Services and Specialization
Nesbitt Arts Consulting delivers practical, mission-furthering services for performing arts programming and for international creatives, furthering the cultural objectives of clients in a range of disciplines.
Nesbitt Arts Consulting specializes in bringing international street spectacle, physical theatre, contemporary circus to festivals, performing arts centers, corporate events, and venues worldwide. Our organization employs industry ‘best practices’ and has an extensive, multi-decade-deep network of colleagues.
What We Do – For Presenters and Producers
Whether you’re a Performing Arts Center board looking for interim contractors to program your season, a museum, a cultural center, or you are a festival director in search of a unique on-site activation option – NAC will deliver spectacular results.
We can help you develop new audiences or re-engage your core communities. We will provide you with customized support for your organization, specific audience, and space.
- Produce and direct digital events to replace either in-person galas or arts and lecture events
- Series design and artist research
- Booking artists as ‘1-off’s’, routed tours and cost-saving ‘block booking’
- Technical Rider review and execution
- Contract negotiation
- Optimizing production staffing
- Unique marketing efforts
- Creative development opportunities and donor cultivation
- Community engagement programs
- Board development tactics for executives
- Educational outreach events
- Succession Planning
Attending and talent scouting at festivals and conferences worldwide with support from multi-decade industry relationships which ensure the best information and negotiations. Keep your travel costs down and let us represent you at events that match your vision, budget and audience, including regular attendance at:
- Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI (March)
- APAP The Association of Performing Arts Professionals, New York, NY (January/Year round)
- Arts Midwest (September)
- CINARS Montreal, Canada, (November)
- MONTRÉAL COMPLÈTEMENT CiRQUE Festival and The MICC (International Market of Contemporary Circus), Montreal, Canada (July)
- Detroit International Jazz Festival, Detroit, MI (August)
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Edinburgh Fringe Professional Arts Industry Marketplace, Edinburgh, Scotland (August/Year round)
- Festival International, Layfette, LA (April)
- Folk Alliance International (January)
- French Quarter Festival, New Orleans, LA (April)
- GLOBALFest, New York, NY (January)
- Lotus World Music Festival, Bloomington, IN (September)
- National Performance Network, U.S.A. (November/Year round)
- New Orleans Film Festival, New Orleans, LA (October)
- New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, New Orleans, LA (April-May)
- Advising, conference presentations and panel participation related to working in the performing arts, contemporary circus, public art and street spectacle in North America.
What We Do – For Creatives
- Career advancement tactics and strategic plans for nationally recognized performers, authors, filmmakers, and visual artists.
- Select artist management and representation in North America.
- Strategic planning for boutique North American music booking agencies. Review of current and future talent prospects from the perspective of both their artistic alignment and financial impact. Advising select artists/managers regarding career advancement tactics and the presenters that are most appropriate to their mid-term live touring goals.
We want to work with you to create a tactical, practical, strategy, that furthers your mission, delivers under budget and makes you look like a genius!