Executive Directors Retreats

Arts Education Managers' Professional Development Institute 2009 – Fargo, North Dakota

• Conference Notes (including session summaries and presentations)
• 2009 Professional Development Institute Slide Show

Assembly 2008 – Chattanooga, Tennessee

• Conference Proceedings (including session summaries, presentations, peer group notes and photos)

Assembly 2007 – Baltimore, Maryland

• Conference Proceedings (including session summaries, presentations, peer group notes and photos)

2006 Leadership Institute – Anchorage, Alaska

• Institute Proceedings (including session summaries, presentations, peer group notes and photos)

2005 Annual Conference – Boise, Idaho

• Public Value Keynote by Mark H. Moore
• Workshops
  • Measuring What Matters (Presentation, Readings in Evaluation and Measurement, State Arts Agency Sample Grant-Making Questions)
  • Building Public Value in the "New Normal" (Presentation)
  • Excellence and Innovation in State Arts Agencies (Handout, Presentation)
  • Telling Our Stories, Making Our Case (Session Synopsis, Nuts and Bolts of Effective Communication, Montana Listening Tour Questionnaire, Personal Strengths Worksheet)

2004 Fall Leadership Institute – Orlando, Florida

• Orientation to the State Arts Agency Public Arts Policy Environment
• Workshops
  • Grant Making
  • Organizational Creativity
  • Public Value

2003 Annual Meeting – Charleston, South Carolina

• What do Kids Really Think About the Arts?
  • Overview Presentation
  • Supplementary Statistics
• The Business of State Arts Agencies
  • Trends and Implications: Jonathan Katz, NASAA
  • State Trends: Bill Pound, NCSL
• Workshops
  • State Arts Agency Grant Making
  • Strategic Arts Advocacy