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Mr. Joshua Russell
The Rise of the Mid-Career Arts Professional
Posted by Apr 15, 2014
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Mr. Joshua Russell
It sounds like a superhero sequel: First there were arts leaders, then came emerging leaders and now, the 'mid career arts professional' movement is gaining steam. I mean Americans for the Arts is creating a pre-conference for them at the upcoming Annual Conference in Nashville. It has to be legit, right?!
For most of my arts career, I saw myself and was viewed as an emerging leader. I took great pride in participating in meetings representing the future of the arts. But recently that has changed. I took notice of it when the folks at genARTS Silicon Valley (our region’s emerging leader network) started calling me “the Godfather” or was it “the Grandfather”? I’m pretty sure it was the first one, but either way, the message was clear - I wasn’t really one of them anymore.
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