Cross-Training Across Generations: Current Challenges in Arts Administration

A NEW CROP of bright, talented individuals are rising in the ranks of the art administration sector. Often dubbed “emerging leaders,” this group is typically defined as under 35 years […]

Welcome, Dec 2010

It has been a good year. Entering the last month of 2010 provides me with the time to unwind, while enjoying the perennial holiday gatherings that always abound, and take […]

Poppin’ Fresh: The 12th Annual SF Hip Hop DanceFest

HIP HOP IS BIG BUSINESS. The genre that started with kids break dancing at New York block parties in the 1970s is now a requirement on So You Think You […]

Fearless Grantwriting

EVERY ARTS ORGANIZATION will have to defend a seemingly indefensible situation to a potential funder at some point. Your first instinct might be to do everything you can to avoid […]

Dancing After the Nonprofit is Gone

LOS LUPEÑOS DE SAN JOSÉ was founded in 1969 in San José, California. What began as a study-performance group formed to promote Mexican dance and culture grew over time to […]

Thinking Big

OVER THE MANY YEARS that I have been working with artists and arts organizations on institutional fundraising (aka grantwriting), I have learned that one of the most important jobs of […]

Remembering Weiferd Watts

PHOTOGRAPHER WEIFERD WATTS, a prolific dance photographer and my good friend of 11 years, passed away October 10, 2010 after a sudden heart attack. For over 25 years Weiferd captured […]

Repertoire Rights: The Legalities of Remounting Work

IN THE FILM THE LAST STATION, the Countess Sofia tries to drown herself after chancing upon the will of her husband, Leo Tolstoy. He has not left his prodigious body […]

Excavating a Unique Pairing: Between Joti Singh and Zenón Barrón

IN THE SPRING OF 2009 I interviewed Joti Singh and Zenón Barrón; at the time they were collaborating through Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange (CHIME), investigating a unique partnership and exploring […]

Got Space? Launching A New Online Directory of Performing Arts Spaces

HAVE SPACE? NEED SPACE? Starting November 15, the Bay Area Performing Arts Spaces (BAPAS) online resource holds the keys to hundreds of venues throughout the Bay Area. The BAPAS website […]