The New York Times recently published its annual special section on museums. It features some interesting articles on crowd funding, special events, and new partnerships and also includes an article with long-time director of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philippe de Montebello. Click here to peruse all the articles. In other arts-related news, TCG [...]
A recent study by the American Association of Museums has found that attendance increased at museums nationwide during the past year, despite a drop in funding. Science centers and natural history museums saw the most gains in attendance, as did institutions in the Midwest and West. Factors cited for the increase include new programming as [...]
Certainly not the Arts Council of Snohomish County! This year, the Arts Council is completing their “Live, Learn, Create” capital campaign. In partnership with Artspace, the Council is creating a visual arts education center combined with 42 live/work spaces dedicated for artists. The Council is on the home stretch of their $6 million private fundraising [...]
Last month, I had the opportunity to see Michael Kaiser, the President of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, speak in Tacoma. The presentation was entitled “Arts in Crisis: A Kennedy Center Initiative.” The timing was convenient, as I had recently finished reading Kaiser’s book The Art of the Turnaround: Creating and [...]
We at The Collins Group spend a great deal of time thinking about the state of the nonprofit sector, both here at home in the Northwest and across the country. We share a great deal of this information amongst ourselves on a daily basis and with our clients, and wanted a way to share thoughts [...]
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