ARTS MANAGEMENT

Serving as strategic advisor to institutions of the arts and the artist. Focusing on decision making supporting the operating, business and finance affairs or ventures of the client. For performing artists, simultaneously coordinating the supporting human resources to operate efficiently and in the artist’s defined interests (e.g. agent, attorney, publicist, financial advisor).

 

Institutions Of The Arts

Arts Management is a natural amalgam of our diverse, professionally developed expertise in business finance and organizational management, fused with our appreciation for the uncompromising course of the arts. We possess the strategic aptitude to bridge the art institution’s variety of missions as a public educator of the arts, a gallery for artist’s work, a venue for performing artists or a forum for artistic development.

M6i teams with the institution’s director, ownership or its board to solve the native business and economic complexities confronting an art institution. The common focus is to advance its capacity to fulfill its mission, while creating a sustainable operating organization to serve the arts. We’re also uniquely positioned to act as an advocate and expert on funding matters with the institution’s various stakeholders, including its patrons.

 

Artist Management In The 21st Century

M6i bridges the artist’s will to navigate toward their creative impulse and maximizing the benefit available to them from that course. It is a fluid process, in constant motion and steered by the artist, while being subject to adjustment and redirection as their creative output dictates.

We recognize financial return serves the art. This approach will provide very well for the artist. It simply involves more thought and structural vision to accomplish than is commonly available. It is not native to, or in the interests of, common historic management models and their benefactors.

Too often the artist’s work is co-opted by others for the benefit of others and the artist is left with residual value. This continues to be common in the 21st Century. It is a structure that is incorrectly consistent with the profile of an employee, where creations of the individual are the property of the corporation.

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