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Top 10 Posts of 2023

Let the right loan in

Scope Creep: Defense against the dark arts

The art of letting go

Selling the unknown and unknowable

Do less, better

Your venue is not a backdrop, it's a character

The undertow of overhead

Why do we "hire" an arts experience?

Big decisions, out of context and in free-fall

Two questions to find your superfans

The reasons we give vs. the reasons we live by

A grant is a gift with strings

The beautiful budget

ArtsManaged: Origins of a Meme

The three questions of a job search

Sorting your lists into useful bits

Refer a Friend

Three stages of nonprofit boards

In Arts Management, the gift isn't simple

The money dance of source and use

The pyramid and the wheel

Value and the arts experience

How "personal projects" shape well-being

Three levels of attention and action

There's only one business model

Mutual Dependence Day

Churn, baby, churn

Climbing the ladder of control

Arts Management and the indecisive squirrel

Neutral questions and considered opinions

Some disassembly required

The Fundraising Trinity

Four conversations with uncertainty

New look, new location

YouTube Channel

Field Guide

Best practice is the worst

Beauty and the balance sheet

Three paths to action in Arts Management

Hosting, guesting, and ghosting in Arts Management

Doing the wrong thing righter

Arts Management, the parts, and the whole

Arts Management and the cost of virtue

Arts Management, ownership, and control

Ambition and capacity in Arts Management

In Arts Management, the gift isn't simple

Arts Management and the challenge of convention

Chasing beauty without losing balance

Make things and tell people

Hammers, nails, and Arts Management

Ten functions of Arts Management

Managing messes

Arts managers are action figures!

What is Arts Management anyway?