desart board governance notes
Post on 07-Aug-2015
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What Makes a Strong Arts Centre
• Culture• Artists• Bush trips• Keeping arts centres
clean• Working and meeting
together• Good relationships• Training the young
people to work together• Supporting other artists
and other communities
• Respect for each other• Supporting and helping
the manager• Everyone taking
responsibility• Strong directors• Regular board meetings • Having skilled art
workers• Good training• Not talking wrong story
What Makes a Weak Arts Centre
• no funding• weak arts centre
manager• no communications -
computer/ telephone• manager coming and
going• weak relationships• no bush trips • no exhibitions
• not working together• no meetings• no training• private dealers• no transport• bad manager• humbug• no other art centre
visits• not many artists turn
up
Role of the Board in Making a Strong Arts Centre• hold meeting with manager
and explain money story• Board members meet
together with staff • Board members meet with
artists about exhibitions and paintings
• go to conferences• go with other artists from
other centres - get everyone involved
• good communication between board and staff
• travel for exhibitions• have rules for new managers• look after manager good way• better communication with
older artists
• sharing with arts centre manager and supporting them to improve the arts centre
• support the arts centre manager
• planning together• board members make sure
they have training and arts centre manager has training
• rules around business and stick to rules
• if something bad happens have a meeting - talk together - not before meeting
7 Steps – a Board Needs to Do When the Arts Centre Needs a new manager
1. Write the Job Description - a list of what the manager does in the job
2. Do the interview – a meeting to talk about why they want the job and a chance for the Board to ask questions
3. Choose the new manager – have a meeting to talk about who is the best for the job
4. Find out from the old manager what story the new manager needs and teach the new manager the job
5. Time in Between Old manager leaving and new manager starting – who worries about the arts centre when we are waiting for a new manager to come
6. New Manager Starts work – help the manager do a good job7. Probationary Review – like a second interview, time to tell our story about the new manager and hear their story –things to talk about – are we happy with the work of the new manager?, is the new manager happy? Do we need to do anything different?
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