Ben Cameron

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

Declines in Funding

Increasing burdens on NGO’s and ongoing undercapitalization

Audience Erosion

Impact of Technology

- Adrienne Rich

IN TODAY’S CONSUMER MARKET, THE PUBLIC EXPECTS

THE ARTS TO BEHAVE LIKE TECHNOLOGY

Demand based pricing

Ticket Subsidy Funds/ Pay What You Can

Flexible personalized packages

Experimentation with hours/curtain times

Expanded virtual activity

Enabled by Technology

Destroyed old business models

Challenged necessity of intermediation

THE NEW ARTS AGE WILL BE DEFINED NOT

ONLY BY CONSUMPTION BUT BY

PARTICIPATION

Performance

/Exhibit

Elaborated Performance/

Exhibit Co-Curation Co-Creation Surrender

OSF 2013: Diversity & Inclusion

“…as creative in how they run their businesses and deliver their programs as they are in the development of their artistic or cultural products. They are so clear about their core purpose and why it matters that they can be flexible and unsentimental about how they do it. They see organizational structures, location, staff, and facilities elements that can be changed if necessary for the organization to be more relevant and impactful.”

2010 Attendance: Highest Ever

415,000 People 94% capacity

Performance/

Exhibit

Elaborated Performance/

Exhibit Co-Curation Co-Creation Surrender

Organizations.

Platforms.

Producers/exhibitors.

Social Orchestrators.

Fix today’s problems.

Skate to where puck will be.

Ben Cameron

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation