hosting-guesting

Hosting, guesting, and ghosting

Arts managers strive to be gracious hosts. But we are just as often, or even mostly, guests.

Jul 23

Auditing the visitor experience

Arts organizations are led and staffed by passionate insiders, which can leave them blind or blurry about everyone else.

May 14

Contracts and covenants

Nonprofit arts managers are bound not only by practical/tactical agreements, but also by durable, often unspoken commitments.

Mar 5

Navigating high-conflict personalities

The challenge and benefit of the BIFF response: brief, informative, friendly, and firm.

Jan 23

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

The built environment carries lots of baggage into any social experience. It's useful for arts managers to unpack it.

Nov 14, 2023

Hosting, guesting, and ghosting in Arts Management

Arts managers tend to focus on our role as host. But we are just as often, or even mostly, visitors in the worlds in which we work

Apr 18, 2023

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