From Surviving to Thriving

Creative Practice and the Future of Arts Leadership

Shannon Litzenberger | May 2025

We’re living in a time when nothing seems to hold still. Certainties are dissolving, systems are straining, and the old ways of navigating change can’t carry us through the turbulence we’re living in now. Disruption is no longer an exception—it’s the rhythm of our time. The tools that shaped yesterday’s systems aren’t built for the futures we’re trying to imagine and create.

As an artist and cultural systems thinker, I find myself returning again and again to a question that lives just beneath the surface of so many others: what does it mean to lead in a moment like this?

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