Category Archives: research

Around the horn: hello NYC edition

By Ian David Moss | Published: August 20th, 2010
Posting has been light around here lately because I am in the midst of another move. I am coming to the end of my official residence in Rhode Island, where I have been plying my trade and generally causing trouble for the last year or so. I’m moving back to New York to join the [...]
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Interview with National Arts Strategies

By Ian David Moss | Published: August 1st, 2010
While at the Americans for the Arts Half Century Summit in Baltimore last month, Dallas Shelby from National Arts Strategies caught up with me and interviewed me for a video series NAS is doing of “conversations with leaders from inside and outside the field, [which] are meant to inspire and challenge you to take a [...]
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We’re all in the same ocean, but not the same boat

By Ian David Moss | Published: July 25th, 2010
Crossposted from the Creative Rights & Artists discussion over at ArtsJournal last week. The prompt for this post was a challenge from ArtsJournal honcho Doug McLennan to nominate “the biggest policy threat or potentially transformative initiative currently facing our culture.” [...]  Thanks to all for the stimulating conversation. I think for me, the most exciting [...]
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Around the horn: Heat wave edition

By Ian David Moss | Published: July 22nd, 2010
As we’ve mentioned here a few times recently, nonprofit organizations are now required to file a 990-N “postcard” form with the IRS every year. The National Center for Charitable Statistics has helpfully compiled a “doomsday list” of nonprofits who have failed to meet the requirement even after multiple warnings and thus risk losing their tax-exempt [...]
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Around the horn: Founding Fathers edition

By Ian David Moss | Published: July 6th, 2010
I’m going to be on Rosetta Thurman‘s show on BlogTalk Radio next Monday, July 12 at noon EDT with Colleen Dilenschneider, a graduate student who is the author of a previously-unknown-to-me arts blog called Know Your Own Bone. I’ve been an admirer of Rosetta’s for some time and I’m excited to finally be sort-of meeting [...]
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Around the horn: World Cup edition

By Ian David Moss | Published: June 14th, 2010
Hi everyone. I’m headed to Atlanta tomorrow to catch the League of American Orchestras and Chorus America conferences. If you’ve enjoyed my recent posts on orchestras, please tune in to www.orchestrarevolution.org tomorrow for the live-stream of the “town hall” event and follow along on Twitter at #orch2010. (I’ll be helping to monitor the Twitter feed, [...]
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A Statistic that Every Arts Advocate Should Know

By Ian David Moss | Published: May 17th, 2010
When asked what career they would choose if finances were not a concern, a plurality of Harvard seniors chose the arts, with 16 percent indicating it as their “dream” field. Similarly large numbers of students chose public service (12.5) and education (12), while finance and consulting trailed with five percent each. This is from last [...]
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Want to work with me this summer or fall?

By Ian David Moss | Published: May 4th, 2010
My employer, Fractured Atlas, is hiring cultural and technology research interns. We’re looking for a few individuals with a background or interest in the arts who are prepared to merge for-profit business acumen with non-profit ideals.  These interns will work under the guidance of the senior staff to craft comprehensive business plans and software development functional specification [...]
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Around the horn: cliffhanger edition

By Ian David Moss | Published: May 3rd, 2010
Thank you to everyone who filled out the Createquity satisfaction survey last week. I’m still going through the results, but will have a wrap-up for you soon as well as a summary of what I’ve decided to do with what I’ve learned. In the meantime, it’s one more week of business as usual for Around [...]
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Around the horn: Around the horn edition

By Ian David Moss | Published: April 25th, 2010
Sorry about the light posting lately – I was traveling last week for work and “Around the horn” is about all I have time to write on weeks like that. Which brings me to a question for you all. About a year ago, when this blog had many fewer readers, I asked about whether the [...]
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