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Arts Entrepreneurship Degree
Existing master’s degrees in arts administration programs require anywhere from 36 to 60 credits, with the average at around 45. At a cost of approximately $1000 per credit, and often little scholarship or fellowship support available, these programs are expensive. One must recognize that the cost of a program exceeds most starting salaries in the…
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Sole Proprietor Entrepreneurship
As I’ve been gearing up to teach my Arts Entrepreneurship course at Drexel this spring, I have been talking to my students and colleagues about the field and have been reviewing (again) the literature. One particular area of confusion that keeps emerging needs clarification, that of the difference between sole proprietorship, and entity, or venture…
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New Degree Program
Lately I’ve been involved in a most interesting process of formulating a new degree program in arts entrepreneurship for Ithaca College. If all goes well this master’s level program will launch in fall, 2013. What’s been most interesting has been the feedback I have received through an external commenter phase, a part of an IC-required…
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Making Music Relevent (as theatre is)
The guest speaker in my class (Management Techniques) this week, Amy Murphy, Managing Director of the Arden Theatre (www.ardentheatre.org) in Philadelphia took me deep in thought about music’s challenge to be relevant in today’s world. The Arden is an extraordinary arts organization, in that its mission focuses on telling stories that provoke conversation. Clearly one…
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Altruism of Intent
I’ve been working on a presentation on the language of music advocacy for the Ithaca College School of Music convocation next week, and as always when I prepare something for public presentation, I attain a focus not possible in day-to-day discourse. Also, this past week I attended and gave a presentation to the Network of…
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My 2012 Professional Resolutions
As I contemplate the new year, 2012, these are my professional resolutions: I will: Get involved politically, making donations as I can to the political candidates I support. Too often I’ve promised to do this, but haven’t. This year, as it appears to me more important than ever to the arts and culture sector, I…
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Defending Arts Entrepreneurship
As I interact more with arts entrepreneurship professionals, especially those in music (my home field), I am appalled at how often and consistently these professionals are asked to defend their discipline. What could be more important today than equipping our students with skills that will enable them to create a new musical landscape, one that…
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The Arts and Social Capital
As the “economic rationale” for supporting and funding the arts has fallen into disuse, another has risen, and one of much more substance, that of “building social capital.” The “economic rationale” was bound to have a short life, as it never factored in opportunity costs, e.g. what if a sports arena had been built downtown…
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The Language of Music Advocacy
In a recent class I was teaching on music entrepreneurship, during an idea/feedback section of the class, I became mystified at many students’ inability to express in words the importance of music. Their ideas were wonderful: full of social impact, caring and dedication, but their ability to communicate effectively about the “why” of them was…
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Idea Formation, Entrepreneur or Career Exploration
Dear Taylor, Last Monday, at the end of the class on entrepreneurship you asked a difficult question, how do I develop ideas? I have thought long and hard about this and have come up with suggestions for you – and others. And after I developed these suggestions, I realized that they can work whether you…