Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Tyler Cowen featured a study on the Marginal Revolution blog noting that children in India couldn’t do formal math problems, but had no difficulty finding the solution when it was fram…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:36AMMonday, September 11, 2017
I was catching up on episodes of This American Life this weekend and came across a great piece that illuminates so many underappreciated elements of the creative process. They speak to Telle…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:36PMThursday, September 7, 2017
I have to give Brad Shear of the Facebook group Non-Profit Happy Hour a significant tip of the hat for calling attention some interesting information about the non-profit starvation cycle bu…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:24AMWednesday, September 6, 2017
In the last couple weeks two arts service organizations have taken the arguably long overdue step toward establishing greater parity among their members. Last week at the Arts Midwest Confer…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:48AMMonday, September 4, 2017
If you are in the performing arts and your material assets suffer damage, be it natural disaster, leaky pipes or someone eating where they shouldn’t, you might not consider visual art …
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 12:50PMWednesday, August 30, 2017
I re-discovered an interesting story I had nearly forgotten about. You may be grateful when you go around with posters for your event and businesses agree to display them for free. At one ti…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:54PMArts organizations are asked to create dozens of reports every year evaluating their programs to justify the funding they receive so you probably aren’t inclined to embark on an additi…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 02:58PMTuesday, August 29, 2017
Does anyone know of a show, comic book, cartoon series, etc that is injecting classic literature/music/art, etc in a similar manner that Bugs Bunny cartoons had classical music soundtracks? …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:18PMMonday, August 28, 2017
I am off at the Arts Midwest conference this week, but as always have prepared some entries to cover my absence. I thought it would be appropriate to revisit part of a report that was issued…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:48PMWednesday, August 23, 2017
Last week Americans for the Arts had a blog salon covering lessons learned from public art projects. As a person who is always interested in the process people went through to execute their …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:42PMTuesday, August 22, 2017
I had mentioned before that I will be presenting part of a pre-conference professional development session at the Arts Midwest Conference next week. I was going to make a shameless plug for …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:42PMNon-Profit Business Advisor recently published a piece to make non-profit organizations aware of the potential problems related to having a lawyer serve on the board. Back in 2016 I provided…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:18AMThursday, August 17, 2017
My admiration of Zenpencils artist Gavin Aung Than continues to grow with his illustration of Berne Brown’s thoughts on personal creativity. Below are screenshots of the first few pane…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:06PMWednesday, August 16, 2017
From the “why hasn’t this existed before” file is an article about staging intimacy with the same care employed with fight choreography. The fact I came across this mention…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:06AMTuesday, August 15, 2017
There is often mention that if the performing arts want to be relevant, audiences need to see themselves and their stories on stage. More and more frequently I am hearing about projects like…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:05AMWednesday, August 9, 2017
If you want some evidence about how quickly new technologies and methods of doing business are having an impact on our lives, check this out: In May 2009 I wrote about the potential legal co…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:48PMA long time complaint about arts coverage in newspapers has been that the writers seldom get it right. They don’t present the full story or employ fair criteria. Of course, more recent…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:42PMTuesday, August 8, 2017
Back in the day, Drew McManus ran an annual series on Adaptistration during the month of April which he christened, Take A Friend To The Orchestra month. I found an old post which recounte…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:24PMMonday, August 7, 2017
From the “Stuff We Didn’t Know We Wanted” file, a few years back I wrote about the idea of using a mobile shredder to help lower perceptual barriers with your community. At…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:04PMWednesday, August 2, 2017
A few years back I wrote a post that included the following quote from Fractured Atlas’ Adam Huttler. No need to read my original post, I just offer this as a thought of the day that h…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 03:24PMTuesday, August 1, 2017
I am taking some time off to spend with family so I am plumbing into the archives again for a bit. A few years back, I wrote about a company that didn’t feel they had enough competitor…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:48PMOne of the most important elements of the experience when attending a performing arts event is the audience interaction with the front of house staff: ushers, ticket office, concessions, mer…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 05:11PMMonday, July 31, 2017
I have been writing enthusiastically about Creating Connection (a.k.a building public will for arts and culture) for so long, the folks at Arts Midwest have asked if I would speak enthusiast…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:24PMThursday, July 27, 2017
Back in June, The Stage had an article about the dire need for changes in the theatre industry in the UK. The article summarized a report that mentioned a lot of familiar issues: low pay, ov…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:24PMWednesday, July 26, 2017
Hat tip to Artsjournal for linking to an American Theatre article about the inequities in arts funding citing a Helicon Collaborative study which found “..58 percent of arts funding go…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:06AMTuesday, July 25, 2017
There was a warning shot across the bows of university/conservatory arts training programs whose graduates have debt out of proportion with their earning potential in the Chicago Tribune las…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:12AMWednesday, July 19, 2017
Juilliard Professor Benjamin Sosland shared some advice he gives his students as they think about developing their careers. Some of the advice is pretty common across most career advice arti…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:04PMTuesday, July 18, 2017
Last month, Non-Profit Quarterly reprinted a piece by Paul Hogan that explored the basic differences between for- and non-profit organizations that are not clearly understood and often lead …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:06PMLast week the National Center for Arts Research (NCAR) released some interesting data about the ratio between the number of full time employees at arts organizations and the audiences/visito…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:42AMWednesday, July 12, 2017
Back in 2008, I wrote how the voters of Minnesota passed an amendment to support both the arts and outdoor wildlife as a result of a political alliance between the arts community and outdoor…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 05:48PMTuesday, July 11, 2017
Looking back in the archives can be really rewarding when it comes to reminding yourself about things you long forgot. Back in October 2008 Seth Godin reproduced Sasha Dichter’s Mani…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 05:18PM 
