2,273 stories by "Joe Patti"
Shelterforce posted a video and article about how the term gentrification manifests in different ways and thus doesn't always conform to the same definition in every community, leading to th…
On Friday one of my colleagues at work is flying to NYC to see Springsteen on Broadway, the show that re-opened earlier than pretty much all the others. She purchased the tickets months ago …
Drew McManus has started a database of the different policies performing arts venues around the country have enacted. He started it last Friday and announced the 100th entry this morning…
As something of a dovetail to my post yesterday about Drew McManus' effort to compile a database of performing arts venue vaccination policies, (Drew reported a surge of new entries to the d…
Washington Post reported an interesting development in the Washington, D.C. arts and cultural environment last week. The D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities asked the D.C. Council to …
Via Artsjournal.com is a FastCompany article by Amy Globus whose thesis is that Covid-19 gave the arts world the kick in the butt required to motivate it to think about how to leverage digit…
Hat tip to Georgia Council for the Arts which posted a link to the Smithsonian article, Why Science Needs Art. The article focuses largely on marine life, but the basic gist is that ther…
Laura Zabel, Executive Director of the awesome Springboard for the Arts posted a important Twitter thread on being mindful about the way you solicit creative work from the community. Are you…
According to CityLab Berliners are returning to the city's museums, with credit being given to free admission Sundays. Sixty-seven museums are offering free admission which is part of a …
I had a post appear on ArtsHacker this week that dealt with the concept of rebranding. In the post I cite an article by Mark Ritson arguing for revitalization of a brand rather than rebr…
As I go about arguing against using measures like economic impact and test scores for valuing the arts, I occasionally get push back from people who note that for better or for worse dollars…
For Purpose Law Group made a post on their site advocating shared leadership models for non-profits. They note that there is an increasing recognition that a hierarchical model with a so…
When things have been going poorly for an organization and they seek a fresh start, (perhaps upon emerging from a national epidemic), the impulse is often to rebrand. However, in a Marketing…
Being a big proponent of libraries a radio story by Marketplace on the value of libraries caught my attention. Being an economics focused show, their analysis initially focused on return on …
Something has been puzzling me lately and I haven't come any closer to figuring out the answer. I appears to me that when there is discussion about populations which are under-served by the …
An appreciative nod to Artsjournal which posted a piece by Shelly Palmer on how the use of non-fungible tokens (NFT) can enhance event ticketing security, improve the resale market, and pote…
CityLab had an article about an art museum in Bologna, Italy which is using eye tracking to learn how visitors interact with works on display. In the process, the museum has learned unexpect…
Big news today from Actors' Equity Association the union which represents stage actors and stage managers. The union basically immediately opened membership to anyone who has ever worked…
I saw an article on CityLab about some pretty successful Open Streets efforts that rose up during Covid. If you aren't familiar with the concept, Open Streets is a national effort to tem…
Yesterday, economist Tyler Cowen addressed one of the dichotomies being recognized in the arts sector " the conflict between values of equity, fairness, diversity, etc., espoused in the arts…
Last week my organization was notified that we were being awarded funds for a grant we wrote to address the issue of blight in our community. The project was inspired by a comment a friend o…
The Americans for the Arts blog had an interview with an arts group that was flexing their skills to solve problems in their community. They spoke with Yin Kong, one of the founders of Think…
I have noticed Drew McManus will get me riled up about an arts administration topic and then suggests I write an Arts Hacker post about it. Last week was no exception. Last Thursday he poste…
Looking at some storytelling resources I came across a related project I was unaware of. The Human Library trains volunteers to be "books" you withdraw to learn something about some taboo/pr…
There has been a growing campaign internationally in the non-profit/charity sectors over recent years for employers to include a salary range when conducting job searches rather than utilizi…
