Tuesday, September 13, 2016
If you have been following my posts closely for the last couple months, you know the topic of the prescriptive value of the arts to fix various problems has been on my mind lately. Often we …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 05:04PM[SHARE]Monday, September 12, 2016
I am traveling to the Art Midwest Conference today where I will first take a seminar about using Google Analytics which Drew McManus promises will be akin to a heroic journey. Since I have i…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 7, 2016
You may have read about the surprising results of a National Endowment for the Arts survey on creativity that found a stark demarcation in creative activity that mirrored the traditional fre…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Yesterday evening I was hanging out at the local coffee house participating in a send off of an artist who has been creating murals for a public art project in the city for over 20 years now…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:24PM[SHARE]Monday, September 5, 2016
Given the Labor Day holiday and the fact that Wells Fargo seems to think kids need to set aside their childish artistic dreams for real career choices, it seems appropriate to do a post on i…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 03:09PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 1, 2016
There was a piece on the Dallas Morning News website about how the boards of various Dallas arts organizations were beginning to focus on greater diversity in their membership and accountabi…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:31AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 30, 2016
A book with an intriguingly different view on pretentiousness was recently the subject in the LA Review of Books. According to reviewer Barrett Swanson, Dan Fox, author of Pretentiousness: W…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:21PM[SHARE]Non-Profit Quarterly had a piece last week about an effort to “help” non-profits that is flawed on so many levels. An advertising company has created a site, Clickbait For Good w…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:02AM[SHARE]Friday, August 26, 2016
It can be difficult to communicate the different legal regulations that non-profits operate under in order to help people understand what your organization can and can’t do. Non Profit…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 25, 2016
This morning, The Atlantic published a story about The Plight of the Overworked Nonprofit Employee that addresses the conflict non-profits face between paying employees well and devoting fun…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Harvard Business Review had a short piece about a study that found that having a back-up plan often undermines one’s motivation to succeed. The interviewer specifically uses an exa…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:42PM[SHARE]Monday, August 22, 2016
I frequently write about why arguing the benefits of the arts based on their instrumental value (e.g. improves economy or test scores) is a bad approach because it depends on an absence of a…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:19PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Maria Popova made a BrainPickings post about Elliott Schwartz’s book, Music: Ways of Listening, about four years ago. The link to it just came to my attention recently. Popova notes, &…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:37PM[SHARE]A few months ago, I wrote about How Financial Statements Are Born, which explained how different financial statements were related to one another. A supplement to that is a How To Be A Finan…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Via Non-Profit Quarterly is a brief story about the Farm to Ballet Project which is taking agricultural themed ballet to about nine farms throughout Vermont this summer. (Their second season…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:24PM[SHARE]Monday, August 15, 2016
Our friends at the Non-Profit Happy Hour Facebook group shared the Furniture Bank’s Charity Overhead Manifesto. In the post, the Furniture Bank talks about how much damage resistance t…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 11, 2016
When it comes to Shakespeare, I feel like it is worth taking the time to sit and allow yourself to adjust to the language and rhythms rather than dismissing it outright as too impenetrable. …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:52AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Can a creative person afford not to attend to the business details and promotion/branding of their practice these days? Cal Newport, perhaps unwittingly, wades into the longstanding debate a…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:46AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 9, 2016
I am a little embarrassed that it hasn’t occurred to me to post about this sooner. Here on the old blogosphere, general Internet, at conferences, in coffee houses and on the street whe…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:21AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 3, 2016
Last week I made a post about “rebranding” overhead costs in other terms in order to get away from the associated stigma. Included in the post, I mentioned that a non-profit was …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 2, 2016
Last month, Americans for the Arts blog was printing excerpts from the writing of Robert E. Gard who primary focused on manifesting the Wisconsin Idea through theater and creative writing st…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:10PM[SHARE]Monday, August 1, 2016
The journal Nautilus had an interesting piece about the value of silence. The article starts out talking about how 100 Finnish marketing experts met to discuss how to promote the country for…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:39PM[SHARE]With an increasing number of people looking to make donations online, your organizational website has to perform many of the functions that an in-person or mailed appeal have performed in th…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 27, 2016
Ever since I first heard them mentioned during our state arts council’s grant panel discussion, I have been keeping an eye on the PorchRokr Festival up near Akron. The hook of the fest…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:53PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 26, 2016
FastCoExist recently continued its discussion about how a poor view of non-profit overhead cost is limiting the good such organizations can do by offering some “rebranding” sugge…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:21PM[SHARE]Monday, July 25, 2016
In a move that I like to see as reinforcing the importance of orchestra musicians in a time where their value is being diminished during contract negotiations, a long time supporter of the D…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Awhile back Barry Hessenius asked me to write a “What I Have Learned” essay for his blog. He noted that in the past he often featured similar pieces written by people who were ap…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:51PM[SHARE]We frequently read discussions about the need to communicate the differences between the business models of for-profit and non-profits. What there is less conversation about is the differenc…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 19, 2016
Since I seem to have started on a philosophical kick this week, how about we consider Richard Feynman’s “Ode To A Flower” commentary in the video below? You can also see it…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:16PM[SHARE]Monday, July 18, 2016
High Expectations of Cultural Experiences Last week I wrote about Ken Davenport’s admonition that an arts experience not exceed a person’s expectations by too large a margin. As …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Well here is a novel idea for funding an arts organization–using the proceeds from leasing space in storage vaults. The inspiration for building the largest underground storage vault i…
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