Arts & School Culture: More Than Friday Night Lights
We hear that organizational culture and climate can transform the workplace, in both positive or negative ways. Though most of us in the education arena would be hard pressed to...
The Funding Challenge
Effective arts education programs across the country have garnered a mix of public and private funds to enable their success. Very few (if any) school districts can do it on...
Marseille to Monaco
In a departure from my typical posts on arts education advocacy, I’m sharing some observations about a recent trip to Southern France in the spirit of “travel is good for...
Putting a Face on Lobbying for Arts Education
For some, lobbyist or lobbying are terms associated with shady dealings or hardball tactics. Not so fast. The lobbyists I have worked with in the arts education arena are highly principled, skilled...
Nashville Arts Magazine | ArtSmart
The source for all things creative in Nashville, NAM is a free monthly magazine published to provide Nashville with a high quality format to learn and enjoy the arts of...
Be the Good News
Most news stories today are rather grim. Whether you follow cable, broadcast or social media, the world seems out of sorts. It’s hard to sit through a newscast without feeling...
Inclusion Rider Take 2
Thanks to Frances McDormand’s Oscar acceptance speech, Inclusion Rider is a new shorthand code for diversity and inclusion. I hope Ms. McDormand doesn’t mind that I’m taking some liberties by...
Communications for Cause
Strategic communications is at the heart of advocacy success —the art of communicating effectively with targeted audiences in order to move decision makers through the use of mainstream, social, new...
Getting Started
Beginnings are hard. In advocacy work (as in life), sometimes it’s difficult to know where to start. Looking at Piet Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie, painted after Mondrian moved to New...
Cultivating Influentials
Let’s assume that most of us are not the final arbiters in making big decisions that affect our professional lives– unless you’re Mark Zuckerberg or Jeff Bezos, and I suspect...
