Wednesday, May 5, 2021
Last week Drew McManus encouraged arts marketers to break pre-Covid bad habits by renewed his plea to stop using cliched terms like “beloved.” If you read his post closely you will not…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 03:06AMTuesday, May 4, 2021
So here is something to keep on your radar and consider the long term implications – Activision Blizzard, one of the biggest names in video gaming, donated $25 million to the University …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 02:42AMThursday, April 29, 2021
Equity in funding decisions has become a hot topic of late. Last week on the Americans for the Arts blog, Krista Terrell, Acting President for Arts & Science Council of Charlotte/Meckl…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 12:54AMWednesday, April 28, 2021
During the Covid pandemic there has been a fair bit of introspection and soul searching about arts and culture, the role they should have in people’s lives, and the medium through which th…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 06:42AMTuesday, April 27, 2021
Hat tip to Vu Le at NonProfitAF for posting a link on social media to an essay on Medium comparing Maslow’s Hierarchy of Need to the Blackfeet Nation’s similar concept. Maslow had live…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 12:12AMThursday, April 22, 2021
Following the link tweeted by Ava Wong Davies got me to a lengthy blog post by Tim X. Atack about things that need to change in theatre post-Covid. I will initially engaged by his insisten…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 04:42PMWednesday, April 21, 2021
Last week I saw this tweet from Aksana Khan stating that England based Arts Emergency, where she works, often asks employers to rewrite their job listings before they will forward the ad onw…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 10:18AMAn article on FastCompany recently caught my eye that suggests a company in Sweden is helping to solve a big problem in collaborative virtual concerts. One of the big impediments has been ge…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 10:18AMThursday, April 15, 2021
I saw on FastCompany that Live Nation is wiring some of their venues for livestreaming and wondered what, if any impact it may have on the way performing arts venues operate in the future. T…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 01:54AMEconomist Tyler Cowen had a rather extensive conversation with poet and former NEA Chair, Dana Gioia, on a plethora of topics. The one that most quickly grabbed me was right out of the gate …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 01:54AMA few years back I became interested in research that showed that Black, Latinx, and Hispanic people who lived near public parks don’t necessarily feel comfortable using them so a CityLab …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 01:54AMThursday, April 8, 2021
Drew McManus tweeted today that he was two resumes submissions away from being able to launch the candidate resume feature on the Arts Admin Jobs site. So if you are looking for a job, or lo…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 11:18AMWednesday, April 7, 2021
In case you missed it, somethings to keep an eye on over the next two years or so are the guaranteed income program for artists that have been established in St. Paul and San Francisco. Th…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 10:48AMTuesday, April 6, 2021
When I saw this story over the weekend, it seemed like it was absolutely inevitable that an intersection of trends toward authenticity and audience participation in cultural experiences. In …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 04:42PMThursday, April 1, 2021
Over on The Chronicle of Higher Education, Eric Hayot suggests that humanities subjects have a marketing problem. Because students are oriented on the utility of degree programs to career …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 02:42AMArtsjournal.com linked to a story about Oakland Symphony’s tradition of social justice in the experiences and programs it has offered. One of the things that popped out at me though was in…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 02:42AMTuesday, March 30, 2021
Back in December, Advisory Board for the Arts featured a webinar on marketing the arts emphasizing emotional value to the community. Much to my chagrin, it took me until last week to get a p…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 02:06AMSaturday, March 27, 2021
Vox Recode provided some interesting insights into factors which will exist as people increasingly work from home. Some of the issues I had already anticipated like a move to a less permanen…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 07:06AMWednesday, March 24, 2021
Advisory Board for the Arts sponsored a webinar discussing how Utah Symphony shifted its marketing focus to emphasize emotional factors and shared values. Karen Freeman, Executive Director…
Linked From artshacker.com at 04:07PMYou know, we talk about the ability the arts have to bring solutions to societal problems. There is one area in which I thought I would see a bigger contribution in the past year but didn’…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 12:03AMTuesday, March 23, 2021
If you have been looking at the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program information page as I have suggested, you may have seen it says the applications will open in early April, However, th…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 11:48AMWednesday, March 17, 2021
Artsjournal.com linked to an article on Australia’s Arts Hub which looks at how the philosophy of “arts as a business” has undermined the arts in that country. The overall theme seemed…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 09:54PMTuesday, March 16, 2021
While I am pretty sure people are following the developments of the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program pretty closely and are probably getting regular updates from their state and indus…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 03:18PMFriday, March 12, 2021
It is pretty widely acknowledged that people who work for non-profits do so for intangible benefits like a feeling of contributing to the betterment of society and self-actualization rather …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 08:03PMWednesday, March 10, 2021
A few weeks ago economist Tyler Cowen discussed how he had taught chess when he was 14-15 years old. His regular clientele were two adults in their 50s and 20s and a child prodigy around 10-…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 12:54AMTuesday, March 9, 2021
A couple weeks ago I caught Thomas Wolf’s blog post about why Concert Companion, the hand-held device that offered commentary synchronized to the performance content, had failed to gain wi…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 12:42AMThursday, 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…
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