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Tag Archives: arts entrepreneurship
Preview: The Ouroboros
Next week, I will be delivering the keynote or “framing” remarks at UW-Madison’s Arts Business Symposium, in advance of which I offer my opening thoughts: The title of the event includes the word “Bi-directionality” and promotes the excitement over the potential … Continue reading
Pave’s Arizona Art Tank Pitch
I recently participated in “Art Tank,” an innovative funding initiative from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. Barry’s Blog provides some excellent coverage of the program, which is designed to fund “business unusual” arts projects throughout the state. On January … Continue reading
Posted in Arts entrepreneurship, Arts funding, arts infrastructure
Tagged Arizona Commission on the Arts, arts entrepreneurship, Chandler Center for the Arts, entrepreneurship, Opera Revolution, Pave program, Pave Program in Arts Entrepreneurship, Rising Youth Theatre, Simply Three, urbanSTEW
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Passion and Action
My undergraduate arts entrepreneurship class had its first meeting Tuesday, during which the students and I discussed the nature of entrepreneurial action. Then they went off on their own to read the first chapter of Ann Bogart’s “And Then, You … Continue reading
Class Prep
Spring semester classes begin next week. One of my courses is an undergraduate course in arts entrepreneurship that I teach every semester. Each time I teach it, I try to look at the topic and the way I teach it … Continue reading
Posted in Arts entrepreneurship, Higher education
Tagged anne bogart, arts entrepreneurship, NYFA, Profitable Artist
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Self-efficacy
“I put this whole website together – and the band loves it!” So said the student when she presented her final project, a website to promote her band. The project is described as “a package of professional materials.” Students can … Continue reading
Arts Entrepreneurship: New and Not New
My colleagues teaching courses or whole programs in “arts entrepreneurship” often categorize the discipline as “new,” “nascent,” or “emergent.” I too have used those descriptors. It is useful, however, to remember that while teaching specific courses, offering certificates and degrees, … Continue reading
Posted in Arts entrepreneurship, Higher education
Tagged arts entrepreneurship, Creative Capital, innovation, Ruby Lerner, theory
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The Double Bottom Line of Arts Entrepreneurship
Tania Katan, kicking off our annual Pave Speaker Series, opened her talk with a quote from the Merriam Webster online dictionary: en·tre·pre·neur noun \ˌäⁿn-trə-p(r)ə-ˈnər, -ˈn(y)u̇r\: a person who starts a business and is willing to risk loss in order to … Continue reading
Posted in Arts entrepreneurship, Uncategorized
Tagged Andy Warhol, art and money, arts entrepreneurship, Business art, Herman Melville
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The Arts Venture and Needs Satisfaction
I thought I would share the graphic I use in my class to explain that an arts venture can satisfy both the individual needs/wants of the artist and the needs/wants of a community: For more, see “Why Arts Entrepreneurship“
Language and Intention and Business
Although my last post was deeply personal, I return here with a systems level look at a problem facing the nonprofit and for-profit arts sectors – that we use language imprecisely – and a corporate form that could help ameliorate … Continue reading
Posted in Arts entrepreneurship, arts infrastructure
Tagged arts entrepreneurship, B-corps, nonprofit management
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Get Out of Your Room!
The hottest idea in entrepreneurship education circles for the last year or two has been the “lean launch pad” or “lean canvas” for business model generation as explained in Osterwalder and Pigneur’s book of that name and as evangelized by … Continue reading
Creative Infrastructure 