Thursday, September 9, 2021
For Purpose Law Group posted the second installment of their "Nonprofits: What Not To Do," series yesterday. The first installment dealt with the infamous Indianapolis Museum of Art job post…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 8, 2021
Last week, Sunil Iyengar is the NEA director of the Office of Research & Analysis, penned a piece aligned with the occasion of Labor Day, commenting that the value of art often subtracts…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 1, 2021
Seth Godin made an interesting post that intersects somewhat with the questions arts organizations are having about putting content on digital platforms. Alas, I don't know that it provides …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Shelterforce posted a video and article about how the term gentrification manifests in different ways and thus doesn't always conform to the same definition in every community, leading to th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 26, 2021
On Friday one of my colleagues at work is flying to NYC to see Springsteen on Broadway, the show that re-opened earlier than pretty much all the others. She purchased the tickets months ago …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 24, 2021
Drew McManus has started a database of the different policies performing arts venues around the country have enacted. He started it last Friday and announced the 100th entry this morning…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:54PM[SHARE]As something of a dovetail to my post yesterday about Drew McManus' effort to compile a database of performing arts venue vaccination policies, (Drew reported a surge of new entries to the d…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 19, 2021
Washington Post reported an interesting development in the Washington, D.C. arts and cultural environment last week. The D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities asked the D.C. Council to …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:48AM[SHARE]Via Artsjournal.com is a FastCompany article by Amy Globus whose thesis is that Covid-19 gave the arts world the kick in the butt required to motivate it to think about how to leverage digit…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 17, 2021
Hat tip to Georgia Council for the Arts which posted a link to the Smithsonian article, Why Science Needs Art. The article focuses largely on marine life, but the basic gist is that ther…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 11, 2021
Laura Zabel, Executive Director of the awesome Springboard for the Arts posted a important Twitter thread on being mindful about the way you solicit creative work from the community. Are you…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:48AM[SHARE]According to CityLab Berliners are returning to the city's museums, with credit being given to free admission Sundays. Sixty-seven museums are offering free admission which is part of a …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 5, 2021
I had a post appear on ArtsHacker this week that dealt with the concept of rebranding. In the post I cite an article by Mark Ritson arguing for revitalization of a brand rather than rebr…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:32AM[SHARE]As I go about arguing against using measures like economic impact and test scores for valuing the arts, I occasionally get push back from people who note that for better or for worse dollars…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 3, 2021
For Purpose Law Group made a post on their site advocating shared leadership models for non-profits. They note that there is an increasing recognition that a hierarchical model with a so…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:48AM[SHARE]Monday, August 2, 2021
When things have been going poorly for an organization and they seek a fresh start, (perhaps upon emerging from a national epidemic), the impulse is often to rebrand. However, in a Marketing…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 11:45AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 29, 2021
Being a big proponent of libraries a radio story by Marketplace on the value of libraries caught my attention. Being an economics focused show, their analysis initially focused on return on …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 28, 2021
Something has been puzzling me lately and I haven't come any closer to figuring out the answer. I appears to me that when there is discussion about populations which are under-served by the …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:32AM[SHARE]Monday, July 26, 2021
An appreciative nod to Artsjournal which posted a piece by Shelly Palmer on how the use of non-fungible tokens (NFT) can enhance event ticketing security, improve the resale market, and pote…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:06PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 24, 2021
CityLab had an article about an art museum in Bologna, Italy which is using eye tracking to learn how visitors interact with works on display. In the process, the museum has learned unexpect…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:24PM[SHARE]Big news today from Actors' Equity Association the union which represents stage actors and stage managers. The union basically immediately opened membership to anyone who has ever worked…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:24PM[SHARE]I saw an article on CityLab about some pretty successful Open Streets efforts that rose up during Covid. If you aren't familiar with the concept, Open Streets is a national effort to tem…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:24PM[SHARE]Friday, July 16, 2021
Yesterday, economist Tyler Cowen addressed one of the dichotomies being recognized in the arts sector " the conflict between values of equity, fairness, diversity, etc., espoused in the arts…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:18PM[SHARE]Last week my organization was notified that we were being awarded funds for a grant we wrote to address the issue of blight in our community. The project was inspired by a comment a friend o…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:18PM[SHARE]The Americans for the Arts blog had an interview with an arts group that was flexing their skills to solve problems in their community. They spoke with Yin Kong, one of the founders of Think…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 7, 2021
I have noticed Drew McManus will get me riled up about an arts administration topic and then suggests I write an Arts Hacker post about it. Last week was no exception. Last Thursday he poste…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:03PM[SHARE]Looking at some storytelling resources I came across a related project I was unaware of. The Human Library trains volunteers to be "books" you withdraw to learn something about some taboo/pr…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 6, 2021
There has been a growing campaign internationally in the non-profit/charity sectors over recent years for employers to include a salary range when conducting job searches rather than utilizi…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 05:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 1, 2021
While everyone is waiting for their Shuttered Venue Operating Grant (SVOG) application to be processed, you should be taking a look at the National Endowment for the Arts American Rescue Pla…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 30, 2021
In an illustration of how arts and science can be mutually supportive, NextCity had a piece about an effort to train art teachers to teach girls to code. Code/Art was started by MIT grad…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 29, 2021
Back in March Harvard Business Review (HBR) had a piece on how marketing will change post-Covid. It is definitely geared toward commercial business and often oriented toward business to …
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