2,273 stories by "Joe Patti"
Hat tip to Drew McManus for reposting a link to timpanist Jason Haaheim's summary of his 13 part series on the value of deliberate practice. I figure Drew just reposted the link as bait to m…
Last week Shelterforce had an article about places around the country that are using arts and culture strategies as part of transit planning processes. They provide examples of projects in b…
About two weeks ago, I wrote about how England's National Theatre has been developing technology and processes to provide closed captioning glasses to audience members who may be D/deaf and …
Recently the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco published an issue of their Community Development Innovation Review (CDIR) focused on "Transforming Community Development through Arts …
A couple years ago I wrote a piece for ArtsHacker debunking the notion that anyone who was an ex officio member of a non-profit board did not have the power to vote. The fact is, they have t…
Last week Springboard for the Arts' Executive Director Laura Zabel addressed the concept of solving "arts deserts" in a series of tweets. But, please, let's not let this "arts desert" idea t…
A few years back I made a post addressing the assumption that ex officio positions on a board of directors were automatically non-voting. Spoilers: That is not the case. Apropos to that, I r…
Tyler Cowen shared a link on his Marginal Revolution blog about Hillary Hahn discussing daydreaming as a form of practice. The link went to blog post by Bill Benzon featuring a video of an i…
I don't know how I missed it on Vox.com, but Non-Profit Quarterly recently pointed out an article the site about the effectiveness of swag in non-profit fundraising. The TL:DR version is, ot…
It appears that concerns about how social class and wealth limit access to creative careers may be a hot topic of discussion in England these days. Via Artsjournal.com is a The Stage piece b…
Via Artsjournal last week was an article about the London Short Film Festival using glasses technology developed by the National Theatre to provide captioning to D/deaf and hard of hearing a…
So Drew McManus must be reading my mind, or at least my reading list. Yesterday I was reading an ArtsNet piece about an artist-in-residence program with the Philadelphia district attorney's …
Just before Christmas Non-Profit Quarterly called attention to a situation of some concern. Recently the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) overturned an administrative law judge's ruling…
If you want to see a good example of a show that is answering people's need to see themselves and their stories on stage, check out Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj. The show is on Netflix, but…
Back in October Sara Leonard made a blog post for Americans for the Arts about marketing in the context of the "false-consensus effect," the idea that your personal opinions, beliefs and int…
I wanted to give a little love and attention to the efforts of artists in Hawaii. As many readers know, I ran a theater in Hawaii for about nine years, presenting and producing a number of w…
Hey all. Dan Pink linked to a round up of education research that came out in 2019. There were studies on how good teachers were better than awards when it came to raising attendance rates; …
I neglected to note who had posted it on Twitter, but an article in The Economist about what the arts can teach business came across my feed today. One of the first examples was an exercise …
Last week Vox had a backstage video on the Metropolitan Opera production of Philip Glass' Akhnaten. What I loved about it and wanted to call attention to was the way in which they made eleme…
As the year comes to a close and you start attending parties hosted by different non-profit organizations, it may appear that the same people seem to be involved with every non-profit organi…
This week the National Endowment for the Arts posted the final recordings of works created for the NEA Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge. Last Spring, six works by seven high school stud…
As the world becomes more connected, rules and regulations governing conflicts of interest associated with geographic boundaries start to lose their relevance. Broader definitions and applic…
I recently saw an article on Arts Professional UK reporting that the governments of England and Wales would be opting out of the new creative thinking assessment section of the Programme for…
Historically, theater fires have been among some of the worst in terms of loss of life and property damage. Improvements in firefighting equipment and building design and construction have f…
Hat tip to Artsjournal.com for the link to a Guardian piece about a kabuki version of Star Wars. The adaptation (or at least the video available online) covered moments from the most recent …
