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Problem solving and strategizing aren’t usually associated with creativity, but they’re one and the same. Our industry is demanding we reimagine the power of our creativity and the change we can collectively vision and implement. What we do is needed here and now.

We talk more about this in our recent publication, “Cultural Triage.” Check it out at the link below!

https://www.blveconsults.com/cultural-triage

We must first believe with a fierce, determined tenacity that we are worth saving. By holding to this steadfast, we grant ourselves the permission to think big because we know, deeply, that there is no other option. When we know our willingness to meet the moment is "whatever it takes," we enter into the realm of YES.

We talk more about this in our recent publication, “Cultural Triage.” Check it out at the link below!

https://www.blveconsults.com/cultural-triage

We are an ecology.

There is freedom in reconsidering our hierarchical arts structures as ecologies; understanding each facet of the work in relation to the whole. In this movement towards communal thinking, we have to ask ourselves about our willingness to change in service of a new way of doing things. Holistic thinking gives access and permission to next level collaboration.

We talk more about this in our recent publication, “Cultural Triage.” Check it out at the link below!

https://www.blveconsults.com/cultural-triage

Urgent.

“Urgency” is a concept artists are all too familiar with.

Persistence. Determination. Importance.

The reality of the moment reflects this weight; it’s essential that we embrace that collective change needs to happen, and soon, to preserve our communities.

We talk more about this in our recent publication, “Cultural Triage.” Check it out at the link below!

https://www.blveconsults.com/cultural-triage

Shifting ecologies.

From Boards to creative teams, how do we move from hierarchies to ecologies? Systems that honor individual strengths, in service of the common goal? We talk more about this in our recent publication, “Cultural Triage.” Check it out at the link below!

https://www.blveconsults.com/cultural-triage

Let’s build something new.

We want to build energy around audacious change.

This means funders, political leaders, press, donors, and service organizations need to become aware that they will have to work differently for the arts community to regenerate and thrive.

We talk about different ways to do this in our recent publication, “Cultural Triage.” Check it out at the link below!

https://www.blveconsults.com/cultural-triage

The ends of things deserve celebration. It is a myth that closing an organization is a shameful, regretful event. Like the ephemeral work so many arts organizations do, so too are their organizational lives. Let’s celebrate a lifespan as one does on closing night: a gathering of community, joy, and success. 🎉

https://www.blveconsults.com/cultural-triage

The ends of things deserve celebration. It is a myth that closing an organization is a shameful, regretful event. Like the ephemeral work so many arts organizations do, so too are their organizational lives. Let’s celebrate a lifespan as one does on closing night: a gathering of community, joy, and success. 🎉

https://www.blveconsults.com/cultural-triage

Arts organizations have a natural life cycle; just like everything else in this world. Why not make the process of closure one of thoughtfulness and joy? In this time, change is inevitable. And it is OKAY to consider closure. We’re all figuring out a new strategy of being, all at the same time.

Arts organizations have a natural life cycle; just like everything else in this world. Why not make the process of closure one of thoughtfulness and joy? In this time, change is inevitable. And it is OKAY to consider closure. We’re all figuring out a new strategy of being, all at the same time.

Our recent publication “Cultural Triage” discusses this and alternative structures that consider compassion and equitability. We ask how our arts organizations can evolve to meet the moment.

https://www.blveconsults.com/cultural-triage