Creative Infrastructures: Artists, Money, and Entrepreneurial Action by Linda Essig

Wen Guo - Elon University

Abstract

Centering around three concepts: artists, money, and entrepreneurial action, Creative Infrastructure: Artists, Money, and Entrepreneurial Action by Linda Essig elaborates on essential concepts, competing theories, and diverse perspectives of arts entrepreneurship as both a scholarly field and creative praxis. By elucidating the conundrums and complexities between the principles of the capitalist economy and the needs of artists to be flourishing, Essig uses a critical lens to free the concept of entrepreneurship and arts from the domination of the hierarchical Western-centric social and economic systems, offering a holistic, sustainable, and equitable approach to perceiving and practicing arts entrepreneurship.