Sometimes The Best Message On Why The Arts Are Important Doesn’t Need Quantification
Tue, Feb 2, 2022
by Drew McManus
Even before the pandemic, the orchestra field had its hands full addressing its relevance in contemporary culture. Unfortunately, financial pressures of the pandemic have started to reignite counterproductive guns or butter debates. While that’s nothing more than a logical fallacy trap, we don’t have the luxury of ignoring it. But instead of getting sucked into
The First Step In NOT Reinventing The Wheel
Mon, Jan 1, 2022
by Drew McManus
I completed the first in a series of articles I’m writing about how arts administrators can use the Laws of User Experience to be better at just about everything they do. The articles show you how each of the 21 practices can be applied to far more than just user experience tasks. The inaugural post
Friday Client Sugar
Fri, Jan 1, 2022
by Drew McManus
It’s always invigorating when working with great clients and a few weeks back, I had the pleasure of launching the redesigned Kansas City Repertory Theatre website: kcrep.org. Everyone inside the organization was just wonderful to work with from the initial inquiry call to checking off the final punch list item. And because we operate on
Turn Of The Screw, Politics And Fundraising Edition
Thu, Jan 1, 2022
by Drew McManus
While balancing political ideology across stakeholders has always been a core task for executives and fundraisers, that world has fundamentally changed over the past several years. It’s a topic we’ve examined across several articles. And the orchestra field certainly isn’t alone. To that end, Drew Lindsay published a pair of articles at The Chronicle of
Selling The Benefit