Category Archives: Higher education

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Posted on July 9, 2013 by lindaessig

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Arts Incubators: 47 and Counting

Posted on June 26, 2013 by lindaessig

Having recently completed a pilot study of university-based arts incubators and their evaluation tools, my attention turned to the larger question of arts incubators nationally. What are the primary activities of arts incubators and what business and organizational structures are … Continue reading →

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Can the Commercial and Nonprofit Sectors Co-exist?

Posted on June 10, 2013 by lindaessig

Diane Ragsdale didn’t necessarily write her post on the “long tug of war” between commercial and market forces in the nonprofit theatre in reaction to the Tony Awards, but that it was published the morning following is very apt.  Throughout … Continue reading →

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Talking Creativity in China

Posted on May 19, 2013 by lindaessig

I was honored to have been invited to Beijing Normal University’s Institute for Higher Education to talk about educating for creativity.  One topic was something I have discussed informally here and more formally in the journal Artivate: framing pedagogies for … Continue reading →

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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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Keeping Art at the Center

Posted on February 6, 2013 by lindaessig

I received a writing prompt recently from actor/writer/artist Aaron Landsman who is spending some time on my campus developing his new collaborative and socially engaged performance work City Council Meeting: “how do you be an arts entrepreneur without losing sight … Continue reading →

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My Big Tent

Posted on February 3, 2013 by lindaessig

In my role as the publisher and co-editor of the only US journal in the field of arts entrepreneurship, Artivate: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts, I have the opportunity to discuss — and argue with — a wide … Continue reading →

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Measuring Incubator Success

Posted on January 10, 2013 by lindaessig

Coincident with a spate of interesting blog posts about defining success for oneself (digested today by Thomas Cott), I am traveling to a conference to present some research on measuring the success of arts venture incubators. Specifically, I look at … 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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