Jennifer heighton cole creative center ann arbor

We are proud to introduce the cohort taking part in our Southeast Michigan Arts Leaders as Cultural Innovators program. These fifteen executive and artistic directors will spend six months working with seasoned facilitators this year to learn the discipline of adaptive changemaking and strategies for driving organizational innovation.

We run this leadership development program in cities and regions around the country and are pleased to be offering it locally for the first time. Get in touch. Arts and cultural organizations are continuing to experience prolonged hardship from the aftereffects of the pandemic and turbulent economic conditions.

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This demands a departure from past practice—instead, embracing new innovations in program formats, equitable engagement with diverse publics, creative use of the technology, organizational structures, and new partnerships. ALACI equips seasoned and rising leaders with a set of practices that empowers them to act as collaborative hosts and imagine innovative solutions to emerging challenges.

Through the ALACI fellowship and other EmcArts programs I've participated in, I've been able to build a set of tools that have been invaluable in guiding the Anton Art Center to learn our way through situations or contexts that have no clear path forward. The Arts Leaders as Cultural Innovators program was designed and for years presented by the nonprofit arts consulting group EmcArts.

CultureSource integrated EmcArts into our organization in , making their unique and high-impact leadership development programs permanent offerings in our portfolio of services. Close Search. Share Share Share Pin.