AFTA Convention Wrap Day 4

My final day in Seattle began with a “peer group” session called Meet the NEA that was really another panel. I wasn’t able to catch the entirety of it, but the panelists did say that the agency would take a “hard look” at the policy around individual artists (it should be noted that the EndowmentRead More

AFTA Convention Wrap Day 2

Wow, you guys are eager beavers all of the sudden in the comments! I think I approved more this week than I did the entire summer last year. Glad to see that the content is engaging you. The first official day of the AFTA Convention was great – the discussions have mapped extraordinarily well toRead More

AFTA Convention Wrap Day 1

It’s late, so I’ll be brief. Seattle is very, very pretty. Went to the Creative Economy: By Design advance workshop today to learn about creative community building with Meri Jenkins, Tom Borrup, Craig Dreeszen, and Maren Brown. Here were the major notes and takeaways for me: Some startling statistics: in Massachusetts, attendance at arts &Read More

Around the horn: convention edition

Later today, I’ll be off to Seattle for the Americans for the Arts Convention, and will be live-blogging and -tweeting my experiences there as time and internet access allow. W00t! Recession blues roundup: JazzTimes is no more (at least for now); The Ford and Robert Wood Johnson Foundations are offering buyouts to 33% and 40%Read More

On the Arts and Sustainability

As I get ready for the 2009 Americans for the Arts Annual Convention, Renewable Resources: Arts in Sustainable Communities, and prepare a panel session on the creative economy for the 2009 Net Impact North America Conference, Advancing Sustainable Global Enterprise: Changemakers, Innovators, and Problem Solvers, I’ve been doing some thinking on what “sustainability” means forRead More

New Blogs!

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 communitiesRead More

Lessons I Learned in Business School (Or, My Humble Attempt to Save You $150k)

I really didn’t know what to expect when I came to business school in the fall of 2007. I had lived my whole post-college life in the nonprofit sector, and most of that time was spent hanging around musicians. I was brought up by two ex-hippies who, shall we say, did not exactly fit inRead More

Around the horn: real world edition

My lesson for this week: sometimes, taking four and a half classes off of your schedule doesn’t necessarily make your life any less busy. Not sure if that says more about my classes or about me. Either way, here’s your roundup for the first week of June: On the heels of my income-sensitive ticket proposal,Read More

More on income-sensitive tickets

I was pleased to see that Wednesday’s post on income-sensitive tickets got some traction, as it was picked up by You’ve Cott Mail, Parabasis, and smArts & Culture (“revolutionary”? You guys sure know how to make a blogger blush!). At the end of my post, I noted, I realize that there are some potential holesRead More

New Blogs!

If I’ve learned nothing else in the first half of this year, I’ve learned that the arts policy blogosphere and its related universe is far more vast than I once imagined, and growing all the time. If you’re a regular reader of this blog, take note: these folks are all your friends and colleagues too.Read More