Tuesday, August 24, 2021
Drew McManus has started a database of the different policies performing arts venues around the country have enacted. He started it last Friday and announced the 100th entry this morning. …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:54PMAs something of a dovetail to my post yesterday about Drew McManus’ effort to compile a database of performing arts venue vaccination policies, (Drew reported a surge of new entries to the…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:54PMThursday, August 19, 2021
Washington Post reported an interesting development in the Washington, D.C. arts and cultural environment last week. The D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities asked the D.C. Council to …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:48AMVia Artsjournal.com is a FastCompany article by Amy Globus whose thesis is that Covid-19 gave the arts world the kick in the butt required to motivate it to think about how to leverage digit…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:48AMTuesday, August 17, 2021
Hat tip to Georgia Council for the Arts which posted a link to the Smithsonian article, Why Science Needs Art. The article focuses largely on marine life, but the basic gist is that there …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:03AMWednesday, August 11, 2021
Laura Zabel, Executive Director of the awesome Springboard for the Arts posted a important Twitter thread on being mindful about the way you solicit creative work from the community. Are you…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:48AMAccording to CityLab Berliners are returning to the city’s museums, with credit being given to free admission Sundays. Sixty-seven museums are offering free admission which is part of a …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:48AMThursday, August 5, 2021
I had a post appear on ArtsHacker this week that dealt with the concept of rebranding. In the post I cite an article by Mark Ritson arguing for revitalization of a brand rather than rebran…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:32AMAs I go about arguing against using measures like economic impact and test scores for valuing the arts, I occasionally get push back from people who note that for better or for worse dollars…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:32AMTuesday, August 3, 2021
For Purpose Law Group made a post on their site advocating shared leadership models for non-profits. They note that there is an increasing recognition that a hierarchical model with a sole…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:48AMMonday, August 2, 2021
When things have been going poorly for an organization and they seek a fresh start, (perhaps upon emerging from a national epidemic), the impulse is often to rebrand. However, in a Marketing…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 11:45AMThursday, July 29, 2021
Being a big proponent of libraries a radio story by Marketplace on the value of libraries caught my attention. Being an economics focused show, their analysis initially focused on return on …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:03AMWednesday, July 28, 2021
Something has been puzzling me lately and I haven’t come any closer to figuring out the answer. I appears to me that when there is discussion about populations which are under-served by th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:32AMMonday, July 26, 2021
An appreciative nod to Artsjournal which posted a piece by Shelly Palmer on how the use of non-fungible tokens (NFT) can enhance event ticketing security, improve the resale market, and pote…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:06PMSaturday, July 24, 2021
CityLab had an article about an art museum in Bologna, Italy which is using eye tracking to learn how visitors interact with works on display. In the process, the museum has learned unexpect…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:24PMBig news today from Actors’ Equity Association the union which represents stage actors and stage managers. The union basically immediately opened membership to anyone who has ever worked…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:24PMI saw an article on CityLab about some pretty successful Open Streets efforts that rose up during Covid. If you aren’t familiar with the concept, Open Streets is a national effort to tem…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:24PMFriday, July 16, 2021
Yesterday, economist Tyler Cowen addressed one of the dichotomies being recognized in the arts sector – the conflict between values of equity, fairness, diversity, etc., espoused in the ar…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:18PMLast week my organization was notified that we were being awarded funds for a grant we wrote to address the issue of blight in our community. The project was inspired by a comment a friend o…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:18PMThe Americans for the Arts blog had an interview with an arts group that was flexing their skills to solve problems in their community. They spoke with Yin Kong, one of the founders of Think…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:18PMWednesday, July 7, 2021
I have noticed Drew McManus will get me riled up about an arts administration topic and then suggests I write an Arts Hacker post about it. Last week was no exception. Last Thursday he poste…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:03PMLooking at some storytelling resources I came across a related project I was unaware of. The Human Library trains volunteers to be “books” you withdraw to learn something about some tabo…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:42AMTuesday, July 6, 2021
There has been a growing campaign internationally in the non-profit/charity sectors over recent years for employers to include a salary range when conducting job searches rather than utilizi…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 05:48PMThursday, July 1, 2021
While everyone is waiting for their Shuttered Venue Operating Grant (SVOG) application to be processed, you should be taking a look at the National Endowment for the Arts American Rescue Pla…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:36AMWednesday, June 30, 2021
In an illustration of how arts and science can be mutually supportive, NextCity had a piece about an effort to train art teachers to teach girls to code. Code/Art was started by MIT grad A…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:24PMTuesday, June 29, 2021
Back in March Harvard Business Review (HBR) had a piece on how marketing will change post-Covid. It is definitely geared toward commercial business and often oriented toward business to bu…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:54AMThursday, June 24, 2021
Covid forced a lot of conversations about the value of streaming content from performing arts venues and visual arts galleries. As we emerge into more optimistic times, some groups are alr…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:54AMTuesday, June 22, 2021
When I saw a story on CityLab about restaurants replacing their printed menus with digital ones, I began to read it eagerly. Staff at a couple of venues at which I have worked have long had …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:24PMMonday, June 21, 2021
Last week I saw an article reporting that podcasts have been a growing revenue source for NPR in recent years. NPR podcasts reach more than 21 million people, and the most popular shows have…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:54PMThursday, June 17, 2021
An article from Oregon Arts Watch about an arts incubator program, Tulatin Valley Creates rolled across my feed this week. The article inevitably talked about how the program helped artist…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:06AMWednesday, June 16, 2021
So like me, you may have been driving home Monday night and heard an interview on NPR conducted by host Mary Louise Kelly with poet Tess Taylor discussing art as civic repair. Taylor talks…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:42AM 
