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Arts Entrepreneurship, A Story, Interlude
So, for those interested, here’s an interlude to the story of my new site. I’m presently at the University of Maryland where I lead the National Orchestral Institute, a gathering of the most exceptional young orchestral players, artist faculty and conductors. This year’s group has already demonstrated exceptional artistry, as well as intelligence and sophistication. …
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Arts Entrepreneurship, A Story, Part III
My students have a penchant for ignoring market feasibility for their projects. From my observations and experience with them, I have found that they tend to fall in love with their ideas and when involved in market feasibility study, can ignore, or not hear the most potent data and feedback. My challenge for my venture…
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Arts Entrepreneurshp, A Story, Part II
So I made the decision to create a website and found that essential decisions had to be made: one in particular, that of ‘just what the heck I was doing it for?’ Defining this would then help me get into answers to the next line of questions. At the most global level my motivation is,…
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Arts Entrepreneurship: A Story, Part I
Admittedly my experience as an arts entrepreneur has been in the not-for-profit sector. As such I have relied on other people’s money to make my entity a reality. In fact, as I assessed the viability of each entity I did so based on an intelligent estimate of just what could be raised. Yes, there was…
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Entrepreneurship, Not-for-profit and Commercial
There seems to be a misunderstanding, an understandable one, that entrepreneurship automatically means the creation of for-profit, or commercial enterprises. It can also mean the creation of not-for-profit ones. The key question is, “are they sustainable?” The reason for the misunderstanding is that so many not-for-profits are unsustainable. They rely too heavily on contributed revenue. …
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More on Instruction in Arts Entrepreneurship
My thoughts about how to teach, or approach the teaching of entrepreneurship in the arts is influenced by experiences I had on a commuter bus, back when I lived in North Haven, Connecticut. For a period of around a year I commuted to downtown New Haven with 2 other people: one an internationally recognized expert…
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An Emerging Pedagogy of Arts Entrepreneurship
He asked, “why isn’t the proposed MA, Entrepreneurship in the Arts a degree in the business school?” – and I heard myself respond that I believed that there is an emerging, unique pedagogy in arts entrepreneurship. As this contradicted what I had been thinking and saying, I found myself deep in thought. I have concluded,…
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Staffing Higher Ed Arts Entrepreneurship Programs
In this post I will refer to the 4 zones of entrepreneurial activity that I outlined in a former post. A quick refresher: Zone 1. Empowering Oneself, Personal Entrepreneurship Zone 2. Making a Career for Oneself (and sometimes others) Zone 3. Create a Recognizable, but New Not-for-Profit Entity, but with a Shared Purpose, Social and…
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Defining Entrepreneurship in the Arts
With the term, Arts Entrepreneurship, being thrown around, a bit recklessly, but with all good intentions, I feel compelled to define what I will call here “Zones of Definition.” My hope here is to clearly delineate different types of entrepreneurship, from individual empowerment to entity creation, and to help refine what is meant by social…