Category Archives: Arts funding

AZ Arts Entrepreneur Toolkit Progresses

Posted on June 24, 2014 by lindaessig

Last spring, the Arizona Commission on the Arts hosted its first-ever “Art Tank” program. Art Tank is modeled loosely on the ABC TV show “Shark Tank.” The commission describes, “Arizona Art Tank is a funding initiative of the Arizona Commission … Continue reading →

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Case Studies Are People

Posted on June 12, 2014 by lindaessig

Although I cringed when Mitt Romney said “Corporations are people, my friend,” the phrase came to mind as I read about yet another theatre closing this week. Throughout the spring semester, students in my graduate arts management class had been … Continue reading →

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Yes, Aaron, there IS Arts Entrepreneurship

Posted on May 15, 2014 by lindaessig

In a recent blog post, composer Aaron Gervais asserts that “there is no such thing as arts entrepreneurship.” He claims: Art is infinitely scalable, communal, inherently subjective, and useless by design. Entrepreneurship is scarcity-based, individualistic, inherently objective, and pragmatic by … Continue reading →

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The Ouroboros Last: Good Business Practices and the Arts

Posted on March 19, 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 have posted the full text serially over the last several days. The talk was originally titled … Continue reading →

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The Ouroboros 5: Landscape of Arts Entrepreneurship Practice

Posted on March 17, 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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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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Who Benefits?

Posted on November 18, 2013 by lindaessig

Last week, a triptych by Francis Bacon, “Three Studies of Lucian Freud,” sold at auction for $142.4 million, a record auction price.  The seller, an unnamed collector in Rome, gains significantly from the transaction as does the auction house and … Continue reading →

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Dinner Conversation

Posted on October 4, 2013 by lindaessig

On September 6, twelve arts and culture activists/leaders/thinkers gathered at the Djerassi Artist’s Retreat at the invitation of Barry Hessenius to discuss the following question: Traditional audiences are declining and participation patterns are shifting seismically, which is having a deleterious … Continue reading →

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When Either/Or Hits Close to Home

Posted on September 26, 2013 by lindaessig

I concluded my recent refutation of Peter Singer’s “Good Charity/Bad Charity” with the assertion “I believe that altruists don’t choose between, they choose both.”  A subsequent experience seemingly refutes but then supports that statement.  A friend, not a particularly close … Continue reading →

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