Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Washington Post music critic Anne Midgette wrote a piece this week about the difficulties classical music outreach efforts face. (h/t Artsjournal) My first reaction was one of mild intrigue …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 03:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Arts Professional UK had a great piece on developing a customer relationship management strategy (CRM). It is chock full of great resources including case studies, guides on how to choose a …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 03:12AM[SHARE]Monday, January 14, 2019
If you have ever applied for a grant, especially from an entity or program receiving funds from the federal government, you have likely been asked to provide your organization’s DUNS (…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 12:59PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 9, 2019
I was excited to see Aubrey Bergauer posted a follow up to her original 2016 Orchestra X post regarding how the California Symphony was acting on the feedback it has received about the conce…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:54PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 8, 2019
Last month I made a post about the evolution of women’s restroom lounges resulting in a short, but interesting exchange about theater restroom facilities in Germany and Sweden.  …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:32PM[SHARE]Monday, January 7, 2019
I recently experienced a confluence of reminders that not all experiences with arts and culture result in positive responses people anticipated. I am not talking about works of poor quality …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 19, 2018
C4 Atlanta’s tweet of an Arts Professional UK story today made me growl in dissatisfaction.  (I got no beef with C4 Atlanta,that is just a long way of giving them a hat tip for …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 18, 2018
Recently over at Nonprofit AF, Vu Le talked about the problem of decision fatigue experienced by executives and other leaders. He mentions that his organization has been using an alternative…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:12PM[SHARE]Monday, December 17, 2018
There has been a fair bit of evidence that people are not generally aware whether the place they are having their entertainment experience is a non-profit or for-profit business. An experien…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 13, 2018
I have written a few times about the way people are organizing themselves in Giving Circles. It seems like an interesting approach to philanthropy because it is social and communal the way s…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Gene Tagaki at Non Profit Law blog tweeted about IRS guidance for non profits that are now faced with having pay to taxes on the parking they offer employees. If you didn’t know that y…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 11, 2018
I have written before about the ethics of geofencing since there are all sorts of questions raised about where data collection stops and stalking starts. One of the uses I had suggested migh…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 5, 2018
I just saw this article on NextCity about the Joffrey Ballet’s effort to “make a new American Nutcracker” by setting the story in Chicago during the 1893 Colombian Expositi…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:06PM[SHARE]Having been part of two theater renovations which had enlarging restrooms as a major focus of construction I read CityLab’s article on the history of women’s restroom lounges wit…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 03:48AM[SHARE]Monday, December 3, 2018
After long correspondence (both in years and text length), I finally had an opportunity to meet with Carter Gillies over Thanksgiving weekend. On at least one occasion I dubbed Carter &#…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 28, 2018
There seems to be a trend among museums in the Philadelphia area which sees value in the perspectives of non-traditional guides and voices. I have written about the Jawnty tours provided at …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:24PM[SHARE]Cyndi Suarez wrote a piece for Non-Profit Quarterly that bears considering as non-profit organizations make an effort to have the demographics of their staff and boards better reflect that o…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Earlier this Fall I had a friend who was relatively new to the business of presenting performances. An agent had rattled off a series of numbers as part of the performance fee deal an tourin…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 20, 2018
While I was at the Arts Midwest conference in November, Joanna Taft, Executive Director of the Harrison Center for the Arts, spoke about the “porching” culture that had developed…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:18PM[SHARE]When it comes to paying touring performers, there are all sorts of deal that can be made. The payment terms on those deals can get pretty confusing. There are a number of resources available…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 19, 2018
Almost by chance I came across a piece on Shelterforce from about two years ago relating how turning a community room in Harlem housing community into a gallery lead to the intentional inclu…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:04PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 15, 2018
It is no news flash to even casual readers of the blog that I am involved with Arts Midwest’s Creating Connection program to build public will for arts and culture. Last week, they ran…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 14, 2018
A couple years ago I was serving on a grant panel which made me aware of an arts and culture organization that was running “breakfast raves,” for lack of a better word. They were…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Back in September, Non-Profit Quarterly (NPQ) pointed to a new research study which has found overheard ratio is not a valid measure of organizational effectiveness. In fact, it there is a s…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 7, 2018
Seth Godin made a post earlier this week comparing Persistence with Consistent wherein he starts with the statement “Persistence is sort of annoying.” He goes on to talk about th…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 6, 2018
With today being Election Day you may be thinking about the need to keep dishonest and problematic people out of office…or at least keeping the more dishonest and problematic people ou…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:54PM[SHARE]Monday, November 5, 2018
Last month Mural Arts Philadelphia unveiled their first augmented reality mural, “Dreams, Diaspora, and Destiny.” Just like with my post last week about actors being pres…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 31, 2018
If we thought it was a problem that older arts administrators were resisting retirement and making it difficult for newer people in the field to advance and gain valuable skills, actors may …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:04AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 30, 2018
This month has been a reminder to me that people have all sorts of motivations for engaging with your performing arts organization–and often those motivations don’t have a lot to…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Earlier this week I wrote about the negative impact casino construction can have on the viability of performing arts entities in a region. I mentioned the steps a coalition of performing art…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Ceci Dadisman recently tweeted a PRI piece about University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology hiring Iraqi and Syrian refugees to act as tour guides in their Middle East…
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