Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Gene Tagaki at Non Profit Law blog tweeted about IRS guidance for non profits that are now faced with having pay to taxes on the parking they offer employees. If you didn’t know that y…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 12:36AMTuesday, December 11, 2018
I have written before about the ethics of geofencing since there are all sorts of questions raised about where data collection stops and stalking starts. One of the uses I had suggested migh…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 12:18AMWednesday, December 5, 2018
I just saw this article on NextCity about the Joffrey Ballet’s effort to “make a new American Nutcracker” by setting the story in Chicago during the 1893 Colombian Expositi…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 10:06PMHaving been part of two theater renovations which had enlarging restrooms as a major focus of construction I read CityLab’s article on the history of women’s restroom lounges wit…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 03:48AMMonday, December 3, 2018
After long correspondence (both in years and text length), I finally had an opportunity to meet with Carter Gillies over Thanksgiving weekend. On at least one occasion I dubbed Carter R…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 09:18PMWednesday, November 28, 2018
There seems to be a trend among museums in the Philadelphia area which sees value in the perspectives of non-traditional guides and voices. I have written about the Jawnty tours provided at …
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 07:24PMCyndi Suarez wrote a piece for Non-Profit Quarterly that bears considering as non-profit organizations make an effort to have the demographics of their staff and boards better reflect that o…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 01:06AMTuesday, November 27, 2018
Earlier this Fall I had a friend who was relatively new to the business of presenting performances. An agent had rattled off a series of numbers as part of the performance fee deal an tourin…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 12:48AMTuesday, November 20, 2018
While I was at the Arts Midwest conference in November, Joanna Taft, Executive Director of the Harrison Center for the Arts, spoke about the “porching” culture that had developed…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 10:18PMWhen it comes to paying touring performers, there are all sorts of deal that can be made. The payment terms on those deals can get pretty confusing. There are a number of resources available…
Linked From artshacker.com at 03:00AMMonday, November 19, 2018
Almost by chance I came across a piece on Shelterforce from about two years ago relating how turning a community room in Harlem housing community into a gallery lead to the intentional inclu…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 10:04PMThursday, November 15, 2018
It is no news flash to even casual readers of the blog that I am involved with Arts Midwest’s Creating Connection program to build public will for arts and culture. Last week, they ran…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 02:06AMWednesday, November 14, 2018
A couple years ago I was serving on a grant panel which made me aware of an arts and culture organization that was running “breakfast raves,” for lack of a better word. They were…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 01:42AMTuesday, November 13, 2018
Back in September, Non-Profit Quarterly (NPQ) pointed to a new research study which has found overheard ratio is not a valid measure of organizational effectiveness. In fact, it there is a s…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 01:24AMWednesday, November 7, 2018
Seth Godin made a post earlier this week comparing Persistence with Consistent wherein he starts with the statement “Persistence is sort of annoying.” He goes on to talk about th…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 11:06PMTuesday, November 6, 2018
With today being Election Day you may be thinking about the need to keep dishonest and problematic people out of office…or at least keeping the more dishonest and problematic people ou…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 10:54PMMonday, November 5, 2018
Last month Mural Arts Philadelphia unveiled their first augmented reality mural, “Dreams, Diaspora, and Destiny.” Just like with my post last week about actors being preserve…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 10:24PMWednesday, October 31, 2018
If we thought it was a problem that older arts administrators were resisting retirement and making it difficult for newer people in the field to advance and gain valuable skills, actors may …
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 02:04AMTuesday, October 30, 2018
This month has been a reminder to me that people have all sorts of motivations for engaging with your performing arts organization–and often those motivations don’t have a lot to…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 01:36AMWednesday, October 24, 2018
Earlier this week I wrote about the negative impact casino construction can have on the viability of performing arts entities in a region. I mentioned the steps a coalition of performing art…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 11:42PMTuesday, October 23, 2018
Ceci Dadisman recently tweeted a PRI piece about University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology hiring Iraqi and Syrian refugees to act as tour guides in their Middle East…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 11:12PMMonday, October 22, 2018
Four years ago I wrote about a coalition of performing arts organizations in upstate NY that was fighting to mitigate the impact of having new casino projects compete with them for performin…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 10:54PMThursday, October 18, 2018
Yesterday I got to do something I have been dreaming of doing for a long time. Now keep in mind, as an arts and cultural policy nut, my dreams tend to be a little different than everyone els…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 09:06PMWednesday, October 17, 2018
I was skimming some entries on the Americans for the Arts blog when a couple sentences made my eyes visually screech to a halt and shift into reverse because I wasn’t sure if I read wh…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 02:32AMTuesday, October 16, 2018
I have been extremely busy preparing for the sponsor reception capping off a $3 million facility renovation at my day job. (It really well tonight, thankfully) I wanted to briefly call att…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 02:18AMThursday, October 11, 2018
Maybe there is something in the water in Texas. In July I wrote about an artist who created a fake campaign promoting the restoration of El Paso’s trolley system as a thesis project. T…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 12:04AMTuesday, October 9, 2018
Americans for the Arts just rolled out their Social Impact of the Arts pinwheel this week. Instructions and ideas about how to use it may be found in a blog post and/or video made by Clay Lo…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 11:36PMMonday, October 8, 2018
Yesterday BikeWalk Macon sponsored an Open Streets event in town. Open Streets is a program that started about 30 years ago in Columbia. It closes streets down and turns it over the use of…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 11:12PMWednesday, October 3, 2018
Due to budget and staffing issues, as of October 1, 2018, the IRS will no longer create Central Withholding Agreements (CWA) with artists making less than $10,000. Wait, wait, wait, wait..be…
Linked From artshacker.com at 05:25PMTuesday, October 2, 2018
Last week I linked to the unabridged version of Carter Gillies’ article for the Arts Professional (UK). The shorter print version has since appeared on their site. In his response in t…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 09:04PMMonday, October 1, 2018
I was recently listening to an episode of This American Life on church planting and found it a little strange to be listening to people use venture capitalist terminology to describe efforts…
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