It's Never Going to Work: A Tale of Art and Nonprofits in the Minneapolis Community

It's Never Going to Work: A Tale of Art and Nonprofits in the Minneapolis Community
Author: Jamie Schumacher
Publisher: Jamie Schumacher
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2018-09
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781732635005

In It's Never Going To Work Jamie Schumacher, a tireless advocate of the arts, shines a spotlight on the Northeast Arts community, nonprofits, and Altered Esthetics. The nonprofit gallery she founded, Altered Esthetics continues to play a pivotal role in the Twin Cities art scene. This light hearted memoir offers real-life insights on founding a collaborative art space and provide critical resource to those engaged in, and struggling with, grassroots development. Vignette-style chapters peppered with illustrations by Athena currier energize the story and reflect Schumacher's own infections optimism and drive. Schumacher candidly shares the struggles and triumphs of starting a nonprofit in a new city, maintaining sustainability, and transitioning away from a healthy organization as it continues to thrive. The book is as much a love letter to Minneapolis as it is a compendium of encouragement who's ever been told, It's Never Going to Work.

Dead Feminists

Dead Feminists
Author: Chandler O'Leary
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-10-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1632170574

A national bestseller, this lushly illustrated book is an inclusive celebration of inspiring women who transformed the world and created social change. Dead Feminists is a gorgeously illustrated letterpress-inspired book showcasing feminist history with a vision for a better future. Based on the beloved letterpress poster series of the same name, this book brings feminist history to life, profiling 27 unforgettable forebears of the modern women’s movement such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Gwendolyn Brooks, Rachel Carson, and more. Across eras and industries, passions and geographies, this collection of diverse, progressive, and perseverant women faced what looked like insurmountable odds and yet, still, they persisted. Dead Feminists, which features a foreword by Jill Lepore, author of The Secret History of Wonder Woman, is an illuminating and innovative reminder that women can be extraordinary agents of change. The future is female, but in many ways so is the past. Dead Feminists takes feminist inspiration to a new level of artistry and shows how ordinary and extraordinary women have made a difference throughout history (and how you can too). Featured Feminists: Adina De Zavala Alice Paul Annie Oakley Babe Zaharias Eleanor Roosevelt Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Zimmerman Emma Goldman Fatima al-Fihri Gwendolyn Brooks Harriet Tubman Imogen Cunningham Jane Mecom Marie Curie Queen Lili’uokalani Rachel Carson Rywka Lipszyc Sadako Sasaki Sappho Sarojini Naidu Shirley Chisholm Thea Foss Virginia Woolf Washington State Suffragists

Work Won't Love You Back

Work Won't Love You Back
Author: Sarah Jaffe
Publisher: Bold Type Books
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2021-01-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1568589387

A deeply-reported examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives. You're told that if you "do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life." Whether it's working for "exposure" and "experience," or enduring poor treatment in the name of "being part of the family," all employees are pushed to make sacrifices for the privilege of being able to do what we love. In Work Won't Love You Back, Sarah Jaffe, a preeminent voice on labor, inequality, and social movements, examines this "labor of love" myth—the idea that certain work is not really work, and therefore should be done out of passion instead of pay. Told through the lives and experiences of workers in various industries—from the unpaid intern, to the overworked teacher, to the nonprofit worker and even the professional athlete—Jaffe reveals how all of us have been tricked into buying into a new tyranny of work. As Jaffe argues, understanding the trap of the labor of love will empower us to work less and demand what our work is worth. And once freed from those binds, we can finally figure out what actually gives us joy, pleasure, and satisfaction.

Age of Agility

Age of Agility
Author: Andrew J Wilt
Publisher: Sustainable Evolution
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2017-12-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9780998415208

The biggest lie we were told is that a college education will prepare us for a lifelong career. If you go to college or put in your four years and earn a bachelor's degree, you will find a rewarding and stimulating career with a comfortable salary and benefits. The reality is, there is a huge skill gap between the classroom and the workplace, and this skill gap is the main reason I watched countless friends struggle post-school to find a meaningful career. While we sent out resumes and cleaned up our LinkedIn profiles, an entire generation of college graduates moved back home to live with friends or family because we couldn't afford to pay rent thanks to being, on average, $35,000 in debt to student loan companies. Here's why: We are living in an Age of Agility. The world is changing so quickly, higher education can't keep pace and as a result, we aren't given the tools to prepare us for a sustainable and rewarding career. College graduates are not prepared to enter the workforce. Unlike other pop business books, I'm not selling an empty box of "dream big and work hard." This is a book about defining the path to your dream and working smart. Rather than focusing only on the current state of the industry, this book is about the skills you need to keep pace with the industry as it changes. No matter how the industry shifts, agile skills-skills like social and emotional intelligence, communication, self-management, and creative problem-solving-will always be relevant. Instead of teaching you what to think, this book will teach you how to think. If you like where this is going, flip to Why Read This Book-there's a good chance Age of Agility was written for you.

