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 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…
The Arts and Humanities Are Alive and Well — Just Watch the Millennials – an article that I found this morning by Christine Henseler. The arts and humanities might be going through a rough patch, but if you ask the Millennials they can tell you that disciplines such as classical music, visual art and fiction…
Maybe I had the wrong hashtag. If I did, I didn’t get alerted to the right one. March 24-25 was National Arts Advocacy Day. It came and went. Although there were celebrations in D.C. among the arts folks, the rest of the nation seemed oddly quiet. I attempted to tweet a few #artsadvoc and #artsadvocacyday…
I have voiced this before – is it possible to find a way to have a bigger collective voice for arts advocacy rather than smaller private efforts? I think we all come from the same place of wanting the arts to be a part of our shared human culture, to be fully valued and funded.…
I hope you had a nice weekend! I ended up participating in the Open Studios tour and scored some really great gifts for myself and my family. One of the artists said to me, “I’m so grateful when people like you will come and pay for art right away.” I know it sometimes takes time…
Today is the 5oth anniversary of the famous Martin Luther King, Jr. speech, “I have a dream…” One of the quotes that is being distributed is “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” This quote literally woke me up this morning, well, enough for me to begin writing…
Today I will be discussing arts advocacy with some of my colleagues. Since I was in a YouTube kinda mood, why not share some new (fairly new) videos! Have a fantastic weekend! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MTCTzGdVco&w=360&h=215] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-xkvzvYcJc&w=360&h=215] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAAKLsgCoJw&w=360&h=215] My favorite in this set (of course, it’s from my Alma Mater!): [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGjJhCMjcbI&w=360&h=215] Cheers to happy…
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