Sometimes I read something and just think – that’s it, I don’t have to write any more. If everyone just did this, it would all be fixed. The “it” I’m thinking of is how arts and cultural organizations can better match with the untapped potential connection with audiences. In this LinkedIn post, Rob Fields, art … Continue reading If arts organizations did these 9 things, everything would be better.
On my blog on ArtsJournal.com I published a post imagining what it would mean for the arts to have widespread support so that it inspired thousands – maybe millions – of people to give small donations. Below is a link to the post, and it’s copied below in its entirety. Let me know what you … Continue reading Row X: What if the arts were powered by small donations?
Sharing this book recommendation today in honor of the shakeup in the 2024 Presidential Campaign: Tracks on the Trail: Popular Music, Race, and the US Presidency by Dana Gorzelany-Mostak. It’s an open access book, so it’s free to access for everyone. Published just last year, it includes a whole chapter on Kamala Harris.
I’m in St. Paul, Minnesota for the 2024 Visitor Studies Association conference. It’s a conference for visitor studies professionals from all kinds of museums (science, children’s, art, history, zoos), mostly people who work on in-house evaluation teams, though there are consultants and I met some marketing folks, too. I sat in three (!) sessions today … Continue reading Day 1 of Visitor Studies Association Conference
I’m on my way to the Visitor Studies Association Conference in St. Paul, MN. It’s my first time attending this conference and my first museum-focused conference, since I’m more of a performing arts person. I’m eager to learn about visitor experience from colleagues in the museum world, a sector that has a much longer history … Continue reading Summer travel, summer learning
My social media feed has popped up with not-serious-but-serious messages like this one: And one I neglected to screenshot that was to the effect of, “why do libraries close in the evenings? I don’t want to go to a bar, I don’t want to go to a club. I want to sit with a few … Continue reading New approaches to going out
On a bit of a whim, I signed up for Ted Gioia’s premium Substack, The Honest Broker, to get access to his 12-month reading, listening, and viewing list “A 12-Month Immersive Course in Humanities”. I’ve been looking to backfill certain areas of my education that I think are lacking, which include the humanities. But let’s … Continue reading Ted Gioia’s Year of Humanities
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
The Audience Agency is an audience research agency in the United Kingdom that does incredible work with psychographics of audiences of arts and culture. They’re a nonprofit organization themselves that surveys a huge number of audiences and analyzes ticketing data directly from arts organizations through their Cultural Participation Monitor longitudinal study. They’re on my mind … Continue reading The Audience Agency: UK Resource
Dustin Boyer is one of my favorite arts industry creators on TikTok. He’s the Director of Marketing for Venture Music in Nashville. One of his latest posts talks about how it’s a mark of professionalism to put your everything into performing, no matter how small the audience. And as a band trying to make it, … Continue reading Love the audience you have
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