2,241 stories by "Joe Patti"
A month ago Ruth Hartt posted an image she grabbed from my venue's website on Twitter and complimented its presentation on a number of points: Brava on the diverse audience remark & I'd …
You may have heard a short piece on NPR this past week about Peptoc, a hotline where you can hear encouraging words from kindergartners. Â Call a new hotline, and you'll get just that " e…
You may have seen the story on American Theatre about the slew of people who took to TikTok to "audition" for St. Louis theatre, The Muny's production of Legally Blonde. I use the quote …
A couple weeks ago violinist Holly Mulcahy made a Facebook post about giving the manager at the Wichita, KS airport Enterprise counter her card which had a BOGO ticket offer printed on the b…
I didn't realize I missed posting yesterday until early this morning. Right now my team and I are really busy preparing for a concert which is being taped for PBS. This show, A Night of …
Association of Performing Arts Professionals featured a webinar today reporting on the results of a survey they conducted about the state of the performing arts. Regrettably, I missed it but…
The Marginal Revolution blog linked to a really interesting study on talent hoarding a practice in which managers prevent productive workers from seeking promotions. The study author, Ingrid…
I am not sure how I came across the article, but this Fall I came across an interview on The First Peoples Fund website with master traditional folk artist Kevin Locke. In the course of the …
It will probably come as no surprise to anyone running an arts venue that many attendees are over the mask wearing thing. At my venue, we actually had a more conservative mandatory policy fo…
I'm happy to say that things are starting to get back to a place where I feel like I can start blogging again. Hopefully it will stay that way. I really underestimated how difficult things w…
Apologies to my readers. The departure of some staff and absence of others has placed me in a situation where I can no longer post regularly. Hopefully this will resolve itself soon and I ca…
Ruth Hartt got a bit of a kick from the post I made last week where I termed her use of stock video footage and other clips to create an video marketing piece as a "Franken-Ad." She tagged m…
Vu Le posted this week about a well-observed phenomenon he termed "Outsider Efficiency Bias."Â He defined this as basically having an outsider like a consultant come in and be lauded for …
Dan Pink shared a link to a study that was conducted on perceptions of the most effective way to ask others for help comparing face-to-face, audio/phone, video (ie Zoom), and text (SMS, Emai…
American Theatre released results of a survey about virtual theatre offerings during Covid this week. Respondents represent 64 organizations from 25 states. As you might already imagine, the…
On Museum 2.0 Seema Rao asks why museum educators are so undervalued in the context of a question she was asked about the difference between a Sip and Paint session and a class on marbling t…
Last month, Trevor O'Donnell directed his readers to a post by Ruth Hartt discussing how to market the arts in a way that focuses on solving the "problems" people have rather than focusing o…
Somewhat in line with my post yesterday about the growing number of basic guarantee income programs for artists, Artsjournal.com had an interview with the mayor of Toronto, John Tory, about …
Nod to Laura Zabel who tweeted a story about the guaranteed basic income for artists pilot program being started in Ireland. The plan is to provide €325/week to 2000 artists. This …
I have been following Lucy Bernholz, a self-described philanthropy wonk, for ages it seems. She writes the blog Philanthropy 2173 and is a senior researcher at Stanford's Center on Philanthr…
A couple weeks ago Hyperallergic had an article that was a critical of museums who had received Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funds meant to keep people employed, but instead ended up la…
Dan Pink pointed to a study (warning, ad heavy page) that suggests while office interruptions may be disruptive to one's workflow, it ultimately creates a sense of worth and belonging for pe…
I have often viewed my professional career as having moments where I build on general ideas and concepts from earlier positions, but adapted to suit the local community. I am always wary of …
In writing posts I often draw on examples from commercial enterprises and other types of non-profits to provide interesting ideas or lessons that my primary audience of arts and culture prof…
I was really disappointed last Friday when I read that Arts Midwest would be pausing their conference. I have a hard time believing it will gear up again in the future. If you aren't awa…
