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Category Archives: arts infrastructure
The Field of Cultural Production – Pacoima
I recently re-read Pierre Bourdieu’s influential essay “The Field of Cultural Production.” Just before, I had spent 36 hours in Pacoima (a northeast LA neighborhood) consulting on an arts incubator project there. The latter helped me to understand – and … Continue reading
Posted in Arts entrepreneurship, arts infrastructure, Culture and democracy, Institutional Infrastructure, Physical Infrastructure
Tagged arts incubators, Bourdieu, Creative Placemaking, Field of Cultural Production, LA Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, Pacoima, Pacoima Beautiful
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A Humane Framework for Assessment
NOTE: This post was written for Animating Democracy’s Excellence and Equity in Arts for Change Blog Salon July 24-28, 2017. You can also find it there. I was honored that Animating Democracy chose to debut the new Aesthetic Perspectives: Attributes of Excellence in … Continue reading
Framing Connections: Arts Entrepreneurship, Critical Response Process, and Creative Placemaking
As convener/host of the Fifth Biennial Pave Symposium on Entrepreneurship and the Arts: Arts Entrepreneurship In, With, and For Communities, I used my opening remarks to draw connections between arts entrepreneurship, Critical Response Process, and creative placemaking, all of which … Continue reading
Posted in Arts entrepreneurship, arts infrastructure, Arts policy, Culture and democracy, Higher education, Institutional Infrastructure
Tagged Aesthetic Frameworks, arts entrepreneurship, business model canvas, Carlton Turner, Creative Placemaking, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Kresge Foundation, Liz lerman, National Endowment for the Arts, Pave Biennial Symposium, Pave Program in Arts Entrepreneurship, Roberto Bedoya
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New Article in Cultural Trends
Same or different? The “cultural entrepreneurship” and “arts entrepreneurship” constructs in European and US higher education …is an article I wrote just ahead of print in Cultural Trends. It uses data gathered by graduate research assistant Joanna Guevara as a part of a … Continue reading
Oh, the Irony
I’ve immersed myself lately in reading about the decline or end of capitalism as background for the first essay in An Ouroboros: Art, Money, and Entrepreneurial Action. Last night, it was with some excitement that I had an opportunity to … Continue reading
Stopping the Binary
I’ve just spent 2 ½ days with students from the Mike Curb Master of Arts in Creative Enterprise and Cultural Leadership visiting innovative cultural organizations in New York City along with my colleagues Daniel Bernard Roumain and Colleen Jennings-Roggensack. One … Continue reading
Posted in Arts education, Arts entrepreneurship, arts infrastructure, Arts management, Higher education
Tagged Bill T. Jones, Billy Mitchell, Colleen Jennings-Roggensack, Creative Capital, Curb MA in Creative Enterprise, daniel bernard roumain, Herberger Institute, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, New York, New York Live Arts, Opus 3, Sozo Artists, The Apollo, Wicked the musical
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An NEA Story: #SaveTheNEA
One of the most impactful projects I have every worked on would not have been possible without a modest $32,000 investment from the National Endowment for the Arts*. The project embedded nationally renowned visiting artists and ASU Herberger Institute faculty … Continue reading
Posted in Arts education, Arts funding, arts infrastructure, Arts policy, Culture and democracy, Higher education, Institutional Infrastructure, Personal infrastructure, Physical Infrastructure
Tagged #SaveTheNEA, Boys and Girls Clubs, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, home in the desert, National Endowment for the Arts, socially engaged practice, South Mountain Community College
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Support for the Arts
The phrase “government support for the arts” is often understood to mean, “funding for the arts,” and by extension, at least for some, “funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.” This last made headlines last week when reports surfaced … Continue reading
Posted in arts infrastructure, Arts policy, Culture and democracy, Institutional Infrastructure
Tagged Arts funding, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, CPB, Free speech, freedom of the press, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, NEA, NEH, travel ban
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Universal Basic Income
News that Scotland is considering implementing a universal basic income (UBI) scheme came just as I was finishing reading Ryan Avent’s excellent The Wealth of Humans . as background for my sabbatical project. Avent is a proponent of UBI, while also recognizing … Continue reading
Creative Infrastructure 