TEDx Talk: Teaching Arts Entrepreneurship via Games

Watch Jim Hart, Director of Meadows’ Arts Entrepreneurship program, give a TEDxSMU talk on teaching arts entrepreneurship through games.  Here is a link to that TEDx speech.

Check out Games for Arts Entrepreneurship

Please see my new blog of Games for the Arts Entrepreneurship Classroom.

Here you will find a wide range of games, each of which offer development of entrepreneurial skills.

Thank you and enjoy!

Jim

Thank you.

Outside of today’s post, I am not currently posting on this blog, The Hart Technique, but would like to thank you for your continued support. Please browse the Categories section of this blog and discover the over 270 original posts. Please also see the other channels I am broadcasting through.

At present, I am serving as Curator for the following SMU, Meadows School of the Arts– based channels:

Meadows Arts Entrepreneurship Youtube Channel: This channel provides a wide range of case studies/interviews with entrepreneurs, researchers and professionals working with and for entrepreneurs. They talk about what they do and how they do it.

Arts Entrepreneurship Blog (Meadows): This just over one year-old blog has over 135 original posts, to date. This blog covers topics like, “Are business plans really necessary?”, offers interviews with arts entrepreneurs and perspectives such as “heroism by choice”.

Arts Entrepreneurs’ Tool Box: This series of organized digital links provide tools for arts entrepreneurs. Check it out and take what you can!

Privately created communication channel:

Arts Entrepreneurship, the Movement, a Facebook Page.

Again, thank you for your support at present and over the years.

Best wishes,

Jim Hart

Teaching Arts Entrepreneurship: Attracting Capital

At SMU, we offer a course with a short title of Attracting Capital. In this course, students

gain a solid understanding of legal structures, pathways towards funding and numerous other business related matters. But simultaneously, students learn through a process of experiential learning and through game playing so that they have fun while learning and come to own their knowledge found.

How does one “attract capital?” In brief, one cannot, as capital is just money. However, one can

Arts Entrepreneurship: You are Closer than you Think

Check out the post that I co-authored with Dr. Gary D. Beckman. This post, published by Theatre Communications Group (TCG) speaks to how Theatre will lead the movement in arts entrepreneurship.

Check it out Here.

Jim

Gone Writin’

Hey friends! Just a quick note to say that I’m presently on a retreat. I’ll keep you guys posted, but am dialing down the posting, here at The Hart Technique at this time. As always, thank you so, so much for your support. Many of you have followed my process, adventures and exploits for years now and I am very thankful.

It is my hope that you have found some value here at this blog and take away inspiration, perspective, newfound courage and techniques that may impact your own process in a positive way.

So, I’m back to the writing cave and wish you all a happy summer!

A Movement is Afoot…Join the Movement.

https://www.facebook.com/ArtsEntrepreneurshipTheMovement?fref=ts

Arts Entrepreneurship Class Audio from TCG

Hi. If you are interested, take a moment to check out this audio file. It’s 50 minutes in length, but you can hop around, if you choose. Feel free to start at the beginning and kick your heals up a bit. In listening to the recording, I believe, you will get a window into the pulse of the Arts Entrepreneurship Movement.

Note the eagerness of the questions and participation. This is a Movement.

Join the Movement.

Flip the Advice for Interesting Results

Here is a fun thought that has been somewhat of a guiding principle for my wife Kristina and I for years. It’s the opposite advice I’d heard throughout my youth and was so incredible to encounter the story of how this came to be, that we had a new life model as a result of the encounter. We got this idea from the practice of the parents of our dear friend Elizabeth Pritchett. Pat and Liz boldly chose to build a lifestyle of farm living in Vermont and designed a career around that lifestyle.

Know what? They had the coolest lifestyle of nearly anyone we could think of. Why?

A New Renaissance? And Tip

Is this fastest of developing artistic disciplines, Arts Entrepreneurship, potentially leading us towards a new Renaissance?

I’m getting Google reports on Arts Entrepreneurship feeds, which are coming in from all around the world. I see Dr. Dre contributing towards the cause at USC, Harvard and MIT are exploring initiatives too and Juilliard has launched a music entrepreneurship program. Approximately 130 colleges and universities are simultaneously developing AE initiatives, seemingly at once. What I see is that this realization

Synthesizing Talents to Create a Niche

Does entrepreneurship sound like a viable option for you? What will you create and who or what will you serve? Here are some tips towards discovering what that might be and how to begin amassing your personalized audience of choice, which has potential to become a long-term support base for you, specifically, as an artist and entrepreneur.

1. People generally like to

Risk, Control and Profits for Arts Entrepreneurs

Most entrepreneurs want to reduce risk, maintain creative control and increase profits. The best way to do this is to Bootstrap your business. This term comes from the phrase “Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps”.

Bootstrapping is an entrepreneurial process of spending only what you have in way of cash in hand or through bartering and exchange. It is the War Era generation of thinking, prior to our becoming a debtor society. It will likely result in a

A Typical Entrepreneurial Mistake

Entrepreneurs often encounter problems in their startup process when they do not understand the revenue drivers. What is making the money for the business? Specifically, what is bringing cash in hand–not debt, not payments coming in a month, not credit, but cash in hand? For the success of any business, it is important that the entrepreneur understands how cash flows through their business. Once this is established, credit and other payment methods can be developed. Cash is King.

Jim Hart

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:

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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

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

Archetypes…I’ve Heard of That

Archetypes are character manifestations that represent certain human qualities. In theory, a well-written novel holds a sufficient complexity of archetypes, that it represents the complete personage of the author. Can that be true?

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…”?

Giving Credit, Where Due

I believe in giving credit where it is due.

Please take a look at the letter I have written to the Hyatt Regency North Dallas. They are a remarkable company, which has a policy of helping those have housing, when they cannot sleep in their own homes, due to fire. My letter begins here:

Attn: General Manager of Hyatt North Dallas and the Management team and staff: