Tag Archives: Creativity

A Performance — and a Shooting — in the Desert

Posted on January 11, 2011 by lindaessig

I live in Arizona.  I’m a transplant to the desert from the east coast by way of Wisconsin.  I mention this because, like each of us, I have a unique reaction to the events of Saturday.  There are 300 million … Continue reading →

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Siloing the Arts at a Young Age

Posted on January 8, 2011 by lindaessig

A few days ago, I wrote, “To encourage [students] to be truly creative, we, as educators, need to give our students room to play, to explore, to experiment, and to cross traditional disciplinary boundaries.  Unless we do, we fail them.”  … 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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First thoughts on arts, technology and education

Posted on January 1, 2011 by lindaessig

You’re likely to read a lot on this site about an arts entrepreneurship symposium that the program I work with, p.a.v.e., is hosting April 1-2.  But before that event happens, I’ve accepted an invitation from Southwestern University to participate in its … 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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