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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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Swimming Upstream: Why I’m an L3C Skeptic

Posted on November 19, 2012 by lindaessig

I’m swimming against a current of alphabet soup with this post, publicly expressing some skepticism about the hot topic of last week, the L3C, a forum about which was livestreamed on newplay.tv: L3C and the Arts: Understanding the Potential of … 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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What Sandy Taught Me

Posted on November 1, 2012 by lindaessig

It is now three days and some hours after I was supposed to have departed New York via Newark airport.  I was lucky – I rode out the storm and some of its immediate aftermath in a friend’s apartment in … 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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Approaching (Vibrant) Clarity

Posted on October 7, 2012 by lindaessig

Issues of Outcomes and Measurement included implicit criticism of the ArtPlace Creative Placemaking program for not using evaluation outcome indicators that reflected stated program goals, their overarching term for which is “vibrancy.”  I was not alone in this critique.  Therefore, … Continue reading →

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The Launch of Artivate

Posted on September 1, 2012 by lindaessig

For the last several months, I have been working on a start-up of sorts. Not a money-making venture, but a venture nonetheless, Artivate: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts is the first scholarly journal in the U.S. focused on … Continue reading →

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