Category Archives: Arts policy

Sticky Madness

Posted on April 18, 2013 by lindaessig

For the concluding session of the recent Pave symposium on Entrepreneurship, the Arts, and Creative Placemaking, we wanted to bring the discussion to a local level, so recruited the Phoenix chapter of Emerging Arts Leaders (EALPHX) to lead an interactive … Continue reading →

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An Alphabet of Culture and Community

Posted on April 15, 2013 by lindaessig

As part of the third biennial Pave symposium: Entrepreneurship, the Arts, and Creative Placemaking held April 12-13, the Phoenix chapter of Emerging Arts Leaders facilitated a workshop on connecting arts to communities in the Phoenix metro area (or “The Valley” … Continue reading →

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Cultural Infrastructure, Cultural Districts, and Creative Places

Posted on April 3, 2013 by lindaessig

I was excited by the title of a recent post on the Americans for the Arts blog earlier this week.  “Assessing Cultural Infrastructure,” would seem to be right up the alley of my interests in evaluation and creative placemaking, but … Continue reading →

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It’s Complicated

Posted on January 3, 2013 by lindaessig

Relationships are complicated.  Perhaps none are more complicated than the relationship between art and money.   What makes the relationship so complicated isn’t “love,” but “value.”  Economic theories from Adam Smith to Karl Marx focus on the distinction between value-in-use (a … 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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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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Reading List in Progress

Posted on October 24, 2012 by lindaessig

Many thanks to those of you who responded here or via email to my query, “What to Read?” With just seven sessions, it is especially challenging to decide what to read in a short one-credit course focused on arts policy … Continue reading →

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