Supporting Female Artists Year Round
Every March, organizations post on social media about female composers, female artists, female conductors, etc. March is Women’s History Month, so those posts are definitely timely and appropriate. But, we should be highlighting and celebrating and supporting female artists year round, not just in one month. (Yes, this same argument goes for highlighting and celebrating and performing African American artists not just in February and Hispanic artists not just in October, and so on and ...
Looking for Social Media Content? Try A Swap!
Wired reporter Liz Stinson published a February, 2016 article about the February 2 #MuseumInstaSwap where 18 visual arts museums in New York City swapped social media content for the day. Most organizations are all about promoting their own exhibits/performances/artists on their social media platforms…nothing wrong with that. But, this InstaSwap gave museums the opportunity to find common threads between their own collection and their partner organization’s collection. And, I suspect, was a great opportunity to cultivate new ...
Instagram for Arts Orgs: What You Need To Know About Filters
Once you’ve got your Instagram account set up and have made goals and content decisions, now, you’ll need to start posting pictures to your profile. This is the fun part. Like other social media and mobile phone cameras, the Instagram app gives users the opportunity to edit their pictures and to add filters to pictures, which are pre-determined and set combinations of various photographic settings. A theater’s light board has one set level that makes the stage go ...
Thank you for the authoritative read on this issue. To me, being able to actually see the icon in the…