From the Fractured Atlas Blog

• Share Some Knowledge, Win Some Dough Fractured U., Fractured Atlas’s online arts management curriculum, is seeking instructors to develop 25 new courses. We’ve released an RFP which has all the details, including guidelines, deadline, etc. In a nutshell: We’re looking for 5 introductory courses and 20 advanced courses Courses may cover any topic in arts management and may target individual artists [...]
• Welcome Network of Ensemble Theaters! We’d like to welcome yet another Open Arts Network partner into the fold (our 55th!)…. The Network of Ensemble Theaters (www.ensembletheaters.net) is “a consortium of North America’s permanent ensemble companies. NET is committed to preserving and passing on the legacy of the ensemble theater movement. The companies making up the NET include some of the most [...]
• University Health Insurance Falls Short Business Week reports on the growing problem of sub-standard health insurance being offered by universities to their students: More than half of the insurance plans recommended by colleges offer benefits of $30,000 or less, according to a survey published in March by the General Accounting Office, an arm of Congress. Many plans have further limits that [...]
• Lessons on Success from the Software Industry Among the most important lessons a young artist can learn is to reframe her concept of success and set realistic, attainable, useful goals. And if there’s an industry even more dangerously obsessed with romanticized notions about success, it’s the software business. I found this talk by David Heinemeier Hansson (creator of the popular Ruby [...]
• WNYC Podcast: In the Arts it’s Rookies versus Veterans WNYC recently broadcast a segment that touched on the “grey-ing” of the non-profit arts sector. It’s a familiar subject that most artists have heard plenty about: The audience for the arts is gradually getting older and unless an effort is made to engage a younger demographic, many art institutions will die with its patrons. But [...]
• New Open Arts Network Partners!! Fractured Atlas is pleased to announce it’s newest Open Arts Network partners (if you don’t know what the Open Arts Network is, click on the link above)! We are pleased to welcome: - Dance/USA, the national, non-profit organization that provides services and leadership to enhance the country’s infrastructure for dance creation, education, and dissemination.  Their branch offices [...]
• Bye Bye Image Gallery… Hello Flickr! For a few years now, the buggiest piece of software on the Fractured Atlas website has unquestionably been the stuff we used to power our member image galleries. (I won’t even reveal the name of the software because it was such a disappointment and I don’t want to badmouth a free open source software [...]
• You Shall Know Them by Their Gravatars It’s time to start putting (user)names with faces! The Fractured Atlas website now supports Gravatars.  Gravatars are globally recognizable avatars.  Basically you can associate a small picture with your email address and have that picture be associated with your username across any number of websites.  There are already thousands of websites (particularly Wordpress blogs) out there [...]
• HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US! Fractured Atlas will be celebrating our 10th anniversary in style! We begun planning a supremely cool, FREE party to commemorate our first decade. It will be held at Galapagos Arts Space’s new home in DUMBO (that’s in Brooklyn for all our non-NY members) on Friday September 19th, 2008. More info to follow as details solidify!
• Orphan Works Bill Analysis I’ve been tracking the controversial Orphan Works Act of 2008. Today I received a “bill alert” from the Alliance of NY State Arts Organizations that includes some great analysis, which I think comes from Americans for the Arts: H.R. 5889, the “Orphan Works Act of 2008″ introduced by Representative Howard Berman (D-CA) in [...]

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