November 27, 2003 | Read Time: 1 minute
Ten Steps Toward Starting a Community School of the Arts, by LaMoine MacLaughlin, offers advice on establishing nonprofit arts-education organizations. Mr. MacLaughlin, co-founder and executive director of the Northern Lakes Center for the Arts and the Northern Lakes School of the Arts, both in Amery, Wis., writes that more than 800 groups in the United States provide instruction in dance, music, theater, and literary and visual arts, primarily to children and youths, but to adults as well. This guide discusses how to evaluate the need for an arts school, develop an organizational structure, gather sufficient financial support, find a suitable location, and recruit teachers.
Publisher: National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts, 520 Eighth Avenue, Suite 302, New York, N.Y. 10018; (212) 268-3337; fax (212) 268-3995; info@nationalguild.org; http://www.nationalguild.org; 28 pages; $16.50 for members; $22 for nonmembers.
