
13th Jul 2021
Derby Museums and NAS are proud to introduce the 25 creative entrepreneurs selected to the…
VIEW MORE18 Change Makers Selected to South Dakota Change Network
09th Sep 2020
Martin, SD – SDSU Extension is excited to announce the 2020-2021 cohort of South Dakota Change…
VIEW MORENorth Dakota Change Network Selects 19 to Newest Cohort
09th Sep 2020
Minot, ND – Strengthen ND is excited to announce the 2020-2021 cohort of North Dakota Change…
VIEW MORE25 Arts & Culture Entrepreneurs Selected for UK Creative Community Fellows
23rd Jul 2020
Derby Museums and NAS are excited to announce the 2020 cohort of UK Creative Community…
VIEW MORENAS Introduces the Executive Program in Arts & Culture Strategy Class of 2020
21st Feb 2020
NAS proudly announces the 76 arts leaders accepted into the 2020 Executive Program in Arts…
VIEW MORENAS Announces Leadership Coaching Training Program Cohort
30th Oct 2019
Selected for their rich experience in the arts and culture sector and desire to support meaningful change, these leaders will spend the next year training to become coaches who will strengthen their disciplines, communities and the field as a whole.
VIEW MORESouth Dakota Change Network announces 17 changemakers selected to newest cohort
20th Sep 2019
Brookings, SD – SDSU Extension is pleased to announce the 17 South Dakotans selected to…
VIEW MORENorth Dakota Change Network announces 17 participants selected to newest cohort
20th Sep 2019
Minot, ND – Strengthen ND is pleased to announce the 17 North Dakotans selected to…
VIEW MORENAS Welcomes New Creative Community Fellows Cohort
09th Sep 2019
Alexandria, VA – NAS proudly introduces the 25 talented change makers of Creative Community Fellows’…
VIEW MOREDerby Museums develops international partnership for a new generation of collaborative leaders
29th Aug 2019
Derby Museums has been successful in securing funding and support from Arts Council England and…
VIEW MORENAS Announces Chief Executive Program Cohort
25th Jul 2019
NAS is pleased to announce the exceptional leaders selected to its fifth class of the Chief Executive Program. At a time when many arts and culture executives feel increasingly isolated and under-supported, the Chief Executive Program connects an international cohort of CEOs to explore leadership and strengthen their efforts to drive change in their organizations, communities and in the cultural field.
VIEW MORENAS Announces 2019 Creative Community Fellows New England Cohort
13th Jun 2019
NAS proudly introduces the 25 creative change agents of the 2019 Creative Community Fellows New England cohort. From theatrical public art projects in New Hampshire addressing community resilience, stigma and hope around the opioid crisis’s effect on families to encouraging pedestrians in Connecticut to take a...
VIEW MORETorrie Allen Joins National Arts Strategies’ Board of Directors
28th Mar 2019
Torrie Allen, director of development at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, joins the National Arts Strategies Board of Directors. Allen brings more than 30 years wide-ranging experience in the performing arts including executive and artistic leadership, fundraising, marketing, policy, adjudication and performance.
VIEW MORENAS Welcomes Executive Program in Arts & Culture Strategy Class of 2019
26th Dec 2018
National Arts Strategies (NAS) is excited to announce the 101 arts leaders accepted into the 2019 Executive Program…
VIEW MOREFourteen North Dakotans Selected for Bush Foundation’s Change Network
26th Dec 2018
Strengthen ND is pleased to announce the 14 North Dakotans selected to join the second…
VIEW MORETwenty South Dakotans Selected for Bush Foundation’s Change Network
26th Dec 2018
SDSU Extension is pleased to announce the 20 South Dakotans selected to join the second…
VIEW MORENAS Welcomes Creative Community Fellows New England Cohort of 2018
04th Jun 2018
National Arts Strategies would like to extend a warm welcome to the 25 creative change…
VIEW MOREJoin the Creative Community Fellows New England network
13th Mar 2018
Creative Community Fellows brings a group of twenty-five creative change makers across New England together,…
VIEW MOREWelcome the Executive Program in Arts & Culture Strategy Class of 2018
15th Nov 2017
National Arts Strategies (NAS) welcomes 95 arts leaders into the Executive Program in Arts & Culture Strategy class of 2018. With a record number of 150 applicants, this year we are welcoming the largest class to date representing 4 countries and 26 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
VIEW MORECreative Community Fellows New England to be piloted in 2018
02nd Nov 2017
National Arts Strategies (NAS) would like to thank the Barr Foundation for their $300,000 grant to support the development of a Creative Community Fellows program for New England that will be piloted in 2018.
