…. our ultimate goal is not finding, filtering, fostering, preserving, and presenting cultural works, but delivering the human and social impacts that engagement with those works provide. It may sound like a semantic distinction, but it’s a fundamental reshuffling of how most arts managers align their focus.

In this view, a compelling arts experience is not the end of our efforts, but the means by which our true product is produced.

The Artful Manager: Curating impact through artists

I am posting like crazy today, but everything is hitting the spot for me mentally right now. This is a must read - definitely want to attend the Arts Presenters Conference next year.