Perspectives on Art-Driven Entrepreneurship.
Business and Art may seem to occupy two opposing ends on a value spectrum. As requirements of funding and business entities increasingly require artists to prove the value, viability, and sustainability of their work, while industry requires innovation, it’s clear that overlap between the two fields is inevitable. What happens when entrepreneurship and creative practices converge? What can they learn from each other?
This panel discussion brings together practitioners and organizers from the non-profit, commercial, and community-based art worlds, with business development and financial experts tackling these questions, exposing the challenges, tensions, and opportunities that characterize our current climate while identifying innovative paths for the future of arts-driven entrepreneurship.
Held on Wednesday, March 8, 2023, this event was part of the Researcher-Practitioner Exchange Series, jointly hosted by the National Bank Initiative in Entrepreneurship & Family Business at John Molson School of Business and the Faculty of Fine Arts.