Water, Water (Not) Everywhere: Christine Destrempes
Featured Member Profile This Thanksgiving, will clean drinking water be one of the things you give thanks for? Perhaps you wouldn’t think of it, but visual artist Christine Destrempes would. She’s created a delicate, even shimmering, installation piece that drives home a devastating truth. Part of her “Art for Water” series, the piece, entitled 13,699, represents the number of people who die every day from lack of access to clean water. Christine, please tell us about how your installation 13,699 came to be. About seven years ago I read an article in The

Meeting the Leaders of Tomorrow
This week I was fortunate to have the opportunity to spend a couple of days in Madison, WI at the Bolz Center for Arts Administration. The center’s director, Andrew Taylor, invited me to meet with his MBA seminar students to discuss the state of the arts, Fractured Atlas’s business model, and other exciting things. This was the second time I’ve been invited to speak to MBA students with a non-profitty/artsy orientation, and I have to say it’s among my favorite audiences. I know the MBA as a degree has a somewhat dubious reputation, but these students are dedicat

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Face Lift
Just rolled out a modest face lift for the Fractured Atlas website: Wider pages with larger text for improved readability New homepage slideshow (w/ links to member profiles) Changed sidebar styling Other minor tweaks Whaddaya think? You guys are better designers than I am, so I’d love any constructive criticism. (Unconstructive criticism is only welcome if it’s funny.)

It Takes A Village: Far Corners Community Musical Theatre
Featured Member Profile Far Corners Community Musical Theatre (FCCMT) initiates and produces musical theatre shows in communities abroad that lack performing arts opportunities. The Honolulu-based organization, which has organized productions in China, Costa Rica and Mozambique, was founded on the belief that musical theatre as an art form can cross borders and that youth everywhere should have a chance to participate in the performing arts.  Founder and executive director Lisa Burns describes how FCCMT relies heavily on volunteer dedication and the willingness of their participants to try something — even man