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Yesterday, the Western Arts Federation (WESTAF) sponsored a webinar on accessibility lead by Betty Siegel, Director Office of Accessibility and VSA at The Kennedy Center. Siegel was absolute…
Seth Godin recently made an interesting post about non-profit fundraising, in particular the inefficiencies that exist in the process that can't be fixed by technology, because it can, but r…
Around the start of the year, the group Crappy Funding Practices was created on LinkedIn. Vu Le who writes the Nonprofit AF blog had started calling out the problematic practices of funders …
h/t Artsjournal.com for linking to a really valuable article on Observer about considering creating a limited liability corporation (LLC) if you are an artist. I recently created a post …
I'm not really a big fan of improv, but I was intrigued by the concept of a show called The Worst Cafe in the World, which has transferred from Belfast to Off-Broadway this month. The show i…
Seth Godin often posts on the theme of generosity. Looking back at my past posts, I quickly came up with a handful I made about his discussion of the links between generosity, creativity…
I recently caught this story about an anthropologist at the University of South Florida (USF) who studied the impact of algae blooms in the Gulf of Mexico and was concerned no one would read…
Sort of dovetailing with my post yesterday about art and science nourishing each other, you may have seen that scientists have named a new species of gecko after Vincent Van Gogh. Yes, every…
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) posted a slightly longer than usual podcast episode a few weeks back with a conversation between NEA Chair Maria Rosario Jackson and US Census Burea…
Back in February I caught a broadcast of NPR's podcast show Code Switch where the episode was about the music that came out of or was inspired by Japanese internment. Artists like Kishi Bash…
I wanted to brag a bit on my staff today. For about a year now I have been talking about making our promotional materials and operational habits focused more toward attendees rather than inw…
Seth Godin recently made a post reminding us that even those who seem like they are well-established in their career as artists may not feel that secure. He cites an article on a recent docu…
Seth Godin made a post recently suggesting that the most effective persuasion occurs when we persuade ourselves. The purpose of the memo or the table or the graph or the presentation is to c…
Some pretty compelling evidence that we should be encouraging people to participate in arts and cultural activities with family and friends. Colleen Dilenschneider and the folks at IMPACT re…
A few years ago I wrote a post about how actors were discovering that how many followers you had on social media was being taken into account during casting decisions. Vox recently had an ar…
Last month Vox had a piece by Courtney Tenz about how to interpret art. It isn't the sort of article you can simply link a social media post to for your audiences to read. One of Tenz's core…
A nod to Erick Deshaun Dorris for the link to a Guardian article about how ticket resellers are leveraging the hatred being directed at Ticketmaster to manipulate legislation to their benefi…
The Chronicle of Philanthropy had an article written by the co-executive directors of the Building Movement Project (BMP) which focuses on non-profit leadership issues. I have been writing a…
I have been writing about the importance of providing audience focused marketing and experiences for a number of years now. These three links are just representative of the hundreds of p…
There was a really interesting article in Dance Magazine about artists using American Sign Language (ASL) as part of dance performances or to underscore movement in shows. One choreographer,…
Rainer Glaap, an arts administrator working in Germany reached out with an update about the publication of his second book whose title translates as Knitting Forbidden! The book covers laws …
This past Friday, February 23 marked the 20th anniversary of this blog. While Drew McManus often remembers the anniversary better than I do, I did recall the anniversary was coming up prior …
I was walking through a building lobby when I noticed a table with a pamphlet discouraging people from painting murals on their brick buildings. My first thought was that this city departmen…
Seth Godin recently made a post citing a Brookings Institution survey series that showed a decline in confidence in multiple institutions and companies since 2018.  Godin notes that s…
So hattip to Ruth Hartt who linked to a piece by David Taylor who argues that we shouldn't be linking the lack of music education in schools to diminishing audiences for classical music. He …
