Anonymous Twitter account @artsadminssay offers some sarcastic and painfully true observations of what it’s like to work in the arts. Here are some of our favourite tweets to date.
This meeting could have been avoided if everyone would have just responded to my emails.
— Shit Arts Administrators Say (@artsadminssay) July 14, 2018
For next year’s budget, the ticket sales goal is higher and the marketing budget is lower. We think it’s doable.
— Shit Arts Administrators Say (@artsadminssay) July 9, 2018
Can you send me the login to our Facebook page?
— Shit Arts Administrators Say (@artsadminssay) June 12, 2018
Attached you will find proof 15 of the season brochure. This is the last and final proof.
— Shit Arts Administrators Say (@artsadminssay) June 9, 2018
We need a new strategic plan that our staff will spend an inordinate amount of time creating but will sit on a shelf never to be looked at ever again.
— Shit Arts Administrators Say (@artsadminssay) June 15, 2018
Let’s talk about the changes we need to make to stay relevant but then keep doing things the same way.
— Shit Arts Administrators Say (@artsadminssay) May 30, 2018
Our marketing and development departments aren’t siloed at all. We have a weekly marketing and development meeting.
— Shit Arts Administrators Say (@artsadminssay) May 25, 2018
No, the email about [event name] has not gone out because I don’t have any details for it other than the date and time.
— Shit Arts Administrators Say (@artsadminssay) May 24, 2018
Does [well-known highly-paid artist] have a headshot that isn’t a scan of an 8×10 from 1993?
— Shit Arts Administrators Say (@artsadminssay) May 21, 2018
We are a data-driven organization. We do an audience survey at the end of each season.
— Shit Arts Administrators Say (@artsadminssay) May 10, 2018
Who is going to go tell Maestro he’s got to conduct Act II faster so we don’t go into orchestra overtime?
— Shit Arts Administrators Say (@artsadminssay) May 10, 2018
How can we get more people to take selfies in the galleries?
— Shit Arts Administrators Say (@artsadminssay) May 10, 2018
Creative Placemaking.
— Shit Arts Administrators Say (@artsadminssay) May 9, 2018
For the last time, there is no “The” before our organization’s name.
— Shit Arts Administrators Say (@artsadminssay) May 8, 2018
