Tag Archives: arts entrepreneurship

American Shame

Posted on February 19, 2011 by lindaessig

I was planning to write this week about a productive meeting I had Monday with Cindy Au of kickstarter.com and about how using kickstarter.com and other crowd-sourced financing options “teach” entrepreneurial habits of mind.  But with cuts to the NEA … Continue reading →

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Dream + Action = ?

Posted on February 8, 2011 by lindaessig

There has been a lively online conversation over the past twelve days since Rocco Landesman’s comments about the supply/demand equation for arts organizations.  I’ve read economic arguments from both the left and the right, a reminder of the dearth of … Continue reading →

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My Head in the Cloud

Posted on January 19, 2011 by lindaessig

There’s a fabulous grad student working with me on the logistics of the upcoming p.a.v.e. symposium on entrepreneurship and the arts.  He has experience organizing festivals and events and so I trust his judgment about the value of using cloud … Continue reading →

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Realignment

Posted on January 15, 2011 by lindaessig

Today, I was re-viewing Ben Cameron’s* fabulous TEDTalk of last fall because I’m requiring my arts entrepreneurship students to see it.  Cameron makes several important points, among them (and forgive the paraphrasing) that the arts are in a period of … Continue reading →

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Experiential learning at PHX:Fringe

Posted on January 10, 2011 by lindaessig

Most entrepreneurship educators will agree that experiential learning is a critical component of the education of the young entrepreneur.  I’m fortunate to have been involved with the Phoenix Fringe Festival since its inception (with the help of a seed grant … Continue reading →

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Design training and an uncertain future

Posted on January 6, 2011 by lindaessig

I got into a facebook discussion yesterday with Randy Gener, senior editor of American Theatre Magazine about a piece my colleague Richard Isackes wrote about theatre design curricula.  While I agree with much of which Richard writes, he – and … Continue reading →

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Hey, Where’d Your Creativity Go? (a personal answer)

Posted on January 4, 2011 by lindaessig

Over the past eight years, I’ve found myself designing fewer and fewer plays and instead devoting more and more professional time to administration/leadership/management and to research, all by my own choice.  It has now been two years since I last … Continue reading →

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Compete Less, Cooperate More

Posted on January 3, 2011 by lindaessig

I was catching up over the weekend on the December issue of American Theatre magazine, which had accidently gotten buried under a stack of guidebooks to Prague and Vienna.  I was struck by a short news piece about the new … Continue reading →

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Howard Gardner’s “Disciplined Mind,” or How to Teach Fishing

Posted on January 2, 2011 by lindaessig

I recently posted on the entrepreneurthearts blog connecting entrepreneurial habits of mind with Michael Kaiser’s New Year’s resolutions.   In the few days since, I not only launched this blog, but delved a bit deeper into Howard Gardner’s Five Minds for … Continue reading →

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New Year, new blog

Posted on December 31, 2010 by lindaessig

I think a lot about the infrastructure that is needed to support creative work in the arts.  Some of that thinking led to and subsequently derives from my work in arts entrepreneurship education and is given voice in both scholarly … Continue reading →

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