Around the horn: World Cup edition

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,Read More

A Statistic that Every Arts Advocate Should Know

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 lastRead More

Want to work with me this summer or fall?

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 specificationRead More

Around the horn: cliffhanger edition

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 AroundRead More

Around the horn: Around the horn edition

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 theRead More

Live Place + Displaced webcast today

This afternoon from 2-4pm, I’ll be participating in the webcast of a conversation about community change in Long Island City as part of Fractured Atlas’s Place + Displaced program. Place + Displaced is a community cultural mapping and civic participation project that is engaging with several New York City neighborhoods in different stages of gentrification.Read More

Am I going to have to do these twice a week now?

I really hope not, because otherwise this site will start to become very boring. But sweet Jesus, there is so much going on this week that if I wait until Sunday to blog it all out for you I fear it will be next Sunday before I’m done. Let’s hope things start to quiet downRead More

Around the horn: John Paul Stevens edition

Everybody’s talking about unpaid internships. Scott led things off railing against the injustice, Isaac follows up with posts here and here basically agreeing, 99 says interns should just suck it up, Adam Thurman warns against the dangers of getting addicted to free labor, Guy offers a perspective from internships in the software industry (where myRead More

Around the horn: Lazy Sunday edition

The carnage continues for state arts agencies: now Arizona is on the chopping block, as the Arizona Commission on the Arts faces another 25% loss from a state appropriation that already declined by more than half last year. Worse, the state has enacted a “sweep” of a $10 million endowment fund that was supposed toRead More

Around the horn: Bart Stupak edition

As a reminder, feel free to submit tips for “Around the horn” via the Createquity Tipster, now in convenient spreadsheet format! For the next three weeks, UNESCO is holding an international email discussion on “Funding Culture, Managing the Risk,” leading up to an in-person symposium on April 16-17 at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The discussionRead More