Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Final day of observations on last weekend’s Society for Arts Entrepreneurship in Education (SAEE)Â conference. The Terms We Use Matter Some of the best observations about teaching s…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:26PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 20, 2015
As promised yesterday, today I am going to continue discussing my observations from attending the Society for Arts Entrepreneurship in Education (SAEE) conference this weekend. I think it be…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:06PM[SHARE]Monday, October 19, 2015
This weekend I attended the annual conference of the Society for Arts Entrepreneurship in Education (SAEE) at Ohio State University. Even though my university doesn’t have arts entrepr…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:59PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 14, 2015
When conversations about demand based pricing for the performing arts comes up, there is often a comparison made to the airlines and the way they factor in dozens of variables when they pric…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:55PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Recently I have been seeing more stories about shared use of public buildings. In Bremen, Germany, the city philharmonic is sharing space with students in a local school building. In Clevela…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:36PM[SHARE]Monday, October 12, 2015
The first segment of this week’s This American Life episode offers proof that marketing departments everywhere run up against the same challenges, regardless of whether they are in the…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 06:58PM[SHARE]Recently what has been the perceived role of a board of directors has shifted from fundraising to governance and fiscal responsibility. I say perceived because legally governance and fiscal …
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Over the last few days you may have read about how the inmates at New York’s Eastern Correctional Facility beat Harvard University’s top ranked debate team. It caught my attentio…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:56PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Back in July I came across a blog post titled, “When the Audience Phones It In,” which bemoaned all the recent incidents of audience members using phones and other electronic dev…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:44PM[SHARE]Monday, October 5, 2015
Some encouraging news coming from Pacific Standard in support of the growing trend to focus on participatory arts experiences over simple attendance. According to the results of a new study …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:05PM[SHARE]Do I Really Need Directors and Officers Insurance? You may hear about Directors and Officers Insurance (D&O) and think only really large non-profits that deal with hundreds of millions o…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 30, 2015
I was curious to know how many people out there have advisory boards/committees that are not part of the governing board. If you have one, what has your experience been? The reason I ask is …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:25PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 29, 2015
This past summer there was an article on Vice.com about award-winning chefs who have been interning or volunteering at other restaurants, farms and with food scientists in order to pick up n…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:02PM[SHARE]Monday, September 28, 2015
A guest post today. Barry Hessenius asked if I would spread the word about study being conducted by the Knight Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation and WESTAF who are looking into the ways in …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:54PM[SHARE]If there is one thing people hate, it is long, protracted board meetings. It may well be one of the factors keeping you from establishing a quorum at meetings. One of the easiest solutions i…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 23, 2015
There was a recent post on the Priceonomics blog about the creative and artistic practice of scientists. According to a recent research study, It seems avocational creativity discoveries of …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Arts organizations, and really any business, need to be cognizant of different environmental factors that may impact them. It is relatively easy to predict (or blame) the impact of the econo…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:25PM[SHARE]Monday, September 21, 2015
Slate had an article last month about schools in North Carolina that were flipping the museum field trip. This is based on the concept of a flipped classroom where you do all the reading, vi…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:45PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 17, 2015
Often when the concept of Professional-Amateurs or the capability of everyone to be creative comes up, there is a feeling of resistance that rises up among arts professionals. The study on c…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:31AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 16, 2015
For some time now the perception that a non-profit with a high overhead cost was inefficient has provided a disincentive for non-profit organizations to figure out the true cost of their pro…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Yesterday when discussing the Arts Midwest study that is the basis for the effort to build public will for arts and culture, I briefly referenced the finding that promoting authenticity of e…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:24PM[SHARE]Last week I attended the Arts Midwest conference in Kansas City, MO. From what I saw of the city, it can still lay claim to the appellation, “Paris of the Prairie.” The Helzberg …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:58AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 9, 2015
If you have been reading my blog for any span of time, you will know that I have a particular interest in stories that show, to paraphrase Edison, Creativity is 1% inspiration and 99% perspi…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 06:22PM[SHARE]Apropos to my post last week about the value of college fine arts requirement classes, someone on my Twitter feed posted a link to a Huffington Post article about why you shouldn’t dis…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:27AM[SHARE]Friday, September 4, 2015
A few years back Ellis Carter made two helpful posts on her Charity Lawyer Blog about what to Include and Exclude from Non-Profit organization bylaws. The exclude list may be the more valuab…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 3, 2015
I just realized this week that one of the hurdles the arts needs to surmount to attract younger audiences may be steeper than assumed. One of the issues people identify as a point of anxiety…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 03:09AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 1, 2015
I guess because it is the beginning of the school year, a number of online media outlets are devoting some space to talking about the value of different college classes in one’s life. …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:28PM[SHARE]Monday, August 31, 2015
Lately I have been seeing many uses of technology aimed at influencing people to drive more considerately and safely. There is a GPS system that will start to give directions in a child̵…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 27, 2015
You know how you are supposed to check the batteries in your smoke detectors every time we go on or off daylight savings time? It may be worth having a similar rule for checking your intelle…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:21AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 26, 2015
About two years ago, Non Profit Quarterly (NPQ) had a piece discussing the external influences on non-profit organizations. There are quite a number of external forces that exert pressure on…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, August 24, 2015
Last week I wrote about the trend among employers to monetize the apparent happiness of employees. One of the examples I provided was a job listing requiring people to be passionate about cl…
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