Drew McManus on the orchestra business.
Just imagine how nice it would be to conduct a search for “music director” across all professional orchestra IRS Form 990s for the past decade. For now, it is still a dream but there’s an interesting article by Lucy Bernholz at PHILANTHROPY 2173 (h/t Thomas Cott) that examines a free offering from The Foundation Center that provides a searchable 990PF database, branded FDOfree. After a cursory bit of usage, it is …
Joe Patti published a spectacular article on 9/18/2013 titled Drama Is A Choice that, among other things, examines the long term impact of becoming conditioned to operating in high drama environments. He suggests that even though there are no shortage of reasons why arts groups are operating in extended crisis management mode, that doesn’t mean some of it isn’t brought on by choice. Patti’s post reminded me of an article I …
It must be that time of year because the job openings listed at Adaptistration Jobs went ka-boom yesterday with six new listings. There’s a big mix across several departments and everything from entry level through department head openings looking for people and all of yesterday’s openings are full time positions.
For those not already in the know, I started Inside The Arts nearly five years ago as a blogging exchange that brought together existing culture blogs as well as introduced some new voices to the mix. Since then, each blog has taken off in its own way and I wanted to take a quick moment today to plug the entire exchange and point out the updated design for several of the …
Although it just sort of happened to work out this way, it has been nice to spend most of the week focused on website oriented topics and as a result, it seems fitting to round things out with a plug for the 2013 National Arts Marketing Project Conference (#NAMPC) website panel I’ll be participating in on Sunday, 11/10/2013. The last conference I took part in from 2011 was a very positive …