Many of you are champions at communicating with artists. If you’re a director, you may even have an MFA in it. And we know it takes weeks, even months, for our vision to go from concept to opening night.
So why, when we’re dealing with designers, do we assume what we want can be [...]
(My thanks to Jean Cook of the Future of Music Coalition and Fractured Atlas’s Adam Huttler for their contributions to this piece.)
We hear a lot of talk about the coming leadership transition in the arts. Baby Boomers are nearing retirement age, and Gen X’ers and Millennials are itching to take on increased responsibility. It’s important [...]
Somewhere between Lawrence, Kansas and Vilnius, Lithuania, a theatre company was born. Adam R. Burnett of Buran Theatre Company describes how their “satellite system” of multi-disciplinary artists creates work in a number of communities simultaneously.
A modern dance company based in Northern Virginia, Next Reflex Dance Collective centers around the practice of collaboration and provides a venue for more artistic voices in the Metro D.C. dance community.
Artists are natural entrepreneurs. In general, they are innovative, enthusiastic, hard-working, highly intelligent, and resourceful. That last attribute is the subject of this post…resourcefulness.
Entrepreneurs come up with a great idea, then go out and find the resources or develop the capabilities to “make it happen.” Or, they look at what they already have available and [...]
In only the last week I’ve heard about several innovative ways that musicians are using the internet to not only connect with one another, but to collaborate and produce finished pieces of music despite limitations of distance, time and physical space. Good ideas are meant for sharing…
A bunch of terrific organizations provide fiscal sponsorship and I was fortunate to meet and learn about them last week at the second Annual Gathering of the National Network of Fiscal Sponsors. The NNFS is dedicated to improving the practices, capabilities, and awareness of fiscal sponsorship in the nonprofit sector through education and advocacy. [...]
This piece originally appeared in the Fractured Atlas newsletter on July 15, 2005.
One of the most important strategic questions that arises repeatedly in business is whether to do something yourself or hire an outside party for the job. Theorists talk about “making” vs. “buying” or “insourcing” vs. “outsourcing”. These issues can spark passionate debates, and [...]
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