Tuesday, February 9, 2021
A piece I wrote on diversity efforts in board recruitment appeared on ArtsHacker last week. I primarily drew the content from a piece Jim Taylor, BoardSource’s vice president of leadership…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:48AMThursday, February 4, 2021
Long times readers know that when I was living in Ohio I had a close relationship with a local group called the Creative Cult. We did a number of projects together and I participated in the …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:12AMWednesday, February 3, 2021
The upheaval of the past year in terms of public health, politics, social equity and other areas of concern have made it clear that a new operating environment will emerge, shaped by a chang…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 01:43PMThis week CityLab mentioned that the US Senate was working on funding a program to reclaim areas of communities displaced/demolished/bifurcated by highway projects as those roads are decommi…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:54AMTuesday, February 2, 2021
Back in December, Joseph Horowitz had a lengthy piece in The American Scholar about the impact of the pandemic on the arts in America. I may revisit the article in future posts, but there wa…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:18AMWednesday, January 27, 2021
Daniel Pink made a tweet today that I immediately bookmarked so I could go back to it. Good question to ask yourself on a Monday morning, whatever your position or role (and even if you're a…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:18PMA week ago I cited a couple of posts Seth Godin had made about leadership. I and other readers were taken by his statement that leadership is a voluntary, risky and creative endeavor. Since …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:18PMI came across a TED talk video on the importance of creative industries to national governments not five minutes after I had a conversation with staff on that very topic. Mehret Mandefro tal…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:18PMThursday, January 21, 2021
In December Seth Godin made two posts titled Creativity Is An Act of Leadership. The second of the two added (Redux). I am a little leery of the trend in articles which label leaders as doin…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:54AMWednesday, January 20, 2021
Drew McManus came out with a really strong entry in his Shop Talk podcast today. He talks about transitioning from a non-profit arts career to a commercial career with guests Marc van Bree a…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:24AMThursday, January 14, 2021
The National Endowment for the Arts has released their “Art of Reopening” guide. Looking through it, it doesn’t substantially differ from other re-opening guides about which I have wri…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:24AMTuesday, January 12, 2021
I was talking with an agent for some Broadway show tours this week in order to get a sense of what things might look like for productions in Fall 2021/Spring 2022. I was intrigued to learn…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:54PMMonday, January 11, 2021
Research has shown that offering free admission doesn’t lead to an increase in participation by new audiences. In most cases those that are attending are the people who normally attend, …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:32PMWednesday, January 6, 2021
Advisory Board for the Arts just sent out a summary of four takeaways about what motivates arts donors based on interviews conducted this past November and December.. While this post is goin…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:42PMNPR story came across my social media feed yesterday about how the Cherokee Nation has prioritized giving the Covid vaccine to those who are fluent in the Cherokee language. I sought out a…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:24AMTuesday, January 5, 2021
Last year (December 31, so technically) I had a post on Arts Hacker taking a look at the work LaPlaca Cohen and Slover Linett Audience Research had done interpreting the Covid edition of the…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:03AMThursday, December 31, 2020
In mid-December 2020, LaPlaca Cohen and Slover Linett Audience Research released an analysis of the data they collected in the Covid edition of the CultureTrack survey through the lens of ra…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 04:17PMThursday, December 24, 2020
Yesterday Drew McManus released another episode of his Shop Talk podcast where he speaks to Kenji Bunch and Jenny Bilfield about artistic elitism. I was listening to it while painting one of…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:54AMTuesday, December 22, 2020
Friend o’ the blog, Rainer Glaap shared a video link to a session lead by Elliott Bruce Hedman, Head Design Researcher at, mPath an organization that researches how consumers engage emotio…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:18PMI didn’t properly record the source, but last week someone tweeted a link to the LEGO Foundation’s document, Creating Creators, which has the subtitle: “How can we enhance creativity i…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:18PMSunday, December 20, 2020
A little bit of amplification of my local community today. Next City ran an article on the Mill Hill artist village that is developing in one of Macon’s original neighborhoods, Ft. Hawkins…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:18AMWednesday, December 16, 2020
An article on Daily Yonder making an interesting point came across my social media feed last week. They noted that part of the reason why rural communities are characterized as being in de…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:36AMTuesday, December 15, 2020
A number of arts organizations like the one I run as my day job, have started focusing on programming that is locally and regionally sourced since drawing on artists from a greater distance …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:18AMWednesday, December 9, 2020
In my post Monday I was wondering what influence Covid might have on dance choreography given the visual range of cameras, etc. Tuesday morning I woke up and saw a link on Artsjournal.com to…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:32PMTuesday, December 8, 2020
Big thanks to Rainer Glaap who sent me a link to a news report that Germany has created a $2.5 billion cancellation fund that would allow event organizers to plan shows in the third and four…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:06PMOn occasion I have conversations with co-workers and colleagues about how Covid-19 may change the general aesthetics of live performance in the future. For example: Will lingering concerns a…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:48AMThursday, December 3, 2020
I have a post on ArtsHacker today encouraging people to really think about what message their promotional photos are sending as we hopefully will start to move out of Covid restrictions. Art…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:12PMWednesday, December 2, 2020
The Atlantic ran an article about how museums are having to deal with questions about equity and representation in their programming that are posed by both external and internal constituenci…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:32AMEven pre-Covid the general guidance for promotional images and text was to focus on the audience experience. Regardless of whether the venue you perform/show your work at is allowed to open,…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AMTuesday, December 1, 2020
Via Daniel Pink is a Harvard Business Review (HBR) article that suggests asking for advice rather than feedback. On the surface this may sound like a distinction without a difference, but …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:24PMThursday, November 26, 2020
I saw a social media post this week that said something to the effect of: “Let’s admit that back in 2015 we all failed to correctly answer the question, ‘Where do you see yourself in f…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:24AM 
