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Heal The World
I grew up maybe a half-hour from Newtown, Connecticut, in a town called Ridgefield that, today, became momentarily someplace you might know about when someone spotted someone with a gun (or...
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Margy Waller on What’s In a Frame
I’ve been reading The Victory Lab lately, an absolutely fascinating look at how elections are won and lost. And more than it’s about anything–even more than it’s about technological advancement–it’s...
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To My Parents on the Occasion of Good News
I found out a few days before Christmas that I’m going to be the new Vice President of Local Arts Advancement for Americans for the Arts. The official announcement will be made in a few days, and when...
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Quantifying Diversity
This is the first in a series of posts I’m planning to write about measuring and understanding goals around diversification of our boards, staffs, artists, art and audiences. I’m using this as an...
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Diversification as Disruption
Over at Museum 2.0, I’ve been sparring with Nina Simon and others about the new guidelines and funding strategy at the James Irvine Foundation, all emerging out of the revelation from Nina Simon that...
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The weight of white people in the world
Before I knew her, Tina, one of my best friends growing up, was made to stand in front of a room full of her white elementary school classmates on a Connecticut school day. In an effort to teach...
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All the People
Over on Facebook, my co-worker Sam Hurwitt reports an audition listing in San Francisco that requests “No obvious ethnicity” for a role. His friends, when asked, guessed that statement meant...
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Stages of Life
A small break from all the discussion of diversity. Adam Thurman from Mission Paradox will be guest-posting later this week on that–in the meantime, some thoughts on the fear that comes with change,...
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Giving Shape to Whiteness
Roberto Bedoya has asked some amazing questions lately, all designed to interrogate the concept of whiteness in the arts. He’s asked a few bloggers to think about the questions he has raised and write...
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Yes/And — tackling racial diversity by looking to the things adjacent
Today, in DC, people are sporting red shirts and red scarves, red hats and pants, socks, one assumes underwear–and many of them are wandering toward the Supreme Court, where today there is hope that...
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Carrying Forward, Clumsily
A week or so ago, I was in a cab from Chicago O’Hare into the city to speak at the National Alliance of Musical Theatre conference. The traffic was heavy and the cabbie was chatty, and at one point he...
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The Untenable Whiteness of Theatre
Today I’m foregoing my usual verbosity in favor of a picture. This is a combination of US Census data, data from the Arts Diversity Index report and data from another survey of 56 Bay Area theatre...
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Bloody Sunday
I was all set to write about something else, which I may write about later, but then something happened. I saw the news on Sunday that 19 people were shot at a Mother’s Day parade in New Orleans, and...
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The Arts Diversity Index
About a year ago, Theatre Bay Area got a small grant from the California Arts Council that allowed us to investigate how the diversity of the Bay Area theatregoing population differed from the...
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What You’re Worth
What is a person worth? Often, especially in the arts (but I think almost anywhere, whether out of necessity or guile), that doesn’t seem the question, really. It seems more often to come down to...
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On Why Lazy, Under-Researched Arts Journalism Just Sets the Diversity...
I wish I could say, full WASP, “I’m not angry, I’m just disappointed.” But I can’t; I’m angry, too. This conversation about diversity that we are having as an industry is too important to be lazy...
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The Artistic History of (Part of) a Nation
“Young Woman with Peonies” by Frederic Bazille, 1870. My daughter arrives to live with me in eight days, as my bi-coastal family reaches the end of phase one of our West-to-East transition and enters...
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Dinnervention 1: The Inaccessible
“Dialog”, 2004. by Roland Mayer. photo by Todd Holloway. The Djerassi Artists Retreat sits on the ridge of hills that cascade down to the Pacific Ocean, sloping deep into protected land and accessible...
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Dinnervention 2: For What’s Sake?
. At one point during the dinner, Nina Simon and I got into a few sentences of disagreement about where the line was between arts institutions and community centers—and whether there should be one at...
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Dinnervention 3: Happiness: Dinnervention and Disruption by Margy Waller
Margy Waller This is a guest post from Margy Waller, Senior Partner at the Topos Partnership and fellow Dinnerventionist. Margy has previously guest-posted for New Beans here. The Invitation One of...
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