Last month, I wrote about attending a session at creative industry conference where Marc Folk, Executive Director of The Arts Commission in Toledo, spoke about learning that one needs to go …
At my day job, we have been looking into the possibility of getting a new ticketing system. We have passed the RFP (request for proposal) deadline and are evaluating the submissions. One of …
Dan Pink tweeted a story by Art Markman on the Inc magazine site, “4 Things You Learned in School That Make You Less Creative.” I often talk about how artists and arts organizati…
Back in September, Seth Godin wrote a short post on the idea of doing one’s best. It’s a pretty easy way to let ourselves (or someone else) off the hook. “Hey, you did your…
So here we are on the crux of a new year. People start toying with the idea of changing their lives and perhaps their careers. What would you tell someone who wanted to enter your career abo…
Some years ago I wrote a “road less taken” entry encouraging people not to measure their worth against the progress others have made by quoting a passage from Joseph Campbell rec…
As I was looking back in my archives for some content to post about, I came across Dan Gioia’s 2007 commencement address at Stanford. He acknowledges there had been a little controvers…
I am traveling to see family for the holidays so I have a couple retrospective posts scheduled to cover my absence. If you are traveling or just have a little time off over the holidays, may…
Erm, I mean, I am featured on Goldstar’s Selling Out blog. A post with an interview they did with me went up online yesterday. I had a lot to say and I give them credit for includi…
About a week ago I was at a conference that was addressing creative placemaking and revitalizing communities. Mary Cusick from TourismOhio made a presentation on the new tourism campaign tha…
About a week ago, I think it was Dan Pink that tweeted a Harvard Business Review (HBR) article titled “Why Creative People Are More Likely to Be Dishonest.” I bookmarked it, but …
I was attending a creative industry conference today which gave me a lot to think about. One of the topics that came up was creative placemaking. Right now that is a big push for improving c…
I recently got around to reading the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP) special report on internships in arts fields. There is a lot of interesting findings in the 23 page report…
On my Twitter feed I got a link to an announcement that a documentary on Knight Foundation’s Random Act of Culture program won a regional Emmy. As I watched the first brief video where…
The most recent issue of Arts Management Newsletter has a translation of a piece written by Wolfgang Lamprecht about the death of corporate sponsorship. Citing the number of corporations dis…
I didn’t know about NBC’s recent live broadcast of The Wiz until it was over, and that worries me. It isn’t because I necessarily really wanted to see it. It’s the id…
I was reading about a woman who put her San Francisco home up for sale at 2005 prices with the condition that the buyer sign a “cultural promissory note.” Finally, they had to of…
Audiences today, they just don’t know how to behave! You have probably seen a lot of conversation on this subject crop up whenever something egregious occurs and makes the news or soci…
I was really interested to read how a coffee house in NYC was using conversational prompts in an effort to get customers talking with each other. It seemed quite similar to the program a Bra…
When you are eating Thanksgiving dinner with your family and you get asked when you are going to get a real job, or something to that effect, instead of trying to justify yourself with logic…
A topic I frequently like to write about is the misconception that artistic inspiration is the result of a lightning bolt moment rather than the product of long term effort. In the past, the…
Over on ArtsHacker, the contributors talk about what they are thankful for as arts managers. Often the spoken or unspoken source of gratitude is the fact that we still have jobs and that…
Last month I pondered if there was any worth in giving up a little time in the conservatory/university training of arts students in favor of providing instruction/experiences in career manag…
Hat tip to Carter Gillies who spotted a wonderful congruence between the posts both I and artist Whitney Smith made yesterday. Reading Whitney’s post, it almost feels like she wrote it…
Seth Godin had a post on entitlement versus worthiness a couple weeks ago. There was a lot in there to unpack and I am not sure I have wrapped my head around it enough to know if what he pos…