Wednesday, October 1, 2014
My mother sent me a recipe for chocolate chip cookies today. This sort of thing has been going on for a few years. She has been finding these new cookie recipes which she swears are better t…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:40PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Do you ever sit in your office, thinking wistfully of the days when you were a kid and you would run around the playground, playing games and swinging on the swings? Do you think your audien…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:21PM[SHARE]Monday, September 29, 2014
Andrew Taylor tweeted today that he would be speaking about theater spaces this week in Taipei and linked to a video of the Taipei Performing Arts Center. At first I thought Andrew was going…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:23PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 24, 2014
I listened in on an National Endowment for the Arts webinar today that was billed as addressing arts education. But the reality was, the speaker, Richard Harwood of the Harwood Institute see…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:52PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Last Wednesday was Ask A Curator Day in which over 700 international museums participated, answering questions about their collections and museums in general. The effort reminded me of an ar…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:49PM[SHARE]Monday, September 22, 2014
At a loss about how to forge closer bonds between the community and your organization? Let them bake bread! Not only do you have the example of Bread and Puppet Theater, to inspire you but t…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Drew McManus is fulfilling one of my ambitions. When I was first starting out this blog, I envisioned creating some sort of repository of information about arts and arts administration that …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 06:23PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 16, 2014
It is fortunate that I am not often able to relate how I personally handled a crisis. However, we recently ran into a situation where we had a signed commitment for a show and the attraction…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:02PM[SHARE]Monday, September 15, 2014
If you are wringing your hands over the difficulty you are having attracting students to your performances and events, you are not alone– university football programs are having diffic…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 10, 2014
This story can’t be allowed to pass uncommented upon. Or at least, I feel the need to comment more extensively than did Thomas Cott when he tweeted this link. In a case of damned if yo…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Last week we were having a conversation to create a repair and replacement plan based on life cycle expectations for our performing arts facility. Of course, there are already a number of is…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:30PM[SHARE]Monday, September 8, 2014
I was really surprised to find my name tucked at the bottom of Barry Hessenius’ 2014’s Top 50 Most Powerful and Influential People in the Nonprofit Arts (USA) In fact, since I re…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:55PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 3, 2014
You may have seen this recent piece in The New Yorker on creativity. My state arts council linked to it and now I see multiple others have as well. Author Joshua Rothman asks, “How did…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:16PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Nod to Thomas Cott for calling attention to a post on TRG blog about Mission versus business models. I will cut right to the chase and say that I honed right in on their discussion of making…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:07PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Springboard for the Arts recently profiled Artists U, an artist lead, artist centered professional development and planning project. The project started in Philadelphia and has spread to Bal…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Two weeks ago my neighbors were gathered around their pool talking excitedly about doing the ice bucket challenge. One of the kids asked five or six times what ALS was throughout the convers…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:57PM[SHARE]Monday, August 25, 2014
I got recruited at the last minute to teach a public speaking class this semester. After a week, I have already started to make my problem their problem. I asked the students, in a time when…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Back in January, I wrote about some of the intriguing aspects of Netflix’s human resource policies. One of these policies was that they provide generous severance packages to people th…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:39PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Createquity may be in reruns right now while they reorganize, but they have great timing. Today they featured a post from 2011 which was something of a complement to the post about pricing a…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:12PM[SHARE]Monday, August 18, 2014
Seth Godin posted some thoughts about pricing that are worthy of consideration. The fact this post is about three times as long as his usual posts indicates the importance he places on the t…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 13, 2014
As immersive arts experiences become increasingly prevalent, there have been some interesting introspective reflections of the experiences recently in The Guardian and Irish Times. Both piec…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:58PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Non-Profit Law blogger Gene Tagaki recently tweeted a link to an article he wrote for the American Bar Association about 5 years ago urging lawyers to consider alternatives to forming non-pr…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:54PM[SHARE]Monday, August 11, 2014
It often seems one of the hardest things to do in the performing arts is to correctly anticipate audience interest in a show. Related to that is gauging the best way to market and position a…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 6, 2014
If you didn’t catch it, in June Non-Profit Quarterly had a good 101 guide on when it is appropriate for non-profits to take out loans.  Most times you hear about non-profits and …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:19PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Via Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution is a proposal put forth in the Stanford Law Review suggesting replacing board members with a professional board services company. When I first saw the …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:39PM[SHARE]Monday, August 4, 2014
Yesterday, I was speaking with a friend who was learning English as a second language. I don’t remember which word it was exactly, but we got on the subject of corporate speak, the nig…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 06:59PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Over the years I have written about the gentrification effect of artists in neighborhoods. While artists are often displaced as they make a neighborhood increasingly trendy, there have been …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:46PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 29, 2014
There was a post on the Harvard Business Review blog site about a recent leadership study – Why You Lead Determines How Well You Lead. According to the study, people with an internal m…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:15PM[SHARE]Monday, July 28, 2014
When you do a S.W.O.T. analysis for your organization (Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, Threats), Opportunities and Threats were where you listed external situations that could help or hi…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 06:49PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 23, 2014
A couple weeks ago, I encouraged others to take away my right to vote. Why? Because I am an ex-officio director on a board by dint of my position and during a recent review of the board̵…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:28PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 22, 2014
I almost passed by a recent post by Lucy Bernholz on Philanthropy 2173 blog titled What Are Non-Profits For? I’m glad I didn’t because her news that health clubs were challenging…
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