VIEW MOREInaugural Change Network Program launched in North Dakota and South Dakota
15th Jun 2017
National Arts Strategies, in partnership with the Bush Foundation, is pleased to announce the launch of a new program for North Dakotans and South Dakotans who have the desire and potential to make positive changes where they live or work.
VIEW MORENational Arts Strategies one of 89 National Endowment for the Arts Our Town projects selected nationwide
14th Jun 2017
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Jane Chu announced 89 awards totaling $6.89 million supporting projects across the nation through the NEA’s Our Town program. National Arts Strategies (NAS) is one of the recommended organizations for a grant of $75,000 to support the Creative Community Fellows program. The NEA received 274 eligible applications for Our Town this year and will make grants ranging from $25,000 to $100,000.
VIEW MOREWelcome to the Newest Creative Community Fellows
07th Jun 2017
National Arts Strategies welcomes 24 artists, entrepreneurs, community organizers, city officials, advocates and urban planners…
VIEW MOREJoin the Creative Community Fellows network
13th Mar 2017
Applications for Creative Community Fellows are now open. Creative Community Fellows unites a group of twenty-four creative…
VIEW MOREWelcome the Executive Program in Arts & Culture Strategy Class of 2017
16th Feb 2017
For three years, we’ve partnered with the University of Pennsylvania, School of Social Policy and Practice to provide a certificate in cultural leadership through the Executive Program in Arts & Culture Strategy. Today, we are honored to announce the class of 2017.
VIEW MOREDoris Duke Charitable Foundation Awards NAS and IABD funding for Learning Magnet
20th Sep 2016
We would like to thank the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation for their $85,000 grant through its Fund for National Projects to support our partnership with the International Association of Blacks in Dance.
VIEW MORENational Arts Strategies Announces Leaders Chosen to Participate in The Chief Executive Program: Community & Culture
01st Sep 2016
National Arts Strategies is pleased to announce the participation of 50 exceptional leaders in the fourth and final class of The Chief Executive Program. The Chief Executive Program: Community and Culture brings together an international cohort of 50 CEOs who are working to lead change in their organizations, communities and in the cultural field.
VIEW MORECreative Community House
10th Aug 2016
At 8am on a Wednesday morning in Vermont, our farmhouse kitchen is already bustling with Creative Community Fellows, staff and mentors. There is a group of five sitting at the table talking about how Peter Frumkin challenged them in yesterday’s session on logic models. There are several Fellows spread out on the balcony, discussing the leadership mantras they created with faculty Jessica Solomon.
VIEW MORECreative Community Fellows Applications Open
31st Mar 2016
Creative Community Fellows brings twenty-five artists, activists, community organizers, administrators and entrepreneurs from around the U.S. together for nine months to learn from each other and from a community of support. We give them tools, training and access to a network. This combination fuels their visions for community change, sparking new ideas and helping propel them into action.
VIEW MORENational Arts Strategies awarded $35,000 from the Knight Foundation Fund of Akron Community Foundation
11th Mar 2016
We are thrilled to share that the National Arts Strategies’ (NAS) Creative Community Fellows program has received $35,000 from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fund of Akron Community Foundation, to advance community change and cultural entrepreneurship.
VIEW MOREIntroducing the Senior Management Institute
10th Mar 2016
The Senior Management Institute is an eight-month program designed for senior level managers of arts and culture organizations. The Institute provides a cross-disciplinary, supportive yet challenging learning environment to improve management and communication skills and to lead high-performing teams.
VIEW MOREExecutive Program in Arts & Culture Strategy: Headed to The University of Pennsylvania
25th Feb 2016
Spring has arrived early this year at NAS, with many exciting events and announcements coming this March. To kick of this exciting month, the 2016 Executive Program in Arts & Culture Strategy cohort will come together for the first time in-person at the University of Pennsylvania this March 2-5.
