• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Home
  • About
    • About Hannah Grannemann
    • About Row X
  • ArtsJournal
  • AJBlogs
Row X

Row X

Hannah Grannemann on Audience Experience

arts advocacy

Imagine if the arts were funded with $27 donations

August 5, 2024 by Hannah Grannemann 6 Comments

People watching an outdoor performance. Photo by Samantha Gades.

In a recent New York Times article, Barry Edelstein, Artistic Director of The Old Globe, a large nonprofit theater in San Diego, gave a quote that caught my eye. He said, "We’re not going to solve the structural financial problems facing the sector through Bernie Sanders-style $27 contributions. It’s going to take really significant infusions at the scale that Roy is doing them.” The person that Edelstein is talking about is Roy Cockrum. The Roy Cockrum Foundation has quickly … [Read more...] about Imagine if the arts were funded with $27 donations

Primary Sidebar

About Hannah

Assistant Professor and Director of the Arts Administration Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). She began writing for ArtsJournal.com in 2020 as a guest editor on Lynne Conner's blog We the Audience and began writing Row X in 2021. More about Hannah can be … [more] about About Hannah Grannemann

About Row X

White iPhone with QR Code, ArtsJournal Logo and Row X

Row X is where audience experience meets artistic practice and business strategy of arts organizations. The goal of the blog is to explore the sweet spot where these three interests overlap. Audience experience is often seen as the purview of the marketing department until the point that the … [more] about About Row X

Recent Posts

  • A Christmas Carol as an Arts Marketing Parable December 22, 2024
  • Row X Wrapped December 6, 2024
  • It’s all about the Vibes: Lessons from the election for arts marketers October 29, 2024
  • Imagine if the arts were funded with $27 donations August 5, 2024
  • 5 reasons declining media coverage of the arts isn’t the problem February 29, 2024

Recent Comments

  • Hannah Grannemann on Imagine if the arts were funded with $27 donations
  • Alecia Kintner on Imagine if the arts were funded with $27 donations
  • Hannah Grannemann on Imagine if the arts were funded with $27 donations
  • Karen Gahl-Mills on Imagine if the arts were funded with $27 donations
  • Hannah Grannemann on Imagine if the arts were funded with $27 donations

Archives

An ArtsJournal Blog