The View from Zero Gravity
Advice to an overworked arts manager
Here’s the summary of a conversation I recently had with a member of an Artist-Run Centre’s management collective. I sit on the Board, and chair the HR committee:
More opinion on the Creative Class
(from a posting I made to the Sirolli Institute Public Forum on April 21, 2007, which generated a little bit of a buzz) ....I apologize in advance for the length of this rant, but here goes.. The coveted Creative Class referred to by Florida, is that 'class' of...
The Creative ‘Class’: Did I Pass or Fail?
There has been something bugging me amidst all the ballyhoo about the arts driving the economy, the rise of the creative class and the cult of innovation. I live in a city swimming in creativity, stuffed with artists, overwhelmed with visual stimuli, intellectual...
Money and mindset and the arts…
money issues…. It seems to me that the people who were least interested in math and science, and perhaps who suffered failure in these because the methods used to teach them were not effective with us creative types, are the ones now wanting to offload responsibility...
Leading your own life
Leadership and entrepreneurial qualities are very similar. And career self-managers must develop these qualities in order to lead themselves in their own lives and livelihoods…. Leadership is generally assumed to be a set of skills and qualities that are applied in...
Careers in the Arts
It seems ironic to me – and reason for concern – that parents who have nurtured the creative and expressive nature of a child would still be frightened when the child says: I want to be a…. (dancer, an actor, a painter, a musician, etc fill in the blank with some...