Thursday, 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 …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:48AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 to…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:06PM[SHARE]A 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 i…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 01:43PM[SHARE]This 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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:18PM[SHARE]A 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 …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:18PM[SHARE]I 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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 written. …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 lea…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:54PM[SHARE]Monday, 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, …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:42PM[SHARE]NPR 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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 04:17PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 emotiona…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:18PM[SHARE]I 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 in educ…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:18PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 20, 2020
A little bit of amplification of my local community today. Next City ran an article on the Mill Hill artist village that is developing in one of Macon's original neighborhoods, Ft. Hawkins. …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 16, 2020
An article on Daily Yonder making an interesting point came across my social media feed last week. They noted that part of the reason why rural communities are characterized as being in …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 15, 2020
A number of arts organizations like the one I run as my day job, have started focusing on programming that is locally and regionally sourced since drawing on artists from a greater distance …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 9, 2020
In my post Monday I was wondering what influence Covid might have on dance choreography given the visual range of cameras, etc. Tuesday morning I woke up and saw a link on Artsjournal.com to…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 8, 2020
Big thanks to Rainer Glaap who sent me a link to a news report that Germany has created a $2.5 billion cancellation fund that would allow event organizers to plan shows in the third and four…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:06PM[SHARE]On occasion I have conversations with co-workers and colleagues about how Covid-19 may change the general aesthetics of live performance in the future. For example: Will lingering concerns a…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:48AM[SHARE] 
