The Entrepreneurship in the Arts Interest Group’s purpose is to promote awareness, interest and investment in the Arts Entrepreneurship. Arts Entrepreneurship includes, but is not limited to, performing and visual arts, entertainment, media, gaming, and other “arts” as defined by the individual consumer.

To meet this purpose the Interest Group intends to focus on bring knowledge of Arts Entrepreneurship to practitioners, artists, arts students and educators to enhance the ability to successfully assess and meet the needs of the field.

Leadership of the Group is elected annually by the Group membership; questions relative to Group mission, membership; annual work program and objectives should be directed to one of the following members of the leadership team:

Group Chair Barrett J. Baebler Assistant Professor Webster University 470 E. Lockwood Avenue Saint Louis, MO 63119 Telephone: (314) 246-7940 Email: baeblerb@Webster.edu

Group Vice-Chair Nissan Wasfie Arts, Entertainment, and Media Management Columbia College Chicago 600 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60605 Telephone: (312) 344-7658 Email: nwasfie@colum.edu

A member of USASBE in good standing, that has professional interest in the specific field of the Group and wishes to pursue expansion and promotion of the field and personal advancement through knowledge exchange and participation in the mission of the Group, is eligible for membership.

Click here to view a list of members of this group.

Annually as an element of the Association’s strategic planning process, the Group develops a work plan that outlines goals and objectives for the program year.  Outlined below are annual goals and objectives adopted by the Group:

1. To develop a mission statement for the interest group, as well as a definition of the term “Art” as it applies to the target market being served by the interest group.
2. Establish a team of Entrepreneurship in the Arts members who will be responsible for the development of an action plan for information sharing among the Entrepreneurship in the Arts community within USASBE and at large.  This includes but is not limited to;
   • Establishing a database of schools currently associated with USASBE, which have Entrepreneurship in the Arts related programs.
   • Establish a database of schools currently associated with USASBE which have Arts programs without Entrepreneurship in the Arts related programs
   • Establish a database of schools currently not associated with USASBE, which have Arts programs without Entrepreneurship in the Arts related programs.
   • Develop a depository of best practices for teaching Entrepreneurship in the Arts.
   • Developing a repository of documents and/or Web links to Entrepreneurship in the Arts resources (establishing a single go to source for all of the above)
3. Formation of a “team” who will be charged with surveying all Entrepreneurship in the Arts Interest Group members to ascertain their level of interest in participation in USASBE through research, workshops, roundtable discussions, etc.  The intent output from this activity is to develop a formalized process of increasing the quality and quantity of Entrepreneurship in the Arts based research.
4. Establish a means for promoting joint research among interest group members
5. Increase communication and participation among interest group members; therefore increase overall benefit to both the Arts community and USASBE
6. Work toward the development of case studies relevant to teaching Entrepreneurship in the Arts, culminating in a competitive process or some other incentive to participate.
7. Investigate if conducting regional workshops/sessions (i.e. Self Employment in the Arts) would serve further the Interest Group’s mission.
8. Investigate the impact of increased costs for attending USASBE conferences on attendance and participation in the Entrepreneurship in the Arts Interest Group.  If the investigation indicates the need for further actions, findings of the investigation will be reported to the USASBE Board.