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National Humanities Advocacy Day
Greetings! I want to share with the Creative Infrastructure community this month’s “Letter from the Dean,” (i.e., me) as it connects with many of the themes of the blog. March 2019 Dear Arts & Letters Community: As this newsletter hits … Continue reading
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The following has been previously published as a chapter in Theatre, Performance and Change edited by Stephani Etheridge Woodson and Tamara Underiner (Palgrave, 2018). Now that a year has passed since the publication of the book, I am happy to share … Continue reading
Values + Opportunity = Change
The Creative Infrastructure blog is in a period of transition because my career (and life) is in a period of transition. I don’t yet know what the future will bring for the blog, but I do know what the future … Continue reading
Bread and Bitcoin
“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
#Resistance Values
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
Multiple Points of Entry and Exit
In the past several weeks, I have found myself using the phrase “multiple points of entry,” to describe different aspects of our programming: at meetings with ASU Enterprise and Innovation; with alumni; at our recent Herberger Institute Student IDEA Showcase; … Continue reading
Stopping the Binary
I’ve just spent 2 ½ days with students from the Mike Curb Master of Arts in Creative Enterprise and Cultural Leadership visiting innovative cultural organizations in New York City along with my colleagues Daniel Bernard Roumain and Colleen Jennings-Roggensack. One … Continue reading
Posted in Arts education, Arts entrepreneurship, arts infrastructure, Arts management, Higher education
Tagged Bill T. Jones, Billy Mitchell, Colleen Jennings-Roggensack, Creative Capital, Curb MA in Creative Enterprise, daniel bernard roumain, Herberger Institute, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, New York, New York Live Arts, Opus 3, Sozo Artists, The Apollo, Wicked the musical
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An NEA Story: #SaveTheNEA
One of the most impactful projects I have every worked on would not have been possible without a modest $32,000 investment from the National Endowment for the Arts*. The project embedded nationally renowned visiting artists and ASU Herberger Institute faculty … Continue reading
Posted in Arts education, Arts funding, arts infrastructure, Arts policy, Culture and democracy, Higher education, Institutional Infrastructure, Personal infrastructure, Physical Infrastructure
Tagged #SaveTheNEA, Boys and Girls Clubs, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, home in the desert, National Endowment for the Arts, socially engaged practice, South Mountain Community College
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A Creative Enterprise Strategy Model
I’m currently teaching a new course titled “Strategy: Opportunity Recognition in the Creative and Cultural Industries” as part of the Curb MA in Creative Enterprise and Cultural Leadership. My concept of strategy may be different than a business school conception … Continue reading
Posted in Arts education, Arts entrepreneurship, Institutional Infrastructure, Personal infrastructure
Tagged andrew taylor, cognitive processes, creative enterprise, Curb MA in Creative Enterprise, effectual entrepreneurship, opportunity recognition, pattern recognition, problem formulation, strategic thinking, strategy, Verlyn Klinkenborg
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What Does it all Mean?
Definitional problems still persist in the teaching and learning arts entrepreneurship. Each year, I ask students what “entrepreneurship” means to them and then, after a short lecture and reading material by Andrew Simonet, David Cutler, and Aaron Dworkin, ask: “What … Continue reading
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