Bravo to Michael Kaiser, President of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, for his recent article titled, Where Are the Senior Arts Managers?
As a young art administrator and passionate for the arts, I appreciate his essay which addresses art organizations looking to hire, but not looking among the many of us in the younger, passionate, less "experienced" generation.
Kaiser notes,
Hiring a younger manager is certainly risky. If one has never worked with donors of great wealth, managed a large staff, produced multiple events in a short period of time, worked with unions, etc., entering a major organization in the top position requires a quick trip down a steep learning curve. But hiring older managers with a string of failures on their resumes and lots of excuses about why each engagement didn't work out is also fraught with risk. Why will this engagement turn out any better?You can read the rest of the article at the Huffington Post.
