Artists on Creative Administration : The University of Akron Press : 9781629222820 : 1629222828 : 24 Sep 2024 : "To carve a life in the arts requires a willingness to ask questions and find new ways, a labor that has often been undervalued or unacknowledged. Featuring the insights from nearly 30 artists, Artists On Creative Administration provides first-hand accounts of creative administration research in action and offers ways to apply it to your own thinking, work and life. It's a collection of stories, prompts and provocations; a workbook of case studies, essays, and interviews; a sharing of helpful tools, resources, and survival strategies; a banquet of questions, revelations, and calls to action from over nineteen artist teams. Each chapter is a case study offering a glimpse into the creative administrative mind at work: how artist-administrators think and bring ingenuity to the tasks that get art out into the world. This book is for anyone looking for paths forward; for anyone wh