• We believe in centering early career artists in everything we do.
  Everything else comes from that core mission. We strive to build an organizational culture that prioritizes supporting the artists in our programs and their creative impulses, with our staff in service to them and their work.
• We believe that nimbleness and flexibility are prerequisites to the creation of transformational art, and that change is the only constant.
  We consistently endeavor to reinvent and reshape our programs, practices, and organizational structure to ensure we are serving the needs of each wave of early career artists. We flex the institution to meet artists where they are rather than asking artists to fit into our boxes.
• We believe that each and every member of our community deserves to be treated with respect.
  We value kindness and compassionate collaboration. We are committed to building a culture together that champions open dialogue, equitability, transparency and inclusion, and that rejects bias, discrimination and bullying. We ask every community member to uphold a living Code of Conduct to affirm how we work together.
• We believe that fully supporting early career artists means intentionally cultivating the next generation of diverse, adventurous audiences.
  We connect artists and audiences in spaces that are fun and inviting. We work to build fan bases for Ars Nova and our artists by prioritizing affordable tickets, seeking potential new audiences where they are (online and across New York City), and creating experiences that are dynamic, social and make a case for live entertainment.
• We believe that our budget is a reflection of our values.
  We endeavor to create a budget each year that keeps our mission and our artist community at its core. Each year, most of our budget goes directly to people, including our artists, technicians, and staff–and we prioritize fair, equitable compensation practices, including parity between artists and staff, and clear ranges and metrics across levels of employment.

Our Core Values are Ars Nova’s guiding principles in our day-to-day work, and the north-star aspirations that we work to live more fully each year. We embrace ongoing accountability, dialogue and debate on how we most fully lean-in to those values as a community.