Hat tip to Artsjournal.com which featured an article that seems to indicate it is better to diversify the donor base rather than continue to ask the same pool of donors to give more. The…
Seth Godin recently made a post where he noted that while at one time asking someone for a favor involved a personal, one-to-one appeal, email lists and databases have made it easy to make a…
When I was an undergraduate, and even after I graduated college, I applied to work at the Williamstown Theater Festival, one of the most prestigious summer theaters in the country. Recent re…
This morning I attended a brand reveal for a Marriott hotel slated to open half a block from my venue in/around January. This particular collection of hotels is highly customized to the comm…
People working or closely aligned with arts organizations know that a central topic of conversation in recent weeks is whether to require proof of vaccination for audiences. Drew McManus has…
You may have seen last week that CBS quickly shifted directions when their planned show to pit activists against each other in a game show like competition drew extremely negative responses …
There have been a lot of stories about shows re-opening on Broadway and how important that is to the economy of NYC. While I haven't read everything single article, one that appeared on Bloo…
My day job is Executive Director of The Grand Opera House in Macon, GA. Around the end of the 19th century and early part of the 20th century, it was vogue to name theaters as Grand Oper…
More great stories of artists being part of infrastructure projects, this time from a Next City article that came out last week. I have written about these type of projects before and one of…
For Purpose Law Group posted the second installment of their "Nonprofits: What Not To Do," series yesterday. The first installment dealt with the infamous Indianapolis Museum of Art job post…
Last week, Sunil Iyengar is the NEA director of the Office of Research & Analysis, penned a piece aligned with the occasion of Labor Day, commenting that the value of art often subtracts…
Seth Godin made an interesting post that intersects somewhat with the questions arts organizations are having about putting content on digital platforms. Alas, I don't know that it provides …
Shelterforce posted a video and article about how the term gentrification manifests in different ways and thus doesn't always conform to the same definition in every community, leading to th…
On Friday one of my colleagues at work is flying to NYC to see Springsteen on Broadway, the show that re-opened earlier than pretty much all the others. She purchased the tickets months ago …
Drew McManus has started a database of the different policies performing arts venues around the country have enacted. He started it last Friday and announced the 100th entry this morning…
As something of a dovetail to my post yesterday about Drew McManus' effort to compile a database of performing arts venue vaccination policies, (Drew reported a surge of new entries to the d…
Washington Post reported an interesting development in the Washington, D.C. arts and cultural environment last week. The D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities asked the D.C. Council to …
Via Artsjournal.com is a FastCompany article by Amy Globus whose thesis is that Covid-19 gave the arts world the kick in the butt required to motivate it to think about how to leverage digit…
Hat tip to Georgia Council for the Arts which posted a link to the Smithsonian article, Why Science Needs Art. The article focuses largely on marine life, but the basic gist is that ther…
Laura Zabel, Executive Director of the awesome Springboard for the Arts posted a important Twitter thread on being mindful about the way you solicit creative work from the community. Are you…
According to CityLab Berliners are returning to the city's museums, with credit being given to free admission Sundays. Sixty-seven museums are offering free admission which is part of a …
I had a post appear on ArtsHacker this week that dealt with the concept of rebranding. In the post I cite an article by Mark Ritson arguing for revitalization of a brand rather than rebr…
As I go about arguing against using measures like economic impact and test scores for valuing the arts, I occasionally get push back from people who note that for better or for worse dollars…
For Purpose Law Group made a post on their site advocating shared leadership models for non-profits. They note that there is an increasing recognition that a hierarchical model with a so…
When things have been going poorly for an organization and they seek a fresh start, (perhaps upon emerging from a national epidemic), the impulse is often to rebrand. However, in a Marketing…