Monday, August 20, 2018
I mentioned last week that I was in the process of moving. Today I started a new job at the Grand Opera House in Macon, GA. I am really excited by this opportunity. The Grand is a storied th…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 10:06PMWednesday, August 15, 2018
Back in 2009 I wrote a series of articles on the book Human Sigma after I had heard someone at a conference remark that arts administrators were often so emotionally satisfied with their wor…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 01:48PMTuesday, August 14, 2018
Apropos of my post addressing arts education yesterday, I also stumbled upon an old post where I cite Richard Kessler’s The Things I Hear About Arts Education. His post is from almost …
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 01:24PMMonday, August 13, 2018
I am in the process of moving so I am shifting in to “throwback” mode for a week or so. I thought I would look back at a post I made about one of Ian David Moss’ contributi…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 12:54PMWednesday, August 8, 2018
In the last few months, I wrote about how the EU was offering free Euro-rail passes to 18 year olds this summer to encourage them to broaden their horizons. Two years ago I wrote about the I…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 10:42PMTuesday, August 7, 2018
This summer I have been seeing a lot of California Symphony Executive Director Aubrey Bergauer popping up in places like videos of conference talks she has been giving. It has been over a ye…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 10:18PMMonday, August 6, 2018
Broadway Producer Ken Davenport is singing my song. I know you know this tune, but based on my experience, it bears reiterating. He talks about how he often gets pitched ideas for new Broadw…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 09:54PMThursday, August 2, 2018
I was reading a piece in CityLab about Repair Cafes which strike me as a good complement to MakerSpaces and creative activities that arts and cultural entities may host. The concept was …
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 08:24AMWednesday, August 1, 2018
A few months back, I wrote about a new approach, inspired by the National Forestry Service, the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, PA was adapting to combat poor impressions visitors might h…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 02:06PMMonday, July 30, 2018
Another month, another helpful webinar from our friends at Arts Midwest where different venues around the country talk about how they are integrating the Creating Connection practice into th…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 07:42PMThe 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…
Linked From 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, …
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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 …
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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 …
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
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