Category Archives: Arts education

The Arrogance and Humility of the Monolingual (L’ arrogance et l’ humilité du monolingue)

Posted on July 3, 2015 by lindaessig

Quick on the heels of the Americans for the Arts annual convention, I headed to France for the biennial conference of AIMAC (International Association of Arts and Culture Management) where I presented a paper titled “Means and Ends: A Theory … Continue reading →

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Arts and Public Policy (a syllabus)

Posted on May 29, 2015 by lindaessig

In the very early days of this blog, as I was transitioning my research focus from lighting design to arts management, entrepreneurship and policy, I was frequently asked, “Do you miss it?” or, more bluntly, “Where’d your creativity go.” I … 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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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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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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Translation, Part 4: MVP by MVPs

Posted on November 24, 2014 by lindaessig

The Udacity lectures featuring Steve Blank on new venture creation are serving as a kind of textbook for my “flipped” graduate arts entrepreneurship class. Blank’s entrepreneurial process, shared by others in the lean start-up movement, advocates for getting a minimum … Continue reading →

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Student + Art + Market

Posted on October 30, 2014 by lindaessig

Artists want – need – to make art. One of the hardest concepts to teach the young artists I teach is that when they send that art out into the world to meet its audience, they are doing so in … Continue reading →

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Translation, Part 2

Posted on September 26, 2014 by lindaessig

As my graduate arts entpreneurship seminar worked through the nine “blocks” of Osterwalder and Pignuer’s canvas for business model generation, a new point of translation emerged.  We realized that in the arts, key partners and customer segments are not on opposite … Continue reading →

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Entrepreneurship in Translation, Part 1

Posted on September 22, 2014 by lindaessig

With some frequency, I am asked to provide a definition of “arts entrepreneurship.” I have a short working definition (the cocktail party version is “Arts entrepreneurship is entrepreneurial action in the service of art”). I’ve written longer descriptions of arts entrepreneurship … Continue reading →

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