Thursday, January 14, 2021
The National Endowment for the Arts has released their “Art of Reopening” guide. Looking through it, it doesn’t substantially differ from other re-opening guides about which I have wri…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 05:24AMTuesday, January 12, 2021
I was talking with an agent for some Broadway show tours this week in order to get a sense of what things might look like for productions in Fall 2021/Spring 2022. I was intrigued to learn…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 10:54PMMonday, January 11, 2021
Research has shown that offering free admission doesn’t lead to an increase in participation by new audiences. In most cases those that are attending are the people who normally attend, …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 10:32PMWednesday, January 6, 2021
Advisory Board for the Arts just sent out a summary of four takeaways about what motivates arts donors based on interviews conducted this past November and December.. While this post is goin…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 08:42PMNPR story came across my social media feed yesterday about how the Cherokee Nation has prioritized giving the Covid vaccine to those who are fluent in the Cherokee language. I sought out a…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 02:24AMTuesday, January 5, 2021
Last year (December 31, so technically) I had a post on Arts Hacker taking a look at the work LaPlaca Cohen and Slover Linett Audience Research had done interpreting the Covid edition of the…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 02:03AMThursday, December 31, 2020
In mid-December 2020, LaPlaca Cohen and Slover Linett Audience Research released an analysis of the data they collected in the Covid edition of the CultureTrack survey through the lens of ra…
Linked From artshacker.com at 04:17PMThursday, December 24, 2020
Yesterday Drew McManus released another episode of his Shop Talk podcast where he speaks to Kenji Bunch and Jenny Bilfield about artistic elitism. I was listening to it while painting one of…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 03:54AMTuesday, December 22, 2020
Friend o’ the blog, Rainer Glaap shared a video link to a session lead by Elliott Bruce Hedman, Head Design Researcher at, mPath an organization that researches how consumers engage emotio…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 09:18PMI didn’t properly record the source, but last week someone tweeted a link to the LEGO Foundation’s document, Creating Creators, which has the subtitle: “How can we enhance creativity i…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 09:18PMSunday, December 20, 2020
A little bit of amplification of my local community today. Next City ran an article on the Mill Hill artist village that is developing in one of Macon’s original neighborhoods, Ft. Hawkins…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 02:18AMWednesday, December 16, 2020
An article on Daily Yonder making an interesting point came across my social media feed last week. They noted that part of the reason why rural communities are characterized as being in de…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 12:36AMTuesday, December 15, 2020
A number of arts organizations like the one I run as my day job, have started focusing on programming that is locally and regionally sourced since drawing on artists from a greater distance …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 12:18AMWednesday, December 9, 2020
In my post Monday I was wondering what influence Covid might have on dance choreography given the visual range of cameras, etc. Tuesday morning I woke up and saw a link on Artsjournal.com to…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 10:32PMTuesday, December 8, 2020
Big thanks to Rainer Glaap who sent me a link to a news report that Germany has created a $2.5 billion cancellation fund that would allow event organizers to plan shows in the third and four…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 10:06PMOn occasion I have conversations with co-workers and colleagues about how Covid-19 may change the general aesthetics of live performance in the future. For example: Will lingering concerns a…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 03:48AMThursday, December 3, 2020
I have a post on ArtsHacker today encouraging people to really think about what message their promotional photos are sending as we hopefully will start to move out of Covid restrictions. Art…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 08:12PMWednesday, December 2, 2020
The Atlantic ran an article about how museums are having to deal with questions about equity and representation in their programming that are posed by both external and internal constituenci…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 07:32AMEven pre-Covid the general guidance for promotional images and text was to focus on the audience experience. Regardless of whether the venue you perform/show your work at is allowed to open,…
Linked From artshacker.com at 03:00AMTuesday, December 1, 2020
Via Daniel Pink is a Harvard Business Review (HBR) article that suggests asking for advice rather than feedback. On the surface this may sound like a distinction without a difference, but …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 01:24PMThursday, November 26, 2020
I saw a social media post this week that said something to the effect of: “Let’s admit that back in 2015 we all failed to correctly answer the question, ‘Where do you see yourself in f…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 11:24AMWednesday, November 25, 2020
I may owe some apologies to Drew McManus because I would have never expected that a podcast about the classical music industry would provide one of the best discussions about the complexitie…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 05:03AMMonday, November 23, 2020
If you are pondering how to create new “entries” for participation with your organization for a broader, more diverse audience, survey results summarized in a Hyperallergic article might…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 10:32PMThursday, November 19, 2020
Michael Rushton is singing my song. Today he posted a critique of using economic impact as a measure of the value of the arts. It is “quick and dirty” as he says, so it won’t take much…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 02:33AMWednesday, November 18, 2020
Seth Godin made a post on his Medium site last week about persistence. Whenever I see posts praising persistence I always start to philosophize about how one knows the line between construct…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 02:18PMTuesday, November 17, 2020
Maybe we should be keeping an eye on Tulsa Opera. Back in August I wrote about a film that was screened in my venue about Tulsa Opera’s casting a transgender person as Don Giovanni. A coup…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 01:54PMFriday, November 13, 2020
Last day in my series this week covering the UNESCO document, Culture in crisis: Policy guide for a resilient creative sector. Big thanks again to Rainer Glaap for calling attention to it. A…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 12:24AMTo continue where I left off from yesterday’s post about the UNESCO document, Culture in crisis: Policy guide for a resilient creative sector, the next section addresses providing support …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 12:24AMTuesday, November 10, 2020
Very big THANK YOU to friend of the blog Rainer Glaap who sent me a link to an UNESCO document, Culture in crisis: Policy guide for a resilient creative sector. At this point I think I am go…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 11:24AMWednesday, November 4, 2020
I recently came across an article the LA Review of Books on the book The Death of the Artist: How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech by William Deresi…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 09:18PMTuesday, November 3, 2020
I am not saying anything new when I note that there are a lot of arts organizations which are incapable of taking much action due to Covid related legal restrictions or lack of resources. My…
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