Category Archives: Higher education
Talking Creativity in China
I was honored to have been invited to Beijing Normal University’s Institute for Higher Education to talk about educating for creativity. One topic was something I have discussed informally here and more formally in the journal Artivate: framing pedagogies for … Continue reading
Sticky Madness
For the concluding session of the recent Pave symposium on Entrepreneurship, the Arts, and Creative Placemaking, we wanted to bring the discussion to a local level, so recruited the Phoenix chapter of Emerging Arts Leaders (EALPHX) to lead an interactive … Continue reading
An Alphabet of Culture and Community
As part of the third biennial Pave symposium: Entrepreneurship, the Arts, and Creative Placemaking held April 12-13, the Phoenix chapter of Emerging Arts Leaders facilitated a workshop on connecting arts to communities in the Phoenix metro area (or “The Valley” … Continue reading
Keeping Art at the Center
I received a writing prompt recently from actor/writer/artist Aaron Landsman who is spending some time on my campus developing his new collaborative and socially engaged performance work City Council Meeting: “how do you be an arts entrepreneur without losing sight … Continue reading
My Big Tent
In my role as the publisher and co-editor of the only US journal in the field of arts entrepreneurship, Artivate: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts, I have the opportunity to discuss — and argue with — a wide … Continue reading
Measuring Incubator Success
Coincident with a spate of interesting blog posts about defining success for oneself (digested today by Thomas Cott), I am traveling to a conference to present some research on measuring the success of arts venture incubators. Specifically, I look at … Continue reading
Entrepreneurship, the Arts, and Creative Placemaking
Thanks in no small part to the NEA’s Our Town program and its sister consortium of funding partners, ArtPlace, there has been a lot of activity – both actual and in the blogosphere — during the last two years about … Continue reading
Reading List in Progress
Many thanks to those of you who responded here or via email to my query, “What to Read?” With just seven sessions, it is especially challenging to decide what to read in a short one-credit course focused on arts policy … Continue reading
What to Read?
Next spring, I will be teaching a short one-credit course for grad students “Readings in Arts Policy.” The format is such that over the course of 7 ½ weeks we will read and discuss arts and cultural policy (in the … Continue reading
Culture Shock
I recently returned from another conference (my previous post was also inspired by conference attendance). The topic of this one was Creativity in Higher Education. My presentation, snippets of which can be found in other postings, was entitled “Teaching Habits … Continue reading
