Welcome to my website and to my blog. I’ll use this page to write posts about all my areas of interest in my professional life: arts marketing, arts audiences, arts management, nonprofit management, teaching in higher education, and research process. I also write a blog on ArtsJournal.com called Row X. That blog is specifically about … Continue reading About this blog
I didn’t want to be right about this. The Kennedy Center will be closing for an extended time. Supposedly because of renovations – but we know the real reason.
Nostalgia may be having a moment, but to say that’s all that audiences want is oversimplifying. A recent NY Times article flattens the current moment in regional theater and I analyze what it means for how we can understand audiences.
I respond to Joanna Woronkowicz’s recent piece that emphasizes the need to shift arts administration education from organization-centric models to public value.
Advice for early career professionals: Technical chops matter, but they’re not the whole game. Reliability and being someone people actually want to work with can get you just as far—and sometimes farther.
As funding shifts, dance companies are finding creative, sustainable paths forward. From guiding donor gifts to planning with caution, here’s how arts leaders can approach funding with artistry and care.
Leading an arts organization isn’t about luck—it’s about judgment. Hold when trust matters, fold when the model’s busted, and when the casino’s rigged? Start your own game in the parking lot.
The Met Opera’s survival strategy raises urgent questions for the arts: what happens when institutions cling to scale at any cost, even if it means sacrificing integrity?
You’ve heard me make the arguments, now hear from some other folks. Seema R emphasizes social media’s shortcomings in museums, Andrew Patino offers theater marketing guidance, and two writers advocate for self-promotion in arts criticism, encouraging adaptation to evolving landscapes.
Pittsburgh’s theaters face a potential merger as audiences and funding shrink. Here’s what the crisis reveals about nonprofit theater nationwide—and why survival depends on bold changes, right-sizing, and community support.
Americans are reading less—but is that really a loss of curiosity, or just swapping books for Netflix and TikTok? The real question: why do people read?
Hannah Grannemann 