193 [S3E40]: Miah Michaelsen, Executive Director of the Indiana Arts Commission

To the present. Miah Michaelsen is an old hand at the intersection of government and the arts. She's been at the Indiana Arts Commission since 2015, where she's now Executive Director. Before that, she served eight years in the Kruzan Administration, serving as Bloomington's first Assistant Economic Development Director for the Arts. As if that weren't enough, before that she served four years as the Executive Director of the Bloomington Area Arts Council. We talk about the current fiscal austerity for the arts, the variety of projects happening around the state nevertheless, and how her time at the city influenced her work in Indianapolis. When it comes to the arts, she's seen it all, and she tells us about what she's learned.