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Economies and Diseconomies of Scale in the Arts
Ian David Moss How does scale influence impact in the arts? In 2007, back when I was a fresh-faced grad student, I actually addressed this question head on in the eighth post ever published on...
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Shared Outcomes and Collective Impact for Scaling Up
Victor Kuo What are funders interested in scale and results talking about these days? A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of presenting at the Grantmakers in Arts 2012 Conference in Miami. This year’s...
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The Baltimore Art + Justice Project: A Question of Scope, Not Scale
Karen Stults At the Baltimore Art + Justice Project, we generally do not debate the merits of scale. We are a citywide project based in Baltimore. Our scale is fixed. What we have wrestled with,...
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Questions to Ask Before Addressing Scale
Judi Jennings Does size matter? Of course it does. But is this the right question to ask first? How about approaching the question of size by first asking how arts, culture, and philanthropy advance...
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Creating, Collaborating, Connecting with Art, Activism, and the Internet
Xavier Cortada At the end of the last millennium, when the internet was young, I installed two webcams in my studio and invited people watching me out in cyberspace to share their ideas in a chat room....
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Defining, and Scaling, Our Terms
Andrew Taylor Before we can have a useful conversation about taking cultural enterprises or community arts efforts “to scale,” we need to define what we mean by that. “Going to scale” usually means...
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Go Deep to Go Wide
Attendees enjoy an Allied Media Conference session. Organizers often believe we have to choose between breadth and depth. Do we prioritize meaningful relationships or strive to “reach” the greatest...
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Scaling Out Like a Saguaro Cactus
Roberto Bedoya I don’t have a great talent to align easily with authority…one could say I have an allergic response to it…so when I was asked to write about “scaling up”, my head began to ache and I...
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To Scale or Not to Scale, There Are Many Questions
Kathie de Nobriga In the last 15 years or so, I have worked as a consultant to many nonprofit organizations as they undertake strategic planning, and if there’s one mantra I repeat, time after time,...
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An Artist Reflects on Growth through the Eyes of His Community
Regin Igloria Staying small sounds a bit counter-intuitive to creative types, especially artists. Take into consideration the many years of art school where teachers keep telling students to “work...
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Small Enough to Succeed
Doug Borwick I have, for most of my life, been suspicious of the “growth is good” assumption that we often make in this country or did as I was growing up. (Sometimes when I replay in my mind the...
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Eugene O’Neill’s Grant Writer Walks Into A Bar….
Bill O’Brien …and spots the dramatist hunched over in a corner booth, scribbling in his notebook. He walks over to the playwright, drops the first draft of Long Day’s Journey Into Night on the table...
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Collective Impact and the Wisdom of Slow Culture
Pomegranate Center works with communities to imagine, plan, and create shared public spaces designed to encourage social integration and build local identity. In the world of commerce scaling up has a...
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Blog Salon Recap: So, Does Size Matter?
Joanna Chin As the newest staff member on the Animating Democracy team, reflecting on how our past has informed present work has been illuminating. By placing individual artists and organizations such...
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Scaling a Project: As Easy As Alpha, Beta, Charlie
KJ Sanchez As the CEO of American Records, a theater company devoted to making work that chronicles our time/work that serves as a bridge between people, scale is always on my mind and an important...
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