Editors’ Introduction

Dr. Olaf Kuhlke is currently Professor and Chair of Arts Entrepreneurship at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. From 2018 to 2021, he was the Principal Investigator for a National Science Foundation project entitled “Developing and Testing and Incubator for Digital Entrepreneurship in Remote Communities”, in which he built a digital arts entrepreneurship education program in collaboration with Athabascan tribal communities in central Alaska as well as Nunavut, Canada. Recently, he also developed a remote learning program entitled “Our People, Our Climate”, which taught photography, documentary film making and climate change visualization to Inuit youth on Baffin Island, Canada.

E. Andrew Taylor thinks (a bit too much) about organizational structure, strategy, and management practice in the nonprofit arts. An Associate Professor of Arts Management at American University, he also consults for cultural, educational, and support organizations throughout North America. Andrew is past president of the Association of Arts Administration Educators, board chair for Fractured Atlas, consulting editor for The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, and a co-editor of Artivate, a journal on arts entrepreneurship. Since July 2003, he has written a popular weblog on the business of arts and culture, "The Artful Manager," hosted by ArtsJournal.com (www.artfulmanager.com). He's currently constructing an array of free and public resources to support Arts Management practitioners – online textbook, weekly newsletter, short video series – available at ArtsManaged.org.