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Category Archives: arts infrastructure
#LaborDay Reflection
In 1985, I walked into Pace University, a light plot and section for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof under one arm and an opera score under the other. I waited all day for my turn – I was last … Continue reading
Working through an idea
Now that I’m almost four weeks in to my new position as Dean of the College of Arts & Letters at Cal State LA, I have some headspace to return to An Ouroboros. I’m working through a thorny section of … Continue reading
Posted in arts infrastructure, Institutional Infrastructure
Tagged Bill Sharpe, culture, economies, experience economy, Moebius strip, Ouroboros, value
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Top 5 Creative Infrastructure Posts of 2017
#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
Posted in Arts entrepreneurship, arts infrastructure, Arts management, Arts policy, Culture and democracy, Institutional Infrastructure, Personal infrastructure, Physical Infrastructure
Tagged #MeToo, 2017, arts and culture sector, arts incubators, blogging, consulting, Internships, La La Land, Means and ends, New Year, Ouroboros, Sexual harassment
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Sharing
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
Revised Book Proposal
[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
Pay Artists!
I recently attended the “Artists Thr!ve Summit” hosted by the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation. Artists Thr!ve is a rubric, a tool, to help organizations in the arts services sector determine if and to what extent their work supports artists: do … Continue reading
A *Real* “Sharing Economy”
I heard a co-founder of AirBnB on the TED Radio Hour this morning talking about how his app is part of “the sharing economy.” Apps like AirBnB, Uber, or Lyft, are said to exemplify the so-called “sharing economy” in which … Continue reading
