Tag Archives: audience development
Get Out of Your Room!
The hottest idea in entrepreneurship education circles for the last year or two has been the “lean launch pad” or “lean canvas” for business model generation as explained in Osterwalder and Pigneur’s book of that name and as evangelized by … 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
From Reformation to Aggregation
Two years ago, when Ben Cameron of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation delivered the keynote address at the Second Biennial Pave Symposium on Entrepreneurship and the Arts, and in his Ted talk of 2010, he spoke of the arts being … Continue reading
Danger, Will Robinson
As a child, I heard the Robot on “Lost in Space” warning “Danger, Will Robinson, danger, danger!” As an adult, I sometimes find myself in the precarious position of the Robot seeing danger signs before me, but being a human, … Continue reading
Hey, Where’d Your Creativity Go? Part II
One of my earliest posts on this blog was in response to the question “Hey Linda, where’d your creativity go?” I wrote, “To a little orange room in a repurposed dorm in Tempe, Arizona” where I was creating curriculum for … Continue reading
Avoiding the Begging Cup – redux
Late last week, Richard Dare of the Brooklyn Philharmonic posted a column on the Huffington Post about the unsustainability of a donor-based business model for the arts. A colleague, seeing this, wrote, “I’ve been saying that for years.” To which … Continue reading
John Dewey, Audience Development Expert
While doing some other research, I came across a reference to John Dewey’s 1934 book “Art as Experience.” I have been somewhat familiar with Dewey’s pragmatist philosophy for a while. His views on experiential learning influenced my own thinking about … Continue reading
When Needs Collide
I’m using my blogspace to work on something I’ve been circling around in my arts entrepreneurship class the last two weeks. It’s a large group (40 students), the plurality of whom are film majors, but there are also actors, graphic … Continue reading
