Ranked #1

Episode 22: Leadership Change Needn’t Be A Crisis
Episode 22: Leadership Change Needn’t Be A Crisis
There’s an enormous amount of generational leadership change that’s happening in our arts and cultural organizations. An... Read more
30 Nov 2016
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16mins
Ranked #2

Episode 29: Arts Center as a Platform for Community Development in Chinatown
Episode 29: Arts Center as a Platform for Community Development in Chinatown
Giles Li is Executive Director of the Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center (BCNC), a social-services organization servin... Read more
16 Mar 2017
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12mins
Ranked #3

Episode 52: Performing Arts Centers Make Ready for First Casino in MA
Episode 52: Performing Arts Centers Make Ready for First Casino in MA
In 2018 the first casino in Massachusetts opens in Springfield. Tina D’Agostino, President of the Springfield Performing... Read more
23 Feb 2018
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13mins
Ranked #4

Episode 48: Cultural District as Framework for Unifying Community Vision
Episode 48: Cultural District as Framework for Unifying Community Vision
Wrapped inside the cozy neighborhoods of a leafy mill town in Boston’s Metro West, Maynard’s downtown is a dynamic micro... Read more
28 Dec 2017
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12mins
Ranked #5

Episode 67: Connecting Rural Schools to Arts Education
Episode 67: Connecting Rural Schools to Arts Education
The Berkshires are home to an array of arts and culture organizations, and 13 schools districts. Connecting these two wo... Read more
31 Oct 2018
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13mins
Ranked #6

Episode 47: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education
Episode 47: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education
Lois Hetland is a MassArt professor and among the nation’s leading scholars on the value of arts education. She discusse... Read more
12 Dec 2017
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14mins
Ranked #7

Episode 25: A Capital Campaign with Lasting Impact (and a Cash Reserve!)
Episode 25: A Capital Campaign with Lasting Impact (and a Cash Reserve!)
Beryl Jolly, Executive Director of the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, discusses their capital campaign to restore their... Read more
5 Jan 2017
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13mins
Ranked #8

Episode 90: Technology as an Expressive Medium
Episode 90: Technology as an Expressive Medium
George Fifield, Director of Boston Cyberarts, says, “Anytime you have a technology which can create an expressive medium... Read more
17 Oct 2019
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12mins
Ranked #9

Episode 94: Look at Art. Get Paid.
Episode 94: Look at Art. Get Paid.
Through “Look at Art. Get Paid,” artists Maia Chao and Josephine Devanbu pay people who have never been to an art museum... Read more
12 Dec 2019
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15mins
Ranked #10

Episode 55: Generate and Cultivate Engagement
Episode 55: Generate and Cultivate Engagement
Zakiya Thomas, Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Executive Director of Education, Community Engagement and Inclusion, discusse... Read more
6 Apr 2018
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17mins
Ranked #11

Episode 51: Wide Perspective at the Narrows
Episode 51: Wide Perspective at the Narrows
Patrick Norton is Executive Director of the Narrows Center for the Arts, a regional destination for the visual and perfo... Read more
7 Feb 2018
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12mins
Ranked #12

Episode 50: Mission-Driven Commercial Development Afoot in Roxbury
Episode 50: Mission-Driven Commercial Development Afoot in Roxbury
Edmund Barry Gaither, Director of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, says this moment in Roxbury is “a moment... Read more
25 Jan 2018
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18mins
Ranked #13

Episode 84: Boston Ballet’s Business Plan Competition
Episode 84: Boston Ballet’s Business Plan Competition
Max Hodges, Executive Director of the Boston Ballet, shares the story of a business plan competition (à la “Shark Tank”)... Read more
12 Jul 2019
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18mins
Ranked #14

Episode 82: The ART of Taking Risks
Episode 82: The ART of Taking Risks
The American Repertory Theater’s Diane Paulus and Diane Borger share how they think about risk, and what it means to hav... Read more
13 Jun 2019
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23mins
Ranked #15

Episode 70: Out Youth Theater – Revelatory Experience for Performers and Audience
Episode 70: Out Youth Theater – Revelatory Experience for Performers and Audience
The Theater Offensive presents the diversity of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer lives in art so bold it b... Read more
12 Dec 2018
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12mins
Ranked #16

Episode 69: Iconoclast of Dance
Episode 69: Iconoclast of Dance
Choreographer and Master Teacher Adrienne Hawkins discusses the field of dance – how the making of, and support for, the... Read more
29 Nov 2018
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21mins
Ranked #17

Episode 68: Access Means Overcoming Psychological Barriers, Too
Episode 68: Access Means Overcoming Psychological Barriers, Too
Matthias Waschek, Executive Director of the Worcester Art Museum, says truly accessible museums create experiences that ... Read more
16 Nov 2018
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20mins
Ranked #18

Episode 92: Youth Voice Transforms a Neighborhood
Episode 92: Youth Voice Transforms a Neighborhood
Celina Miranda, Executive Director of Hyde Square Task Force (HSTF), discusses the integral role of young people in the ... Read more
14 Nov 2019
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15mins
Ranked #19

Episode 37: Springfield Cultural District Fuels Downtown Growth
Episode 37: Springfield Cultural District Fuels Downtown Growth
A thriving creative sector is one of our Commonwealth’s most powerful economic development assets. Morgan Drewniany, Exe... Read more
13 Jul 2017
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9mins
Ranked #20

Episode 38: Championing Civic Empowerment Then & Now
Episode 38: Championing Civic Empowerment Then & Now
Marita Rivero is the Executive Director of the Museum of African-American History, New England’s largest museum dedicate... Read more
31 Jul 2017
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17mins