Author: thinaar

When you are 28 and you say you’re re-evaluating whether or not you should give up, people ignore you. At 35 people encourage you to keep at it. At 40 everyone understands where the question is coming from.

I am following Change_for_Iran on Twitter, which is pointing me to some photo sets and other information on what is happening in Iran right now. Here are two links. I don’t entirely know the value of watching – on one hand it feels voyeuristic. I’m hoping the value is to know, and that’s enough to…

An artist named Kahlil Almustafa put the advice some of us gave on the Field’s Smackdown panel last month to good use. I’m so happy that what we talked about had a direct impact on him and his working partner. See here: An Honest Conversation About Money

Morgan v P Pecelli and Andy Horwitz (aka “I’d rather watch the fat kid dance” and “Culturebot”) have a couple posts up in response to this year’s TCG conference. http://culturebot.org http://idratherwatchthefatkiddance.blogspot.com/ I was there for several hours, accepting an award given to ERS for innovation in the field. Taken together, Morgan and Andy’s posts, plus…

Here is what I said in my ‘prepared’ statement at The Field’s Smackdown event last week, as a couple people have asked to see it. ** “It used to be that the arts were, or seemed to be, an exceptional and broken economy. So many people were making so much money out there while we…

I was on a panel that was part of The Field’s New Economy Smackdown last night. It was fun and smart and too long, but there’s a lot to say. An encouraging thing I’m seeing in discussions like this is that they are including many stakeholders at once – from artists to presenters to funders…

My friend Susanna Speier asked me to write some political haikus for mother’s day, which have been posted on her Huffington Post blog. Please enjoy, Mom. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susanna-speier/politiku-for-mothers-day_b_201060.html

I couldn’t sleep the other night so posted onto Claudia LaRocco’s blog conversation about arts funding. To read what went down, go HERE Hopefully more conversations like this are going to go on. Will keep you posted about that. Thanks to Claudia, and to Morgan Von Prelle Pecelli, who provided the sourdough starter of substance…