- Here's a great post by Margy Waller about changing the focus from publicity about the arts being elitist: Everyone Wants to Live in a Special Place. A quote: "We have to change the landscape so the arts are not so vulnerable in the public forum. Business leaders, indeed all leaders, need to see the arts as necessary — not just nice."
- And one by Wally Hurst on establishing personal relationships with businesses: The Survey, The Public, and The Arts.
A quote: "For our organization, businesses that continued funding at the same or higher levels have all come, without exception, from businesses with exceptionally strong personal ties to us."
-- Janet Brown on the recent flap about the National Portrait Gallery's removal of a controversial art work: Stand Up, Don't Back Down - Cultural Wars Revisited (Janet's Blog). A quote: "Backbone. I thought we had developed backbone over the past twenty years through those battles of the culture wars."
-- Down to earth, clear advice from Ciara Pressler: Fractured Atlas Blog : The #1 Marketing Mistake Artists Make. A quote: "When you’re marketing, it’s not about you. Like it or not, especially in the social media/reality TV age, it’s about ME. "
-- Post-election analysis and suggestions for the arts from Barry Hesenius on Barry's Blog. A quote: "If 40% of all the arts organization would join their local chambers, and work into postions of authority, we could virtually take over the whole structure by 2016. "
-- Iowa leadership development consultant Shirley Poertner on Leading in a VUCA World. A quote: "Leaders in this kind of environment have to be at their best on a personal level, self-aware, optimistic, focused amidst distractions, cool, calm and collected under pressure."
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