ARTS LEADERSHIP LAB

Space for experimentation, learning and collaboration.

Arts Leadership Lab is a collaborative leadership-building project in King County, Washington. ALL uses a service learning model. Each year, a new team of collaborators receives training and programs public events based on the long-term ALL question:

What are the major opportunities of our time? How can arts practitioners be effective partners in pursuing them?

The MISSION of ALL is to build arts leadership in the Puget Sound region by exploring all the ways arts practitioners are valuable, effective partners in community development. Why? ALL asserts being a leader means 1) being a partner and 2) approaching partnership with a commitment to personal authenticity. Since art is concerned with exploring all possible means for authentic expression of who we are and where we want to be, and art-making is famously dependent on partnerships... we figure arts practitioners have great contributions to what regional leadership means - both on behalf of the arts and, necessarily, on behalf of regional sustainability. Participants pursue the ALL mission through three primary activities:

CREATIVE CONVERSATIONS: a series of cross-sector public dialog events exploring the major opportunities of our time and how arts practitioners can be effective partners in pursuing them. ALL OUT: an informal, regular networking event for people interested in arts leadership and the ALL mission. The ALL CORE TEAM program: a 14-month professional development and peer learning opportunity, in which participants implement ALL programs, experiment with governance and leadership models and collaborate to discover new opportunities for innovation in arts leadership.

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ALL is coordinated by 4Culture and is a local hub in the Americans for the Arts Emerging Leaders Network.