Who Pays For This? Content Ideas

Lately, it feels like every week, another major tour is being quietly cancelled because the seats aren’t selling.The music industry has a new diagnosis: Blue Dot Fever.It’s named after the blue dots on Ticketmaster seating maps — the unsold seats that keep multiplying.Meghan Trainor. Zayn. Post Malone. Jelly Roll. The Pussycat Dolls. Among the... See more

What I realize now that I couldn’t recognize then is that when creative people aren’t creating, they slowly go insane.

Wilde pointed to this year’s Academy Award nominations as an example. Asked if after the freedom, and unorthodox process with which she made “The Invite” – which, as Wilde details in the video above, included weeks of workshopping the script with the cast and figuring out how exactly to end the movie while on set – what would it take for her to... See more

So when pressure increases, systems fund what they can explain.

This is the hard part—and the opportunity.

If the arts are to be treated as essential infrastructure, not enrichment, we have to evolve how we demonstrate impact. That means translating what we know to be true into decision-grade evidence: belonging, mental well-being, workforce... See more

Arts organizations are routinely evaluated by budgets, attendance, or financial efficiency - while the real public value of the work lives in belonging, empathy, learning, civic connection, and well-being.