Category Archives: arts infrastructure

Diversity, Equality, Bus Lanes, and Arts

Posted on February 19, 2013 by lindaessig

I had the opportunity to hear urban theorist and former mayor of Bogotá Enrique Peñalosa speak this week about his vision for more sustainable and egalitarian cities.  He is a public transportation and urban greenspace evangelist.  One of the basic … Continue reading →

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Danger, Will Robinson

Posted on January 19, 2013 by lindaessig

As a child, I heard the Robot on “Lost in Space” warning “Danger, Will Robinson, danger, danger!” As an adult, I sometimes find myself in the precarious position of the Robot seeing danger signs before me, but being a human, … Continue reading →

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Measuring Incubator Success

Posted on January 10, 2013 by lindaessig

Coincident with a spate of interesting blog posts about defining success for oneself (digested today by Thomas Cott), I am traveling to a conference to present some research on measuring the success of arts venture incubators. Specifically, I look at … Continue reading →

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A Loss for Words

Posted on December 22, 2012 by lindaessig

I have been at a loss for words.  At first, my blogosphere silence was caused by wrapping up a semester of teaching, research, and service. I figured I would just wait until December 31 and write an anniversary post (Creative … Continue reading →

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Entrepreneurship, the Arts, and Creative Placemaking

Posted on December 6, 2012 by lindaessig

Thanks in no small part to the NEA’s Our Town program and its sister consortium of funding partners, ArtPlace, there has been a lot of activity – both actual and in the blogosphere — during the last two years about … Continue reading →

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Corporate Social Responsibility and the Arts

Posted on December 1, 2012 by lindaessig

Recently, I came across an article about corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the Harvard Business Review.[i] In it, Michael Porter and Mark Kramer argue that “to advance CSR, we must root it in a broad understanding of the interrelationship between … Continue reading →

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Swimming Upstream: Why I’m an L3C Skeptic

Posted on November 19, 2012 by lindaessig

I’m swimming against a current of alphabet soup with this post, publicly expressing some skepticism about the hot topic of last week, the L3C, a forum about which was livestreamed on newplay.tv: L3C and the Arts: Understanding the Potential of … Continue reading →

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My BIG Questions

Posted on November 14, 2012 by lindaessig

Here are the questions that keep me awake at night: How does an arts organization provide value to its community? Should an arts organization measure the value it provides to its community? If so, how? How does the way an … Continue reading →

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Election Eve

Posted on November 5, 2012 by lindaessig

I spent an hour yesterday listening to the launch announcement for  In the Intersection: Partnerships in the New Play Sector, Diane Ragsdale’s book-length documentation of a convening hosted by the Mellon Foundation and the Center for the Theatre Commons, then … Continue reading →

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What Sandy Taught Me

Posted on November 1, 2012 by lindaessig

It is now three days and some hours after I was supposed to have departed New York via Newark airport.  I was lucky – I rode out the storm and some of its immediate aftermath in a friend’s apartment in … Continue reading →

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