arts axis llc founder and president Andrew Taylor writes a weblog on ArtsJournal.com. The Artful Manager explores both deep and fluffy issues surrounding arts and cultural management, marketing, and support.

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Learning out loud during sabbatical
Posted on Monday January 13, 2025

As I start a semester-long sabbatical from teaching to think and write, I'm revisiting/repurposing this platform as a field guide for that journey.

Business in service of beauty
Posted on Tuesday January 16, 2024

This beauty course is not aimed at putting beauty in service of business. My aim is the opposite. I want leaders to put business in service of beauty. Diane Ragsdale (2022) The world lost a brilliant mind and beautiful spirit with the passing of Diane Ragsdale last week. Elsewhere, in time, I will share more […]

Two goals to rule them all
Posted on Thursday June 01, 2023

I've been reading and thinking a lot about human cognition – about how we make sense and take action. The useful answer describes a combo platter of species-wide sense-making systems and their unique manifestation in each of us…

Strategy and the “standard story”
Posted on Wednesday May 03, 2023

Any strategy or plan for future action is essentially a story. It describes the present and coming world, the dynamics of the past that invoked them both, and the actions that will propel an organization toward a desired future.

Come work with me!
Posted on Monday May 01, 2023

The Arts Management Program at American University has just posted a full-time contract faculty position for the coming Fall. If you’re interested in joining an amazing learning community in Arts Management, in the global cultural city of Washington, DC, give it a look! And/or pass it along to friends and colleagues who might be a […]