I had a quick Twitter conversation that led me to posting about how small efforts will add up. I was asked how an indie artist can connect with people more personally due to time constraints. I answered him, by emailing 3 people per day. He responded back that this was doable and he would be…
On June 20th, my audience development colleague, Roger Tomlinson, created a summation post regarding the current political stances for the funding of the arts in the UK. Arts funding in the UK is being challenged by politicians with the argument that the arts are currently not accessible enough to everyone. Roger also makes the case…
Over the past few weekends, we have had 5 conferences related to the arts: AFTA, Chorus America, Dance USA, TCG, and Opera America. All of these conferences did talk about audience development with extra thoughts focusing on civic impact, how to engage an audience, how to diversify and be more inclusive, and how to connect…
I enjoy being a fly on the Twitter wall to take part in conferences around the world. I was following the #DSD14 (Digital Summit Denver) hashtag, and I found some good tweets that were relevant for the arts. I created a storify slide show for you. Enjoy, and have a great weekend! For my email…
I found an article about a camp for non-profit professionals to focus on a few non-profit concepts during the summer. I thought this to be a great idea! Here is why! We could use more adult summer learning experiences. While the kids may be off on their own summer adventure, adults may want to “play”…
Culture Track 2014 was presented at the Disney Hall recently. What was interesting about this article was the feedback from the attendees: Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) director Philippe Vergne took issue with the use of the word “culture,” and quoted the artist Carl Andre: “Art is what we do. Culture is what is done…
As you know, I am one of the experimenters among us. I attempt different services and programs (in addition to my main services) to find out what works and what doesn’t in regard to audience development education. My latest experiment for 2014 is the Tip of the Week Club. After 5 months, it is still…
I normally do not post over the weekends, but after my last discussion from Thursday’s post, a thought popped into my mind in a new way. When I was a kid, my family was the upper, lower, middle class family. We had enough for the basics, yet at some moments, we did not have money…
I wanted to post a quick one before I have to run around today. Last night, I ended up going to two gatherings. The first was a goodbye party for a friend who is moving back to England. The second was a Meetup group for bloggers, my first so I could meet new people and…
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