Hope is Vital…But Is It Scalable?
Michael Rohd In 1991, I founded a theater-based civic dialogue program in Washington, DC called Hope Is Vital. It brought a group of local teens and a group of HIV+ men who were receiving services at a...
View ArticleThere is No Such Thing as ‘McArt’
MK Wegmann The topic of scalability, model projects, and replicability evokes the idea of franchising: perfect a process, carefully design the ingredients, control the actions of the people according...
View ArticleDefining, 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...
View ArticleSmall 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...
View ArticleThe (In)Efficiencies of Scale (Part One)
Michael Hickey ARTSBlog recently hosted a [Blog Salon] called: “Scaling Up: Does Size Matter?” The short answer is hell yes it does, but I disagree with a few of the writers about why. I found the best...
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