If I may, the answer, I hope, is my experience. I worked for ten years at the Ontario Arts Council for no particular discipline. I worked in management for all disciplines. I was director of operations for most of that time, and also director of research and strategic policy for the last year and a half.
During that time, I tried to seriously address the need for a balance between the investments in different art forms, the investments in different regions of the province of Ontario, and the strategies for addressing what we called in those days the “supply side” and the “demand side” for arts in Ontario.
I do not believe my experiential base--at the Ontario Arts Council, at the Ontario culture ministry, at the arts administration program at the University of Toronto--is in any specific field other than trying to lead and pull together the various forces that contribute to an effective cultural organization, an effective cultural infrastructure, whether in a particular discipline or in a community as a whole.