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About lindaessig

Linda Essig is Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at Baruch College and principal/owner of Creative Infrastructure. The opinions expressed on Creative Infrastructure are her own and not those of Baruch College

I Love Mondays!

Posted on April 27, 2015 by lindaessig

The Boomtown Rats may not like Mondays (and neither, apparently, did Brenda Ann Spencer, about whom Bob Geldof wrote their hit) but I LOVE ‘EM! Mondays are an important part of my personal creative infrastructure, so I’m opening a window … Continue reading →

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Snake in the Suburbs

Posted on April 24, 2015 by lindaessig

Yesterday, I found a dead rattlesnake in the gutter a couple of houses up the street from mine. My first reaction was, “there could be one of those in my own back yard – have to alert the kids and … Continue reading →

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Arts (for) Infrastructure

Posted on April 7, 2015 by lindaessig

I dropped a friend off at the airport today – airports, along with roads and bridges are what most people think of when they think of infrastructure projects. Driving on the highway near the airport, my friend commented, “They do a really good … Continue reading →

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We’ve Been Warned

Posted on March 15, 2015 by lindaessig

Over the past several weeks, as I read of a bill in Oklahoma to ban the teaching of AP US history, an attempt by Wisconsin governor Scott Walker to delete “search for truth” and other central tenets of the Wisconsin … Continue reading →

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Art Not Automated

Posted on February 27, 2015 by lindaessig

Until a few weeks ago, I would pay a student worker in a kiosk adjacent to the parking ramp where I have a meeting each Friday and have a ticket validated before returning to my car and exiting the garage. … Continue reading →

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Creativity and New Venture Creation in the Arts

Posted on February 14, 2015 by lindaessig

PAVE PROGRAM IN ARTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP AT ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY presents   Creativity and New Venture Creation in the Arts 4th Biennial Symposium on Entrepreneurship and the Arts (presented in collaboration with the UW-Madison Bolz Center for Arts Administration) This two … Continue reading →

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Art. Science. Data

Posted on February 6, 2015 by lindaessig

“All data is interesting,” a colleague said to me earlier in the week. “No,” I replied, “I don’t think so.” Not only is not all data interesting, not all data is relevant. There are piles of data being collected about … Continue reading →

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Through the Eyes of My Students 2

Posted on January 20, 2015 by lindaessig

Last fall, in response to some blogosphere noise asserting that there was no such thing as arts entrepreneurship, I posted some of my students’ articulations of the construct as written on a course discussion board. This semester, students are reading Andrew Simonet’s … Continue reading →

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New Report on Arts Business Training

Posted on January 14, 2015 by lindaessig

I’m very proud of some work The Pave Program in Arts Entrepreneurship has done recently in partnership with the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation. One of my graduate students, Mollie Flanagan (the Inaugural Tremaine Fellow in Arts Entrepreneurship) and I have authored … Continue reading →

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State of Change

Posted on December 31, 2014 by lindaessig

Because I teach, research, and blog about arts entrepreneurship, I have to thank The Atlantic for the great year-end gift of a platform on which to build my Creative Infrastructure anniversary post. In an article by literary critic William Deresiewicz … Continue reading →

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