The importance of academic conferencing is widely accepted. Conferences across disciplines provide an opportunity for scholars and practitioners to gather and garner new insights into the world of research and praxis. It is a chance to share new findings, question old ones, and reconnect with friends and colleagues. Despite the issues with conferencing, arguably the arts and arts education have never been so vital and yet so simultaneously at risk.
Read moreA Published Theory of Arts Entrepreneurship
The central argument of the theory is that through coordinated organizational attacks on the social structure and sacred aesthetic beliefs of an Art World, arts entrepreneurs change established conventions in the Art World, which results in revolutionary changes to both the Art World and the work of art (or what art does to or for others) in society.
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