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Explaining Arts Entrepreneurship

Posted on January 4, 2016 by lindaessig

Here I am in Tbilisi, Georgia, discussing arts entrepreneurship with students from Free University Tbilisi, Georgia Institute of Public Administration, and Georgia Theatre and Film Conservatory. I described arts entrepreneurship as a discovery and creation process for connecting means with … Continue reading →

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Tbilisi, Day 2- The Workshop (and dinner)

Posted on December 17, 2015 by lindaessig

The main event of day 2 was a workshop for students and faculty from several universities, including the Georgia Institute of Public Affairs and the Free University, which we toured with the head of its Department of Visual Arts and … Continue reading →

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Tbilisi Day 1, Fluidity

Posted on December 17, 2015 by lindaessig

My first full day in Tbilisi yielded two observations: 1) planning here is a very fluid process and 2) this city has been through a lot. The day was largely unstructured, with only two activities scheduled: an afternoon visit to the IREX … Continue reading →

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SAEE, Take 2

Posted on October 22, 2015 by lindaessig

A little over a year ago, I attended the inaugural meeting of the Society for Arts Entrepreneurship Education, about which I expressed some very mixed feelings. I am pleased to report that the second annual conference of the group was … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Building for the Arts

Posted on September 15, 2015 by lindaessig

The following is published in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory Should We Build It? Will They Come? Review of: Peter Frumkin & Ana Kolendo, 2014. Building for the Arts: The Strategic Design of Cultural Facilities. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago … Continue reading →

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A Brief Update on my Incubator Research

Posted on August 10, 2015 by lindaessig

If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you know that I have been researching arts incubators and how they create value. The research is continuing, but a few thematic commonalities have surfaced through my cross-case analysis of four … Continue reading →

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Supportive Grids, or, “There’s No Ego in a Leko”

Posted on July 27, 2015 by lindaessig

At a recent participant parent event at Rising Youth Theatre, a terrific young company for which I serve as board secretary, one of the parents, who happens to also be a work colleague, noted that our discussion of the company’s … Continue reading →

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The Razor’s Edge

Posted on May 17, 2015 by lindaessig

My social media universe lit up over the weekend with the news of the entire first year Art MFA class leaving University of Southern California’s Roski School of Art and Design half way through their two-year program. A day or … Continue reading →

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Translation, Part 2

Posted on September 26, 2014 by lindaessig

As my graduate arts entpreneurship seminar worked through the nine “blocks” of Osterwalder and Pignuer’s canvas for business model generation, a new point of translation emerged.  We realized that in the arts, key partners and customer segments are not on opposite … Continue reading →

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Entrepreneurship in Translation, Part 1

Posted on September 22, 2014 by lindaessig

With some frequency, I am asked to provide a definition of “arts entrepreneurship.” I have a short working definition (the cocktail party version is “Arts entrepreneurship is entrepreneurial action in the service of art”). I’ve written longer descriptions of arts entrepreneurship … Continue reading →

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