Adam Forest Huttler

Real Name

Adam Forest Huttler

Last Seen

Aug 29, 2008 at 11:46 am

Location

New York, NY

Occupation

Executive Director, Fractured Atlas

My Work in the Arts

Acting, Blogging, Consulting, Cultural policy, Directing, Management, Music, Theatre, Writing

Interests

Artsy fartsy stuff, economics, internet technologies, open source software, politics

Seeking

Members to spread the good word about Fractured Atlas

Offering

All the stuff listed on this website.

Website

www.fracturedatlas.org

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Fractured Atlas Blog

• Join Fractured Atlas Community group on LinkedIn We’ve just created a “Group” on LinkedIn for members of the Fractured Atlas community. If you’ve got a LinkedIn profile and are interested in a little networking, you should consider joining the group. Posted on Aug 29, 2008
• Gentrification, Income Inequality, and Crime Today’s Metro New York reports on a scary crime wave in Williamsburg, Brooklyn: Of Brooklyn’s police precincts, Williamsburg’s 90th, which encompasses the gentrifying South Side plus its central and east sections, has seen the greatest rise in crime over the past year — 13.49 percent — according to Compstat data. The neighboring 94th precinct, which includes [...] Posted on Aug 28, 2008
• Where Do Residencies Reside? From our friends over at the Alliance of Artists Communities comes a great service — ArtistCommunities.org — a searchable database of national and international residency opportunities.  Want time and space to develop new work? Want to know more about opportunities for artists? A subscription to ArtistCommunities gives you access to the most comprehensive, accurate information source on artists’ [...] Posted on Aug 27, 2008
• How Design Can Save Democracy A great nation needs all kinds of heroes.  Soldiers.  Diplomats.  Defense attorneys.  Firemen.  Graphic designers? There is very little doubt that George W. Bush was elected President in large part thanks to a crappy ballot design.   (Really, it’s hard to imagine a worse layout.)  Following the 2000 election debacle, there was much talk of subpar ballots [...] Posted on Aug 27, 2008
• Obama’s Street Cred Watching the Democratic National Convention last night, I was struck by one of the most significant but rarely discussed aspects of a potential Obama presidency.  Barack Obama would be the first president in memory - to my knowledge the first since Teddy Roosevelt - to come from an urban background.  He grew up in Honolulu [...] Posted on Aug 26, 2008
• If only the list had gone to 26… On a Friday afternoon in the summer, what’s better than an opportunity for catty remarks and self-important smirking?  I sure can’t think of anything.  So sharpen those claws and prepare to bask in the glow of the 25 most powerful people in the nonprofit arts. Hmm…  Apparently I’m number 26 (or so says my mother). Feel free [...] Posted on Aug 22, 2008
• Replacing web advertising with contemporary art Check out Add-Art.  It’s an extension for the Firefox web browser (which if you aren’t using, you should be) that replaces most web advertising with images of contemporary art.  Here’s how the project is described on its site: Add-Art is a Firefox extension which replaces advertising images on web pages with art images from a curated [...] Posted on Aug 19, 2008
• What Artists Want, Need, and Desire: Generational Demands More results from our 2008 national survey aimed at better understanding your professional development needs. So far, we have discussed the universal and career phase needs of artists. Now, I’d like to quickly touch on some of the generational needs we discovered in our research. Generation Y (born between 1980-1994) - The older half of Gen [...] Posted on Aug 18, 2008
• What Artists Want, Need, and Desire: Career Phase Demands As mentioned, we conducted a national survey and a series of phone interviews to better understand the professional development needs of artists. In the last post, I outlined the most common needs expressed by your peers. In this post, I thought you might be interested in understanding how your needs varied by career phase. Emerging Artists [...] Posted on Aug 11, 2008
• Celebrate 10 years of Fractured Atlas! Just wanted to update everyone on our 10th Anniversary Party plans since the event is rapidly approaching (save the date - Friday Sept. 19th!). We will be grooving to tunes provided by The Vintage DJ, dazzled by exciting raffle prizes and astounded by the brilliantly beautiful new, LEED certified, Galapagos Art Space where the event is [...] Posted on Aug 11, 2008
• press relations 101 If you are new to the game of getting press coverage or need a good refresher course, check out this helpful article written by Ron Evans, Director, Local Marketing & Technology at Artsopolis Marketing Partnership & Artsopolis.com. Posted on Aug 6, 2008
• Feed autodiscovery for member blogs A couple of months ago, I announced support for blog feeds in member profiles.  Today I want to point out a neat little feature of that tool which may have gone unnoticed: feed autodiscovery. What’s that, you ask?  Aha!  Those of you asking that question are exactly the target audience for the feature.  As it turns [...] Posted on Aug 6, 2008
