artservices & company can provide visionary guidance, while being sensitive to the realities of each situation. Using her extensive expertise, Kim Konikow will develop a comprehensive plan to successfully accomplish the stated goals of every client.

Facilitating artistic growth and building community by providing assessments;
strategic planning; project management; and research, evaluation and reporting
for nonprofits and artists in all disciplines.

Representative Client List

Dance/USA

Project Coordinator for On Tour, a series of Professional Development Seminars taking place annually in dance communities around the country. Work included gathering data, development and implementation of course offerings, selection of seminar leaders, training of staff, on-site coordination, evaluation and presentation of findings to Board. Implementation of June 06 Spring Council Conference in Chicago and Moderation of Dance Working Group Open Forum in New York in January 08 (Arts Presenters).

Bates Dance Festival -

Serve on the Faculty for this internationally recognized summer program and on the organization’s Advisory Council. Prepared several applications for program funding initiatives.

DancePartners -

Served as grantwriter and provided project guidance for an ongoing collaborative program which builds community through an alliance of technology and the arts across the barriers of economics and distance.

Open Studio: the Arts Online -

Wrote successful grants to the Benton Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts for a three-year Web training and mentorship program. Served as project coordinator, working with 17 artists and 23 arts organizations.

Jerome Foundation -

Conducted five-year evaluation of Foundation's giving policies in Minnesota and New York City through research, moderation of community meetings, survey analysis and interviews. Facilitated Board retreat.

Intermedia Arts -

Wrote four-year strategic planning grant to the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Fund program for exemplary Community-based Organizations. Facilitated Board and program committee meetings for the above project, as well as provided follow-up reports.

Florida Dance Association -

Prepared applications to the National Endowment for the Arts Education and Access category (with Bates Dance Festival). Also strategized the creation of long-range plan with the Association's Board.

Artspace Projects, Inc. -

Through a rural arts development grant from the Bush Foundation worked with Cornucopia Arts Center and Commonweal Theatre Company in Lanesboro MN , on organizational development, facilitation of board/community meetings and strategizing capital campaign.

Other clients include -

DC Area – The Association of Performing Arts Presenters (DC), Baltimore Theatre Project (MD)

Midwest – Meadowbrook Theatre (MI), Luna Negra Dance Theater (IL), and in MN: JAZZDANCE by Danny Buraczeski, Hijack Dance, multimedia artist Suzanne Kosmalksi, choreographers Cathy Young, Beth Corning and Chris Aiken, Zorongo Flamenco Dance Theatre, Minnesota Dance Theatre, Patrick's CABARET, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Shawn McConneloug and her Orchestra, The Rose Ensemble, No Name Exhibitions, Franconia Sculpture Park, and the Walker Art Center Picture Powderhorn Project {and in Poland – Silesian Dance Theatre}

New York and New England – Dance Theatre Workshop, Marlies Yearby, Manhattan Theatre Club, Socrates Sculpture Park, Livet Reichard Company, Fund for the Borough of Brooklyn, Theatre Crafts Magazine, and Pepatian and New England Foundation for the Arts National Dance Project.