2,241 stories by "Joe Patti"
Last week I received an email from Arts Midwest noting that September 9-18 is Welcoming Week, an international effort to provide a welcoming experience at all levels. This includes governmen…
Last week Hyperallergic ran a piece asking why the New York Department of Sanitation (DSNY) with a budget of $1.9 billion was asking artists to submit proposals to decorate their trucks for …
Always happy to draw attention to the good work of arts organizations, I was pleased to get a comment on yesterday's post about creating contests and engagement events which expect artists t…
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 int…
Occasionally 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…
Gene 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…
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 effort…
Andrew 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 b…
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…
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…
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 doe…
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…
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 gri…
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 program…
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 clear,…
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.…
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.…
Recently 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 …
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…
As 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. One …
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 partici…
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…
American 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 t…
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 unli…
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…
