Thursday, January 12, 2012
Artsjournal.com had a link to a story on ArtSeek about the difficulty arts organizations in the greater Dallas-Ft. Worth area were having finding arts managers. A good many positions are goi…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:07AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 11, 2012
While at the Arts Presenters conference, I learned that Wesleyan University has a certificate program in Curatorial Practice in Performance. My first thought was to wonder if there was reall…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:03AM[SHARE]Monday, January 9, 2012
I have been attending the Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP) conference this past weekend. I am sure I will have more to say on the subject in future entries, but I wanted to p…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:56PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Looking back at some old posts, I really started to think about the conflict of market forces and education. I was reading an old post that cited Tony Kushner’s proposal to eliminate t…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:16PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Back in 2005, I wrote about a study by the Urban Institute dealing with attendance at cultural activities. Looking back at the study, The Diversity of Cultural Participation, I am still a li…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 05:50PM[SHARE]Monday, January 2, 2012
My suggestion for a 2012 resolution to all my readers out there is a musical one. The words of They Might Be Giants, “Whistling in the Dark.” There's only one thing that I know h…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 05:27PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Apropos to the recent aggregation of articles on You’ve Cott Mail about diversity in the arts, I wanted to point back to a post I did a few years ago about the pressures of protecting …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 05:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 27, 2011
I had nearly forgotten about this arts education resource. Back before I started using the “Info You Can Use” tag I came across Annenberg/CPB Arts In Every Classroom series on te…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:12PM[SHARE]Monday, December 26, 2011
I hope everyone had a wonderful and restful Christmas yesterday. As I understand it, today is the seventh day of Hanukkah. And of course, we are just in the beginning of the 12 days of Chris…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:45PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 21, 2011
By the time you read this, I should hopefully be at my sister’s house teasing my nephews. Fear not loyal readers, for I have scheduled a series of posts according to my usual publishin…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:55PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Arts Orange County Executive Director, Richard Stein, recently linked to a study his organization commissioned about how art organizations were acknowledging the rise of Professional-Amateur…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:54PM[SHARE]Monday, December 19, 2011
I will admit that one problem of which I have often been aware is that it is difficult to make everyone at my theatre aware of the myriad forms of relationships different people have with us…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:43PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 15, 2011
H/t Daniel Pink who linked to a story about a “Disloyalty Card” being used by independent coffee shops in Singapore. If you go to one of 8 coffee shops and pick up a card, go to …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:43AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 14, 2011
You may have read Kurt Andersen recent piece in Vanity Fair noting that fashion, art, design and culture in general hasn’t really changed much in the last twenty years. Or maybe like m…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:25AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 13, 2011
I may be beating a long dead horse here but last week the National Endowment for the Arts linked to a NY Times article from their Twitter account asking what people thought. The article in q…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:09AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 8, 2011
So the big tragedy of non profit arts organizations is that while we are the champions of creativity, we don’t really provide all our employees the most conducive environments for bein…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 7, 2011
I was starting to write up a draft of a press release for a show we will be doing in the Spring, First Person: Seeing America. Probably the best way to describe it is as a live documentary. …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:25AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Thanks to Ken Davenport’s post on the subject, I discovered the bill to facilitate crowdfunding I wrote about at the end of October is nearing approval. The House (H.R. 2930) approved …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:23AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Those who have been reading for a number of years may recall that I have been on an advisory committee for the performing arts portion of a community center the Salvation Army is building wi…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:24PM[SHARE]The subject of paying interns has been in the news fairly frequently. This summer I noted that while non-profits are currently exempt from some of the rules of the Fair Labor Standards Act, …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:34AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 29, 2011
On the Marginal Revolution blog, Tyler Cowen has a short post about a psychology professor who requires his students take turns bringing a homemade snack in to each class. If they don’…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:10AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 24, 2011
I usually don’t do thanksgiving themed posts but I have been feeling really energized by some recent occurrences I wanted to acknowledge. -First, I have recently realized just how valu…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 03:47AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Hat tip to Thomas Cott at You’ve Cott Mail for making us aware that attempts to attract younger audiences through special pricing may be a form of age discrimination. The D.C. Office o…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:26AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 22, 2011
I try a fair number of the strategies/techniques that I cover here. Some work better than others. For example, for the last seven performances we have tried just asking two questions in our …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 17, 2011
It seems discussion of non-profit mergers is becoming more prevalent of late. I recently became aware of a research document created by Wilder Research and MAP for Non Profits looking at wha…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 16, 2011
I was speaking about arts careers at a high school career day today. The high school had been really good about sending out information packets with suggested topics to cover with the studen…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:09AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 15, 2011
One of the biggest topics of discussion these days is about engaging audiences. Often during these discussions, people talk about the way things used to be when audiences weren’t expec…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:41AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 10, 2011
I have been on a few board-staff retreats and have always been a little skeptical about whether any significant change will come from them. Admittedly, in some cases some small changes have …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:58AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Apropos to my post yesterday about standards for arts marketing personnel is today’s a review of arts organizations’ online marketing efforts. Drew McManus unveiled his 2011 Orch…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:17AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Thanks to Tim Roberts at Arts Research and Ticketing Service Australia who recently linked to UK Arts Marketing Association’s new Arts Marketing Standards. The standards outline what a…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 3, 2011
I just got around to reading up on some of the new granting program initiatives the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has recently announced. In the interests of correction right from the sta…
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