# ==Fundamentals== of Arts Management > Essential ideas, context, and content to explore Arts Management and to navigate the rest of this *Field Guide*. **Arts Management** is the practice of aggregating and animating people, stuff, and money toward expressive ends. Arts Managers build, shape, and connect the dots between artists, art works, and the art worlds in which they thrive. > Read [Field Notes related to the Fundamentals of Arts Management](https://notes.artsmanaged.org/t/fundamentals). ### Arts Management Fundamentals - [[What is Arts Management?]] - [[What's an Artist?]] - [[What's a Nonprofit Arts Organization?]] - [[What's a Business Model?]] - [[What's the Creative Economy?]] ### *Field Guide* Fundamentals: - [[The ArtsManaged Ecosystem]] - [[Seedlings, Saplings, and Trees]] ## Tags (click to view related pages) #fundamentals