More food for thought
We Look Weird in This Outfit (Or, It’s Funny Because It’s True)
Buster Keaton and Kathryn McGuire in The Navigator A few months ago, my ArtsPool colleague Sarah Maxfield and I were invited to give a presentation about ArtsPool at the All-Ireland Performing Arts Conference, after which we also gave a brief Read More…
Resources for Humans, Not Human Resources
As employees, we often think of “human resources” as our go-to for employee services and benefits, the department that’s supposed to look out for us and respond to issues that arise. While these elements are indeed within the scope of Read More…
Out of Town Try-out
Earlier this month, Max Dana and I traveled to Limerick, Ireland to give a presentation about ArtsPool at the All-Ireland Performing Arts Conference (APAC). We were invited by dynamic thinker and arts producer Róise Goan, and we were delighted to Read More…
Stronger Together
Shortly after publishing the concept paper on Collective Insourcing that Guy mentioned in his initial post, he and I were sitting at a café on Atlantic Avenue slugging coffee and wrestling with the deeper details of how this thing was Read More…
On Alien Technology
A few years ago I was at the home of an artist friend who also works as a high-level software developer for a small but well-regarded software company. As I was leaving, I noticed that the wall behind his computer Read More…
Arts and the Sharing Economy
As Sarah mentioned in her recent post, a cornerstone of our research and inspiration for ArtsPool is linked to the sharing economy. At its heart, the sharing economy and its dramatic rise has exposed a shift from, “…a world where Read More…
Some Guiding Research
On Sunday, February 23rd, I had the pleasure of participating on a panel (Arts Research Now: NYC Dance in Context) at the Dance/NYC Symposium, hosted at the Gibney Dance Center. On the panel with me were: Anne Dunning of Arts Read More…
How We Started
As a teenager, once or twice I prepared mailings for a publication that my mother was managing. She taught me that I could accomplish a lot in a small amount of time if I approached it systematically. I also understood Read More…