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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

Opportunity Creation and the Phoenix Fringe Festival

Posted on September 18, 2012 by lindaessig

I was talking with a friend recently – a friend far removed from the arts – who suggested that I must be poised to make a lot of money since I know something about (arts) entrepreneurship. What my friend doesn’t … Continue reading →

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Strategically Planning for Gut Feelings

Posted on September 11, 2012 by lindaessig

We’re taught that the strategic planning process is linear and rational. The organization spends time developing its mission, vision, and values, it analyzes given conditions both internal and external, develops goals, objectives, and action plans. But, organizations and strategic planning … Continue reading →

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The Launch of Artivate

Posted on September 1, 2012 by lindaessig

For the last several months, I have been working on a start-up of sorts. Not a money-making venture, but a venture nonetheless, Artivate: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts is the first scholarly journal in the U.S. focused on … Continue reading →

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In Praise of Cafe Culture

Posted on August 22, 2012 by lindaessig

David Dower and I recently discussed infrastructure for the arts in a Friday phone call.  David made the point, with which I agree, that the internet is a kind of digital arts infrastructure that makes traditional bricks and mortar less … Continue reading →

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Personal Ethics

Posted on August 10, 2012 by lindaessig

In my recent “Friday Phone Call” with David Dower, all about infrastructure for the arts, I shared that infrastructure has three meanings or three components: the physical bricks and mortar infrastructure of buildings and studios and light boards; the organizational … Continue reading →

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Means and Ends

Posted on August 3, 2012 by lindaessig

It is Immanuel Kant who wrote that people should never be treated as the means to an end but only as ends in themselves. I think about this in relation to arts policy quite a lot. All too often, art … Continue reading →

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Issues of Outcomes and Measurement

Posted on July 26, 2012 by lindaessig

After reading Ian David Moss’s critique of the “creative placemaking” logic model (or lack thereof) I couldn’t resist doing a little research so that I could better understand the issue.  After looking at the roots of creative placemaking in public … Continue reading →

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Why Arts Entrepreneurship?

Posted on July 6, 2012 by lindaessig

After “Hey Where’d Your Creativity Go?,” the questions I get asked most often is, “WHY Arts Entrepreneurship?”  It seems fitting that for the 100th posting on Creative Infrastructure, I answer that question.  There are many reasons why I decided to … Continue reading →

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(Not) Having it All

Posted on July 2, 2012 by lindaessig

In late April, I posted a short note about “personal symbiosis,” the mutuality of our work and personal systems.  This was weeks before Anne-Marie Slaughter’s piece in the Atlantic that reminded women that having it all is nigh on impossible … Continue reading →

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Off Topic – A Veteran’s Story

Posted on June 28, 2012 by lindaessig

I go far off topic to share an important story, beautifully told by a lighting designer from San Francisco.  A veteran, she recently posted something on her twitter feed indicating that another vet acquaintance of hers, let’s call him K, … Continue reading →

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