Join the Movement

Where is arts entrepreneurship going, as a movement?

As art schools generate results in the form of more and more working artists, the validity of entrepreneurship within education and a creative context will become more widely accepted. Right now in higher education, there are approximately 130 colleges and universities in America developing arts entrepreneurship initiatives (more or less all popping up at once). This is a movement. The range of programs stretches from schools of note such as Juilliard and is happening, simultaneously, here and across the world.

The effects of teaching artists entrepreneurship are as follows: Continue reading

Trading Up

Today, in Entrepreneurship and the Hero Adventure at SMU, I had students play a game that was inspired by this article:http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=2171378

Their task: 

Starting with a paperclip, consistently attempt to trade that value for something greater. At the end of class, we will see what you have collected. They each have only 30 minutes.

Today, someone came back with a Continue reading

Artists: Natural Entrepreneurs?

“My second conclusion is that attributes of creative individuals and attributes of entrepreneurs are so similar that even attempting to define a set of predetermined characteristics is a futile exercise”. (1)

This is such a great quote and I would further add that the reason for this is that entrepreneurs are creative individuals. They are creating the “larger vision”. Where a painter might concern themselves with the realization of their creative vision Continue reading

How To Kill Your Dragon

What have you been told that “you should do” recently? Turn a deaf ear, at once.

Joseph Campbell so beautifully describes the mythic dragon that the hero faces as having two words written upon every scale. Those two words are “Thou Shalt”. This means “You should”. Think of all of the kind and well-meaning people in our lives who have begun a sentence with us, with the following words: “Hey, You know what you should do…”? Continue reading