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November 20, 2009
Cultural Workforce Forum
The National Endowment for the Arts is hosting a Cultural Workforce Forum today, from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm Eastern, and has opened the event to the public through a live webcast. You can login and listen in here:Cultural Workforce...
November 18, 2009
My chat with Bill Ivey
As part of this fall's special topics course I'm co-teaching at UW-Madison -- Arts Enterprise: Art as Business as Art -- we hosted a public forum and a class discussion with Bill Ivey, Director of the Curb Center for Art,...
November 16, 2009
Rent, buy, build, or borrow
When a for-profit enterprise wants to build its capacity to do something (manufacture a product, launch a new service, provide a new option for their clients, or the like), they face a classic business question -- should we rent the...
November 13, 2009
Is our fundraising writing wrong?
Many arts organizations work really hard to craft the perfect fundraising message in their letters, their brochures, and their online communications. They strive for strong evidence that what they do makes a difference, they anguish over the specific words they...
November 10, 2009
Arts policy, reconsidered
UPDATE: We've just posted a 20-minute podcast interview with Bill Ivey online. The video of his public presentation will come later.If you're in or around Madison, Wisconsin, this Thursday, November 12, consider coming by the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art...
November 6, 2009
Oh, the power(lessness), the absolute power(lessness)
If you're getting tired of 'top 20' lists of people who are richer, smarter, more attractive, better connected, and more interesting than you are, the folks over at Hyperallergic have a ranking for you! In response to the Art Review...
November 4, 2009
What if the 'new normal' is really the original normal?
Neill Archer Roan posts a rather interesting thought on his weblog about what we're all calling the 'new normal' for our economy, our society, and our work: what if the past 50 years were the exception, not the rule, to...
November 2, 2009
Thoughts on the 'portfolio career'
If you thought you were just bouncing from gig to gig, juggling multiple part-time or limited-term jobs in the arts and elsewhere, or just patching together a living from a seemingly diffuse bundle of clients, employers, and projects, you may...
October 30, 2009
An artist's alternative to material wealth
In an era when our economy is in flux, and many are revisiting their penchant for buying more stuff, conceptual artist Jonathon Keats offers another way: buy the opposite of stuff. His upcoming exhibit on The First Bank of Antimatter...
October 28, 2009
Signs that you've stayed too long at the party
In this job market and this economy, it's challenging to consider leaving a job. But it's never a bad idea for any cultural manager to at least ask the question: Am I in the right place, doing the right work?...
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