Category Archives: arts infrastructure

Arts Incubators: 47 and Counting

Posted on June 26, 2013 by lindaessig

Having recently completed a pilot study of university-based arts incubators and their evaluation tools, my attention turned to the larger question of arts incubators nationally. What are the primary activities of arts incubators and what business and organizational structures are … Continue reading →

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Can the Commercial and Nonprofit Sectors Co-exist?

Posted on June 10, 2013 by lindaessig

Diane Ragsdale didn’t necessarily write her post on the “long tug of war” between commercial and market forces in the nonprofit theatre in reaction to the Tony Awards, but that it was published the morning following is very apt.  Throughout … Continue reading →

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I Ran Off and Joined the Circus

Posted on June 5, 2013 by lindaessig

I was fortunate to have grown up near and then right in the middle of New York City. When I was a young child, each spring I would be taken to see the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus … Continue reading →

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Posted on May 20, 2013 by lindaessig

State owned facilities turned into artist live/work spaces. Pedestrian friendly streets with cafes and shops. Open studios where you can drop in and see sculptors and painters at work.  Street art that is street art and not gang tags.  It … Continue reading →

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Millennial? No, Boomer

Posted on May 11, 2013 by lindaessig

A survey from Pew Research came across my twitter feed. It is designed to measure “How Millennial Are You?” Pew’s report is titled “Confident. Connected. Open to Change.” These are, apparently, the defining characteristics of the millennial generation, those who … Continue reading →

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Get Out of Your Room!

Posted on May 6, 2013 by lindaessig

The hottest idea in entrepreneurship education circles for the last year or two has been the “lean launch pad” or “lean canvas” for business model generation as explained in Osterwalder and Pigneur’s book of that name and as evangelized by … Continue reading →

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Sticky Madness

Posted on April 18, 2013 by lindaessig

For the concluding session of the recent Pave symposium on Entrepreneurship, the Arts, and Creative Placemaking, we wanted to bring the discussion to a local level, so recruited the Phoenix chapter of Emerging Arts Leaders (EALPHX) to lead an interactive … Continue reading →

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An Alphabet of Culture and Community

Posted on April 15, 2013 by lindaessig

As part of the third biennial Pave symposium: Entrepreneurship, the Arts, and Creative Placemaking held April 12-13, the Phoenix chapter of Emerging Arts Leaders facilitated a workshop on connecting arts to communities in the Phoenix metro area (or “The Valley” … Continue reading →

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Spiraling Up

Posted on April 6, 2013 by lindaessig

I went to a talk by my visiting colleague Nan Ellin recently.  Nan is an urbanist and visionary, as well as well-respected scholar.  She was talking about her new book, “Good Urbanism.” Her thesis is a simple one: in order … Continue reading →

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Cultural Infrastructure, Cultural Districts, and Creative Places

Posted on April 3, 2013 by lindaessig

I was excited by the title of a recent post on the Americans for the Arts blog earlier this week.  “Assessing Cultural Infrastructure,” would seem to be right up the alley of my interests in evaluation and creative placemaking, but … Continue reading →

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