Monday, July 30, 2018
The assertion that arts and cultural audiences are getting older and dying out probably reached trope status decades before the word trope entered popular usage. While this may be true and r…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:46AMThursday, July 26, 2018
Last week Drew McManus did a call out to the non-profit arts community to submit proposals for the Nonprofit Technology Conference in March 2019. (Proposal deadline is August 17) Last year, …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:04AMTuesday, July 24, 2018
I frequently write about how people don’t often appreciate the process of failure and revision involved with any creative endeavor. The belief that those with talent succeed whereas th…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:36PMMonday, July 23, 2018
You just have to read this recent piece on the ArtsPlace America website about a fictitious marketing campaign created as a graduate school thesis project that became reality. Peter Svarzbei…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 05:12PMWednesday, July 18, 2018
You may not have caught it last week when the Knight Prototype Fund announced awards for the development of technology to support the arts. Of the twelve projects, four are focused on helpin…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:42AMMonday, July 16, 2018
For some reason recently I seem to be writing a lot about how money and external rewards/punishments don’t seem to motivate creative professionals. I saw the topic come up again just l…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:06PMCopyright and intellectual properties rights are important considerations in the arts and culture industry. The industry strives to expand the awareness and exposure of creatives, but often …
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 01:19PMThursday, July 12, 2018
The NEA’s Arts Works blog had a post, Five Questions We Have about Visiting Art Museums, which I thought had some pretty good tips for interacting with art. The post was specifically a…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:32AMWednesday, July 11, 2018
I frequently write about how people often don’t feel arts and cultural events are for them is because they aren’t seeing themselves and their stories portrayed. So it was with so…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:12AMMonday, July 9, 2018
Last Monday I wrote about how intrinsic motivation can often be more effective than external motivators like rewards and punishments, but suggested non-profit workers not allow people to use…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:48PMWednesday, July 4, 2018
It seems appropriate during this Independence Day week to recall the words of The Mission Paradox’s Adam Thurman which I wrote about back in 2009. In a post dealing with issues of over…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 03:48PMTuesday, July 3, 2018
A couple weeks ago, Holly Mulcahy wrote about eschewing the use of comp tickets in order to create the illusion that a performance was well attended. As an alternative, she suggests seeking …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:24PMMonday, July 2, 2018
Traveling a bit this week and will be occupied with trying to beat my nephews in squirt gun battles. As is my custom, I am reaching back to the archives for some bits of wisdom. Back in 2009…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:12PMWednesday, June 27, 2018
Our friends at Arts Midwest’s Creating Connection project hosted another webinar recently showcasing the work being done by City Lights Theater Company in San Jose and Portland Playhou…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:54PMTuesday, June 26, 2018
As a follow up to yesterday’s post on the Creative Placemaking conference I attended, I wanted to share some general thoughts and ideas I had picked up. Regardless of whether the setti…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:24PMMonday, June 25, 2018
Last week I attended the Creative Placemaking Summit for the Appalachian region. As much as I have read and written about Creative Placemaking, I don’t think I fully understood the w…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:42PMThursday, June 21, 2018
Years ago I had read an article on Non Profit Quarterly, Six Things Nonprofits Can Teach Small Business. According to the story, non-profit leaders often exhibited stronger leadership qualit…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:04AMWednesday, June 20, 2018
If you are a person of a certain age, you may find that the love of Dungeons and Dragons you secretly harbored as a youth is finally gaining some respectability thanks to shows like Stranger…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:42AMTuesday, June 19, 2018
In somewhat the same theme as the post I made last week about Tu Me Manques which uses social media to tell the story of a relationship, I had also come across an article in May about Pira…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:24AMThursday, June 14, 2018
Amid the whole debate about whether cell phones are appropriate in the theater are some indications that creative folks are going to be using the technology to drive narrative. FastCompany c…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:42AMWednesday, June 13, 2018
When I first saw this piece on Arts Professional about data driven decision making, I thought maybe the author, Patrick Towell, was cribbing Drew McManus and Ceci Dadisman’s recent con…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:18AMMonday, June 11, 2018
Last month NPR had a story discussing how lawyers were sending ads for their services to people in hospital emergency rooms thanks to technique known as geofencing which allows one to identi…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:48PMThursday, June 7, 2018
Just came across Oskar Eustis’ TED Talk, “Why Theatre Is Essential To Democracy.” He talks about the how so much of the work Joe Papp did with the Public Theater was about …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:06AMWednesday, June 6, 2018
Being the voracious consumer of arts administration theory and philosophy, I jumped on the slide deck Drew McManus and Ceci Dadisman put together for their session at the Association of Arts…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:48AMMonday, June 4, 2018
Kaya Stanley-Money shares a really intriguing story on Arts Professional about how five London theatres presented the same performance and then pooled the ticket revenue. …the five Lon…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:24PMWednesday, May 30, 2018
Pacific Standard recently pointed to a study conducted in Portugal that indicated some positive outcomes using the music and culture of immigrant groups to help reduce prejudicial attitudes.…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:42PMBoardSource is partnering with organizations like the Knight Foundation and National Council of Non Profits on a initiative to get non-profits to Stand For Your Mission. While the main thr…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 04:23PMTuesday, May 29, 2018
A couple weeks back there was a piece by Theodore Gioia in the Los Angeles Review of Books that started out talking about the history of weaponizing classical music. You may be familiar wi…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:18PMWednesday, May 23, 2018
This past week I have been dipping my toe in and out of the livestream for the ArtPlace America Summit. One of the plenary sessions I went back to listen to more fully was a discussion ArtPl…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:12PMTuesday, May 22, 2018
FastCompany had an article about Five Ways Non Profits Struggle last month. Most of the things mentioned aren’t really news to you if you work in non profits: Restrictions on how grant…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:48PMHat tip to Artsjournal.com linking to an Arts Professional article all performing arts professionals should read. Hull Truck Theatre in Hull, England started regular pop-up box office hours …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:32AM 
