Mellon Foundation artist survey

Artists – help gather some data. I just took this survey, and I think it’s worthwhile to participate. The questions are about income and health insurance, work/life balance, etc.: in other words, stuff that’s really important to artists. Under ordinary circumstances, I wouldn’t write a full blog post about a survey. But the Mellon Foundation …

Medieval Guild, Anyone?

So this is hypothetical-business-model-for-modern-artists-type-post. On the latest episode of Actually Happening, we were discussing a secret society called The Supreme Tribe of Ben Hur. They got started after a secret society promoter (actual job!) asked the author for secret society rights (really). The members were quite silly, like the Freemasons, before becoming the USA Life …