Category Archives: Arts policy

Guest post: Jaime’s Love Note to Arizona

Posted on February 14, 2012 by lindaessig

*A Love Note for My Home State, On Its Birthday* Dear Arizona, A few days ago I drove to Globe to give a presentation at the Cobre Valley Center for the Arts. I left my Phoenix home around 9 on … Continue reading →

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John Dewey, Audience Development Expert

Posted on February 6, 2012 by lindaessig

While doing some other research, I came across a reference to John Dewey’s 1934 book “Art as Experience.”  I have been somewhat familiar with Dewey’s pragmatist philosophy for a while.  His views on experiential learning influenced my own thinking about … Continue reading →

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Shifting Sands

Posted on January 1, 2012 by lindaessig

Happy New Year!  I started Creative Infrastructure one year ago yesterday to enter an ongoing conversation about the infrastructure for art, the arts, artistic creativity, and arts education.  Public policy is one element of that infrastructure, and an area of … Continue reading →

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Data Dump

Posted on November 30, 2011 by lindaessig

An interesting discussion developed last week in the arts/theatre blogosphere around the issue of data.  Do we have enough? Do we use it? Should we spend any time looking for more of it? The last was answered with a resounding … Continue reading →

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Commonalities and Differences

Posted on July 25, 2011 by lindaessig

Jerusalem, War Horse, and Sleep No More have a lot in common: They’re playing to sold-out houses in New York I saw all three in a two-day binge of theatre-going last weekend They all have large ensembles of extraordinarily good … Continue reading →

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Good news, good news, bad news?

Posted on June 29, 2011 by lindaessig

Yesterday was a bad news day for the arts in South Carolina when governor Niki Haley used her line item veto to cut the state’s art commission.  But, by the end of today, arts advocates and the democratic process won … Continue reading →

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Waxing Theoretical Part 6: If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em!

Posted on June 8, 2011 by lindaessig

This is the sixth and final installment in my blog series on the theories that underly arguments against — and in today’s installment for – government funding for the arts.  I look today with some skepticism at the creative industries … Continue reading →

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Waxing Theoretical Part 5: Neoliberalism and the market

Posted on June 5, 2011 by lindaessig

This is the fifth post in my series on the theoretical bases for arguments against – and in the next section for – government funding for the arts.  In this installment I look at neoliberalism, that branch of market-loving political … Continue reading →

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Power plays

Posted on June 1, 2011 by lindaessig

I’m taking a break from my (not particularly popular) series on the theoretical underpinnings of arguments opposed to government funding for the arts to comment on the recent line-item veto by Kansas Governor Brownback of funding for that state’s arts … Continue reading →

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Waxing Theoretical Part 4: The neocons

Posted on May 27, 2011 by lindaessig

This is the fourth in my series exploring the roots of arguments that oppose government funding for the arts.  It is excerpted from a longer exploratory essay on the topic and is essentially a thought exercise.  My goal is to … Continue reading →

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