AD/ED Partnership
Set decision rights between the artistic and executive directors, define the board's artistic mandate, and repair common AD/ED tensions.
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Arts & Culture
For theaters, orchestras, dance, opera, presenters, and galleries: earned revenue, arts fundraising, season and exhibition planning, rights and unions, and the AD/ED partnership.
11 skills
Matching skills
Arts Education & Teaching Artists
Build teaching-artist rosters and district partnerships with W-2/1099 practice, standards alignment, youth safety, and arts-ed funding.
Arts Grant Writing
Win arts-funder grants from the NEA, state and regional arts agencies, and arts foundations, including panel review and post-award reporting.
Arts Membership Program
Design and price arts membership tiers, run the subscriber-to-member-to-donor ladder, and stay on the right side of token-benefit rules.
Box Office & Subscriptions
Run box office and subscription programs with platform fees, package design, dynamic and tiered pricing, renewals, and FTC all-in fee disclosure.
Commissioning & New Work
Structure commission agreements, co-commissioning consortia, and new-work development pipelines, including IP ownership and premiere rights.
Performance & Music Rights
Clear performance and music rights: grand vs small rights, licensing houses, PRO blanket licenses, streaming grants, and film-screening licenses.
Season & Exhibition Planning
Plan the annual artistic cycle with selection scorecards, real lead times, per-title cost estimates, and extension math.
Season & Production Sponsorship
Sell and steward the arts underwriting ladder from season sponsor to program sponsor, with benefits matrices, in-kind valuation, and renewal reporting.
Union Agreements & Artist Visas
Handle AEA, IATSE, AFM, and SAG-AFTRA agreements, guest-artist contracts, and O-1/P visas with 30% withholding and CWA basics.
Venue Rental & Earned Income
Operate a venue rental program with tiered pricing, COI and liquor terms, ancillary lines, and rental UBIT basics.