In June 2004, most of America's major professional service organizations for the performing arts will convene in Pittsburgh for the first-ever National Performing Arts Convention. Thanks to a recent project award, the Bolz Center for Arts Administration and several of its graduate students will be deep in the thick of it, refining its discussions and capturing its ideas.

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The Bolz Center has been commissioned as the lead organization in the I-DOC Project (Interview, Document, Observe, and Clarify), an innovative effort to enhance and extend key issue conversations arising at this historic convening.

The Bolz Center will coordinate a project leadership team including Bolz Center Director Andrew Taylor, national arts consultant Alberta Arthurs (formerly of the Rockefeller Foundation), and noted Princeton University scholar Steven Tepper. That team will select and train an observation/analysis team of up to 20 graduate students from across the country, who will identify and document emerging issues and trends among the many sessions, and provide on-site summary and analysis through the web and during convention sessions.

The resulting model may then be applied to other major conferences over the coming years. More information on the I-DOC Project is available on the project web site: http://www.bolzcenter.org/idoc/.

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