Creative Infrastructures : Artists, Money and Entrepreneurial Action / Linda Essig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Essig, Linda, 1949- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts--Economic aspects.

Arts.

Arts--Finance.

Arts and society.

Entrepreneurship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, England : Intellect, [2022]

Summary:

A new collection of connected essays and case studies that delve deeply into the relationships between art, innovation, entrepreneurship and money. Arts entrepreneurship is a growing field, and this book is ideal for arts administrators and policy analysts as well as for artists who participate in professional development programmes. 5 illus.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title

Creative Infrastructures: Artists, Money, and Entrepreneurial Action

Copyright Page

Table of contents

Prologue

Essay One: An Ouroboros of Self-Sustainability

The Approach

Defining Terms: Art, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Money

Given Conditions: The Late-Capitalist Economy

Language and Ideology

The "Knowledge Economy," Technology, and Arts Work

The DIY Artist

The Scene Is Set

The Players

The Artist

The Audience

Gatekeepers

The Action

Denouement

Notes

Essay Two: Motivation, Symbolic Meaning, and Social Impact

Symbolic Meaning and Identity Expression

Experience and the Co-Creation of Meaning

Economies of Art

Meaning, Impact, and Its Assessment

Yes, and …

Here, Now

Essay Three: Art, Capitalism, and Its Discontents

The Hierarchy of Capital

Controlling Risk

Gatekeeping

Geography

Labor Control of the Means of Production

Individuation: The Upside and Downside of the "Gig Economy"

When the Creative Industries "Work"

Scale and Value

Is Capitalism "Smart?"

Essay Four: Novelty, Uniqueness, Originality

Individuals Making Multiples

Organizations: Museum Stores and Artist Retail

The Retail Environment

Copyright and Its Discontents

The Innovation Narrative

Essay Five: Making Way for Impact

Art for Change

Community Context

Theory of Change

"At Home in the Desert"

Social Profit

"Measuring" Social Impact

Measuring Creative Placemaking

Guidelines for Evaluation

Indicators and Outcomes

Individual Impact

Impactful art sustains artists

From Innovation to Impact

Essay Six: The Nature of (Arts) Entrepreneurial Action

Introduction

Entrepreneurial Action in the Arts

Mediating Structures

Networking and Communicating.

Recognizing Opportunity

Intermediaries for Entrepreneurial Action

Incubators and Professional Development

The Elephant in the Room: Why (Some) Artists Hate the Word "Entrepreneur"

Essay Seven: Being an Entrepreneurial Artist

What Does It Mean to Be an Entrepreneurial Artist?

Connecting Work with Other People

Thinking of Myself as a Business

Sustaining Creative Practice

I'm an Artist

Profile: Clifton Taylor, Lighting Designer

Profile: Daniel Bernard Roumain, Composer and Performer

The Idea of the "Portfolio Career"

Being Entrepreneurial through Collective Action

Entrepreneurship as Art

Success (?)

Essay Eight: Eschewing Scarcity and Finding Abundance

Abundance

Creativity

Generosity

Intellectual Property

Art

Scarcity and Precarity

The Neoliberal "Free" Market for Creativity

Winner Take All

Precarity

Overcoming Scarcity and Precarity with Entrepreneurial Creativity

Presale

Efficiency

Resource Sharing

"bar-fund"

"OurGoods"

Making art while parenting

Collective Action

Is There a Policy Answer?

Essay Nine: Buying Up, Not Selling Out

Individual Artists

Tangible Assets and Risk

Organizations

Self Help Graphics and Art

Springboard for the Arts

Mission fulfillment and expansion

Communities, Markets, and Capital Flow

Tieton, Washington

Utica, Mississippi

Contrasting Perspectives on Market Effects

Supporting Resilience

Epilogue: A Future Imaginary

Rey Lopez

Swift Z

Yet Still, It Is Now

Bibliography

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781789385731

1789385733

9781789385724

1789385725