News
Updates and milestones from the AMS team.
AMS announces key appointments
The firm looks to the future with a series of organizational changes.
Position Opening: Project Manager / Analyst
AMS Planning & Research Corp., a leading national consulting practice serving the arts and entertainment industry, is seeking a qualified professional for full-time employment as a Project Manager / Analyst in its Fairfield, Connecticut office. You will join a team...
Overture Center Resolves Debt
A big step toward a revitalized future for the facility and its community.
The Smith Center for the Performing Arts Featured in The New York Times
March 4, 2010 Don Snyder and his fundraising efforts for The Smith Center for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas, Nevada were featured in a recent article in The New York Times. The article notes that one of the keys...
Benchmarking Overview at the Performing Arts Managers Conference
March 3, 2010 At this month's Performing Arts Managers Conference, AMS Project Manager Kate Scorza Ingram will present an overview of performing arts center financial and operational data collected through the Venue Research Institute benchmarking initiative. The International Association of...
Uptown Tenderloin Museum Moves Forward
February 16, 2010 The City of San Francisco has committed $20,000 in funding for the creation of the Uptown Tenderloin Museum. The proposed museum will have exhibits on the Uptown Tenderloin district's unique history, including the legendary Black Hawk jazz...
Panel on Cultural Facilities Planning at the Performing Arts Managers Conference
February 18, 2010 AMS Planning & Research Principal Robert Bailey will participate in a panel discussion at the International Association of Assemby Managers Performing Arts Managers Conference in Seattle. The panel will include Phil Jordan, Division Director for the Salt...
Theatre for a New Audience Announces Construction Plans
February 7, 2010 Six projects in the planned Brooklyn Academy of Music cultural district will begin construction in 2010, including a new theater for AMS Planning & Research client Theatre for a New Audience. Theatre for a New Audience plans...
Lee's Summit, Missouri Receives Creative Community Honor
February 10, 2010 Two years after completing its Cultural Arts Plan, the City of Lee's Summit, Missouri's sixth largest city, received the Creative Community honor at the 2010 Missouri Arts Awards ceremony in Jefferson City. In accepting the award,...
The Oveture Center for the Arts' Impact on Madison
February 2, 2010 The Wisconsin State Journal reported on AMS Planning & Research's study of the Overture Center for the Arts in Madison, Wisconsin. The assessment, which was conducted with arts/axis consulting and Americans for the Arts, analyzed and documented the...
Performing Arts Center Feasibility for Bay Harbor, Michigan
January 25, 2010 The Bay Harbor Foundation has retained AMS Planning & Research and theater design consultant Fisher Dachs Associates to determine the feasibility of a performing arts center with a possible health / wellness component. In 1998, AMS completed...
Market Research for The Jewish Museum
January 14, 2010 Working with with the strategic marketing, planning and design firm LaPlaca Cohen, AMS will conduct market research for The Jewish Museum. The goal of this research is to provide The Jewish Museum with an objective and rigorous market analysis to...
Shared Services Planning for Providence
January 13, 2010 The City of Providence, Rhode Island's Department of Art, Culture + Tourism has retained AMS Planning & Research to research the feasibility of a Greater Providence Cultural Authority. This proposed entity, which is an intitiative described in...
Signature Theatre Company Achieves a Major Fundraising Milestone
December 21, 2009 Signature Theatre Company, an off-Broadway theatre company dedicated to honoring and celebrating the playwright, has raised $41 million of its $60 million goal for its new theatre complex. The theatre complex will be part of a hotel and...
Placing the NEA's Survey of Public Participation in the Arts in Context
December 18, 2009 The National Endowment of the Arts Survey of Public Participation in the Arts report, released earlier this year, indicated that overall arts participation fell 4.4% since 1982. This statistic has been cause for concern throughout the arts sector about...
City of Henderson Approves Site for Science Center
December 16, 2009 The City Council of Henderson, Nevada, approved a lot of City-owned land as the future location for the Henderson Space and Science Center. The 160-acre lot will be a mixed use development with the science center as the site's centerpiece. ...
Adaptive Re-Use of the Avalon Theatre
December 2, 2009 AMS Planning & Research, as part of a consultant team headed by Westlake Reed Leskosky, has been selected to examine the feasibility of an adaptive re-use of the Avalon Theatre in downtown Grand Junction, Colorado. AMS...
Warren County Arts and Cultural Center Selects Location
December 7, 2009 The Warren County Arts and Cultural Center (WCACC) Board of Trustees chose the location for its performing arts center on the Otterbein Lebanon Retirement Community's property. Centrally located between Dayton and Cincinnati, the performing arts venue...
Business Planning for Dancewave
March 4, 2010 Dancewave, a nonprofit arts organization that offers unique exposure to world-class, pre-professional performing arts training to New York City youth, has selected AMS Planning & Research as its consultants to develop a three-year business plan. In...
National Tour of 'Dreamgirls' Opening at the Apollo Theater
November 10, 2009 This week, The New York Times published a feature article on the opening of Dreamgirls at the Apollo Theater. The Apollo is launching the national tour of this revival, which has its opening and closing scenes occur...