Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Early in April you may have seen that Yellowstone National Park is celebrating its 150th Anniversary by offering an Inheritance Pass for $1500 with the catch that it can't be used for anothe…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:33PM[SHARE]Last month Marginal Revolution blog posted an excerpt of a piece by Adam Mastroianni about how grant funding is broken. I immediately hopped over to see what he had to say. While his pos…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 26, 2022
Last month, Coco Allred, a teaching artist in Philadelphia had a post on Americans for the Arts about President Biden's visit to one of the classes she teaches. She started out with the …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 20, 2022
I want to take the opportunity to call attention to an article in the NY Times this past Sunday focused on Zelma Redding, wife of the singer Otis Redding, Jr. The Otis Redding Foundation…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:36PM[SHARE]Yesterday we had David Grindle, Executive Director of USITT (United States Institute for Theatre Technology) , speak at my theater about "The Unseen Arts Economy." If you aren't familiar wit…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Scott Walters is a blogger I started following 15+ years ago. His work has gone through various focuses and iterations, but is always very interesting and insightful. He recently returned to…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 14, 2022
h/t to Isaac Butler who retweeted a somewhat horrifying thread written by author Brendan Koerner recounting how one of his Atlantic articles, two of his books and a WIRED piece he authored h…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Last week Aubrey Bergauer made the following post calling the attention of arts organizations to an annotated press release put out by the financial company Ellevest announcing their success…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:42AM[SHARE]Monday, April 11, 2022
A couple weeks ago there was an article in the L.A. Times about Artists Who Code, an organization created after the pandemic hit by two Broadway performers to help artists transition into ca…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 7, 2022
Apropos to my post yesterday about New York City requiring employers to list their salary range starting next month, I was happy to Vu Le's tweet about Washington State passing a similar law…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 6, 2022
Last month, The Art Newspaper reported that NYC would begin requiring all employers to disclose the salary range of jobs starting on May 15. Many saw this as a positive step for the arts wor…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 5, 2022
Last week Laura Zabel, Executive Director of Springboard for the Arts, has a piece on CityLab discussing the contributions artists can bring to pandemic recovery. She references a report iss…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 31, 2022
Colleen Dilenschneider made a post today providing data that shows people's tendency to stay home rather than seek cultural and entertainment experiences has increased over the last decade. …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 30, 2022
While returning from a grocery shopping trip on Saturday I heard this NPR story about an art project that is calling attention to the disparity in property taxes for black owned homes vs. wh…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 29, 2022
It seems the week to discuss Human Resource practices. Drew McManus posted the first in a series about the lack of good resources among orchestras to help address difficulties in the work en…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:03PM[SHARE]Friday, March 25, 2022
Drew McManus reposted a promotional Facebook video for Wichita Symphony Orchestra's (WSO) performance of "The Rose of Sonora" violin concerto. I thought it was a cool little video depict…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Last week Vu Le made a Twitter post alluding to the fact a lot of corporate leaders will shift to leading non-profits, but you basically never hear of a non-profit leader making a career tra…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:48PM[SHARE]A few months ago I came across a piece by Imogen Crimp which recounts her attempt to pursue a career in opera. Her story covers some pretty crappy experiences with conservatory instructo…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 17, 2022
I saw a social media post by Dan Pink today that linked to an NPR story about a program where doctors in Canada can prescribe spending time outdoors and have been provided year long passes t…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:33PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 16, 2022
On Hyperallergic today, Isabella Segalovich had a piece, 15 Things Museums Do That Piss Me Off . An avowed museum junkie, she lists what areas in which she would like museums to do a better …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 15, 2022
A month ago Ruth Hartt posted an image she grabbed from my venue's website on Twitter and complimented its presentation on a number of points: Brava on the diverse audience remark & I'd …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 9, 2022
You may have heard a short piece on NPR this past week about Peptoc, a hotline where you can hear encouraging words from kindergartners. Â Call a new hotline, and you'll get just that " e…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 8, 2022
You may have seen the story on American Theatre about the slew of people who took to TikTok to "audition" for St. Louis theatre, The Muny's production of Legally Blonde. I use the quote …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:12PM[SHARE]Monday, March 7, 2022
A couple weeks ago violinist Holly Mulcahy made a Facebook post about giving the manager at the Wichita, KS airport Enterprise counter her card which had a BOGO ticket offer printed on the b…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:48PM[SHARE]Friday, March 4, 2022
I didn't realize I missed posting yesterday until early this morning. Right now my team and I are really busy preparing for a concert which is being taped for PBS. This show, A Night of …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 2, 2022
Association of Performing Arts Professionals featured a webinar today reporting on the results of a survey they conducted about the state of the performing arts. Regrettably, I missed it but…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:37AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 1, 2022
The Marginal Revolution blog linked to a really interesting study on talent hoarding a practice in which managers prevent productive workers from seeking promotions. The study author, Ingrid…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 23, 2022
I am not sure how I came across the article, but this Fall I came across an interview on The First Peoples Fund website with master traditional folk artist Kevin Locke. In the course of the …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 22, 2022
It will probably come as no surprise to anyone running an arts venue that many attendees are over the mask wearing thing. At my venue, we actually had a more conservative mandatory policy fo…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:54PM[SHARE]I'm happy to say that things are starting to get back to a place where I feel like I can start blogging again. Hopefully it will stay that way. I really underestimated how difficult things w…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Apologies to my readers. The departure of some staff and absence of others has placed me in a situation where I can no longer post regularly. Hopefully this will resolve itself soon and I ca…
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