Around the horn: redeye edition

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 ofRead More

Deconstructing Richard Florida

The Rise of the Creative Class was one of the most influential – and hotly debated – books of the past decade. Was all the fuss worth it?

New Blogs!

Here are this week’s newly added blogs….enjoy! Carolyn JackCarolyn Jack is principal of Cleveland-based consulting firm The Genius Group and former arts editor for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. There are some really interesting creative-economy-related doings taking place in the Cleveland area right now, and Ms. Jack is right in the middle of it. Her blogRead More

Calling all arts policy geeks!

I’m submitting a proposal to organize two panels at the 2009 Net Impact National Conference at Cornell University in November. This event draws thousands of students and professionals annually (last year’s edition in Philadelphia attracted 2400!) and it’s a major driver of the national conversation about business and social impact. I’ve made it my missionRead More

Around the horn: Bake sale edition

Last weekend, I visited NYC and checked out some new music concerts for the first time in a while. The first, on Friday night, was the first-ever New Music Bake Sale presented by Newspeak and Ensemble de Sade, a raucous affair with five hours of music, well over a hundred attendees, tables for different organizationsRead More

I have a confession to make.

It’s true: I participated in the infamous unfinished performance of Nathan Currier’s Gaian Variations at Avery Fisher Hall exactly five years ago today. I was there, on stage, when Harold Rosenbaum calmly closed his music folder, turned around, bowed to the confused audience, and walked off stage, four movements before the piece was supposed toRead More

New Blogs!

Here’s this week’s crop of newly added blogs….enjoy!Creative Class ExchangeIf you’re reading Createquity and don’t know the name of Richard Florida, then you have some catching up to do. The celebrity professor is the originator of so-called “creative class theory” and now teaches at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. This is theRead More

Around the horn: OMG I’m almost done! edition

I realized late last week that I haven’t yet posted about the classes I’m taking in this, my final half-semester at Yale School of Management. Two are carrying over from earlier in the semester: my Recording Arts class in the Sound Design program at the Drama School, and my nonprofit law clinic in which weRead More

Ten Strategies for Engaging Generation Y in the Nonprofit Workplace

In the week since I posted my thoughts on compensation of support employees in the nonprofit sector, the entry has been Facebooked, LinkedIn, Twittered, re-blogged, and emailed to the point that it is now the second-most-viewed Createquity post of all time (and fast gaining on the leader, Got Milk?). It’s no coincidence, I suspect, thatRead More

New Blogs!

Today we proudly welcome four new contenders to the blogroll. To be clear, I’m adding these in roughly chronological order from when I discovered them and I have a substantial backlog, so if you don’t see yours on the list yet, don’t be offended! CEOs for Cities CEOs for Cities is a very cool-looking organizationRead More