Well, that didn’t take long. One week after I “finished,” and I already have four great new sites to share with you. Ain’t the internet grand? <100k ProjectThis is the blog of Scott Walters’s <100k Project, an innovative effort to bring resources for and awareness of artists and arts organizations to small and rural communities [...]
This one will have to be quick because I’m leaving on a plane to California in a few hours. Busy, busy, busy! The Hewlett Foundation has finally released phase two of its Youth in the Arts report, conducted by Barry Hessenius. This edition used focus groups of young arts professionals to explore the implications of [...]
So, as I’ve mentioned a couple of times here, Isaac Butler of Parabasis has done the first part of a close reading of RAND Corporation’s recent publication State Arts Policy: Trends and Future Prospects. He stopped after page 9 a couple of weeks ago, so I’m not sure if he’s planning on continuing, but I’m [...]
Hello from balmy Philadelphia, where I’m liveblogging from the 2008 Net Impact North America Conference hosted by the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Net Impact is an umbrella organization founded about 15 years ago to be an organizing force for business school students interested in social impact. The organization has grown to a [...]
As a final epilogue on NPAC before it completely disappears from our memories (the official blog is already looking pretty dead), and in the spirit of contributing constructively to the discussion, I thought I’d share how I voted among the choices that were given to us at the final AmericaSpeaks town hall meeting/caucus session, and [...]
What is with the arts field’s obsession with the Got Milk? ad campaign? I feel like every time the subject of an ad campaign or slogan comes up, Got Milk is immediately referenced–it’s practically the Godwin’s Law of arts marketing. At NPAC, I apparently wasn’t the only one to groan when I learned that the [...]
Great article and more fuel for the fire beneath the long long simmering, never quite finished arts stew: how to align the...
As a former director of museums and board member of several arts groups and now consultant – my perspective is less...
Look, if I was the CFO of a big company, and I had a vendetta against the arts, I would love the emphasis on economic...
Nina, there are potentially lots of ways to do this and I’m not trying to say this is the best. However, the...
Interesting concept, but I don’t think this would necessarily yield useful comparative results. As one of the...