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It’s all about the Vibes: Lessons from the election for arts marketers

What can we learn about arts marketing from how people consume information about elections? Lead with vibes.

Talking To or Talking At? Or Even Talking at All?

Nonprofit Arts Leaders: Don’t tell them about your mission, show them how you are fulfilling it. Don’t just present, discuss. ...

A Second Look at ‘Algren’ Touched by a Documentary Ode to Nelson Algren

Some years ago I criticized Michael Caplan's documentary ode to Nelson Algren as the cinematic equivalent of a pop tart. Now that I've had another look I see that I was very wrong.

David Stout shares how to use AI to create extraordinary musical compositions

David Stout, Professor of Composition Studies and Coordinator of the Initiative for Advanced Research in Technology and the Arts at the University of North Texas, shares how to utilize AI to generate extraordinary artistic outcomes.

“Dear Daddy” — What Kind of Man Was Charles Ives?

What kind of man was Charles Ives? Based on the testimony of those who knew and met him, I would

Breaking Free of Your Longtime Role Is Hard. But It’s the Key to Progress.

Just look at the US presidential election… and US nonprofit arts organizations. Remember when this was just a red baseball ...

Human Figuration as an Expression of Ideas

These drawings move across centuries, from the Middle Ages to our blighted times in an unflinching rawness that gives no comfort. Nothing is omitted. You will find the sexual inscribed like watermarks of passion and anguish. The demonic appears in equal measure with the angelic. Most of all, not unlike cave drawings of prehistoric times, they are an existential record of a particular creature, Bellaart by name.

Graham Parker talk about the role of the orchestra as an artist driven civic leader

Graham Parker, CEO of the Louisville Orchestra, shares the extraordinary history of their founding and their role as an artist driven civic leader.

Vibrant (sic)

In the 90s I lived in Regina, Saskatchewan. When I moved there I had never been before, but I had been looking for work,...

Quick Study: Arts Participation Rates at the State Level

In this episode, we look at a new NEA research report, 50 States of Arts Participation, to learn how patterns of art-going and art-making...

Introducing The Jazz Omnibus

I’m proud of my two published books (Miles Ornette Cecil – Jazz Beyond Jazz and Future Jazz) and my unpublished ones, too; the two...

‘What Is There to Frighten Us?’

th​e world’s condition was never intended to forego the pleasure of a passing hope

Why Do Donors Ask for Irrelevant Data?

Could it be that you never talked to them about your nonprofit’s charitable goals and how they mesh with the ...

Lionel Ziprin: ‘One of the Secret Heroes of Our Time’

"I am not an artist. I am not an outsider. I am a citizen of the republic and I have remained anonymous all the time by choice."

Robert McGrath talks about building a groundbreaking collective bargaining agreement

Robert McGrath, COO of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, talks about their groundbreaking new collective bargaining agreement incorporating core DE&I best practices.

“Very Likely the Most Important Film Ever Made about American Music”

https://youtube.com/watch?v=LUMu1qisXoM&version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent During the pandemic, unable to produce concerts, I found myself making six documentary films linked to my book Dvorak’s Prophecy. The

I Guess It Had to Happen

Julian Peters has done Poe, Rimbaud, Frost, Keats, Dylan Thomas, Wordsworth, Oscar Wilde, Villon, Yeats, Sassoon, and plenty of others — and they're all damn well done — so why not T.S. Eliot?

Is Pay-What-You-Can a Real Community Issue for Arts Organizations to Solve?

The well-intentioned, ghettoized program asks us: are Abe and Sophie still the ones coming, only now they’re paying less? Look ...

Laia Pujol-Rovira shares strategies to impact students from underserved communities

Laia Pujol-Rovira, Assistant Director of the Center for Innovation and Community Impact at the Colburn School, shares their four-stage process of serving young people from underserved communities.

Federal Data on Reading for Pleasure: All Signs Show a Slump

A poet-friend of mine runs a blog that carries, as its tagline, “Would it kill you to read a #$%&% book?” To my ears,...

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