Jan
04

What can Duke Ellington and Miles Davis teach entrepreneurs?

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Written by Chris Arnot Appeared in guardian.co.uk, Monday 2 January 2012     Duke Ellington, Miles Davis and Art Blakey are widely recognized as three of the greatest jazz band leaders of the 20th century. But did you ever consider they might be role models for entrepreneurs? In fact, each one of them has … [Read more...]

Dec
23

Help Us Build The Institute for Arts Entrepreneurship

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On behalf of everyone at The Institute For Arts Entrepreneurship - our faculty, our students, our supporters and our families
- we would like to wish each of you and your family
 a very Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year! As many of you may already know, 2011 has proven to be an exceedingly eventful and rewarding year … [Read more...]

Dec
20

20 Rules for Starting Your Art Licensing Business

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Written by Art Licensing Coach J'net Smith Rule #4:  Plan on 2+ years to get your art licensing business established. Licensing is no different than other business, it will take time to create contacts, processes, and revenue. If you expect it to happen over night, you are most likely thinking about the wrong business, or perhaps … [Read more...]

Dec
07

20 Rules for Starting Your Art Licensing Business

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Written by Art Licensing Coach J'net Smith   Rule #3 Know your skills. Art talent isn’t enough to make it in the Art Licensing industry. Even more interesting is the fact that you may do very well in Art Licensing for any number of other reasons. For example, your art skills may be good; they may even be awesome!  But you … [Read more...]

Dec
01

Re-Imagining the Orchestra

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You may be aware that the New World Symphony is America’s leading training orchestra, boasting top rate talent. And you may have heard about their breathtaking new hall in Miami Beach. But did you know that members of this group are daring to re-imagine the business model of orchestras from the bottom up? The fact that many American … [Read more...]

Nov
22

Music Education + Business = Win Win

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Written by Eugene Cantera from The Dallas School of Music   Posted on their blog, DiscoverLearnandPlay, on November 15, 2011 Last week we were fortunate enough to be contacted by Marty Albertson the former CEO and current non-executive Chairman of Guitar Center.  We decided to do a little research on him before our call and … [Read more...]

Nov
07

Creative Productivity & The Creative Theorists- Part 3, Csíkszentmihályi

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How can imagination become creative productivity? How can artists fuse the work of creative theorists to their gifts to help others to innovate? So far both Basadur's Creative Problem Solving Profile and deBono's Six Thinking Hat Theory have provided a structure that is relatively easy to understand, adapt and implement. But with our next … [Read more...]

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