{"id":1274,"date":"2025-02-11T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2025-02-12T04:37:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T04:37:51","slug":"duck-and-cover-is-that-your-motto-for-the-next-46-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/2025\/02\/11\/duck-and-cover-is-that-your-motto-for-the-next-46-months\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDuck and Cover\u201d \u2014 Is That Your Motto for the Next 46 Months?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>Or will nonprofit arts organizations choose to fight back for their communities?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/501c3.guru\/scene-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Duck-and-Cover-still.jpg?resize=1024%2C465&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1275\" style=\"width:1170px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Duck-and-Cover-still.jpg?resize=1024%2C465&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Duck-and-Cover-still.jpg?resize=300%2C136&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Duck-and-Cover-still.jpg?resize=768%2C349&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Duck-and-Cover-still.jpg?resize=1536%2C698&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Duck-and-Cover-still.jpg?w=1582&amp;ssl=1 1582w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Defeatist or fatalistic? Pragmatic or escapist? Time will tell for your nonprofit arts organization. (image under public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Whippersnappers do not know about \u201cDuck and Cover.\u201d Which is why it serves as an option for your company\u2019s future. Not a good one, mind you, but I\u2019m sure you\u2019re considering it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDuck and Cover\u201d was a thing. In fact, the Defense Department made a whole movie about it in 1951. This nine-minute flick was shown to millions of American elementary school student all the way into the early 1970s. It is in the public domain, so enjoy (?):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Duck And Cover (1951) Bert The Turtle\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IKqXu-5jw60?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/IKqXu-5jw60?si=rKx0RgKlTXdblscw\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/IKqXu-5jw60?si=rKx0RgKlTXdblscw<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Schools showed this film during the Korean conflict (war), the Cuban Missile Crisis, the bulk of the Cold War, the Vietnam Police Action (war), and every other IST (Incredibly Scary Thing) that happened during those 20+ years. The idea was that when (not if) that nuclear bomb strikes, there would be a big flash in the sky and enough time to crawl under your desk, pull your collar over your neck, and somehow, that would protect you from fallout. As someone who was in elementary school in on the tail end of that time period, we had nuclear \u201cflash\u201d drills every year. The teacher would shout \u201cFLASH!\u201d at an arbitrary moment, after which we would all duck down under those desks, giggle (perhaps at the absurdity of it all), and cover our collective necks with our shirts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/501c3.guru\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"860\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/duck-and-cover-drill1.jpg?resize=1000%2C860&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/duck-and-cover-drill1.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/duck-and-cover-drill1.jpg?resize=300%2C258&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/duck-and-cover-drill1.jpg?resize=768%2C660&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, we had an air raid siren go off at 10:00am on the last Friday of every month, heard all over the city. Mostly, people ignored it. At the time, I figured that would be the best time for \u201cthe enemy\u201d to bomb us (10:00am on the last Friday of the month).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On top of all of that, we had a \u201cgo home\u201d drill. It was every kid\u2019s favorite drill and every parent\u2019s nightmare. Once a year, the teacher would shout \u201cFLASH! GO HOME!\u201d Every student walked straight home, after which the parent called the office upon arrival. To the kids, it was an extra vacation day. To the adults, it meant that someone would have to be home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The scenario of the task was devastatingly fatalistic. It assumed the certainty that it was too late to survive the offending nuclear explosion at school. Who knows? The kids might make it home in time to say goodbye to their families. The message? \u201cDie at home, not at school.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/501c3.guru\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Nuclear-Bomb-Explosion-GIF.gif?resize=220%2C180&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1277\" style=\"width:988px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Covering your neck with a shirt collar just does not seem to be adequate, does it?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>And so, as the United States turns increasingly into a pseudo-populist 1930s Germany \u2014 where the trains ran on time and politically undesirable leeches were eliminated from society \u2014 it presents everyone with related questions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Do we fight this, risking everything?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do we run away?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Did we already lose, so we should hunker down?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do we join the marauding hordes?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words, if you run a nonprofit arts organization, serve on its board, or help produce its artistic programming, which of these pictures applies to your current situation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/501c3.guru\/scene-change\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"384\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/fight-run-hide-join.jpg?resize=1024%2C384&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/fight-run-hide-join.jpg?resize=1024%2C384&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/fight-run-hide-join.jpg?resize=300%2C113&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/fight-run-hide-join.jpg?resize=768%2C288&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/fight-run-hide-join.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fight? Run? Hide? Join the hordes? (Images by (L-R) Reafon Gates on Pexels; MariaD42530 from Pixabay; Min An from Pexels. Final photo is from the National Archives)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Careful, arts leaders: your answer may trigger a mettle detector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Futurists have already determined that, given the cycle of history, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/2024\/02\/27\/war-is-coming-you-ready\/\">the US will be at war within the next five years<\/a>. It\u2019s not a happy choice; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/2024\/03\/05\/nonprofit-arts-leaders-one-final-note-about-the-upcoming-war\/\">it\u2019s more of a whirlpool effect<\/a>. The reason most nonprofit arts organizations stagger during times of imminent trouble is that they are unaccustomed to the idea that the best way to help people during a crisis is to help people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, that is the key to any successful charitable organization: <strong><em>helping people with charitable activities ensures indispensability.<\/em><\/strong> And I still can\u2019t believe that I have to type those ridiculously obvious words, knowing that there are some arts leaders who believe either that they don\u2019t run charities (\u201cThey\u2019re \u2018non-commercial,\u2019 not charities!