INNOVATIVE STRATEGIES IN LOUISVILLE
In the Louisville Courier Journal ( Photo Louisville Shakespeare Company)
Amid the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression, Louisville’s principal arts organizations are being challenged as never before.
Approaches once considered sacrosanct, realities thought etched in concrete, are giving way to a host of novel strategies. Some are based on cutting back; others are grounded in giving patrons and contributors new reasons to attend and invest.
What follows are discussions of how various performing and visual-arts groups are responding to the difficult circumstances around them. As one season is ending and another is soon to begin, all of these groups are making decisions that will have a profound effect on how they operate — and in what audiences see, hear and experience inside the local cultural landscape.