From Barry’s Blog: Nonprofit Arts Sectors 25 Most Powerful and Influential Leaders
Each year Barry Hessenius, author of Barry’s Blog and recent keynote speaker at the Southwest Arts Conference, publishes a list of the nonprofit arts sector’s 25 most powerful and influential leaders. Barry solicits nominations from leaders in our field “from all parts of our sector and parts of the country – from large and small organizations – national, regional and local – and from every discipline and demographic” to identify the most powerful and influential leaders in our field. A little background about how the list, now in its third year, is compiled:
The process was anonymous and none of the nominators knew the identity of any of the other nominators. All were free to nominate anyone they thought qualified, including themselves the only caveat being that this was about arts administration and organizational leadership, and so I asked that we leave artists off this list (that’s a whole other ranking). I know some of you out there think this list is incomplete and inaccurate without the inclusion of artists, but this ranking is principally about arts administration and the business behind the scenes. As such, you are, of course, right – it is, at best, incomplete.
As Barry states in his post, the list includes “people [who] are our most experienced and knowledgeable people — our trend-setters, taste-makers, best thinkers, and established power brokers.”
Congratulations to the Arts Commission’s Executive Director, Bob Booker, for being recognized with a small and select group of state and regional leaders. A nominator says of Booker, “one of the now senior state arts agency leaders, Booker continues to develop new strategies and tools to survive the bad times and keep Arizona’s arts field alive. People seek his advice and want him on their panels.” Booker is listed at number twenty, along with Alex Aldrich, Executive Director of Vermont Arts Council, Philip Horn, Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, David Fraher, Executive Director of Arts Midwest, and Alan Cooper, Executive Director of Mid-Atlantic Arts.
To view the entire list and the blog post in its entirety, click here, or follow this link: http://blog.westaf.org/2010/08/third-annual-barrys-blogs-ranking-of.html.
