The I-DOC team is lead by Alberta Arthurs, an independent cultural consultant; Andrew Taylor, director of the Bolz Center for Arts Administration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business; and Steven Tepper, Deputy Directory of the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies at Princeton University.

In addition, the project will enlist up to 20 graduate students from arts administration, arts management, and cultural policy programs and centers from across the U.S. to be the "eyes and ears" of the process. By involving these future scholars, policy makers, and practitioners as the principal researchers, interviewers, and documentarians, the I-DOC process will also provide an intensive and immersive learning opportunity for a next generation of leaders.

Alberta Arthurs
Principal, Arthurs.US
Alberta Arthurs is an independent contractor in the arts and humanities, and a frequent commentator and writer on cultural issues. Operating as Arthurs.US, she provides programming, planning and research services to foundations and non-profit cultural organizations in both the United States and abroad. Recent and current clients include the James Irvine, Henry Luce and Rockefeller Foundations, the Pew Charitable Trusts, J.P.Morgan Chase, the Cisneros Foundation, the National Music Leadership Coalition, the New Media Lab of The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She was the Director for Arts and Humanities at the Rockefeller Foundation from 1982 to 1996. Until recently, she was affiliated with MEM Associates in New York City, and for a year—1996 to 1997—she directed a program on culture and development at the Council on Foreign Relations. She sits on the boards of the Salzburg Seminar, Yaddo, The PEN American Center, Exit Art, Aid to Artisans and National Video Resources (chair), and is recent past chairman of the Kenan Institute for the Arts and of the advisory board of Radcliffe's Bunting Institute. She is on advisory boards currently for Princeton University, New York University and UNESCO. She has taught and held administrative posts at Tufts, Rutgers and Harvard Universities, and was the President of Chatham College from 1977 to 1982. She holds the doctorate in English literature from Bryn Mawr College.

Andrew Taylor
Director
Bolz Center for Arts Administration
University of Wisconsin-Madison / School of Business
Andrew Taylor is Director of the Bolz Center for Arts Administration, a graduate teaching and research center in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business. An author, lecturer, and researcher on a broad range of arts management issues, Mr. Taylor specializes in business model development for cultural initiatives and the impact of communications technology on the arts. As a communications and management consultant, he has worked with the International Society for the Performing Arts, American Ballet Theatre, StreamingCulture, the Center for Arts and Culture, and the League of Historic American Theatres, among others. He helped develop the pro forma and operating plan for Madison, Wisconsin’s $100-million downtown arts district, and led the business model development team for a proposed Digital Dance Library initiative. Andrew also writes an ongoing online column on the business of arts and culture for ArtsJournal.com (www.artsjournal.com/artfulmanager).

Steven J. Tepper
Deputy Director and Lecturer
Center for Arts & Cultural Policy Studies
Princeton University
Steven J. Tepper is Deputy Director of the Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies and lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Department of Sociology. His research has focused on patterns of arts participation in U.S. public art, the Federal percent for art program, fiction reading in America, innovation in nonprofit theatre, and cultural conflict in American cities. He has also published articles on creativity and the new economy, democracy and public space, and the role of meetings and convenings as instruments of policy making, especially in the field of art and culture. He teaches a course on creativity and innovation in society at Princeton. Mr. Tepper received his PhD in sociology from Princeton University, a masters in public policy from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before coming to Princeton, Mr. Tepper served for five years as the executive director of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Bicentennial Observance and is author of The Chronicles of the Bicentennial Observance (UNC, 1998). In addition, he has served as a consultant to numerous cultural institutions including the National Humanities Center, the American Academy of Arts and Science, the Canadian Confederation Center for the Arts, the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies and various foundations.

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