Category Archives: arts infrastructure

Art. Science. Data

Posted on February 6, 2015 by lindaessig

“All data is interesting,” a colleague said to me earlier in the week. “No,” I replied, “I don’t think so.” Not only is not all data interesting, not all data is relevant. There are piles of data being collected about … Continue reading →

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New Report on Arts Business Training

Posted on January 14, 2015 by lindaessig

I’m very proud of some work The Pave Program in Arts Entrepreneurship has done recently in partnership with the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation. One of my graduate students, Mollie Flanagan (the Inaugural Tremaine Fellow in Arts Entrepreneurship) and I have authored … Continue reading →

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Erosion

Posted on December 22, 2014 by lindaessig

It was a bad week for free speech. The most public event was Sony’s cancellation of the release of “The Interview,” Seth Rogan’s satirical movie about a fictional assassination plot against North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Then, the nonprofit … Continue reading →

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Guns Over Speech?

Posted on October 16, 2014 by lindaessig

From time to time, I range away from Creative Infrastructure’s focus on “thoughts and ideas about infrastructure for the arts” to other topics about which I am passionate, and this is one of those times — but not really.   The … Continue reading →

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Multiple Threads of Inquiry

Posted on October 12, 2014 by lindaessig

Hurtling through the sky in a metal tube with wings, ninety minutes behind schedule, and missing the second game of the NLCS, I pause from what has been a hectic fall semester (thus far) to reflect on the conference just … Continue reading →

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A Pitch Too Far in San Diego

Posted on August 7, 2014 by lindaessig

The program I direct, the Pave Program in Arts Entrepreneurship, was fortunate last spring to benefit from a new program of the AZ Commission on the Arts, Art Tank. Modeled loosely after the tv show “Shark Tank,” artists and organizations … Continue reading →

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Forest Lessons: Persistence, Resilience, and Cooperation

Posted on July 27, 2014 by lindaessig

I was fortunate to have recently taken a long walk in Redwoods National Park. As I looked carefully at the towering redwoods, lush ferns, and soft mosses, I began to see in the forest ecology a metaphor for an entrepreneurial … Continue reading →

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AZ Arts Entrepreneur Toolkit Progresses

Posted on June 24, 2014 by lindaessig

Last spring, the Arizona Commission on the Arts hosted its first-ever “Art Tank” program. Art Tank is modeled loosely on the ABC TV show “Shark Tank.” The commission describes, “Arizona Art Tank is a funding initiative of the Arizona Commission … Continue reading →

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Case Studies Are People

Posted on June 12, 2014 by lindaessig

Although I cringed when Mitt Romney said “Corporations are people, my friend,” the phrase came to mind as I read about yet another theatre closing this week. Throughout the spring semester, students in my graduate arts management class had been … Continue reading →

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Yes, Aaron, there IS Arts Entrepreneurship

Posted on May 15, 2014 by lindaessig

In a recent blog post, composer Aaron Gervais asserts that “there is no such thing as arts entrepreneurship.” He claims: Art is infinitely scalable, communal, inherently subjective, and useless by design. Entrepreneurship is scarcity-based, individualistic, inherently objective, and pragmatic by … Continue reading →

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