Oh Please Let Someone Start Singing Ode To Joy In The Produce Aisle by Joe Patti

On my Twitter feed I got a link to an announcement that a documentary on Knight Foundation’s Random Act of Culture program won a regional Emmy. As I watched the first brief video where…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 9:28pm on December 9, 2015☆⚑

Companies No Longer Want To Sponsor Simply For The Exposure by Joe Patti

The most recent issue of Arts Management Newsletter has a translation of a piece written by Wolfgang Lamprecht about the death of corporate sponsorship. Citing the number of corporations dis…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 8:57pm on December 8, 2015☆⚑

Best Effort Yet And I Missed It by Joe Patti

I didn’t know about NBC’s recent live broadcast of The Wiz until it was over, and that worries me. It isn’t because I necessarily really wanted to see it. It’s the id…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 8:22pm on December 7, 2015☆⚑

Cultural Promissory Notes by Joe Patti

I was reading about a woman who put her San Francisco home up for sale at 2005 prices with the condition that the buyer sign a “cultural promissory note.” Finally, they had to of…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:33pm on December 2, 2015☆⚑

Dozen-ish Views On Etiquette by Joe Patti

Audiences today, they just don’t know how to behave! You have probably seen a lot of conversation on this subject crop up whenever something egregious occurs and makes the news or soci…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:02pm on December 1, 2015☆⚑

Not As Simple As Subtracting The iPhones by Joe Patti

I was really interested to read how a coffee house in NYC was using conversational prompts in an effort to get customers talking with each other. It seemed quite similar to the program a Bra…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 9:33pm on November 30, 2015☆⚑

Yes Virginia, There Are Agents With Ethics by Joe Patti

The business side of performing arts can be a confusing and tricky realm to try to navigate. There is increasing expectation and need for artists to take more direct control of their careers…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 3:00am on November 30, 2015☆⚑

Tell Stories For Thanksgiving by Joe Patti

When you are eating Thanksgiving dinner with your family and you get asked when you are going to get a real job, or something to that effect, instead of trying to justify yourself with logic…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:45am on November 26, 2015☆⚑

This Post Did Not Emerge Fully Formed Like Athena From My Skull by Joe Patti

A topic I frequently like to write about is the misconception that artistic inspiration is the result of a lightning bolt moment rather than the product of long term effort. In the past, the…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:34am on November 25, 2015☆⚑

Thankfully, We Don't Have To Settle by Joe Patti

Over on ArtsHacker, the contributors talk about what they are thankful for as arts managers.  Often the spoken or unspoken source of gratitude is the fact that we still have jobs and that…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:28pm on November 23, 2015☆⚑

When A Top Tier Performing Position Isn't The Goal of Your Education by Joe Patti

Last month I pondered if there was any worth in giving up a little time in the conservatory/university training of arts students in favor of providing instruction/experiences in career manag…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:22am on November 19, 2015☆⚑

A Moment of Congruence by Joe Patti

Hat tip to Carter Gillies who spotted a wonderful congruence between the posts both I and artist Whitney Smith made yesterday. Reading Whitney’s post, it almost feels like she wrote it…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:27pm on November 17, 2015☆⚑

For All Your(e) Worth by Joe Patti

Seth Godin had a post on entitlement versus worthiness a couple weeks ago. There was a lot in there to unpack and I am not sure I have wrapped my head around it enough to know if what he pos…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:56pm on November 16, 2015☆⚑

This Is Not The Ticketing Site You Were Looking For by Joe Patti

As the holiday season approaches, I am remind of the less than altruistic truth that others are eager to make money off your success..even if you don’t perceive yourself as successful.…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 6:04pm on November 11, 2015☆⚑

I Love The Smell Of Bach In The Morning by Joe Patti

This month’s New Yorker has a story about researchers who have discovered how interdependent our senses are when it comes to enjoying an experience. (h/t Tyler Cowen) For example, peop…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:45pm on November 10, 2015☆⚑

Positive Signs For Reimbursement Of Overhead Costs by Joe Patti

You may remember back in January that I wrote about the new rules promulgated by Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requiring that any entity receiving federal funds much cover at least 1…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:27pm on November 9, 2015☆⚑

Arts Make For Good Medicine by Joe Patti

There is a recent article in the Boston Globe about Harvard Medical School requiring its students to take arts courses that bears reading. (h/t Thomas Cott) The Yale School of Medicine, for …

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 9:39pm on November 4, 2015☆⚑

Negotiate Like You Are Dealing With A Petulant Child by Joe Patti

So many interactions in our lives involve some sort of negotiation whether it be starting salary, contracts, settling disagreements between employees and even deciding where to have the offi…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 3:00am on November 4, 2015☆⚑

Are You Running Your Arts Org According To A 19th Century Social Movement? by Joe Patti

Last month Non-Profit Quarterly had a piece on four impulses that shape non-profits. These impulses often contradict each other to some extent which results in the internal philosophical con…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 9:34pm on November 3, 2015☆⚑

Can You Care In An Unreasonable Way? by Joe Patti

Seth Godin says he figures Apple computers reached their peak about three years ago. Since then, we’ve seen: Operating systems that aren’t faster or more reliable at running key …

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 9:09pm on November 2, 2015☆⚑

You Want To Do Better, But Aren't Sure How by Joe Patti

A week ago I wrapped up my final post about the arts entrepreneurship training programs being developed in colleges and universities by pointing out that there was still the unmet need of ar…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 1:22am on October 29, 2015☆⚑

Throw A Big Fat Fake Wedding by Joe Patti

A few weeks ago I read an article about how a company in Argentina is doing good business throwing fake weddings. Apparently most young people aren’t getting married or are only having…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 1:14am on October 28, 2015☆⚑

Where Arts And Creativity Have Been Part Of Long Term Solutions by Joe Patti

I have recently started to become a little more vocal about one of my pet peeves about how the arts are viewed. It is no news to anyone that most career paths that involves pursuing a creati…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 1:00am on October 27, 2015☆⚑

What Do We Mean When We Say Entrepreneur? by Joe Patti

Final day of observations on last weekend’s Society for Arts Entrepreneurship in Education (SAEE)  conference. The Terms We Use Matter Some of the best observations about teaching s…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:26pm on October 21, 2015☆⚑

The Question That Is Going To Take Awhile To Answer by Joe Patti

As promised yesterday, today I am going to continue discussing my observations from attending the Society for Arts Entrepreneurship in Education (SAEE) conference this weekend. I think it be…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:06pm on October 20, 2015☆⚑