For nonprofit arts organizations (and society at large), it’s all the rage Before anything else, it behooves me to let you know that my book, Scene Change: Why Today’s Nonprofit Arts Organizations Have to Stop Producing Art and Start Producing Impact is now on the shelves, be they internet shelves or real ones, in the UK and the US. If your bookstore isn’t carrying it … [Read more...] about All This and World War III
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Yes, Arts Organizations CAN Show Charitable Impact
If they can do it, your nonprofit arts organization can do it. Nonprofit arts folks continue to balk at the idea of using their art as a tool rather than as the goal. And that’s their right, although it’s soon to be their downfall, as we’ve discussed in previous articles. We’ve tried to show them that by using their Willy Wonka-esque Golden Ticket, their nonprofit … [Read more...] about Yes, Arts Organizations CAN Show Charitable Impact
Immediacy: Not One of The Great Attributes of the Nonprofit Arts Community
What’s more important: putting voice to the works directly affecting your community right now? Or doing that thing you promised you’d do a year ago? Or do you care? If the photo used at the top of this article raises your blood pressure a little, makes you mad, makes you sad, or gives you a kick in the pants to do something, anything, right now… good. The intention of the … [Read more...] about Immediacy: Not One of The Great Attributes of the Nonprofit Arts Community
If Your Nonprofit Arts Organization’s Audience Is Comprised Solely of Ticket Buyers, You Missed the Point, the Boat, and Your Chance
Have you stuck by your audience? Are you stuck with your audience? Would you like to get unstuck? Subscriptions are dead. Subscriptions are not dead. Frequent buying of tickets is a pipe dream. Frequency is occurring at nonprofit arts organizations that aren’t yours. Ticketbuyers are old, want to be entertained, and dying off. Ticketbuyers are old, want to be … [Read more...] about If Your Nonprofit Arts Organization’s Audience Is Comprised Solely of Ticket Buyers, You Missed the Point, the Boat, and Your Chance
Changing the Way Nonprofit Arts Organizations Do Business is Hard. Aw.
No, you don’t get to mount that show you’ve always wanted to do. Artistic leaders with nonprofit organizations are notorious for wanting to do “that show” that no one has yet done well. Or do an exhibition of “that artist” whose work was never appreciated before they rediscovered it. Or that lost symphony by Whatshisname. On behalf of your community, the one you pledged … [Read more...] about Changing the Way Nonprofit Arts Organizations Do Business is Hard. Aw.