National Arts Strategies

NAS strengthens the arts and culture sector by creating meaningful and useful educational experiences for leaders at all levels of the ecosystem - from boards and CEOs to entrepreneurs and artists - giving them the tools, connections and support to transform their leadership, their organizations and their communities. Over its 30-year history, NAS has worked with thousands of people to build management and leadership capacities. Its model is to build connections that have a high level of trust and that are both deep and broad: they work closely with individual communities and connect local leaders with a broad and diverse network of likely and unlikely allies from across the globe. NAS' approach brings concepts and frameworks from outside the sector to bear on the seemingly intractable problems that arts and culture leaders face every day. They partner with faculty from top-tier universities who excel in both researching and teaching to deliver programs such as the Chief Executive Program, Creative Community Fellows and the Executive Program in Arts & Culture Strategy.