The Teaching Artist Project (TAP) has given me hope. Hope is an abstract noun. We can’t see it, but we can feel the abstraction. This feeling was awakened when ruminating on my final project for my fieldwork concentration: Arts Education Administration. I chose the Arts Education Administration fieldwork because I wanted to gain formal knowledge on project development, grant-writing, and how I could use my teaching artistry to enhance my administrative skills, and reciprocall

Today I listened to a webinar entitled "Starting a Nonprofit: Upsides, Downsides, and Alternatives" presented by the Pro Bono Partnership. It was very educational if not super exciting, but then again much of the work we do in arts administration is not always very exciting. The first spark of righteous creative empowerment fades as soon as you have to figure out all of the mundane, business and tax implications of the road ahead. Why would you ever want to start a nonprofit