Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Thinking that free or discounted tickets will increase accessibility and loyalty is something of a pet peeve of mine. Yesterday I commented on a post Sean Kelly of Vatic made on LinkedIn whe…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:54PMA recent post from Colleen Dilenschneider and the folks at IMPACTS analyzes survey data that shows trust in cultural organizations has grown since the pandemic. Trust in cultural entities …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:32AMTuesday, July 9, 2024
The Western Arts Federation (WESTAF), the regional arts organization serving the western portion of the US turns 50 this year. They put out a series of videos on the history of the organizat…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:12AMTuesday, July 2, 2024
Seth Godin made a post a week or so ago about the need to track things that are really important, but invisible to us or transpire gradually. I sense there is something valuable for arts and…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:42PMMonday, July 1, 2024
Bloomberg had an article on a trend that presents an opportunity for arts and cultural organizations. In some respects it could be considered rather mundane news – Gen Z Is abandoning dati…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:32PMThursday, June 27, 2024
Here is something of a metaphoric lesson for arts and cultural organizations about changing the nature of the experience you offer to align with the needs and expectations of your customers.…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:32AMWednesday, June 26, 2024
I caught an interview on a National Endowment for the Arts’ podcast with Tyler Blackwell Curator of Contemporary Art at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky. Blackwell talks abou…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:03AMAmerican Theatre recently published a “Confidential Plan” written by Zelda Fichandler, founding artistic director of Arena Stage in 1968. Initially a memo written to the Arena Stage boar…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:03AMThursday, June 20, 2024
According to a recent piece on CityLab, smaller cities and towns have much in common with smaller non-profits when it comes to applying for grants. They both have great need but lack the s…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:54AMWednesday, June 19, 2024
Continuing from yesterday’s post about the Wallace Foundation’s evaluation of their five year audience building and sustainability initiative, In Search of the Magic Bullet, the best su…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:42AMTuesday, June 18, 2024
Last Monday, Ruth Hartt sent out an email newsletter noting that the Wallace Foundation’s five year, $52 million Building Audiences for Sustainability Initiative basically failed to identi…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:12AMThursday, June 13, 2024
Yesterday there was a report that the rate of violent crimes and some property crimes fell in the first quarter of 2024. However, that may come as weak comfort to urban based arts organiza…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:24AMTuesday, June 11, 2024
I saw an novel approach discussed for a concert by the BBC Philharmonic in Manchester, England where the concert is performed by the audience walking to the venue. Composer Huang Ruo’s C…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:12PMThere is frequently talk about how the availability of arts and cultural organizations and activities are frequently a quality of life element that attract employers to communities. I got a …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:24AMWednesday, June 5, 2024
You may have heard the disconcerting news that the 150 year old University of the Arts (UArts) in Philadelphia abruptly announced their closure last week, less than a year after Pennsylvania…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:18AMTuesday, June 4, 2024
Interesting story in Bloomberg about what some arts organizations are doing to resist being displaced by gentrification. The article focuses on Alma Weiser who formed Equity Arts as a Perp…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:54AMWednesday, May 29, 2024
An Associated Press story (via Artsjournal.com) reports on the success the NYC Ballet has had in attracting younger audiences. Not only has the average age dropped in the last five years, …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:12PMTuesday, May 28, 2024
One of the most common questions performers are asked after a show is, how do you remember all those lines? In a short piece on the MIT Press Reader site, John Seamon writes that the process…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:36PMThursday, May 23, 2024
Seth Godin had a post this week that serves as a good reminder to arts organizations to make your brand and experience distinctive so that audiences can’t substitute another’s experience…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:03AMWednesday, May 22, 2024
Yesterday, I mentioned some of the factors about membership/subscription benefits that Colleen Dilenschneider and the folks at IMPACTS identified as most motivating for different generations…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:42AMTuesday, May 21, 2024
Earlier this month, Colleen Dilenschneider’s team at IMPACTS released some interesting insights about what features of memberships and subscriptions most appeal to different groups. (subsc…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:42PMWednesday, May 15, 2024
There is a lot of concern these days about intellectual property rights. Artists don’t want their work copied, sampled, superficially reproduced, etc., and have someone else profit off it.…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:02AMMonday, May 13, 2024
I was somewhat amused by the story of a museum in Tasmania that had a lawsuit brought against it because one of its exhibits was intentionally designed to exclude those who did not identify …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:48PMThursday, May 9, 2024
Seth Godin made a post today that advocates for the value of the journey over the destination: TL;DR is defensive. Not simply because it defends our time, but because it defends us from chan…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:32PMWednesday, May 8, 2024
Rochester Institute of Technology (RTI) has a new building that puts creative spaces right next to each other. The Student Hall for Exploration and Development (SHED) has acting and and danc…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:54AMTuesday, May 7, 2024
I recently saw this TED talk by Kelly D. Parker, a marketing professional who calls herself a storytelling strategist. Her talk was on the power of storytelling and there were a number of …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:54AMTuesday, April 30, 2024
I know I have been citing Seth Godin a lot lately, but he has had a lot of posts that seemed relevant lately. One of his recent ones addresses how marketing is expected to do a lot of the li…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:54PMMonday, April 29, 2024
Over the course of the years, I have written on the practice of chopping up reviewer quotes and fitting things back together to make it sound like the critic enjoyed the show. It is called c…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:32PMWednesday, April 24, 2024
Seth Godin had posted on the 150th anniversary of Impressionism which is benchmarked from the April 15, 1874 art exhibition organized by a number of artists whose work had been refused by th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:42PMYesterday, the Western Arts Federation (WESTAF) sponsored a webinar on accessibility lead by Betty Siegel, Director Office of Accessibility and VSA at The Kennedy Center. Siegel was absolute…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:24AMTuesday, April 23, 2024
Seth Godin recently made an interesting post about non-profit fundraising, in particular the inefficiencies that exist in the process that can’t be fixed by technology, because it can, but…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:02AM 
