Thursday, September 1, 2022
I have been a firm believer in the idea that everyone has the capacity to be creative so I read a piece on The Conversation discussing how creativity doesn’t occur in a vacuum with great i…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:13AMOccasionally there has been discussion about how the standing ovation has become the default response at the end of a performance. Not long ago, Seth Godin made a short post about expectatio…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:13AMGene Tagaki raises some interesting thoughts over on the Non-Profit Law blog on the question of how legal concepts and structures may need to adjust to reflect changing values in the non-pro…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:12AMThursday, August 25, 2022
I don’t remember exactly how, but I became aware of a grant program administered by the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta (CFGA) called “A Place to Perform,” which supports the …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:37AMAndrew Taylor made an interesting video/post about dominant arts management styles on his blog recently. I am always wary about personality type tests and categorizations, particularly bec…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:37AMMonday, August 22, 2022
Yesterday I had the opportunity to attend a screening of the short documentary, Conducting Life, about Roderick Cox, a man who grew up here in Macon, GA who went on to become an associate co…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:49PMThursday, August 18, 2022
Earlier this month, CityLab had an interesting article on the subject of trauma informed placemaking. For the most part, the article focuses on artistic projects which have given communities…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:54AMWednesday, August 17, 2022
In a recent post Colleen Dilenschneider reported that recent research reflects the title of this post. While inflation is a big concern for people right now, ticket/admission pricing does …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:33AMTuesday, August 16, 2022
In an ArtsHacker article I wrote back in 2015, I had advocated for the use of consent agendas as a way to quickly dispose of routine matters at board meetings and leave time for discussion o…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:12AMWednesday, August 10, 2022
Last month Drew McManus had box office manager Tiffin Feltner make a guest post on his Adaptistration blog on the topic of comp tickets. It has taken me about three weeks to stop grindin…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:12PMTuesday, August 9, 2022
American Theatre recently had a great piece about an interesting approach Princeton University is using as an alternative to auditions called “Try On Theatre Days.” They describe the pro…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:54PMMonday, August 8, 2022
Many of you may have seen the news about the accusations of “wokeness” being leveled at the restaurant chain Cracker Barrel for adding plant based breakfast sausage to the menu. To be cl…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:24PMThursday, August 4, 2022
Last month the San Francisco Chronicle ran an opinion piece by Nataki Garrett, the Artistic Director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, titled Theater can help drive economic recovery in S.…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:37AMWednesday, August 3, 2022
Last month, Washington Post Classical Music Critic Michael Andor Brodeur wrote a piece about why people like himself are unhappy with classical music organizations ditching printed programs.…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:12AMRecently I have been seeing stories about violin scammers. People performing in shopping centers and other public places with signs asking for money. What is interesting about these stories …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:12AMWednesday, July 27, 2022
Many people probably heard about a Minnesota venue cancelling Dave Chappelle’s show hours before it was suppose to occur. Something similar happened a few weeks ago at a venue on the oth…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:54PMAs promised, I am following up on Monday’s post about about the first European Union (EU) wide survey of performing arts. I wanted to note some of the recommendations made in the study. On…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:48AMMonday, July 25, 2022
Last week German arts administrator Rainer Glaap made a Facebook post linking to the first ever study of theatres across the European Union (EU). Additionally, some of the survey participa…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:12PMWednesday, July 20, 2022
Earlier this month Colleen Dilenschneider wrote a post providing data that showed Instagram was the social media platform with the highest levels of audience engagement and conversions (deci…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:12PMAmerican Theatre had some encouraging news about a trend to improve summer theatre internship programs. The need for this was seen last year as interns and other staff were walking off the…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:03AMTuesday, July 19, 2022
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about how donor advised funds (DAF) had surpassed charities like the United Way as recipients of charitable giving. I noted this is a problem because unlike…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:37AMThursday, July 14, 2022
We often hear about how scientific geniuses had an arts related hobby that contributed to their process, (Eisenstein and his violin are mentioned a lot), but we rarely get any detailed insig…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:24AMWednesday, July 13, 2022
If you hadn’t caught the news in the last week, there is a major crisis at Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago which saw the mass resignation of their current cohort of resident artists. Th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:03AMMonday, July 11, 2022
Via Artsjournal.com was a Chalkbeat story about DanceLogic, a program in Philadelphia “designed to educate, inspire, and cultivate girls of color in STEM.” The premise: Both coding an…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:37PMWednesday, July 6, 2022
” Older audiences will only be around so long. If you teach the rising generation that the theatrical experience is completely extraneous, that experience probably won’t be around for th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:42PMTuesday, July 5, 2022
A link to a video presentation about a study the Michigan Arts and Culture Council commissioned of SMU DataArts popped up in my feed last week. I am not sure what inspired me to listen all t…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:24PMThursday, June 30, 2022
The Artsjournal daily newsletter today linked to a Smithsonian Institution article using the title “Warm-Up Vocal Exercises From Three Very Different Classical Singing Disciplines.” Fr…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:07AMWednesday, June 29, 2022
Earlier this month Vu Le of the Non Profit AF blog linked to a piece reporting that Donor Advised Funds (DAF) had surpassed charities as recipients of charitable revenue. The problem with …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:48AMThis post might go a bit on the cerebral side, but bear with me it should go along pretty quickly. Thanks to Marginal Revolution blog I learned that top MBA programs have a policy of grade n…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:48AMWednesday, June 22, 2022
Back in March I made a post about an artist’s project in Pittsburgh that called attention to the disparity in appraisals between White homeowners and Black homeowners. In a story of art …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:12PMTuesday, June 21, 2022
I have read a fair number of articles about transitioning problematic board members off a board, but I have to credit Vu Le for laying out a relatively detailed process for accomplishing the…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:48PM 
