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Personal Symbiosis

Posted on April 24, 2012 by lindaessig

I think about personal symbiosis a lot.  Some people, including sometimes me, call this “work/life balance.” But calling it “work/life balance” implies a separation between the two, with work on one side and life (all that is not work) on … Continue reading →

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What’s My Discipline?

Posted on April 4, 2012 by lindaessig

I have just returned from the USITT annual conference with the often repeated question “So are you still doing lighting?” ringing in my ears.  In retrospect, I should have replied “Yes,” and left it at that because what does it mean … Continue reading →

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Withdrawn

Posted on March 31, 2012 by lindaessig

The “most”… cultural “capital”… “best” blogger.  Spring for Music seems determined to narrow things down.  My professional work in teaching arts entrepreneurship and helping organizations succeed is about the reverse: expanding thinking, broadening perspectives, looking outward, cooperating rather than competing. … Continue reading →

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Culture Quilt

Posted on March 21, 2012 by lindaessig

Great Arts Blogger Challenge – 1 Spring For Music has initiated the “Great Arts Blogger Challenge,” and while I don’t go in much for contests, I do enjoy a challenge (and my kids encouraged me to participate).  The prompt for … Continue reading →

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Ms. Placed

Posted on March 18, 2012 by lindaessig

I usually reserve this blog space for thoughts and ideas directly related to infrastructure for the arts.  Today, I make an exception.  (If you want to, you can scroll down to a recent post on arts funding or click here.)  … Continue reading →

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There’s Something Happening Here – 1

Posted on March 14, 2012 by lindaessig

What it is ain’t exactly clear, but there seems to be a growing questioning of the status quo, or rather the stati quos.  Perhaps it’s a response to shrinking arts funding, declining audience numbers, exponentially growing means of distribution, or … Continue reading →

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Shifting the Level of Analysis

Posted on March 5, 2012 by lindaessig

Adrian Ellis wrote a thoughtful and well-reasoned essay for the Grantmakers in the Arts website recently on supply and demand issues in the nonprofit arts sector.  His essay provides enough fodder to feed several months of blog posts, and I … Continue reading →

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Tenure Note

Posted on February 23, 2012 by lindaessig

Jacob Oakley, editor of Stage Directions magazine, asked me to write a comment about tenure and promotion for the Stage Directions blog.  Here is what I wrote: There has been a lot of discussion recently in higher education administration and … 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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When Needs Collide

Posted on January 26, 2012 by lindaessig

I’m using my blogspace to work on something I’ve been circling around in my arts entrepreneurship class the last two weeks.  It’s a large group (40 students), the plurality of whom are film majors, but there are also actors, graphic … Continue reading →

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