About Arts Leaders Alone / Together
The idea is simple: to provide a quick and easy way for arts leaders to help one another in response to the challenges posed by Covid-19.
Arts and culture organizations are often super-efficient and operate with such small margins that “emergency funds” are insufficient or non-existent. With such a prolonged pause before resuming business-as-usual, arts leaders need to think about new ways to operate, survive, and thrive.
There’s no one way to lead our arts organizations out of this tough time, but perhaps arts leaders can reach out to one another for additional support as we ask ourselves some pretty big questions about how to cope in this period of uncertainty and, more importantly, how move forward.
At its root, this project is about connecting two groups to share experiences with one another: (1) experienced arts leaders volunteers and (2) arts leaders who are seeking advice and a thought partner.
This is envisioned as an evolving project, a project in motion that can shift and respond to needs. If you have suggestions on other ways to connect, please contact us. [one thought might be small group roundtables on Zoom around specific issues/topics, like “talking to foundations” or “how to pay artists” or “how to take events online”.]
Consultants
In alphabetical order by last name.
Jonas Cartano
[needs to be updated] Jonas's work is grounded in arts education, program development, and organizational change. He has designed and produced education programs for students, teachers, adults, and arts professionals and organizational innovation and adaptive leadership development programs for arts leaders across the country. Interested in supporting emerging arts organizations with an emphasis on social impact in NYC, Jonas has served as a board member for a variety of small and startup arts nonprofit organizations. He currently serves on the board of Carleton College’s Alumni Admissions Representatives program and recently served on the board of its Alumni Annual Fund, which is widely recognized as a national model for alumni fundraising. He has held staff positions at The Metropolitan Opera, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and EmcArts and worked on projects with Opera America, The New York Philharmonic, and Project Zero at Harvard University. A lifelong choral singer, Jonas was the director of programs at Chorus America and has performed and served in board and administrative positions with a wide range of choruses in New York City, Boston, and Washington DC.
Jonas earned his BA in Music from Carleton College, his EdM in Arts in Education from Harvard University, and was a member of the inaugural class to receive an Executive Diploma in Arts and Culture Strategy from the University of Pennsylvania and National Arts Strategies in 2015. Jonas also has a Certificate of Nonprofit Board Consulting from BoardSource.
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Consultant 3
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