Category Archives: Arts entrepreneurship

The Ouroboros 4: Landscape of Arts Entrepreneurship Research

Posted on March 15, 2014 by lindaessig

I was honored to be invited to deliver the keynote remarks at the UW-Madison Bolz Center’s Arts Business Research Symposium March 13-14.  I previewed those remarks here and am posting the full text serially over the next several days. The talk was originally titled … Continue reading →

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The Ouroboros 3: A Field of Practice and Inquiry

Posted on March 14, 2014 by lindaessig

I was honored to be invited to deliver the keynote remarks at the UW-Madison Bolz Center’s Arts Business Research Symposium March 13-14.  I previewed those remarks here and am posting the full text serially over the next several days. The talk was … Continue reading →

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The Ouroboros 2: What IS arts entrepreneurship anyway?

Posted on March 13, 2014 by lindaessig

I was honored to be invited to deliver the keynote remarks at the UW-Madison Bolz Center’s Arts Business Research Symposium March 13-14, 2014.  I previewed those remarks here and am posting the full text serially over the next several days. … Continue reading →

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Preview: The Ouroboros

Posted on March 4, 2014 by lindaessig

Next week, I will be delivering the keynote or “framing” remarks at UW-Madison’s Arts Business Symposium, in advance of which I offer my opening thoughts: The title of the event includes the word “Bi-directionality” and promotes the excitement over the potential … Continue reading →

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Assets, Tangible and Not

Posted on February 24, 2014 by lindaessig

Poet, performer, and critic Claudia La Rocco said at a recent Pave event, “Not everything can be monetized; not everything should be.”  There are, indeed, many ways to consider “value,” and monetization is only one metric.  However, some things that … Continue reading →

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Pave’s Arizona Art Tank Pitch

Posted on February 17, 2014 by lindaessig

I recently participated in “Art Tank,” an innovative funding initiative from the Arizona Commission on the Arts.  Barry’s Blog provides some excellent coverage of the program, which is designed to fund “business unusual” arts projects throughout the state.  On January … Continue reading →

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What is the value of an ART degree?

Posted on January 29, 2014 by lindaessig

Earlier this evening, I shared a small stage at the Chandler Center for the Arts with my colleague Adriene Jenik, director of ASU’s School of Art, as we accepted first and second place awards in the Arizona Art Tank Business … Continue reading →

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What Makes Art Art?

Posted on January 19, 2014 by lindaessig

In a recent Facebook post, Clayton Lord, vice president of American for the Arts and “Counting New Beans” blogger, posed an interesting thought exercise regarding two different means of replication: an app that lets you see and zoom in on … Continue reading →

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Passion and Action

Posted on January 16, 2014 by lindaessig

My undergraduate arts entrepreneurship class had its first meeting Tuesday, during which the students and I discussed the nature of entrepreneurial action.  Then they went off on their own to read the first chapter of Ann Bogart’s “And Then, You … Continue reading →

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Class Prep

Posted on January 6, 2014 by lindaessig

Spring semester classes begin next week. One of my courses is an undergraduate course in arts entrepreneurship that I teach every semester. Each time I teach it, I try to look at the topic and the way I teach it … Continue reading →

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