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Thoughts on Art and Authenticity.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the concept of authenticity this year. The degree to which one is true to one’s own personality, spirit, or character despite external pressures from the material world. But my thoughts about authenticity aren’t just … Continue reading
Posted in Deep Thoughts., Great Performances
Tagged Artist, arts, audience, authentic, authenticity, break-up, consulting, divorce, health, ideas, internet, life, music, new media, organizational, origins, performance, performing, phil collins, pop, social, starlee kine, take a look at me now, this american life
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Cool Arts Job of The Month: Connectivity Director for Woolly Mammoth Theatre
As long as we are on the topic of pushing boundaries between art and traditional concepts of ‘audience’… This job posting from Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, DC says it all. We’re in a brave, new, world. I love the … Continue reading
Posted in Cool Arts Job of The Month, Professional Development, Technology and the Arts, What Works?, What's On My Mind...
Tagged arts, audience, cool arts job of the month, digital, engagement, internet, jobs, models, new, social media, theater, woolly mammoth theatre
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Arts Management: Thought for the Day…
“Resolve disagreements with facts, not opinions. A long line of research highlights the ways in which emotions and irrationality can distort the decision-making process.” Bradley R. Staats and David M. Upton in “Lean, Knowledge, Work”; Harvard Business Review, October 2011.
Posted in Professional Development
Tagged arguments, arts, bradley r. staats, david m. upton, disagreements, facts, harvard business review, management, opinions, resolution, resolving, thoguht, thought, toyota principles
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How Do We Find The Antidote for Ego? The Creative Commons and Nonprofit Arts Organizations.
It’s been far too long since I’ve posted on the blog. I’ve been away. In that place that Washington-area women who rely heavily on hair straightening irons go during August. In other words…I didn’t go anywhere (or do anything) last … Continue reading
Posted in Deep Thoughts., TCG 2011, What Works?
Tagged antidote, arena stage, Artist, arts, collaboration, collective, consultant, consulting, copyright, credit, ego, heidi rettig, ideas, money, nonprofit, patent, playbill, polly carl, sharing, susan scafidi, tcg 2011, theatre, theatre communications group, trademark, who owns culture
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What I Didn’t Learn From My 7th Grade Art Teacher.
When my Mom moved into assisted living, I was handed a giant box full of my school papers that she’d saved since the beginning of time. Not being in the writing groove today, I decided to take a break and … Continue reading
Posted in Deep Thoughts.
Tagged arts, color theory, color wheel, creativity, drawing, education, evaluation, ideas, new work, schools
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An Ethnography of RADAR L.A. and TCG 2011: Part IV
So…where were we? Friday, June 17th, 2011. Oh yes. OK. Flipping through my notes. We finished up the plenary. As we wrap up, I’m thinking about David Houle’s mission to make me into a “Morph Corp.” Can *I* morph, as … Continue reading
Posted in TCG 2011, What Works?, What's On My Mind...
Tagged #tcg2011, artists, arts, carole rosenstein, christopher ashley, david houle, financial, grants, hbo films, hysterical blindness, indicators, individual, investing in creativity, jack stehlin, jane anderson, jennifer sherwood, jose rivera, julie taymor, luis castro, maria rosario jackson, mark shugoll, morph corp, normal, playwright, TCG, titus redux, urban institute, whatifesto
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Duluth Moves Arts District Plan Forward.
Last year, we worked with Duluth, Minnesota and Superior, Wisconsin on a plan for arts-based revitalization. Here is a video update from Duluth on the progress being made in the Hillside neighborhood. You can read and download Duluth’s Arts-Based Revitalization … Continue reading
Posted in Projects, What Works?
Tagged Anita Lauricella, arts, banners, bike racks, development, district, duluth, Duluth LISC, Duluth Neighborhood Housing Services, economic, heidi rettig, neighborhood, Pam Kramer, revitalization plan, signs, superior, trash cans
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An Ethnography of RADAR L.A. and TCG 2011: Part III
TCG 2011 opens with a keynote by David Houle, author of The Shift Age. It’s 9 a.m. and I’m already missing the intimacy of the RADAR L.A. Symposia. We’re meeting in the bowels of the Biltmore Hotel in the “Biltmore … Continue reading
Posted in Deep Thoughts., TCG 2011, Technology and the Arts, What Works?
Tagged APAP, arts, arts presenters, big bird, biltmore, consulting, david houle, digital, fax machines, five c's, funeral, hollywood, hotel, ira glass, jim henson, keynote, los angeles, marketing, millenials, native, plenary, speaker, tcg 2011
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An Ethnography of RADAR L.A. and TCG 2011: Part II
Radar L.A. Symposium: U.S. Artists Touring U.S. Work Clyde Valentin – Hip/Hop Theatre Festival; Megan Wanlass – SITI; Daniel Beatty – Actor; KJ Sanchez – American Records; Roger Guenveur Smith – Actor. I sit in on this conversation because one … Continue reading
Posted in Deep Thoughts., TCG 2011
Tagged actor's equity, arts, budget, clyde valentin, daniel beatty, kj sanchez, los angeles, megan wanlass, mk wegmann, nefa, quita sullivan, ruby dee, the last book store, theatre, tony kushner, touring, us
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