If you keep hearing how great Finland is, the results they are having might be due, in part, to the problem solving processes they are using. The city of Helsinki developed a board game to f…
If you are like me, you have been excited by the increased quantity and quality of research being made available about arts and culture issues and practices! Even if you aren’t as exci…
One of the more positive developments in the last decade or so has been the increased investment in research about factors that impact arts and cultural organizations. Even better news, …
The Conversation recently had an article about a study that purports to show why some people are more creative than others. The study performed fMRI scans on people while asking them to unde…
The “Why Won’t Broadway Livestream/Broadcast” argument has been going on for awhile now but a recent article on Fast Company suggests that time may be drawing near as Netfl…
The Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival just started a couple weeks ago. Despite temperatures which hover in the -20s, they are expecting about 1.5 million visitors before the festiva…
Apropos of my post on Monday about physical objects being valued more than digital copies, there was a fairly long piece in The Guardian about how a paperless society hasn’t been achie…
I recently published a short piece on ArtsHacker about how important the leadership of non-profit board chairs was to the success of the organization. Much of the information was draw from a…
Roger Tomilson tweeted about Harvard Business Review article that provides some food for thought about how people might experience arts and culture. I’ll jump right to a quote since th…
As soon as I saw the first four lines of a post Seth Godin made last month, I knew what I wanted to write. Then he wrote a lot of it for me. Want to go visit a nudist colony? I don’t k…
Head over to CityLab and read an interesting piece about how Minneapolis health clinic used pop-up art stations to provide services in their community. People's Center Health Services hired …
Since the board of directors is ultimately responsible for the governance and direction of a non-profit organization, the role of board chair is rather crucial. Recently Non-Profit Quarterly…
For those of you looking to make resolutions in the new year, (or just appreciate good illustrations of concepts), I offer Edgar Allan Poe’s thoughts on Procrastination as illustrated …
CityLab recently had an article that resurrected the subject of a debate I have been having internally and with others going on two decades now. The article is about efforts people are makin…
Community engagement is a common topic in the arts and culture industry. We talk about how important it is. We talk about successful programs that have been executed. However, there is rarel…
If you feel like you don’t have a clue how to run a successful non-profit and are just winging it, you probably know that you are in good company. If you are wishing there was a book s…
The National Center for Arts Research (NCAR) released the results of a study last week that, while not the most cheery news to release during the holiday season, is not terribly surprising. …
For over two years now I have been talking about Arts Midwest’s Creating Connection initiative to build public will for arts and culture. While readers have had an opportunity to revie…
You may be aware that Google offers the opportunity to take virtual tours of museums, world heritage sites and other landmarks. This past summer, Wang Yuhao, the CEO of Aha School, set ou…
There is a story I first saw in Non-Profit Quarterly that has been bothering me for a couple weeks. San Diego based arts organization ARTS (A Reason To Survive) is apparently in danger of cl…
Given the concerning lack of transition planning for leadership, there is increasing discussion about how general non-profits should adopt a shared leadership model, in some cases citing the…
Recently Artsy had an article in which they noted that, “…TIME Magazine described (Georgia) O'Keeffe in 1940 as the "least commercial artist in the U.S."Â The article, which w…
If you hadn’t seen the press release floating around social media, Springboard for the Arts announced that they partnered with the microlending platform Kiva to provide artists a loan …
About three years ago, I heard about the PorchRokr Festival in Akron’s Highland Square neighborhood. I had since learned that there was a whole series of Porchfests that have sprun…
Back in October I wrote a couple posts about the newest iteration of the Culture Track report. The operative word there is iteration. The study is conducted every three years in an attem…