2,261 stories by "Joe Patti"
You may remember that back in 2012 voters in Portland, OR approved a $35 flat tax to benefit arts education in schools. The tax has survived a number of legal challenges, but according to a …
Over on ArtsHacker today, Ceci Dadisman wrote a post suggesting that the dreaded/derided QR code may be making a comeback thanks to improved functionality on Apple’s new iOS11. I have …
As a person who has lived and worked in rural locations, I read an article about the Catskill Mountain Foundation (CMF) on the Inside Philanthropy site with great interest. I thought som…
Last week I wrote about a blog entry Seth Godin made in January that examined phrases like “The purpose of society is to maximize profit” and “The only purpose of a company…
You haven’t been working in the non-profit arts and culture sector long enough or you haven’t been paying close enough attention if you haven’t heard/read someone say that …
Recently there was a new addition to the list of emergency preparation resources available to performing arts organizations. We have previously discussed ArtsReady which was created after Hu…
Telling a story in an interesting and compelling way ain’t easy. Sure, we all know that, but an article about efforts Chinese creatives are making to tell their own stories through mus…
Last month Barry Hessenius made a post that expanded on a concept proposed management guru Peter Drucker’s article, “Managing Oneself,” that I wrote on a decade ago. Drucke…
There was a very interesting piece on Current.org last week about just how many truck drivers listen to NPR in seeming contrast to the “"business leader," "educated lifelong learner" o…
Tyler Cowen featured a study on the Marginal Revolution blog noting that children in India couldn’t do formal math problems, but had no difficulty finding the solution when it was fram…
I was catching up on episodes of This American Life this weekend and came across a great piece that illuminates so many underappreciated elements of the creative process. They speak to Telle…
I have to give Brad Shear of the Facebook group Non-Profit Happy Hour a significant tip of the hat for calling attention some interesting information about the non-profit starvation cycle bu…
In the last couple weeks two arts service organizations have taken the arguably long overdue step toward establishing greater parity among their members. Last week at the Arts Midwest Confer…
If you are in the performing arts and your material assets suffer damage, be it natural disaster, leaky pipes or someone eating where they shouldn’t, you might not consider visual art …
I re-discovered an interesting story I had nearly forgotten about. You may be grateful when you go around with posters for your event and businesses agree to display them for free. At one ti…
Arts organizations are asked to create dozens of reports every year evaluating their programs to justify the funding they receive so you probably aren’t inclined to embark on an additi…
Does anyone know of a show, comic book, cartoon series, etc that is injecting classic literature/music/art, etc in a similar manner that Bugs Bunny cartoons had classical music soundtracks? …
I am off at the Arts Midwest conference this week, but as always have prepared some entries to cover my absence. I thought it would be appropriate to revisit part of a report that was issued…
Last week Americans for the Arts had a blog salon covering lessons learned from public art projects. As a person who is always interested in the process people went through to execute their …
I had mentioned before that I will be presenting part of a pre-conference professional development session at the Arts Midwest Conference next week. I was going to make a shameless plug for …
Non-Profit Business Advisor recently published a piece to make non-profit organizations aware of the potential problems related to having a lawyer serve on the board. Back in 2016 I provided…
My admiration of Zenpencils artist Gavin Aung Than continues to grow with his illustration of Berne Brown’s thoughts on personal creativity. Below are screenshots of the first few pane…
From the “why hasn’t this existed before” file is an article about staging intimacy with the same care employed with fight choreography. The fact I came across this mention…
There is often mention that if the performing arts want to be relevant, audiences need to see themselves and their stories on stage. More and more frequently I am hearing about projects like…
If you want some evidence about how quickly new technologies and methods of doing business are having an impact on our lives, check this out: In May 2009 I wrote about the potential legal co…
