Category Archives: arts infrastructure

The Arts Venture and Needs Satisfaction

Posted on September 11, 2013 by lindaessig

I thought I would share the graphic I use in my class to explain that an arts venture can satisfy both the individual needs/wants of the artist and the needs/wants of a community: For more, see “Why Arts Entrepreneurship“

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Thinking about Thinking

Posted on September 8, 2013 by lindaessig

[An edited version of this material was originally published in Symposium Magazine under the title “Slow and Fast Learning in the Digital Age“] “Meta-cognition,” or thinking about thinking, is one of the habits of mind[1] that I encourage my arts … Continue reading →

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What is an “Arts Incubator?”

Posted on September 6, 2013 by lindaessig

I came across a website the other day of a municipally owned performing arts facility that describes itself as “the premier performance venue, arts incubator and advocate.”  To actually be an arts incubator, an organization or program needs to function … Continue reading →

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Another One Bites the Dust

Posted on August 29, 2013 by lindaessig

Make that two….or maybe three.  This week brought news of the closures of Shakespeare Santa Cruz at the end of the calendar year and Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre at the end of its current season.  Dance New Amsterdam (DNA), which … Continue reading →

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“Arts Groups Struggle to Stay Relevant”

Posted on August 20, 2013 by lindaessig

“Arts Groups Struggle to Stay Relevant,” is the title of a recent column by Kerry Lengel, theatre critic for the Arizona Republic.  In it, he summarizes the challenges facing the arts and culture community of the region due to significant … Continue reading →

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Follow-up on Nonprofit/Commercial Coexistence

Posted on August 7, 2013 by lindaessig

In a post in June, I suggested that Commercial productions that benefit from nonprofit development pay a certain amount of after-cost profit into a fund, perhaps administered by an organization like Creative Capital or Doris Duke or even an agency … Continue reading →

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Opportunity is Knocking

Posted on August 4, 2013 by lindaessig

Bill DeWalt, former (and founding) director of the Musical Instrument Museum, wrote an op-ed piece in the Arizona Republic that delineates the challenges faced by the new arts leaders coming in to replace not only him, but also the leaders … Continue reading →

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Trying Not to Feed the Beast

Posted on July 27, 2013 by lindaessig

I started writing this post a couple of days ago about adding an ownership incentive to arts organizations: When I teach my arts entrepreneurship students about different business forms that are available for artists and arts organizations, I explain a … Continue reading →

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Language and Intention and Business

Posted on July 10, 2013 by lindaessig

Although my last post was deeply personal, I return here with a systems level look at a problem facing the nonprofit and for-profit arts sectors – that we use language imprecisely – and a corporate form that could help ameliorate … Continue reading →

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Open-ended Questions

Posted on July 4, 2013 by lindaessig

Over the last several years, as I’ve undertaken a program of retraining to support a social scientific approach to research on arts entrepreneurship and evaluation, the importance of “the research question” has been emphasized – drilled into me – by … Continue reading →

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