2,273 stories by "Joe Patti"
A couple weeks ago Aubrey Bergauer hosted a LinkedIn conversation with Karen Freeman from Advisory Board for the Arts (ABA) to discuss what mattered most to arts professionals as they sought…
A couple weeks ago I caught an NPR story about a group of strippers at a bar in LA who were working to unionize under the auspices of Actors' Equity Association. The dancers had been dis…
Keep your radio tuned and your ears open to your local NPR station for the next month or so, especially if you are a theatre professional. The network is doing a series over the next five we…
Since there is a bit of a cross-readership, many of you may have already seen that Drew McManus announced yesterday that he was going to cease posting regularly on the Adaptistration blog. D…
By some fortuitous coincidence, I was digging into my news feed backlog and read Seema Rao's Museum 2.0 post on guidelines for museum Tiktok accounts on the same day Ceci Dadisman put out an…
Perhaps it is just the availability of social media feeds and news aggregators to bring information to my attention, but it seems that art projects have been effective in bringing about soci…
So it appears that podcasts have turned into public radio's competitive advantage. According to a recent study, nearly 4 in 10 public radio listeners also listen to a podcast weekly with tho…
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 …
