Monthly Archives: March 2011
Conference Shake-up
I posted the following comment response to Diane Ragsdale’s blog post decrying the structure of annual arts organization conferences: Perhaps the conference model can be reconceived along the lines that some arts orgs are evaluating their value proposition: 1) who … Continue reading
Bragging Rights
Because Creative Infrastructure is what my brother would call a “vanity blog” I’m going to use my wordpress space today to brag – not about me, but about the p.a.v.e. program in arts entrepreneurship and the creative, enthusiastic students who … Continue reading
Please Don’t Blame (only) the Artists
A tweet from 20Under40 called my attention to an open letter from the “Creative Arts Think Tank,” a “loose collection of [New York-based] contemporary performance stakeholders” about improving the business ecosystem for the contemporary performing arts. There’s a lot to … Continue reading
An Object of Value
Tissot “La Mondaine” I flew across country and back last week for a conference, which afforded me the time to read a novel, something I don’t often get to do in the middle of a semester. I chose Steve Martin’s … Continue reading
A Broken String
The Bead Museum in Glendale AZ shut its doors today. It did so, according to a posting on the AZ Commission on the Arts website, because of significant decrease in contributed income over the last several years due to the … Continue reading
A FOURTH Dimension of Arts Entrepreneurship
Sometimes, coincidences mount in ways that are truly mysterious. On March 5, I completed work on a co-authored book chapter, The Enterprising Artist and the Arts Entrepreneur: Emergent pedagogies for new disciplinary habits of mind for a forthcoming volume on … Continue reading
Measuring Success (first thoughts)
Late last week, the NEA released a re-interpretation of its 2008 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts. In the announcement of the new analysis, the agency writes “For nearly three decades, the periodic survey has focused primarily on live … Continue reading
