Category Archives: Arts management

Censorship or Stewardship

Posted on September 3, 2013 by lindaessig

Members of the Phoenix arts community are, to put it mildly, a bit miffed about the cancellation on August 30 of a group show originally scheduled to open September 5 at the Herberger Theatre Center Gallery. Concerns were raised by … 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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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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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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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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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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Strategically Planning for Gut Feelings

Posted on September 11, 2012 by lindaessig

We’re taught that the strategic planning process is linear and rational. The organization spends time developing its mission, vision, and values, it analyzes given conditions both internal and external, develops goals, objectives, and action plans. But, organizations and strategic planning … Continue reading →

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Takeaways: Arts Administration Educators Conference

Posted on June 2, 2012 by lindaessig

I attended the annual conference of the Association of Arts Administration Educators for the first time, having now taught arts entrepreneurship for three semesters and seeing a course in arts management and another on arts policy on the not-too-distant horizon.  … Continue reading →

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Theatre Binge: Trends

Posted on May 17, 2012 by lindaessig

Last month I spent 72 hours in New York immersing myself in the kind of theatre and visual arts not readily available in Phoenix. It was a whirlwind: four shows, one of which was an eight-hour affair, plus the Cindy … Continue reading →

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