The Book of (More) Delights

The Book of (More) Delights
Author: Ross Gay
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2023-09-19
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1643755471

From bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet, a book of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in the world around us. In Ross Gay’s new collection of small, daily wonders, again written over the course of a year, one of America’s most original voices continues his ongoing investigation of delight. For Gay, what delights us is what connects us, what gives us meaning, from the joy of hearing a nostalgic song blasting from a passing car to the pleasure of refusing the “nefarious” scannable QR code menus, from the tiny dog he fell hard for to his mother baking a dozen kinds of cookies for her grandchildren. As always, Gay revels in the natural world—sweet potatoes being harvested, a hummingbird carousing in the beebalm, a sunflower growing out of a wall around the cemetery, the shared bounty from a neighbor’s fig tree—and the trillion mysterious ways this glorious earth delights us. The Book of (More) Delights is a volume to savor and share.

Your Museum Needs a Podcast

Your Museum Needs a Podcast
Author: Hannah Hethmon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Museum techniques
ISBN: 9781723931024

Want to start a podcast for your organization, but unsure of where to begin? Looking for new ways to meaningfully engage your audience? Need to convince leadership that a podcast is the right move for your museum, history organization, library, religious institution, or cultural nonprofit? This practical and action-oriented beginner's guide will show you how to create a great podcast on a budget, from choosing a topic to reaching the right audience. Each chapter is tailored to the needs of cultural nonprofits, giving you a detailed roadmap for producing a podcast that supports your institutional mission. Inside, you'll find simple, concise advice and instruction that gives you just what you need to get started, without any treatises on sound engineering or editing. All the unnecessary stuff has been left out so you can just read the book, follow the instructions, and get started without breaking the bank or wasting hours wading through incomplete instructions on the internet. In Your Museum Needs a Podcast, award-winning podcaster Hannah Hethmon will teach you how to unlock the power of podcasting at your institution through: A whole chapter on developing a show concept that will accomplish your organization's goals and pitching it to your stakeholders. A gear guide with just what you need to know to get started and tailored equipment recommendations. Detailed instructions on how to set-up your recording equipment, get great sound quality (without having to learn sound engineering), and edit episodes using free online software. A breakdown of what makes a podcast compelling and how you can use the art of storytelling to create a show that your listeners will love. Strategies for launching your show and building a devoted listener base from day one. Answers to common questions like where to how long episodes should be, where to find free music, which hosting service to use, how to hire outside experts, and more. Free worksheets and templates to help you implement the book's lessons. Read this book, and you'll know everything you need to start a podcast for your organization and turn your audience into devoted fans. What are you waiting for? How long will you wait to start engaging your core audience, reaching new audiences who would love your institution, and increasing your online profile? Scroll to the top now and click the Buy Now" Button!

"Starving" to Successful

Author: J. Jason Horejs
Publisher: Reddot Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780615568324

Provides insight into the art business from the perspective of a gallery owner.

Paul and the Person

Paul and the Person
Author: Susan Grove Eastman
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2017
Genre: Bibles
ISBN: 0802868967

In this book Susan Grove Eastman presents a fresh and innovative exploration of Paul's participatory theology in conversation with both ancient and contemporary conceptions of the self. Juxtaposing Paul, ancient philosophers, and modern theorists of the person, Eastman opens up a conversation that illuminates Paul's thought in new ways and brings his voice into current debates about personhood.

What Do Artists Know?

What Do Artists Know?
Author: James Elkins
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2012
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0271054247

"Brings together historians, philosophers, critics, curators, artists, and educators to ask how art is and should be taught. Explores the theories that underwrite art education at all levels, the pertinent history of art education, and the most promising current conceptualizations"--Provided by publisher.

Deepening Community Engagement in Higher Education

Deepening Community Engagement in Higher Education
Author: A. Hoy
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2013-09-18
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1137315989

This volume argues for reexamination of the field of community engagement, suggests that the most effective way forward requires rethinking the structures of traditional higher education, and points to the growing emergence of evidence-based best practices that can catalyze a renaissance in community engagement and in higher education.