Loving Your Money
Yesterday was Valentine’s Day. And nothing says Happy Valentine’s Day like an article on frugality, which is perhaps, why I absolutely adore reading the Sunday Times over coffee every Sunday morning. This week, “Pinching Pennies in the Right Places” […]
2015 Year In Review
969 People Strong 2015 was quite a year. We served 969 people. 969 people! Thanks for being part of our community. Who Were the 969? Some attended boot camps. Some came to workshops. Some took online classes through Starting […]
Community Connections
The below post was written by Elaine for the Clark Hulings Fund’s blog and it was originally published in December 2015. Elaine is a quarterly contributor to the Fund’s online publication. Working in the arts comes with some pretty […]
Difficult Conversations
Sometimes it’s hard to talk about the world to our children. As the horrors around the world—Beirut, Paris, Baghdad, and more—evolved last week, the news was everywhere. The front page of our Sunday paper had large headlines, which my daughter […]
Friends of Friends
Lately we’ve been spending a lot of time with friends and friends-of-friends. How lucky we are to be surrounded by such an incredible community of professionals, artists, and professional artists. In the spirit of our friendly conversations lately, we thought […]
What a Big Mac Can Teach You About Value
Huge thanks to The Clark Hulings Fund for the invitation to share this blog post! See the original posting here. While you’re there, check out the amazing work the fund is doing for artists. In college, I was fascinated […]
What’s To Come
Flexible Ambiguity & the Creative Entrepreneur Julie Taggart, the Dean of the School of Studio Arts at the Columbus College of Art & Design talks about “flexible ambiguity” in the context of managing change. What I love about this phrase […]
Think Like an Entrepreneur
This post by Elaine Grogan Luttrull originally appeared as a guest post for the Evans Consulting Group. Can entrepreneurship be taught? Or is it an inherent set of traits found in some, but not others? I’d argue there […]
Bad Habits of Arts Organizations (First in a Series)
I read an article by Lolly Daskal from Inc. a few weeks ago, and I can’t stop thinking about it. Daskal generally writes about leadership topics, but this post, “8 Deadly Ways to Kill Employee Motivation,” focused more on the […]
April 2015 Tasks
It’s spring and time to start celebrating colors and the season’s renewal. How’s that growing business? Flourishing along with the tulips, I hope, without being too saturated with administrative tasks that limit your creative time. To keep your artistic side […]