• What You Want, Need, and Desire: Universal Demands In March 2008, we conducted a national survey and a series of phone interviews to better understand the professional development needs of artists. I thought you might be interested in what your peers described as their needs, wants, and desires. Sometimes it makes us feel better to know that we are not alone; that others [...] Posted on Aug 4, 2008
• Publicly Traded Novel? Novelist Tao Lin has invented a provocative new way for artists to sell out. I am offering 60% of the U.S. royalties of my second novel to “the public”. I am selling 6 shares (of 10% of the U.S. royalties of my second novel) for $2000 per share. For each share you own you will receive 10% of [...] Posted on Aug 4, 2008
• Attack of the Killer MBAs The Financial Times reports on the increasing number of MBAs working in the non-profit sector: In the past, executives seeking qualifications that would help them in the non-profit sector headed to policy schools or took programmes in education or non-profit management. “Now a lot more people are going the MBA route,” says Mel Ochoa, who graduated [...] Posted on Aug 1, 2008
• Technology in the Arts Conference The 2008 Technology in the Arts Conference will be taking place in Pittsburgh, PA, from October 9th-11th.  Both Fractured Atlas’ Executive Director, Adam Huttler, and Director of Member Services, Adam J. Natale, will be conducting seminars during the conference.  And, since Fractured Atlas members can receive a 25% registration discount, we encourage you to attend [...] Posted on Jul 29, 2008
• PolicyArchive.org If you’re feeling wonky or if you’re just looking for respected sources to cite in your next grant application, you should check out PolicyArchive.org, a new website from the Center for Governmental Studies. PolicyArchive is an innovative, new digital archive of global, non-partisan public policy research. It makes use of the power, efficiency, and economy of [...] Posted on Jul 24, 2008
• The Appeal of Transparency (Even About Failure!) I spent the first half of this week at the Fortune Tech Conference. Usually when I go to events like this they’re totally arts-centric, so it was (mostly) refreshing to be surrounded by folks with a completely different perspective. (Note to Andrew Taylor: thanks to everyone’s obsession with VC-funding and industry gossip, this [...] Posted on Jul 24, 2008
• Viral Documentaries I don’t have the stats to prove it, but I’d guess that a surprisingly high percentage (maybe even a majority) of the films produced in the US in a given year are independent documentaries.  Certainly that’s true of the 1100+ independent filmmakers in the Fractured Atlas membership, many of whom participate in our fiscal sponsorship [...] Posted on Jul 17, 2008
• Will (net)work for audience… So, I am a bit of a personal finance freak. I came across a post today on one of my favorite p.f. blogs that immediately related to my work here. The post offers GREAT advice for artists who are trying to build an audience, especially if you have little experience in networking. I encourage those [...] Posted on Jul 17, 2008
• Sorry, You’ve Got the Wrong Number Many of our members (mostly those in NY State) received a healthcare-related mailing from us in the past few days.  Unfortunately, a typographical error on the part of the design firm we used resulted in the wrong phone number being printed in the tri-fold brochure.  If you tried to call us and found yourself speaking [...] Posted on Jul 15, 2008
• National Performing Arts Convention Rehash: Issue #3 If you haven’t checked out my last post about the National Performing Arts Convention, you can view it here. Quick intro:  Throughout the week, convention attendees convened in small groups (”caucuses”) to discuss topics/issues effecting the field at large.  At the conclusion of the convention, everyone who remained met in a large group to decide how [...] Posted on Jul 14, 2008
• To Blog or Not to Blog? Via Donor Power Blog, a helpful list of F.A.Q.s for non-profits (artists count) thinking about whether and how they should be blogging.  Much of the advice boils down to: don’t do unless it serves your mission and you’re prepared to do it in a manner that is authentic, sincere, and committed.  Worth a read. P.S. About [...] Posted on Jul 14, 2008
• An Upgrade from Court Jesters Not sure how I missed this one, but last month the US Senate introduced a bill that nearly doubles the standard income tax deduction threshold for performing artists. The bill also: Allows the $30,000 limit (which is currently $16,000) to be applied on a per-individual rather than per-return basis, which is a boon to households with [...] Posted on Jul 9, 2008
• The Immortal Foundation Ray D. Madoff, writing in this morning’s NY Times, laments the news that Leona Helmsley bequeathed most of her $8 billion fortune to a foundation dedicated to the care and welfare of dogs: The charitable deduction constitutes a subsidy from the federal government. The government, in effect, makes itself a partner in every charitable bequest. In [...] Posted on Jul 9, 2008