Last Minute Hurricane Tech Checklist
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With Hurricane Irma heading toward Florida, I wanted to offer up a quick checklist of website related items arts orgs can use to help anticipate and mitigate any potential outages. Place a notice on your website indicating any hours the office will be closed during the storm. Don’t forget to remove any notice after the storm is passed and you’re back to regular operating hours. Contact your web provider (or hosting provider if you manage ...
Flooded Costume Shop Or Music Library? Art Conservators May Be Able To Help
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If you are in the performing arts and your material assets suffer damage, be it natural disaster, leaky pipes or someone eating where they shouldn’t, you might not consider visual art conservators and restorers as a solution. The fact is the work that many of the regional preservation groups do encompasses projects outside visual arts and architectural features. They are much better equipped to effect repairs and recovery to sensitive damaged materials than most industrial and ...
Evaluation Of The Arts By The Arts
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Arts organizations are asked to create dozens of reports every year evaluating their programs to justify the funding they receive so you probably aren’t inclined to embark on an additional self-evaluation of their own. However, the group, IETM – International network for contemporary performing arts, recently issued a self-evaluation tool kit specifically designed for arts organizations with the goal of empowering groups to take control of the evaluation narrative. IETM say that many funders employ ...
Thank you for the authoritative read on this issue. To me, being able to actually see the icon in the…