Nonprofit Arts Organizations Don’t Support Artists; They Employ Them

Artists matter more than any producing organization.
They’ll praise you to the hilt, but to producers, artists are just another cog in the machine (Photo: CC 2.0 by barbie.harris37on flickr).
In recent articles, as we’ve discussed the ways in which nonprofit arts organizations have, in the main, chosen to be irrelevant to their charter, their communities, and their owners (the states in which they incorporated), several performing artists have written in with some terror in their sub