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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

Look Around, Look Around

Posted on February 13, 2018 by lindaessig

After telling a story to my undergraduate arts entrepreneurship seminar yesterday, one student said, “that would make a good blog post.” So….here it is. First, the set-up: One of several objectives for this course is to help students increase their … Continue reading →

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Thoughts While Waiting for a Plane: Value and Values

Posted on February 4, 2018 by lindaessig

“Value” and “values” are such loaded words. Because the various concepts of both are top of mind as I teach arts entrepreneurship to a variety of student constituencies this semester, I’ve written several times recently about “values,” those ethical concepts … Continue reading →

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Bread and Bitcoin

Posted on January 17, 2018 by lindaessig

“Bread is the staff of life,” or so the saying goes. When I was studying lighting design at NYU, my teacher there, Arden Fingerhut (who became my dearest mentor and friend), would ask students to bake something to bring in … Continue reading →

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#Resistance Values

Posted on January 13, 2018 by lindaessig

When I start teaching a new semester of arts entrepreneurship or cultural leadership with graduate students or advanced undergraduates, I usually have them do an examination of their own values so that they can consciously consider the values that drive … Continue reading →

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Top 5 Creative Infrastructure Posts of 2017

Posted on December 28, 2017 by lindaessig

#1. For the second year in a row, a short piece defining arts incubators was the most popular post on Creative Infrastructure. I first posted “What is an ‘Arts Incubator’?” in 2013 early in my research on the topic, but … Continue reading →

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Sharing

Posted on December 20, 2017 by lindaessig

Preparation for a recent meeting about a project I’m affiliated with, The Rural Cultural Wealth Lab, got me thinking about the word sharing, or share, or shared. The phrase that jumped out at me had to do with shared values … Continue reading →

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“Oh, for Pete’s Sake!”

Posted on December 6, 2017 by lindaessig

LDI is an entertainment technology trade show held every November in Las Vegas. When lighting design was central to my creative activity and scholarship, I attended every year. This year, 2017, I attended for the first time in six or … Continue reading →

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Revised Book Proposal

Posted on November 21, 2017 by lindaessig

[Now that I’ve written over a third of the book I’ve been working on, I’ve revised the proposal for submission to publishers, and share it here.] Book Proposal: An Ouroboros: Art, Money, and Entrepreneurial Action     Description:     … Continue reading →

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Mass-produced Not-art

Posted on October 31, 2017 by lindaessig

I continue to share bits and pieces of An Ouroboros: Art, Money, and Entrepreneurial Action as I develop several of the essays in the collection. This small bit is from Essay Four, on novelty and uniqueness, the introduction to which, since … Continue reading →

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Educating the Demos

Posted on October 20, 2017 by lindaessig

The following was written as a comment on the NY Times website in reaction to an essay by columnist David Brooks: In an otherwise politically neutral salutation to John McCain, columnist David Brooks couldn’t seem to resist getting a wrong-headed … Continue reading →

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