LisaCanning

Fall is indeed here, and I am returning from my blog-break to once again rabble-rouse for innovation to reign and your creativity to blossom throughout this new season and beyond. I’ll remember this summer as one where I worked less on business but more on my mind — specifically, on trying to detach from the addictions of mind. Creativity is the nimble dance between mind and heart, but so many of us get caught in a stranglehold of mind so that we are blocked from expressing ourselves... Read Full Story

Fall is indeed here, and I am returning from my blog-break to once again rabble-rouse for innovation to reign and your creativity to blossom throughout this new season and beyond. I’ll remember this summer as one where I worked less on business but more on my mind — specifically, on trying to detach from the addictions of mind. Creativity is the nimble dance between mind and heart, but so many of us get caught in a stranglehold of mind so that we are blocked from expressing ourselves... Read Full Story

Fall is indeed here, and I am returning from my blog-break to once again rabble-rouse for innovation to reign and your creativity to blossom throughout this new season and beyond. I’ll remember this summer as one where I worked less on business but more on my mind — specifically, on trying to detach from the addictions of mind. Creativity is the nimble dance between mind and heart, but so many of us get caught in a stranglehold of mind so that we are blocked from expressing ourselves... Read Full Story

09.27.2010 – Partners for a New Beginning, which includes a creative industry entrepreneurship component The IAE and Creative Leaps International will jointly lead, was publically launched September 22, 2010 on stage at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York City. PNB Chair and Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright announced the partnership’s Steering Committee, as well as its formal commitment: Partners for a New Beginning (PNB) commits to broaden and deepen engagement... Read Full Story

The application deadline is fast approaching, but there’s still time to submit your application.  All application materials for CWP’s Teaching Artist Training and Internship Program must be received by 10am on Monday September 27th. _________________________________________________________________________________ Community-Word Project pleased to announce the 11th year of TATIP, which offers practicing artists and MFA students the opportunity to transform their creative process into... Read Full Story

What role does growing up with some form of pain or dysfunction in your life help you succeed as an entrepreneur?  Is it possible to turn something negative into something amazing and good?  I think this article written for Entrepreneur Magazine by Steve Blank says it all. September 23, 2009, Entrepreneur Magazine | Steve Blank View comments (Editor’s note: Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank is the author of Four Steps to the Epiphany. This column originally appeared on his blog.) I... Read Full Story

I am reminded right now of a post I wrote awhile ago: http://blog.entrepreneurthearts.com/2009/09/15/meet-me-in-the-land-mine-field/ All the details of it I have just recently, yet again, spent some time reviewing. Since August I have been in a funk. I am tense because of having to wait for some of the most important moments of my life to come. Birthing the IAE has passionately and with purpose required: getting divorced, terminating a relationship with my mother, selling my businesses... Read Full Story

This past weekend I attended Aaron Landsman’s Appointment Theater Series @ NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.  Appointment is a series of short performances aka “appointments” that are given in office spaces for one person at a time. The idea of  creating work for  audiences of one, certainly breaks all the economic rules about theater. Or does catering to one audience member create opportunities for new performance formats that actually create fresh audiences and indeed have economic viability... Read Full Story

Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to visit Millikin University , a small liberal arts college in Decatur, IL.  While there, I was delighted to learn about their unique and (as far as I know) unprecedented approach to arts entrepreneurship.  The model in place illustrates one powerful way universities can support a culture of entrepreneurship. Milliken currently houses no less than six student-run, arts-related, for-profit businesses: Blue Connection — art gallery First Step... Read Full Story

What is the purpose of art if we don’t have audiences who embrace us? Art only exists in relation to the audiences we serve. We need to stop thinking the world is not good enough for “us.”  Listen to this great key note speech by Diane Ragsdale,  at the Arts Alliance Illinois 2010 Members’ Meeting and Reception on June 21 at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. Diane offers some great ideas of ways arts organizations can survive and thrive in today’s cultural environment. Diane served... Read Full Story