VIEW MORELeading Innovation in Arts & Culture Now Open for Enrollment
23rd Feb 2016
Leading Innovation in Arts & Culture is back and open for enrollment on Coursera! This course is designed to help those in the arts and culture sector build environments where new management and program ideas are created, shared, evaluated and the best ones are successfully put to work.
VIEW MORECall for Submissions: A Conversation on Failure
09th Feb 2016
We are undertaking an exploration of a topic that tends to get glossed over in our field… failure. We’re gathering a range of opinions and experiences from inside and outside the field on failure to share widely this March on Field Notes in order to create an archive of experiences and a dialogue on the many forms of failure.
VIEW MORENAS Awarded $1.5 Million from the Kresge Foundation
04th Feb 2016
The board and staff of NAS are excited to announce that The Kresge Foundation has awarded NAS a multi-year, general operating grant of $1.5 million. Kresge has long been a partner with us, particularly in the broadening of our work in strengthening communities through arts and culture.
VIEW MOREAnnouncing a New Creative Community Fellows Funding Partner
09th Dec 2015
We would like to thank the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for their $30,000 grant, which will support a cohort of San Jose, California-based Creative Community Fellows.
VIEW MOREMeet the Executive Program in Arts & Culture Strategy Class of 2016
01st Dec 2015
Leadership in the arts and culture sector requires grit, confidence and the ability to find…
VIEW MOREEarly Admission Deadline: Applications for the Executive Program in Arts & Culture Strategy are Due Today
16th Nov 2015
Today marks the early admission application deadline for the Executive Program in Arts & Culture Strategy. The quality of applicants thus far has been remarkable and we are looking forward to continuing the review process. We know that your time is valuable and making the decision to invest in your ongoing professional development is not easy.
VIEW MORENovember in the Mountains of Utah
15th Nov 2015
This journey began with the final convening of the Chief Executive Program: Community & Culture. Forty-six CEOs who have been learning together for the past fifteen months, gathered for the final time to address some of their most challenging questions at The Summit at Sundance. We built this convening as an ideation summit, an interactive, community-driven process that identifies, clarifies and activates solutions.
VIEW MOREWe’ve Got A MOOC For You
15th Oct 2015
Our Arts & Culture Strategy MOOC is back! This online course combines an overview of…
VIEW MOREExecutive Program in Arts & Culture Strategy: Applications Open
29th Sep 2015
With the University of Pennsylvania as our collaborator, we’ve developed the Executive Program in Arts and Culture Strategy. This eight-month online and in-person cultural leadership program was designed for early to mid-career professionals in the arts and culture sector. Courses are flexible and tailored to the field, focusing on the expertise we know is necessary to get ahead in this field.
VIEW MORECall for Submissions: A Conversation on Career Plans
11th Sep 2015
How do you craft a career plan? Why is it important to have a career plan? How do you identify your gaps in learning? How do you begin to fill those gaps? We’re exploring all these questions and more in a conversation on Field Notes this October and we want to hear from you! We aim to host a field-wide conversation on how to craft a career plan in order to highlight the range of experiences and bring to light the array of tools that can be helpful to staff, colleagues and ourselves. Send us your submissions and share this call with your network.
VIEW MOREThe Executive Program in Arts & Culture Strategy: Final Convening
05th Aug 2015
It’s hard to believe it is already August. The weather is heating up and summer is slowly coming to an end. It’s an exciting time at NAS! We begin this last month of summer at the University of Pennsylvania for the final convening of the Executive Program in Arts & Culture Strategy. During August 12-15, the cohort comes together for a final time.
VIEW MORECreative Community House
02nd Jul 2015
On July 20, the twenty-two Fellows in the residential track of Creative Community Fellows come together for a seven-day incubator at a breathtaking estate in Norfolk, CT. This is a core component of the Creative Community Fellows program for those in the residential track. After weeks of online introductions and connections, this is their first time meeting in-person. Fellows will take an in-depth look at the stage of their projects, the goals and the challenges that lie ahead. The House experience serves as a workshop atmosphere, where Fellows have the chance to test their model, improve their ideas and strengthen their projects with the help of diverse community experts.
VIEW MOREWe’re Headed to The Americans for the Arts 2015 Annual Convention
11th Jun 2015
On Friday, NAS’ Pearl Bickersteth and Fielding Grasty hit the road and head for Chicago to attend the annual Americans for the Arts Convention taking place this June 12-14.
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