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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

Who Benefits?

Posted on November 18, 2013 by lindaessig

Last week, a triptych by Francis Bacon, “Three Studies of Lucian Freud,” sold at auction for $142.4 million, a record auction price.  The seller, an unnamed collector in Rome, gains significantly from the transaction as does the auction house and … Continue reading →

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Arts Entrepreneurship: New and Not New

Posted on November 8, 2013 by lindaessig

My colleagues teaching courses or whole programs in “arts entrepreneurship” often categorize the discipline as “new,” “nascent,” or “emergent.” I too have used those descriptors. It is useful, however, to remember that while teaching specific courses, offering certificates and degrees, … Continue reading →

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Lifelong Learning at STP+A

Posted on October 28, 2013 by lindaessig

I have just returned from my first STP+A conference.  STP+A stands for Social Theory, Politics, and Arts – an itinerant conference loosely connected to the Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, but without any other fixed institutional affiliation.  I … Continue reading →

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Create Dangerously!

Posted on October 21, 2013 by lindaessig

Albert Camus gave a speech entitled “Create Dangerously” at Uppsala University in December 1957. He did not mean the title as a directive with an exclamation point at the end, but rather as a description: “To create today is to … Continue reading →

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An Open Letter to the Cave Creek School District

Posted on October 15, 2013 by lindaessig

An Open Letter to the Cave Creek Unified School District Debbi Burdick, Superintendent Dear Ms. Burdick: Your district recently initiated policies in reaction to concerns over the teaching of a play with some sexual content that go beyond mere teacher … Continue reading →

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The Double Bottom Line of Arts Entrepreneurship

Posted on October 14, 2013 by lindaessig

Tania Katan, kicking off our annual Pave Speaker Series, opened her talk with a quote from the Merriam Webster online dictionary: en·tre·pre·neur noun \ˌäⁿn-trə-p(r)ə-ˈnər, -ˈn(y)u̇r\: a person who starts a business and is willing to risk loss in order to … Continue reading →

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Dinner Conversation

Posted on October 4, 2013 by lindaessig

On September 6, twelve arts and culture activists/leaders/thinkers gathered at the Djerassi Artist’s Retreat at the invitation of Barry Hessenius to discuss the following question: Traditional audiences are declining and participation patterns are shifting seismically, which is having a deleterious … Continue reading →

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Hip Hip Hooray for the ACA

Posted on October 1, 2013 by lindaessig

Some may remember today’s date, October 1, 2013, for the temporary government shutdown that resulted from political posturing in Washington.  If you work in the arts and culture sector, however, it is a day to shout “hip hip hooray,” because … Continue reading →

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When Either/Or Hits Close to Home

Posted on September 26, 2013 by lindaessig

I concluded my recent refutation of Peter Singer’s “Good Charity/Bad Charity” with the assertion “I believe that altruists don’t choose between, they choose both.”  A subsequent experience seemingly refutes but then supports that statement.  A friend, not a particularly close … Continue reading →

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Academic CV – Arts and Humanities

Posted on September 19, 2013 by lindaessig

I was invited by our School of Film, Dance, and Theatre graduate student organization to talk about putting together a CV for academic job searches.  I get asked to do this kind of thing fairly often because I’ve worked in … Continue reading →

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