Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Some concepts have been banging around in my head for a little while that haven’t quite firmed up yet. I am hoping writing it down and getting some feedback from others might help to s…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:48PMTuesday, November 1, 2016
I am interested to see that artists are gaining an increasingly sophisticated view of their role in gentrifying neighborhoods. Non Profit Quarterly reported on a gathering in Miami to discus…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:42PMMonday, October 31, 2016
On the Marginal Revolution blog, economist Tyler Cowen quotes bits of a Wall Street Journal article on orchestra strikes by Terry Teachout and ends with what seems to be an implication that …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:24PMThursday, October 27, 2016
There is a video of Nina Simon speaking at the Minnesota History as part of her Art of Relevance book tour early this month. Many things she said jumped out at me and I am going to pass the …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:12AMTuesday, October 25, 2016
One last post about the arts entrepreneurship conference I attended a couple weeks ago. Tomorrow it will be on to other things. There are increasingly productive efforts being made toward te…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:31PMMonday, October 24, 2016
I attended a presentation by Mosaic Education Network about their efforts working in conjunction with the Barnett Center at Ohio State University to provide some entrepreneurship workshops …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:25PMIn other posts here on ArtsHacker, we covered how contracts should be viewed as part of a communication process, preferably one of the final steps. Because the contract memorializes what has…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AMWednesday, October 19, 2016
Yesterday I wrote about the exciting things happening at the student-run ventures at Millikin University. Something I should mention, all these ventures are being run at the undergraduate le…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:00PMTuesday, October 18, 2016
As I had mentioned yesterday, I had been looking forward to participating in the Society for Arts Entrepreneurship Education conference at Millikin University for a year due to their student…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:58PMMonday, October 17, 2016
This weekend I got to do something I waited an entire year to do…go to Decatur, IL. Your first response may be to wonder why the heck I was looking forward to that for an entire year. …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:31PMThursday, October 13, 2016
The Aspen Institute has a project in which the arts and culture community might want to participate. They are asking “What Every American Should Know.” They acknowledge right off…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:48AMWednesday, October 12, 2016
This post is related to a couple of earlier ones about basic concepts arts organizations should understand about contracts as presented by Brian Taylor Goldstein and Robyn Guillams from GG A…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AMTuesday, October 11, 2016
In a recent post Seth Godin proposed two ways of approaching your business, “Either you dazzle with as much hype as you can get away with, or you invest in delighting people, regardles…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:26PMA few months back when Ceci Dadisman and Drew McManus first floated the idea of recognizing Creative Arts Administrators to the rest of us ArtHacker authors, my first thought was that the pr…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:08AMWednesday, October 5, 2016
Over the years I have made many posts riffing on the idea that marketing it is the responsibility of the entire organization, not just a single department. For that reason, I was happy to se…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:30PMWhat Makes A Valid Contract? Believe it or not, there are only three basic elements required to form a valid contract: Offer, Acceptance, Consideration. Obviously there are almost infinite d…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AMTuesday, October 4, 2016
When I was taking a college philosophy class we got into the classic debate about where identity resides in a person or thing. If you have a boat and gradually replace every board over the c…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:15PMMonday, October 3, 2016
I don’t regularly crosspost about things I have written on Arts Hacker. I sort of feel like I am cheating readers by trying to make one post do double duty on two websites. However, I …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:57PMAfter attending different regional conferences over the last couple decades the one subject that it seems will never grow stale is contract law. Any session in the subject is always well att…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AMWednesday, September 28, 2016
From what I have been reading, the new Fair Labor Standards Act regulations regarding overtime pay is going be pretty tough for non-profit arts organizations to handle. If you aren’t u…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:27PMTuesday, September 27, 2016
There is a lot of conversation about the importance of advocating for the funding and inclusion of arts in K-12 education but according to a recent study, some attention needs to be paid to …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:12PMMonday, September 26, 2016
Over the years I have frequently cautioned against becoming invested in the current hot thing that everyone is doing because the fad could pass quickly and you will have spent a lot of time …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:52PMThursday, September 22, 2016
I was surprised by a recent piece on Non-Profit Quarterly reporting the results of a recent study finding that the more successful an arts organization was in attracting an audience, the mor…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:31AMWednesday, September 21, 2016
The keynote speaker for the recent Arts Midwest conference was Oskar Eustis who is current artistic director at the Public Theater. Tweets in reaction to his speech have been Storified if …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:10AMTuesday, September 20, 2016
I have returned from the Arts Midwest Conference in Milwaukee which apparently broke attendance records. I can believe it did because I have never had so much difficulty finding a free momen…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:58AMWednesday, September 14, 2016
One of the first blog posts I made included speculation about what the arts experience might be like if the arts were covered in the newspaper like sports. A little over eight years ago I ma…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 05:25PMWhen backstage technical staff have a negative interaction with performers, they will frequently mutter something along the lines of “if not for us, you would be shouting yourself hoar…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AMTuesday, September 13, 2016
If you have been following my posts closely for the last couple months, you know the topic of the prescriptive value of the arts to fix various problems has been on my mind lately. Often we …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 05:04PMMonday, September 12, 2016
I am traveling to the Art Midwest Conference today where I will first take a seminar about using Google Analytics which Drew McManus promises will be akin to a heroic journey. Since I have i…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:48PMWednesday, September 7, 2016
You may have read about the surprising results of a National Endowment for the Arts survey on creativity that found a stark demarcation in creative activity that mirrored the traditional fre…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:38PMTuesday, September 6, 2016
Yesterday evening I was hanging out at the local coffee house participating in a send off of an artist who has been creating murals for a public art project in the city for over 20 years now…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:24PM 
