Artists shape policy and management processes integral to their career development and to their practice. As the main art producers, they are considered as decisive participants in artistic terms, but they remain side-lined in policymaking, and underrepresented in the arts management discourse. This special issue will examine artists’ individual and collective agency in cultural policy and management processes, bringing together two distinctive strands. First, it will foreground artist-led developments and their associated narratives and secondly question what cultural policies and management responsibilities and positions stand for when ‘giving’ artists a platform to be heard and to enact. It will operationalise its critique through a diversity of research methodologies and philosophies and envisages a broad geographical scope in its discussions. This collection will address and bring together two cultural policy and management blind spots: marginalisation of artists and the lack of diversity in methodologies.

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