Happening Now

Articles that have caught our attention, blog posts, and updates about our clients, our firm, and the arts, culture and entertainment sector.

AMS Welcomes New Fellow Gregory Keng Strasser

AMS is pleased to welcome our new fellow, Gregory Keng Strasser. Gregory’s term with AMS will begin in October and close at the end of

AIANY Summer Series Conversation: Sorting Through What’s Next for Our Cultural Facilities

In June, the AIANY Cultural Facilities Committee organized a panel to discuss preparing our cultural facilities for the future. The panel, including AMS Principal Steven

A Symphony of Confusion: Sorting Through What’s Next for Our Cultural Facilities

AMS Principal Steven Wolff joins a panel of industry colleagues to discuss how we can design and plan cultural facilities in the short-term pandemic-era and

AMS Analytics launches partnership with WolfBrown’s Audience Outlook Monitor to serve performing arts centers

Monitoring audience concerns and readiness to return will be key to managing our sector’s successful return to operation. This longitudinal study is designed to complement,

COVID 19 – How AMS is responding

It is certainly a difficult and complicated time in the arts, culture and entertainment space. AMS Planning & Research and AMS Analytics are committed to

AMS welcomes first Pathways to Consulting fellow!

AMS is delighted to announce our first Expanding Pathways to Consulting fellow, Renée Cox. Renée is a 2015 graduate of Howard University with a degree

Performing Arts Center Standard Reporting Handbook now available

We’re very excited to share the news that the International Association of Venue Managers (IAVM) has published the first handbook for performance reporting for Performing

Promotions at AMS

It is with great pleasure that AMS announces the promotions of Melora Cybul to the position of Project Manager and Meg Friedman to the position

Publications

We’re pleased and proud when our work can serve not only the success of individual clients, but also the resilience of the larger arts and culture field. This page includes links and listings of some of the long-form articles, chapters, reports, and resources we’ve developed that are available to the public.

Reporting handbook for Performing Arts Centers

Performing arts centers (PACs) have long tracked performance indicators and many have engaged in formal benchmarking for over a decade. Still, until now, the sector has yet to formally address the need for a rigorous, singular source of performance measures and definitions. This manual represents a first effort toward that goal and contains the work and thought of professionals throughout the PAC sector. Performance reporting is crucial to communicating the role and relevancy of Performing

Performing Arts Center Management

AMS President Steven A. Wolff contributed a chapter entitled “The Evolution of the Performing Arts Center: What Does Success Look Like?” to the 2017 Routledge book, Performing Arts Center Management.

The Evolved Performing Arts Centre

In an article for Arts Centre Melbourne’s magazine, Encore, AMS Principal Steven A. Wolff details the evolution of “public value” among a particularly complex group of arts organizations: performing arts centers. Modern performing arts centers like Arts Centre Melbourne which officially opened in 1984 were relatively new concepts that dated back only to the 1960s. But now, they have become highly sophisticated businesses run by expert professional staff and guided by deeply engaged boards.

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