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 [...]
Excuse me for being M.I.A. over the last month, but I was busy producing the National Black Arts Festival’s 1st Annual Winter Ball (“The Art of Change”), featuring special guests Dr. Cornel West and Big Boi from Outkast. I won’t go into all the details of the event (although it was fabulous!!), but I do [...]
A couple of weeks ago I announced the launch of Fractured U. The response we got from that announcement was among the most enthusiastically positive we’ve received about any new program or service in years. I’m delighted that the artists in our membership are finding this kind of training to be as useful [...]
My undergraduate degree is in theatre. For the most part, my time in college was spent rolling around on the floor and exhaling on a hum. This did a lovely job of teaching me how to “project” to the rafters, but it taught me virtually nothing about how to actually make a living [...]
As part of my service to the Fractured Atlas community, I read a lot of boring finance and economics stuff so that you don’t have to. Among my favorite sources is The Big Picture by Barry Ritholtz. Today Barry made some observations about our industry that are worth heeding:
[T]he writers strike has motivated [...]
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