2,241 stories by "Joe Patti"
When the entertainment tax in Spain skyrocketed, attendance at shows fell precipitously. To lure people back, one comedy theater company instituted a program where people would only pay if t…
I was listening to the radio yesterday when they mentioned the winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. I was amazed to learn the researchers had gained some insight in to how w…
You may have seen that the St. Louis Symphony experienced a pop-up protest urging a change of attitude in light of the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO. I have looked at reporting on…
My mother sent me a recipe for chocolate chip cookies today. This sort of thing has been going on for a few years. She has been finding these new cookie recipes which she swears are better t…
Do you ever sit in your office, thinking wistfully of the days when you were a kid and you would run around the playground, playing games and swinging on the swings? Do you think your audien…
Andrew Taylor tweeted today that he would be speaking about theater spaces this week in Taipei and linked to a video of the Taipei Performing Arts Center. At first I thought Andrew was going…
I listened in on an National Endowment for the Arts webinar today that was billed as addressing arts education. But the reality was, the speaker, Richard Harwood of the Harwood Institute see…
Last Wednesday was Ask A Curator Day in which over 700 international museums participated, answering questions about their collections and museums in general. The effort reminded me of an ar…
At a loss about how to forge closer bonds between the community and your organization? Let them bake bread! Not only do you have the example of Bread and Puppet Theater, to inspire you but t…
Drew McManus is fulfilling one of my ambitions. When I was first starting out this blog, I envisioned creating some sort of repository of information about arts and arts administration that …
It is fortunate that I am not often able to relate how I personally handled a crisis. However, we recently ran into a situation where we had a signed commitment for a show and the attraction…
If you are wringing your hands over the difficulty you are having attracting students to your performances and events, you are not alone– university football programs are having diffic…
This story can’t be allowed to pass uncommented upon. Or at least, I feel the need to comment more extensively than did Thomas Cott when he tweeted this link. In a case of damned if yo…
Last week we were having a conversation to create a repair and replacement plan based on life cycle expectations for our performing arts facility. Of course, there are already a number of is…
I was really surprised to find my name tucked at the bottom of Barry Hessenius’ 2014’s Top 50 Most Powerful and Influential People in the Nonprofit Arts (USA) In fact, since I re…
You may have seen this recent piece in The New Yorker on creativity. My state arts council linked to it and now I see multiple others have as well. Author Joshua Rothman asks, “How did…
Nod to Thomas Cott for calling attention to a post on TRG blog about Mission versus business models. I will cut right to the chase and say that I honed right in on their discussion of making…
Springboard for the Arts recently profiled Artists U, an artist lead, artist centered professional development and planning project. The project started in Philadelphia and has spread to Bal…
Two weeks ago my neighbors were gathered around their pool talking excitedly about doing the ice bucket challenge. One of the kids asked five or six times what ALS was throughout the convers…
I got recruited at the last minute to teach a public speaking class this semester. After a week, I have already started to make my problem their problem. I asked the students, in a time when…
Back in January, I wrote about some of the intriguing aspects of Netflix’s human resource policies. One of these policies was that they provide generous severance packages to people th…
Createquity may be in reruns right now while they reorganize, but they have great timing. Today they featured a post from 2011 which was something of a complement to the post about pricing a…
Seth Godin posted some thoughts about pricing that are worthy of consideration. The fact this post is about three times as long as his usual posts indicates the importance he places on the t…
As immersive arts experiences become increasingly prevalent, there have been some interesting introspective reflections of the experiences recently in The Guardian and Irish Times. Both piec…
Non-Profit Law blogger Gene Tagaki recently tweeted a link to an article he wrote for the American Bar Association about 5 years ago urging lawyers to consider alternatives to forming non-pr…
