Arts Consulting Peer Circle
Supporting our Clients in a Changing Landscape
A quarterly meetup for arts consultants
Holding Space for Arts Consulting
An intimate, confidential gathering of arts consultants to address the many challenges facing our sector: a shifting funding landscape, mounting pressures on core values including diversity, equity, and inclusion, and the ongoing evolution of post-COVID audience behaviors that continue to reshape engagement with arts organizations.
This hour-long session creates a protected space where we can candidly discuss how to support arts organizations in maintaining their missions and values while adapting to new political and financial realities. Together, we’ll share strategies, troubleshoot specific cases, and build a stronger professional network grounded in our shared commitment to the arts.
Sample Agenda
Welcome & Confidentiality Agreement
- Brief introductions
- Establishing our shared commitment to trust and privacy
- Personal impacts of recent shifts
Current Landscape Overview
- Federal funding changes under the Trump administration
- Challenges to DEI initiatives and programming
- Shifting rhetoric and its impact on arts organizations
- New priorities in foundation funding and the end of crucial grants & intitiatives
- Donor/funder responses to political polarization
- Audience behavior shifts and attendance patterns due to economic instability
- Digital/hybrid programming expectations and sustainability post-COVID
- Changing donor and subscriber relationships
Client Challenges and Solutions
An open conversation on how we’re navigating our work with clients in our current roles as producers, marketers, fundraisers, and more. We can all share topics and challenges that are top of mind. For example:
- Supporting organizations in relationship to their values
- Navigating communications in a polarized environment
- Balancing mission integrity with financial sustainability
- Protecting vulnerable programs and communities
- Adapting to inconsistent attendance and engagement patterns
- And more…
Collective Resources and Action
- Sharing successful adaptation strategies
- Identifying opportunities and new support models
- Innovative audience development approaches
- Etc.
Next Steps and Feedback
- Requests for support between meetings
- Priority topics for future discussions
This group is currently by invitation only.
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