\u201d they fallaciously argue.), or that obsequious flapdoodle (for a charity) as inconsequential as \u201cartistic vision\u201d holds sway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the first couple of months of this plutocratic oligarchy masquerading as a democracy continue for the next forty-six remaining months, there will be something awful to report on the news every single day. Every. Single. Day. And Every. Single. Day., someone near you is going to say, either in awe or in horror, \u201cDid you hear what he did today?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We know this because it is what happened during the first Trump administration. This brand of unapologetic despotism is not new, nor is it ineffective at gaining influence. It is just another worldwide attempt to gain power by crushing the spirit of those without any.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/501c3.guru\/scene-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"156\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/click-here-for-scene-change.jpg?resize=1024%2C156&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1173\" style=\"width:1170px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/click-here-for-scene-change-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C156&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/click-here-for-scene-change-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C46&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/click-here-for-scene-change-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C117&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/click-here-for-scene-change-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C234&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/click-here-for-scene-change-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C312&amp;ssl=1 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>But what can be done? You are only running an arts organization, right? One of 133,000 in the United States, perhaps? And you are in just one community in just one city in just one state, you say? If that is the problem, then the solution is right there in front of you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Loved or hated, former Speaker of the House Tip O\u2019Neill was famous for his quote, \u201cAll politics is local.\u201d In fact, it became the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/All-Politics-Local-Other-Rules\/dp\/1558504702\">title of his treatise on leadership, campaign politics, and guidebook.<\/a> Loved or hated, former presidential advisor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/02\/opinion\/democrats-donald-trump-economy.html\">James Carville wrote this<\/a> as an essay in The New York Times about what prevented a Kamala Harris presidency in 2024:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cI keep coming back to the same thing. We lost for one very simple reason: It was, it is, and it always will be the economy, stupid. We have to begin 2025 with that truth as our political north star and not get distracted by anything else.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>When Carville wrote about \u201cthe economy,\u201d he did not mean the national discussion. Nobody cares about the national discussion. What people care about is their own economy, their perceived slights of a new generation of leaders, and they fear everything there is to know about change. Carville implores those who believe as he does to go hyper-local and let social media take the next steps. Largely, this is how Trump won the White vote, including (despite a strong woman running in the other party) White women, <a href=\"https:\/\/cawp.rutgers.edu\/blog\/gender-differences-2024-presidential-vote\">of whom 53% voted for the right-wing candidate<\/a>, about the same as the previous five presidential elections (including the 2016 election, where 52% of White women voted for Trump).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Gender-Gap-in-Voting_1992-2024-White-Voters-Infogram1.jpg?resize=1024%2C767&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1279\" style=\"width:787px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Gender-Gap-in-Voting_1992-2024-White-Voters-Infogram1.jpg?resize=1024%2C767&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Gender-Gap-in-Voting_1992-2024-White-Voters-Infogram1.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Gender-Gap-in-Voting_1992-2024-White-Voters-Infogram1.jpg?resize=768%2C575&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Gender-Gap-in-Voting_1992-2024-White-Voters-Infogram1.jpg?resize=1536%2C1150&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Gender-Gap-in-Voting_1992-2024-White-Voters-Infogram1.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take a lesson from this. Serving your community does not mean putting on great plays, symphonic concerts, operas, ballets, or exhibits. It does not mean gaining acclaim from reviewers (because there are few reviewers that still review, among other things). And it certainly does not mean achieving a balanced budget every year. All of those things are nice, but nonessential to the real task at hand for you over the next 46 months and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, are you going to \u201cduck and cover\u201d and pretend that \u201cartistic excellence\u201d is your job? Putting your collar over your neck is not going to help your community. Let the charitable entrepreneurs in your midst take over, not the artistic vision-questers. Charitable entrepreneurship activities have ramped up all over America, and those companies are achieving greatness (and funding, by the way, from non-arts-oriented sources).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Forget all the national news about how the artistic sky has fallen, or that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/2023\/10\/10\/500000000-a-year-for-five-years-for-nonprofit-theaters-wow-is-that-ever-a-bad-idea\/\">schemes to increase government funding for the arts<\/a> are the answer to your community\u2019s problems. Use local experts on the arts and on the community to lead your team (searches for national candidates show little evidence of success, even if they are highly qualified).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More bombshells are coming \u2014 your community\u2019s battle is local; therefore, so is the solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/49aomzo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"722\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Kirkus-Review-ad.jpg?resize=722%2C1000&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Kirkus-Review-ad.jpg?w=722&amp;ssl=1 722w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Kirkus-Review-ad.jpg?resize=217%2C300&amp;ssl=1 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 722px) 100vw, 722px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Are you putting the finishing touches on your next budget? Pick up a bunch of copies of SCENE CHANGE 2 before you put it to a vote, just to make sure that everyone on the board has their priorities straight and their responsibilities nailed down. At only $11.95 a copy, you should pick up at least ten.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/alanharrison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/buy-me-a-coffee-for-bottom-of-ArtsJournal-articles.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-972\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">If you&#8217;ve never read from SCENE CHANGE before, would you please consider clicking on the image above to buy the author a cup of coffee? Or better, if you&#8217;re already in the Seattle area, would you like to have one in person? 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