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Jan. 5, 2026. Hey, look! 2025 is now behind us…and we made it! In addition to our individual trials and triumphs (hopefully you saw more of the latter), many of us also struggled with what my husband likes to call, “General existential doom and gloom”: anxiety about the state of our world and what we — as artists, as educators, as citizens — can do about it...

May 19, 2025. “Wait — you have an eclipse on your Birthday??” We were sitting on the porch off the main hall at MacDowell, in Peterborough, NH, chatting after dinner, and one of the other Fellows — a Chinese-American poet, and also a dedicated astrologer — was reviewing my natal chart. It was October 14, 2023, the date of an annular solar eclipse. It was also my 59th Birthday...

December 3, 2024. I realize I'm biased when I say this, but my husband is pretty amazing. Take for instance the work he does as Asst. Vice President for Community Relations at Premier Members Credit Union, here in Colorado, where he oversees the credit union's many sponsorship arrangements with local non-profits as well as programs in sustainability, corporate and social responsibility, and more. But I'm not posting here to brag about him (though I'm happy to do that). Today I want to look at a specific program that he's created that is truly innovative, and should serve as a model for arts organizations looking to expand programming and garner more corporate sponsorship...

November 16, 2023.��I’m just off a three week residency at MacDowell, and it was nothing short of transformational. As I post this it’s exactly one month since I left, yet part of me remains in that magical place. The process of transitioning from “leaving part of myself behind at MacDowell” to “bringing MacDowell back with me into my daily life” is ongoing...and complex. So this is an unusual “Field Notes”...

January 24, 2023.��A month or so ago I posted the first part of two-part edition of “Field Notes” in which I began contemplating what’s next for the performing arts industry...

October 11, 2021.��Two weeks ago the CU-Boulder College of Music officially opened its new wing to the Warner Imig Music Building, a 50,000 square-foot addition that houses rehearsal spaces, studios, classrooms, a wellness studio...

February, 23��2021. A critical component of our nation’s recovery from the pandemic – both economically and socially – will be to fund a significant bail-out of our arts and culture industries...

"I honestly don't know how we come out of this. If I were a student again I'd be leaving music school to do something else." My colleague sighed, a look of utter defeat on her face. "What do I tell these kids about their future?"��I didn't have a good answer for her...

Feb. 11, 2020.��Say the word “team” to me and the first thing I’m likely to think of is getting picked last in gym class when teams were being chosen, and inevitably hearing a whining sigh along the lines of, “Oh [expletive]! Not��Nytch.” This would usually be followed by my justifying their disappointment...

December 3, 2019.��Two weeks back the ECM sponsored an event called Nour•ish, a local installment of a nationwide initiative to find common ground among disparate groups and build community through humanity’s two great unifiers: music and food. The brainchild of my colleague...

October 12, 2019.��Greetings and welcome to a new publication from the Entrepreneurship Center for Music at CU-Boulder! For some time I’ve been wondering about how best to communicate not just the activities of the ECM, our students, and our graduates, but also to discuss issues in the field of arts entrepreneurship education, the Boulder entrepreneurial ecosystem, and my...