Artists On Creative Administration: A Workbook from the National Center of Choreography, Akron

To carve a life in the arts requires a willingness to ask questions and find new ways, a labor that has often been undervalued or unacknowledged. Featuring the insights from nearly 30 artists, On Creative Administration provides first-hand accounts of creative administration research in action and offers ways to apply it to your own thinking, work and life. It’s a collection of stories, prompts and provocations; a workbook of case studies, essays, and interviews; a sharing of helpful tools, resources, and survival strategies; a banquet of questions, revelations, and calls to action from over nineteen artist teams.  Each chapter is a case study offering a glimpse into the creative administrative mind at work: how artist-administrators think and bring ingenuity to the tasks that get art out into the world. This book is for anyone looking for paths forward; for anyone who believes we are in an exceptional moment of change—change is happening and needs to happen.