Guaranteed Income For Artists Spreading by Joe Patti

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 …

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:12pm on November 2, 2021☆⚑

All That Is Philanthropy Is Not Gold by Joe Patti

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…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 5:06pm on November 2, 2021☆⚑

How Arts Orgs Used Relief Funding Is Beginning To Be Examined by Joe Patti

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…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 9:12am on October 28, 2021☆⚑

When It Comes To Work, What Is The Cost-Benefit Between Lethargy And A Sense Of Belonging by Joe Patti

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…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 2:48am on October 27, 2021☆⚑

Didn't Happen As Envisioned, But It Came Out Much Better by Joe Patti

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 …

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 8:32am on October 26, 2021☆⚑

I Hope No Arts Organization Is Doing Anything Close To This by Joe Patti

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…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:24am on October 21, 2021☆⚑

Concerning Trend With Regional Booking Conferences by Joe Patti

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…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:12am on October 20, 2021☆⚑

Who Gave You Your First Break? by Joe Patti

Tweets responding to UK based Arts Emergency's new campaign were filling my Twitter feed today. I have written about them a couple times before. They are essentially focused on cultivating t…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 9:54pm on October 13, 2021☆⚑

Composer Was A Rock Star Of Their Day? Rock Stars Aren't Even The Rock Stars Of Today by Joe Patti

I often read about classical music composers being the rock star of their day, but don't often get a lot of detail about what that meant. I just happened upon an article in Lapham's Quarterl…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 9:36pm on October 12, 2021☆⚑

Maybe The Cult Rules Aren't As Important As We Thought by Joe Patti

Seema Rao at Museum 2.0 shared notes from a session she conducted at the Museum Computer Network conference last week titled "Are Museums A Cult?" The answer, as I am sure you have anticipat…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 9:18pm on October 11, 2021☆⚑

Bach Is Raking It In On Spotify by Joe Patti

h/t to Alex Tabarrok who posted about a Classicfm.com story on how much money classical music composers would make from Spotify streams of their music. Using the estimate figure of $0.0037 (…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 7:36am on October 7, 2021☆⚑

An Orchestra Where You Don't Have To Read Music? Depends On Who Is Invited To Play by Joe Patti

H/T to Artsjournal.com which included an article about the Philadelphia Public Orchestra, (PPO) being billed as the World's First Public Orchestra. The way the article describes it, this is …

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 7:24pm on October 6, 2021☆⚑

"Feels Like A Luxury To Feel Valued" by Joe Patti

Last month, NextCity had something of a preliminary update on the guaranteed income for artists programs in San Francisco, CA and St. Paul, MN I wrote about last April. Both programs started…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:42am on October 5, 2021☆⚑

Your Programming Is More Inclusive, But What About Giving Opportunities? by Joe Patti

Hat tip to Artsjournal.com which featured an article that seems to indicate it is better to diversify the donor base rather than continue to ask the same pool of donors to give more.  The…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:54am on September 30, 2021☆⚑

Do Me A Favor And Get The Word Out? by Joe Patti

Seth Godin recently made a post where he noted that while at one time asking someone for a favor involved a personal, one-to-one appeal, email lists and databases have made it easy to make a…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 4:36am on September 29, 2021☆⚑

How Much More Tolerance Left For Crushing Summer Internship As Career Starter by Joe Patti

When I was an undergraduate, and even after I graduated college, I applied to work at the Williamstown Theater Festival, one of the most prestigious summer theaters in the country. Recent re…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:18am on September 28, 2021☆⚑

I Wish I Was Going With You Approach To Customer Service by Joe Patti

This morning I attended a brand reveal for a Marriott hotel slated to open half a block from my venue in/around January. This particular collection of hotels is highly customized to the comm…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 2:32am on September 23, 2021☆⚑

Visitor Expectations Of Proof of Vaccination? " Not Yet, But Maybe Soon by Joe Patti

People working or closely aligned with arts organizations know that a central topic of conversation in recent weeks is whether to require proof of vaccination for audiences. Drew McManus has…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 8:18pm on September 22, 2021☆⚑

Advocacy Gameshow Is Now Documentary, But Will People Still Think Of Fundraising As A Competition? by Joe Patti

You may have seen last week that CBS quickly shifted directions when their planned show to pit activists against each other in a game show like competition drew extremely negative responses …

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 7:54pm on September 21, 2021☆⚑

Enters Stage Right, Wearing Mask by Joe Patti

There have been a lot of stories about shows re-opening on Broadway and how important that is to the economy of NYC. While I haven't read everything single article, one that appeared on Bloo…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 5:42am on September 16, 2021☆⚑

There Is A Lot Of Grand Out There by Joe Patti

My day job is Executive Director of The Grand Opera House in Macon, GA.  Around the end of the 19th century and early part of the 20th century, it was vogue to name theaters as Grand Oper…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:32am on September 15, 2021☆⚑

When You Actually Want Your Sidewalk To Fall To Disrepair by Joe Patti

More great stories of artists being part of infrastructure projects, this time from a Next City article that came out last week. I have written about these type of projects before and one of…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:48pm on September 13, 2021☆⚑

Maybe I Should Have Held Out For A House, Too by Joe Patti

For Purpose Law Group posted the second installment of their "Nonprofits: What Not To Do," series yesterday. The first installment dealt with the infamous Indianapolis Museum of Art job post…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 9:06am on September 9, 2021☆⚑

Forgetting Artists Bring Value To The Art by Joe Patti

Last week, Sunil Iyengar is the NEA director of the Office of Research & Analysis, penned a piece aligned with the occasion of Labor Day, commenting that the value of art often subtracts…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 2:48am on September 8, 2021☆⚑

Sometimes You're The Wind, Sometimes You're The Weathervane by Joe Patti

Seth Godin made an interesting post that intersects somewhat with the questions arts organizations are having about putting content on digital platforms. Alas, I don't know that it provides …

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:24am on September 1, 2021☆⚑