{"id":578,"date":"2015-06-21T11:40:58","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T09:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jumper\/?p=578"},"modified":"2015-06-22T12:38:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T10:38:46","slug":"its-creative-but-is-it-beautiful-my-talk-at-the-pave-symposium-on-entrepreneurship-and-the-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jumper\/2015\/06\/its-creative-but-is-it-beautiful-my-talk-at-the-pave-symposium-on-entrepreneurship-and-the-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s creative; but is it beautiful? (My talk at the Pave Symposium on Entrepreneurship and the Arts)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"lightbulbs\"<\/a>In May,\u00c2\u00a0I gave a talk at the Pave Biennial Symposium on Arts & Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University. The theme of this year’s conference was Creativity and New Venture Creation<\/em>. The videos from the conference should be posted here<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0by early July at the latest (please check back if you are interested to see the proceedings). In the meantime, you may read a transcript of my talk<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(with selected slides helpfully embedded).<\/p>\n

The talk begins with a preamble on creativity<\/em> and the reasons for\u00c2\u00a0my resistance to using that particular word\u00c2\u00a0in the title of the\u00c2\u00a0course on beauty and aesthetics that I recently taught at UW-Madison. The major thrust of the talk is an examination\u00c2\u00a0of the beauty course itself (what we did, why, and how it went). The piece\u00c2\u00a0ends with a section reflecting\u00c2\u00a0on the possible relevance of the course to\u00c2\u00a0those interested in\u00c2\u00a0“creativity and new venture creation” (i.e., those running arts enterprises). This talk evolved from, and expanded upon,\u00c2\u00a0two talks I gave earlier in the year: the first,\u00c2\u00a0on beauty and accountability, was presented\u00c2\u00a0at a\u00c2\u00a0board planning retreat for the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; the second, a talk on beauty and business, was\u00c2\u00a0presented\u00c2\u00a0at a UW-Madison symposium produced\u00c2\u00a0by the Bolz Center on Arts Administration. I am sincerely grateful to Howard Shalwitz & Meghan Pressman at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Sherry Wagner-Henry and Donald Hausch at UW-Madison, and Linda Essig at ASU’s Pave\u00c2\u00a0Program in Arts Entrepreneurship for the invitations to speak. Each invitation provided me with an\u00c2\u00a0opportunity to organize, expand, and deepen\u00c2\u00a0my thoughts on beauty.<\/p>\n

Additionally, I have had requests for the bibliography from the beauty course. Here it is (with links where possible).<\/p>\n