Wednesday, June 16, 2021
So like me, you may have been driving home Monday night and heard an interview on NPR conducted by host Mary Louise Kelly with poet Tess Taylor discussing art as civic repair. Taylor talks…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:42AMTuesday, June 15, 2021
Links to a study examining the validity of claims about the efficacy of the arts in solving issues of health and well-being came across my Twitter feed today. The study authors, Stephen Cl…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:24AMTuesday, June 8, 2021
Video came across my social media last month about the litter picking samurai of Tokyo. These theater performers call attention to the trash dropped in the streets of the city to generate …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:54PMAmong the biggest questions I have when it comes to creating a presence for my organization on a social media platform are: 1- Is it worth/appropriate for our organization to present in this…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:54PMThursday, June 3, 2021
We ran into an unanticipated complication of the Covid epidemic last week. You may have heard that cars are engineered to operate more efficiently at highway speeds because engines get hot e…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:54PMLast week Vu Le made a tweet that revealed a very troubling picture of corporations misunderstanding how non-profits operate and work that they do. This seems to be the “non-profits should…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:54PMThursday, May 27, 2021
Daniel Pink posted a link on Twitter about a study performed by the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University which revealed people have a misperception about when they are mos…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:06PMYou may recall that back in 2010 the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) was permitted to put a property tax up for vote on an election ballot to ensure a source of financial support. In return …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:06PMApropos to my post yesterday about giving yourself time to generate creative innovation Seth Godin made a post today about sunk cost fallacy, practice and creativity. The point he makes is…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:06PMThursday, May 20, 2021
Apropos to Monday’s post on Jargon vs. Lingo, a link came across my social media feed yesterday featuring an interview with Anand Giridharadas by Mariana Mazzucato, a professor at the Univ…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:54AMWednesday, May 19, 2021
Nod to Artsjournal.com for posting David Rohde’s examination of how viewing new ticket buyers as donors immediately after their attendance experience is extremely detrimental to arts organ…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:48PMTuesday, May 18, 2021
Seth Godin made a short post last week about the difference between Jargon vs. Lingo. Its brevity seems to make a clear case, but it leaves a ton of important considerations unsaid. Jargon i…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:24PMThursday, May 13, 2021
Grateful hat tip to the Arts and Management Technology Lab at Carnegie Mellon University for calling attention to Blob Opera, a fun little experiment on Google Arts and Culture. It introduce…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:18AMSo it appears Howard Sherman gets first mention a second day in a row on my blog (not that he doesn’t deserve it). He called attention to the fact the production The Lion King on Broadway …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:18AMTuesday, May 11, 2021
So much appreciation to Howard Sherman for his commentary on Twitter last week about a statement by the Broadway League that re-opening Broadway meant the return of a dormant industry. A sho…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:24AMThursday, May 6, 2021
Last week Colleen Dilenschneider released recent findings compiled by her colleagues at IMPACTS Experience about audience willingness to return to cultural organizations. By and large, mask …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:42PMWednesday, May 5, 2021
Last week Drew McManus encouraged arts marketers to break pre-Covid bad habits by renewed his plea to stop using cliched terms like “beloved.” If you read his post closely you will not…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:06AMTuesday, May 4, 2021
So here is something to keep on your radar and consider the long term implications – Activision Blizzard, one of the biggest names in video gaming, donated $25 million to the University …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:42AMThursday, April 29, 2021
Equity in funding decisions has become a hot topic of late. Last week on the Americans for the Arts blog, Krista Terrell, Acting President for Arts & Science Council of Charlotte/Meckl…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:54AMWednesday, April 28, 2021
During the Covid pandemic there has been a fair bit of introspection and soul searching about arts and culture, the role they should have in people’s lives, and the medium through which th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:42AMTuesday, April 27, 2021
Hat tip to Vu Le at NonProfitAF for posting a link on social media to an essay on Medium comparing Maslow’s Hierarchy of Need to the Blackfeet Nation’s similar concept. Maslow had live…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:12AMThursday, April 22, 2021
Following the link tweeted by Ava Wong Davies got me to a lengthy blog post by Tim X. Atack about things that need to change in theatre post-Covid. I will initially engaged by his insisten…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:42PMWednesday, April 21, 2021
Last week I saw this tweet from Aksana Khan stating that England based Arts Emergency, where she works, often asks employers to rewrite their job listings before they will forward the ad onw…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:18AMAn article on FastCompany recently caught my eye that suggests a company in Sweden is helping to solve a big problem in collaborative virtual concerts. One of the big impediments has been ge…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:18AMThursday, April 15, 2021
I saw on FastCompany that Live Nation is wiring some of their venues for livestreaming and wondered what, if any impact it may have on the way performing arts venues operate in the future. T…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:54AMEconomist Tyler Cowen had a rather extensive conversation with poet and former NEA Chair, Dana Gioia, on a plethora of topics. The one that most quickly grabbed me was right out of the gate …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:54AMA few years back I became interested in research that showed that Black, Latinx, and Hispanic people who lived near public parks don’t necessarily feel comfortable using them so a CityLab …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:54AMThursday, April 8, 2021
Drew McManus tweeted today that he was two resumes submissions away from being able to launch the candidate resume feature on the Arts Admin Jobs site. So if you are looking for a job, or lo…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:18AMWednesday, April 7, 2021
In case you missed it, somethings to keep an eye on over the next two years or so are the guaranteed income program for artists that have been established in St. Paul and San Francisco. Th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:48AMTuesday, April 6, 2021
When I saw this story over the weekend, it seemed like it was absolutely inevitable that an intersection of trends toward authenticity and audience participation in cultural experiences. In …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:42PMThursday, April 1, 2021
Over on The Chronicle of Higher Education, Eric Hayot suggests that humanities subjects have a marketing problem. Because students are oriented on the utility of degree programs to career …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:42AM 
