Carrie Blake
Market Research, Facilities Planning
Carrie is a researcher, planning consultant, writer, project manager, and administrator dedicated to arts and culture with a specialization in the performing arts. Since 2006, Carrie has led or contributed to more than 250 studies and plans including research studies, market studies, assessments, feasibility studies, business plans, strategic plans, and cultural plans for communities, organizations, and institutions across the United States. In 2022, her projects and clients included Webb Mgmt, where she was a senior consultant for 18 years and continues as an affiliate and collaborator, facilities strategy for Brooklyn Arts Exchange, strategic planning and facilities master planning for the Institute of Music for Children (New Jersey) and research and analysis for a consortium of performing arts service organizations to support advocacy efforts.
Over the last 10 years, Carrie has conducted extensive research on New York City dance in collaboration with Dance/NYC, addressing topics like fiscal sponsorship, entities with budgets of less than $1M and affordable rehearsal space in support of a $2M+ regranting initiative for subsidized space access. She is currently researching the size, makeup, and prospects for New York City's dance industry with Dance/NYC’s groundbreaking Dance Industry Census which so far has collected data and input from an estimated 25% of individuals and organized entities within the NYC dance sector.
Prior to her research and planning work, Carrie was a musician, producer, presenter, marketer, and fundraiser for non-profit and university-based arts entities such as the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (WI) and Peak Performances at Montclair State University (NJ.) She is a proud alumna of the Bolz Center for Arts Administration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business.