MarcyKate Connolly

Middle Grade & Young Adult Author

Tag: arts

Intellectual Property Rights v. Debt

I just read this arti­cle and it made me sad.  Pho­tog­ra­pher Annie Lei­bovitz may lose the rights to her art­work because she used it as col­lat­eral to obtain a loan to fend off her mount­ing debts. Lei­bovitz faces a Tues­day dead­line to repay a $24-million loan from a New York art-finance com­pany. Art Cap­i­tal Group advanced […]

2 Comments by  /  September 5, 2009  /  Posted in: linkedin, nonprofit
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To Text or Not To Text, That is the Question…

I haven’t decided what side of the fence I’m on yet, but I can see both argu­ments. On one hand, tex­ting could pro­vide an inno­v­a­tive mar­ket­ing oppor­tu­nity to reach out to the cov­eted “younger audi­ence,” but on the other could result in alien­at­ing long­time patrons who don’t want any activ­ity hap­pen­ing in the­atre save what is play­ing on the stage.

No Comments by  /  May 4, 2009  /  Posted in: linkedin, Marketing, Social Media, Theatre
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The Arts + Evolution = Better Than You Think!

I’m lov­ing this arti­cle from Newsweek (read the whole thing HERE): A Dar­win­ian under­stand­ing of cul­ture begins with the obser­va­tion that the arts appear in every human soci­ety and yield intense delight. When evo­lu­tion­ary psy­chol­o­gists detect those qual­i­ties, bells start ring­ing. Uni­ver­sal appear­ance of a behav­ior some­times leads sci­en­tists to infer that it evolved before […]

No Comments by  /  April 5, 2009  /  Posted in: linkedin, Random Stuff
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    I’m a writer and arts admin­is­tra­tor liv­ing in New Eng­land with my hus­band and pugs. I’m also a cof­fee addict, vora­cious reader, and recur­ring com­muter. I occa­sion­ally blog at From the Write Angle and vol­un­teer as a mod­er­a­tor at AgentQueryConnect.com. Rep­re­sented by Suzie Townsend of New Leaf Lit­er­ary & Media. My debut novel MONSTROUS will be out from Harper­Collins Children’s Books in 2014!

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