Join NCCAkron for a free panel discussion and book launch event for Artists on Creative Administration at the Akron Art Museum. This free event includes contributing authors and additional case studies exploring themes of community building, organizational transitions, and artistic longevity.

Artists on Creative Administration will be available for purchase through local bookseller Elizabeth’s Bookshop & Writing Centre and the first 25 event registrants will receive a complimentary copy, sponsored by ArtsNow. You must attend the event to claim your free copy.

Artists on Creative Administration: A Workbook from the National Center for Choreography, will be published September 24, 2024, by The University of Akron Press as part of their NCCAkron Series in Dance. Edited by artist/cultural strategist Tonya Lockyer this book features essays from and interviews with 30 artists and advocates from the dance and performing arts worlds, sharing first-hand stories of creative administration in action through case studies, interviews, life tools, and experiments.

Continuing the celebration of creativity and movement, The Nightlight Cinema will screen Stop Making Sense outside in the Bud & Susie Rogers Garden. Stop Making Sense is an independently produced 1984 concert film featuring a live concert performance by Talking Heads. Bring blankets and picnics to sit and watch, or dance the night away! Film screening is weather-dependent.