Monday, April 15, 2019
I am always up for spreading around awesome ideas that people execute. I wanted to give a shout out to my old collaborators, at the Creative Cult. They have been involved with all sorts of c…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 10:32PMWednesday, April 10, 2019
Something I thought might be interesting to readers. The City of Douglas, GA has issued a request for proposals (RFP) to purchase and run a historical theater. You don’t see this that …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 08:18PMHate the fact that your city will provide millions to fund an arena that only gets used 20 times a year but not arts organizations that each host hundreds of events a year? Concerned that th…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 08:18AMTuesday, April 9, 2019
While I have written about this before, of late it seems that the decision to accept a donation from someone is increasingly one requiring deliberation. An article on The Conversation lays o…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 01:42AMWednesday, April 3, 2019
One arts marketing phrase I have always hated, and thankfully I seldom see it these days, is “…illustrates what it means to be human..” I often dislike the rationale that something tel…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 08:21PMTuesday, April 2, 2019
Okay, a little break from my weighty opining on the value and philosophy of art. I caught this on the Forbes site recently. All Nippon Airways (ANA) has employed kabuki actors to appear in t…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 07:34PMMonday, April 1, 2019
Last month there was an article in Forbes about the benefits of field trips and arts education. It started out in a way I dislike, discussing test scores and neurological development as if a…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 07:20PMThursday, March 28, 2019
So given the context of all the deserved gushing over a North Bergen, NJ’s stage version of the movie Aliens with a $5,000 budget and recycled materials, Ken Davenport’s suggestion tha…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 02:24AMTuesday, March 26, 2019
I was half listening to a TED Talk given by Amanda Williams where she spoke about turning abandoned homes in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago into art. She would check the city’s regi…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 08:06PMMonday, March 25, 2019
Often when we talk about arts and cultural organizations applying for grant funding, there is mention of how organizations might try to recast what they are doing in a context that makes it …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 07:48PMWednesday, March 20, 2019
Watching the latest webinar on the Creating Connection initiative from ArtsMidwest, I am pleased to see the progress that is being made. The Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs ha…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 11:24PMTuesday, March 19, 2019
If you haven’t seen it already, it is worth reading Joanna Jones’ piece on Medium about how the Oakland Museum of California developed and then abandoned their social impact statement. O…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 10:36PMMonday, March 18, 2019
It has only been in recent years that a message of embracing and talking about our failure has been part of a public conversation among arts and cultural organizations. I am not sure how man…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 10:12PMWednesday, March 13, 2019
In a literal case of one person’s trash is another’s treasure, New York Times had a piece about museums grading the works in their collection to decide what to liquidate. It has long b…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 08:24PMTuesday, March 12, 2019
There is a lot of conversation about the need for people to see themselves and their interests reflected in arts and cultural experiences if arts and cultural organizations were going to rem…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 10:08PMMonday, March 11, 2019
This past weekend, Artsjournal.com had a number of articles on the benefits of the arts. One in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette asked if Mozart could make you a better runner. The basis of the a…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 07:42PMWednesday, March 6, 2019
Four years ago, I wrote about how the government of India, in an attempt to end public defecation by 2019, was building over 1 million toilet facilities in households around the country. How…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 08:58PMTuesday, March 5, 2019
I was really excited today when, out of the corner of my eye, I saw the headline, “Diversity organisation celebrates placing 1000th paid intern.” The concept that some entity was able to…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 07:40PMMonday, March 4, 2019
Seth Godin had an interesting post recently challenging the notion of passion preceding the decision to commit. “Offer me something I’m passionate about and I’ll show up with all of my…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 07:21PMWednesday, February 27, 2019
Americans for the Arts had a post on their blog last week that hit a lot of the right buttons for me. Steve Sanner and his partners have the Jiffy Lube franchise for Indiana. He writes about…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 06:55PMTuesday, February 26, 2019
I frequently urge people not to focus on the value of the arts in terms of economic impact on the community. Not only do the arts bring other forms of value to the community, but what is fre…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 06:55PMMonday, February 25, 2019
Thanks to Drew McManus for remembering that Butts In The Seats turned 15 this weekend. Hard to believe I have been writing for 15 years now. Hopefully readers have found the content worthwhi…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 07:21PMNon-Profits Pay Taxes On Unrelated Business Income Just because your organization is tax exempt doesn’t mean everything you do is exempt from taxes. There are a number of activities that r…
Linked From artshacker.com at 03:00AMWednesday, February 20, 2019
Check out this visual storytelling piece on CityLab about the history of libraries in the US. As arts and cultural organizations struggle with the question of inclusion of under-represente…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 06:58PMMonday, February 18, 2019
For a long time when people offered advice to those hoping to be actors, they would say something along the lines of, “No matter how talented and good looking you are, there are 10 oth…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 10:54PMThursday, February 14, 2019
I frequently urge people to be careful about making statements regarding the benefits of arts on educational outcomes so I am happy when I read about some rigorously conducted studies that p…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 02:32AMWednesday, February 13, 2019
As we come up on Valentine’s Day, a little reminder that there are a lot more ways to say, “I Love You,” than speaking those specific words. A couple years ago Gavin Aung T…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 02:06AMMonday, February 11, 2019
Okay, so I promise I am not seeking out articles that discuss the problems with depending on quantitative metrics to determine effectiveness and value. They just keep falling into my lap. Th…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 07:48PMI recently attended a webinar conducted by John Taylor of John H. Taylor Consulting providing updates on IRS rules on acknowledging charitable giving. Neither Taylor nor I are lawyers and th…
Linked From artshacker.com at 05:41PMThursday, February 7, 2019
Recently there have been some conversations around my organization and town in general about whether it is worthwhile to try to bolster an existing endowment. People have mentioned that ther…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 12:04AMTuesday, February 5, 2019
Friend o’ the blog, Carter Gillies recently had a piece appear in the Arts Professional UK noting some of the problems with focusing on the instrumental value of the arts. One of the i…
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