Monetizing Your Creativity - Pursuing A Career In Film, Television, Writing, Theatre, Music & Design With Your Talents

Many people think of the term “arts administration” as an oxymoron. Similar to “deafening silence”, “living dead” or “jumbo shrimp”. People wonder what arts have to do with administration and what administration has to do with arts. Plenty. And the proof is personified in Julian Mayne, a musician who has capitalized on his management expertise to enhance the performances of many great stars by producing their concerts, converting and creating space where art can take place in a city, and pulling teams together for massive arts infrastructure projects. Yet, he still finds time for the personal pursuit and pleasure of his own performance talents. Julian shares with you some very personal decisions as to why his particularly stable (and successful) career has given him and other artists the opportunity to create more spaces and involve more faces in a city’s active arts scene. Arts administration gives an artist an opportunity to stay gainfully employed and keep his or her talent flourishing just as it giv