Outstanding Innovators Convention Overview ART works!: Creative Solutions for Change June 8-10, 2002 Nashville, Tennessee

During the 2002 Americans for the Arts Annual Convention in Nashville, attendees were offered the opportunity to hear from outstanding innovators and thinkers working in and around the arts today during interviews conducted by Juan Carrillo, Suzanne Sato, and A.B. Spellman. Here are the abbreviated and edited conversations that took place during the Innovator Series.

• Dudley Cocke, Director, Roadside Theater, Whitesburg, KY
• James Early, Director of Cultural Heritage Policy
  Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage at the Smithsonian Institution
  Washington, D.C.
   (listen to audiostreamed version here)
• Richard C. Harwood, Founder and President
  The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation
  Bethesda, MD
   (listen to audiostreamed version here)
• Andrea L. Taylor, President
  Benton Foundation
  Washington, D.C.
   (listen to audiostreamed version here)
• Liz Thompson, Executive Director, and
  Moukhtar Kocache, Director of Visual and Media Arts
  Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
  New York, NY
   (listen to audiostreamed version here)
• Fred Wilson, Artist
  New York, NY
   (listen to audiostreamed version here)