The Association of Arts Administration Educators (AAAE) invites educators, scholars, researchers, practitioners, and students to submit proposals for its next annual conference, which will be held from May 22-25, 2025, at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The topic focuses on the culture of belonging, the culture of health and well-being, the culture of innovation, and the culture of the environment. Submission deadline is 13 January, 2025.

The next Connected Audience Conference will take place in Berlin, Germany May 21st-23rd 2025. With the title "Culture & Young People - What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Factors, Challenges and Opportunities of Cultural Participation for Youth", it will address the challenges and opportunities for cultural organizations interacting with young people - adolescents and young adults from the age of 14 upwards. Submission deadline is November 24th 2024.

The global arts and cultural sector shows a widespread lag in the transition to sustainability. Although efforts are already being made in many places, only few institutions have acted systematically. This is what the results of the first worldwide comparative study on sustainability in the cultural sector show.

Women make up a large proportion of those involved in both practical cultural management and research into cultural institutions. Nevertheless, their specific perspectives and needs often remain in the background. Therefore, empowering women is the aim of the symposium "Women’s Perspectives in Arts Administration Symposium”, whose inaugural edition took place in September 2023, focusing on women-identifying scholars.

For as long as there have been digital cultural formats, there has been data on how these formats are used. But understanding digital metrics and integrating them into your own work is anything but trivial because for any serious attempt cultural organizations have to ask themselves what they actually want to know - even if it hurts.

Researchers and practitioners in the field of arts and cultural management grapple a similar topic from different perspectives. Still, there are difficulties in connecting and enriching one another. This issue of Arts Management Quarterly aims to illuminate the disparities between these two strands and provide examples of how they can be connected.

Not only have cultural networks as a hybrid form of organization gained importance over the last 30 years, the activity of networking itself has also become increasingly relevant. Especially local or regional networks belong to the realm of socio-cultural organisations that play a central role when it comes to community engagement and participation.

We are faced with a world that seems to get farther and farther away from utopian visions of a unified humanity. Thus, arts and cultural professionals need experiences and strategies to bridge the gaps between communities and individuals. And they need to know when they can and should accept the divisive.

Cultural institutions often do not represent the increasing diversity of their country’s populations. Introducing the format of intercultural networking to their staff as a constant working method can help organisations to become more accessible and serve diverse communities better.

First thoughts on European culture in and from Ukraine after everything changed on 24 February 2022. Despite the unimaginable situations on the ground, five of our Ukrainian friends and colleagues proofread this text overnight. We owe them a great debt of gratitude and our thoughts are with them.

This article presents and briefly analyses three recent stories from three different regional contexts in Europe that demonstrate the positive impact of innovating connections with the audience. It discusses the values of hybrid approaches to arts and culture marketing, and the benefit of resilient practices of co-creation and cross-sectoral collaboration.

There are various points of contact between arts, culture and health - not only in the course of the pandemic months. This issue of the Arts Management Quarterly shows what these are and what they mean for arts management.

The pandemic has brought a lot of challenges to trainings and programs dedicated to the organization of culture. An experience from Brazil shows how such programs can adapt to their theoretical and practical character to digital formats.

Like society, the arts ecosystem is in a state of constant evolution. The book "Arts Leadership in Contemporary Contexts” underlines how arts leadership moves alongside these evolutions and is indispensable to every organization.

Studying and working in Germany for an extensive period of time gave Nicole Vasconi the space and opportunity to reflect on the U.S. arts and cultural sector - especially compared to other models and experiences of arts management - to better see its various positive and negative aspects from a wider perspective and derive from this experience better decisions for her professional future.

The professionals and companies of the culture and creative industries (CCIs) are important catalysts for development both for classical cultural institutions and for broad sections of the economy and society. A new study shows what the CCIs in Central and Northern European countries need to flourish.

Before the pandemic, it did not occur to many arts and cultural institutions that they could - or even had to - generate revenue online. This has rapidly changed. What can organizations learn from the experiences of the last months?

In times of the pandemic, many arts and cultural institutions and professionals may find it difficult to think of others first. This issue of Arts Management Quarterly shows that it can be extraordinarily rewarding for them to commit themselves to serving local communities, now and in the long term.

Artistic places that distinguished themselves by their independence now do not only face precarity, but permanent closure. Nonetheless, independent places are essential for the artistic world and for developing new artistic expressions. Therefore, it is of highest interest to understand how these places are doing, in the face of the pandemic.