How can entrepreneurial thinking be applied to ventures in the arts? What strategies can artists employ to build viable professional careers? How can sustainable and thriving arts organizations be created? Merging the worlds of business and the arts, this engaging book of case studies of individuals and organizations, written by experts spanning a broad range of fields within the arts, offers insight into answering these key questions.

Bringing together nuanced details from across the arts to provide a broad understanding of arts entrepreneurship, it also gives readers the tools to apply insights from other artistic disciplines to their own, synthesizing unique, targeted strategies from a myriad of sources. Each chapter includes:

• Engaging classroom activities and discussion ideas


• Teaching notes that allow material to be easily incorporated into any course


• Extraction of important principles of arts entrepreneurship from each case study.

Equally applicable to formal and individual study, this book will prove an invaluable and inimitable resource for not only educators, researchers and scholars in arts entrepreneurship, management or administration but also individuals pursuing careers in this highly competitive industry.