Thursday, March 4, 2021
I saw an article containing an interview with choreographer Robert Moses that basically opens with Moses saying the conversations occurring regarding equity are addressing the wrong question…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 05:03AMTuesday, March 2, 2021
While I am sure a lot of performing arts venues have been closely paying attention to news about Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG) program designed to help arts organizations impacted b…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 10:42PMI visited a new exhibition presented by my local art museum this weekend. While I was wandering the galleries, I overheard a small group talking about their interpretation of the meaning of …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 04:36PMWednesday, February 24, 2021
Hat tip to Dave Wakeman for tweeting an insightful piece about marketing during Covid — Mine. What's interesting about reading this a year on is that there are a few organizations that fol…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 08:42PMThere has been an ongoing conversation in the visual arts world about the issue of an artist selling a work for $250, having it sell for $2500 five years later and then $25,000 five years af…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 08:24AMTuesday, February 23, 2021
I was reading a story about the earthquake that hit Christchurch, NZ ten years ago today which damaged large parts of the city. According to the article there was a significant effort by the…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 02:03AMThursday, February 18, 2021
Nod to Dan Pink who linked to a study conducted among German university students which found that when students were provided a question to consider while learning material or were asked to …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 12:03AMWednesday, February 17, 2021
An appreciative nod to Thomas Cott for calling attention to San Francisco Symphony’s adoption of dynamic typeface as part of an effort to shift perceptions about the organization. You ar…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 11:48AMMonday, February 15, 2021
So by now you have probably heard about the ill-advised job posting made by the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields which said they were “…seeking a director who would work not only …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 11:12PMWednesday, February 10, 2021
I am hoping that all of you who work at a performing arts venue in the United States are like me and have been getting seven or eight emails a week making you aware of a webinar on the Shutt…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 09:24PMTuesday, February 9, 2021
Advisory Board for the Arts had sent out a survey on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Access (DEI&A) efforts that non-profit organizations were undertaking. They released the results in …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 09:06PMA 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…
Linked From 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 …
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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 …
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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, …
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
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