With limited budgets and resources, arts ventures are struggling to employ modern marketing methods to promote their events. Marketing the Arts introduces students, young professionals, and even seasoned veterans to new and refined marketing approaches—by drawing on marketing theory as it is used by huge multi-nationals, exploring such theories in the context of creative ventures generally, and the fine and performing arts specifically.The book is designed for classroom us...

Conventional business marketing often suggests that the primary function of business is to market a product in order to maximize efficiency and profit. In How to Market the Arts: A Practical Approach for the 21st Century, expert authors Anthony Rhine and Jay Pension propose a new paradigm to better explain how nonprofit arts marketing can and should work. How to Market the Arts provides a history of both nonprofit arts and critical marketing concepts to show how standard ...

Business Issues in the Arts is a text designed to address some of the most prescient business issues that nonprofit arts organizations face today. This text is not a how-to but an in-depth dive into fourteen topics and their associated theories to augment learning in arts administration programs.With contributions from leading academics in arts administration, the book guides readers through an exploration of those topics which have been found by practitioners to be most v...