Business Issues in the Arts is a text designed to address some of the most prescient business issues that nonprofit arts organizations face today. This text is not a how-to but an in-depth dive into fourteen topics and their associated theories to augment learning in arts administration programs.
With contributions from leading academics in arts administration, the book guides readers through an exploration of those topics which have been found by practitioners to be most vital and least explored. Chapters include numerous case examples to illustrate business theory in the artistic and creative environment. The academic contributors themselves each come with both professional backgrounds and research experience, and they are each introduced at the start of their chapters, allowing for a collection of voices to navigate through some oftentimes challenging topics.
This book is designed for an advanced undergraduate course or a stand-alone graduate course on the intersection of business and management and the cultural and creative industries, especially those focusing on business issues in the arts.
Introduction: How to Use This Book
1. Understanding Nonprofit Organizations
Jen Budney
2. Nonprofit Startups in the Arts
Hannah Grannemann
3. Board Governance in the Arts
Anthony Rhine and Jay Pension
4. Access, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ADEI) in Cultural Organizations: Challenges and Opportunities
Antonio C. Cuyler
5. Conversational Budgets and Financial Management in the Arts
Anthony Rhine and Jay Pension
6. Intellectual Property and Licensing and the Arts
Elaine Hendriks Smith
7. Unions and Contracts in the Arts
Julia Atkins
8. Negotiations in the Arts
Anthony Rhine and Jay Pension
9. The Engagement Edge
Anthony Rhine and Jay Pension
10. Rural and Regional Arts Organizations
Elise Lael Kieffer
11. Partnerships and Collaborations in the Arts
Yifan Xu
12. Human Resource Law in the Arts
Brea M. Heidelberg
13. Agents and Agencies in the Arts
Julia Atkins
14. OSHA, ADA, and Other Government Mandates
Elise Lael Kieffer
Biography
Anthony Rhine is Professor of Management and Management Science at Pace University’s Lubin School of Business in New York City. He previously worked as a theatre executive, running multi-million-dollar and Tony-nominated theatre companies.
Jay Pension teaches theatre and arts administration at Florida State University. He has worked as a theatre producer on over 100 productions in Boston and New York City.
"I highly recommend Business Issues in the Arts by Jay Pension and Anthony S. Rhine because it’s a one-stop shop resource for Arts Administration and Management students, practitioners, educators, researchers, and others. The book speaks to the most important business issues facing nonprofit arts organizations today. It covers all the business issues, from human resources in the arts to unions and start-ups, that one would need to have a full grasp of leading a nonprofit arts organization." Amanda Alexander, Associate Professor and Assistant Chair, Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas Arlington, USA.
