Approaching Arts & Culture Experience With The Wonder Of A Child by Joe Patti

The NEA’s Arts Works blog had a post, Five Questions We Have about Visiting Art Museums, which I thought had some pretty good tips for interacting with art. The post was specifically a…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:32am on July 12, 2018☆⚑

Who Will Play You In The Opera? by Joe Patti

I frequently write about how people often don’t feel arts and cultural events are for them is because they aren’t seeing themselves and their stories portrayed. So it was with so…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:12am on July 11, 2018☆⚑

There Is Creative Conflict And Then There Is Creating Conflict by Joe Patti

Last Monday I wrote about how intrinsic motivation can often be more effective than external motivators like rewards and punishments, but suggested non-profit workers not allow people to use…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:48pm on July 9, 2018☆⚑

And Don't Be The Person Using Their Passion Against Them by Joe Patti

It seems appropriate during this Independence Day week to recall the words of The Mission Paradox’s Adam Thurman which I wrote about back in 2009. In a post dealing with issues of over…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 3:48pm on July 4, 2018☆⚑

Boy, You Are Really Enthusiastic About The World's Largest Ball Of Lint All Of A Sudden by Joe Patti

A couple weeks ago, Holly Mulcahy wrote about eschewing the use of comp tickets in order to create the illusion that a performance was well attended. As an alternative, she suggests seeking …

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 9:24pm on July 3, 2018☆⚑

Does Intrinsic Value Of Art Derive From Intrinsic Motivation to Create It? by Joe Patti

Traveling a bit this week and will be occupied with trying to beat my nephews in squirt gun battles. As is my custom, I am reaching back to the archives for some bits of wisdom. Back in 2009…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 2:12pm on July 2, 2018☆⚑

Can You Sincerely Build Relationships With A Marketing Motivation? by Joe Patti

Our friends at Arts Midwest’s Creating Connection project hosted another webinar recently showcasing the work being done by City Lights Theater Company in San Jose and Portland Playhou…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:54pm on June 27, 2018☆⚑

Varied Advice & Insights On Creative Placemaking, Economic Impact by Joe Patti

As a follow up to yesterday’s post on the Creative Placemaking conference I attended, I wanted to share some general thoughts and ideas I had picked up. Regardless of whether the setti…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:24pm on June 26, 2018☆⚑

Broader Conceptions Of Creative Placemaking by Joe Patti

Last week I attended the Creative Placemaking Summit for the Appalachian region.  As much as I have read and written about Creative Placemaking, I don’t think I fully understood the…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:42pm on June 25, 2018☆⚑

When It Is Absolutely, Positively Best To Disavow Credit For Doing A Responsible Thing by Joe Patti

Years ago I had read an article on Non Profit Quarterly, Six Things Nonprofits Can Teach Small Business. According to the story, non-profit leaders often exhibited stronger leadership qualit…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 1:04am on June 21, 2018☆⚑

Quality Character Development And World Building Is Not A Game (Actually, It Is) by Joe Patti

If you are a person of a certain age, you may find that the love of Dungeons and Dragons you secretly harbored as a youth is finally gaining some respectability thanks to shows like Stranger…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:42am on June 20, 2018☆⚑

Opt In To Learn How The Show Ends by Joe Patti

In somewhat the same theme as the post I made last week about Tu Me Manques  which uses social media to tell the story of a relationship, I had also come across an article in May about Pi…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:24am on June 19, 2018☆⚑

Hello, I Am Thespis-App, I Will Be Narrating Your Play Tonight by Joe Patti

Amid the whole debate about whether cell phones are appropriate in the theater are some indications that creative folks are going to be using the technology to drive narrative. FastCompany c…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 4:42am on June 14, 2018☆⚑

Chatbot As Assistant Grant Writer by Joe Patti

When I first saw this piece on Arts Professional about data driven decision making, I thought maybe the author, Patrick Towell, was cribbing Drew McManus and Ceci Dadisman’s recent con…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 4:18am on June 13, 2018☆⚑

Your Phone Tells Me You Were In An Art Museum, Now You Are In Starbucks…. by Joe Patti

Last month NPR had a story discussing how lawyers were sending ads for their services to people in hospital emergency rooms thanks to technique known as geofencing which allows one to identi…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 9:48pm on June 11, 2018☆⚑

Culture Is There For Those Hostile To It, Too by Joe Patti

Just came across Oskar Eustis’ TED Talk, “Why Theatre Is Essential To Democracy.” He talks about the how so much of the work Joe Papp did with the Public Theater was about …

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 2:06am on June 7, 2018☆⚑

When HiPPOs Attack by Joe Patti

Being the voracious consumer of arts administration theory and philosophy, I jumped on the slide deck Drew McManus and Ceci Dadisman put together for their session at the Association of Arts…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 1:48am on June 6, 2018☆⚑

Could You Benefit From Sharing Your Ticket Revenue With Four Other Theaters? by Joe Patti

Kaya Stanley-Money shares a really intriguing story on Arts Professional about how five London theatres presented the same performance and then pooled the ticket revenue. …the five Lon…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 7:24pm on June 4, 2018☆⚑

Cross Cultural Appreciation Is A Start by Joe Patti

Pacific Standard recently pointed to a study conducted in Portugal that indicated some positive outcomes using the music and culture of immigrant groups to help reduce prejudicial attitudes.…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:42pm on May 30, 2018☆⚑

The Modern Day Mission Statement, Active and On The Go by Joe Patti

BoardSource is partnering with organizations like the Knight Foundation and National Council of Non Profits on a  initiative to get non-profits to Stand For Your Mission. While the main t…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 4:23pm on May 30, 2018☆⚑

Classical Music As A Prescription To Cure Social Ills…And To Sell Perscriptions by Joe Patti

A couple weeks back there was a piece by Theodore Gioia in the Los Angeles Review of Books that started out talking about the history of weaponizing classical music.  You may be familiar …

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:18pm on May 29, 2018☆⚑

"Love You, But I Would Love You More If Only…" In Public-Private Partnerships by Joe Patti

This past week I have been dipping my toe in and out of the livestream for the ArtPlace America Summit. One of the plenary sessions I went back to listen to more fully was a discussion ArtPl…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 9:12pm on May 23, 2018☆⚑

Are You Really The Storyteller You Think You Are? by Joe Patti

FastCompany had an article about Five Ways Non Profits Struggle last month. Most of the things mentioned aren’t really news to you if you work in non profits: Restrictions on how grant…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 8:48pm on May 22, 2018☆⚑

Pop Up Box Office Are As Much About Listening As Selling by Joe Patti

Hat tip to Artsjournal.com linking to an Arts Professional article all performing arts professionals should read. Hull Truck Theatre in Hull, England started regular pop-up box office hours …

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 2:32am on May 22, 2018☆⚑

Data Vs. Your Gut by Joe Patti

When I was thinking about what to write today, I figured a good intersection between yesterday’s post about productive employees not necessarily being good manager material and Drew Mc…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:36am on May 17, 2018☆⚑