Thursday, 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 02:42AMArtsjournal.com linked to a story about Oakland Symphony’s tradition of social justice in the experiences and programs it has offered. One of the things that popped out at me though was in…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:42AMTuesday, March 30, 2021
Back in December, Advisory Board for the Arts featured a webinar on marketing the arts emphasizing emotional value to the community. Much to my chagrin, it took me until last week to get a p…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:06AMSaturday, March 27, 2021
Vox Recode provided some interesting insights into factors which will exist as people increasingly work from home. Some of the issues I had already anticipated like a move to a less permanen…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:06AMWednesday, March 24, 2021
Advisory Board for the Arts sponsored a webinar discussing how Utah Symphony shifted its marketing focus to emphasize emotional factors and shared values. Karen Freeman, Executive Director…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 04:07PMYou know, we talk about the ability the arts have to bring solutions to societal problems. There is one area in which I thought I would see a bigger contribution in the past year but didn’…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:03AMTuesday, March 23, 2021
If you have been looking at the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program information page as I have suggested, you may have seen it says the applications will open in early April, However, th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:48AMWednesday, March 17, 2021
Artsjournal.com linked to an article on Australia’s Arts Hub which looks at how the philosophy of “arts as a business” has undermined the arts in that country. The overall theme seemed…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:54PMTuesday, March 16, 2021
While I am pretty sure people are following the developments of the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program pretty closely and are probably getting regular updates from their state and indus…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:18PMFriday, March 12, 2021
It is pretty widely acknowledged that people who work for non-profits do so for intangible benefits like a feeling of contributing to the betterment of society and self-actualization rather …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:03PMWednesday, March 10, 2021
A few weeks ago economist Tyler Cowen discussed how he had taught chess when he was 14-15 years old. His regular clientele were two adults in their 50s and 20s and a child prodigy around 10-…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:54AMTuesday, March 9, 2021
A couple weeks ago I caught Thomas Wolf’s blog post about why Concert Companion, the hand-held device that offered commentary synchronized to the performance content, had failed to gain wi…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:42AMThursday, March 4, 2021
I saw an article containing an interview with choreographer Robert Moses that basically opens with Moses saying the conversations occurring regarding equity are addressing the wrong question…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:03AMTuesday, March 2, 2021
While I am sure a lot of performing arts venues have been closely paying attention to news about Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG) program designed to help arts organizations impacted b…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:42PMI visited a new exhibition presented by my local art museum this weekend. While I was wandering the galleries, I overheard a small group talking about their interpretation of the meaning of …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:36PMWednesday, February 24, 2021
Hat tip to Dave Wakeman for tweeting an insightful piece about marketing during Covid — Mine. What's interesting about reading this a year on is that there are a few organizations that fol…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:42PMThere has been an ongoing conversation in the visual arts world about the issue of an artist selling a work for $250, having it sell for $2500 five years later and then $25,000 five years af…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:24AMTuesday, February 23, 2021
I was reading a story about the earthquake that hit Christchurch, NZ ten years ago today which damaged large parts of the city. According to the article there was a significant effort by the…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:03AMThursday, February 18, 2021
Nod to Dan Pink who linked to a study conducted among German university students which found that when students were provided a question to consider while learning material or were asked to …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:03AMWednesday, February 17, 2021
An appreciative nod to Thomas Cott for calling attention to San Francisco Symphony’s adoption of dynamic typeface as part of an effort to shift perceptions about the organization. You ar…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:48AMMonday, February 15, 2021
So by now you have probably heard about the ill-advised job posting made by the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields which said they were “…seeking a director who would work not only …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:12PMWednesday, February 10, 2021
I am hoping that all of you who work at a performing arts venue in the United States are like me and have been getting seven or eight emails a week making you aware of a webinar on the Shutt…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:24PMTuesday, February 9, 2021
Advisory Board for the Arts had sent out a survey on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Access (DEI&A) efforts that non-profit organizations were undertaking. They released the results in …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:06PMA piece I wrote on diversity efforts in board recruitment appeared on ArtsHacker last week. I primarily drew the content from a piece Jim Taylor, BoardSource’s vice president of leadership…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:48AMThursday, February 4, 2021
Long times readers know that when I was living in Ohio I had a close relationship with a local group called the Creative Cult. We did a number of projects together and I participated in the …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:12AMWednesday, February 3, 2021
The upheaval of the past year in terms of public health, politics, social equity and other areas of concern have made it clear that a new operating environment will emerge, shaped by a chang…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 01:43PMThis week CityLab mentioned that the US Senate was working on funding a program to reclaim areas of communities displaced/demolished/bifurcated by highway projects as those roads are decommi…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:54AMTuesday, February 2, 2021
Back in December, Joseph Horowitz had a lengthy piece in The American Scholar about the impact of the pandemic on the arts in America. I may revisit the article in future posts, but there wa…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:18AMWednesday, January 27, 2021
Daniel Pink made a tweet today that I immediately bookmarked so I could go back to it. Good question to ask yourself on a Monday morning, whatever your position or role (and even if you're a…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:18PMA week ago I cited a couple of posts Seth Godin had made about leadership. I and other readers were taken by his statement that leadership is a voluntary, risky and creative endeavor. Since …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:18PMI came across a TED talk video on the importance of creative industries to national governments not five minutes after I had a conversation with staff on that very topic. Mehret Mandefro tal…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:18PM 
